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Regional Variations (2)

Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

by Ian McGeogh
To revisit places and people known long ago is often disillusioning, but it can be a trium'ph. Ian McGeogh remembered the resistance workers who helped him across France when he was an escaped prisoner of war, and tells how he went to meet them again.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McGeogh
Unknown:
Ian McGeogh

THE BAKTEKEI) BRIDE
The story, with musical excerpts from Smetana's opera for nine to eleven year olds
Gladys Whitred (soprano)
Maureen Lehane (contralto) Andrew Gold (tenor) David Ward (bass)
BBC Variety Orchestra Leader, John Jezard
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Written and introduced by Gladys Whitred

Contributors

Soprano:
Gladys Whitred
Contralto:
Maureen Lehane
Bass:
David Ward
Leader:
John Jezard
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Introduced By:
Gladys Whitred

Elsie Waters and Doris Waters (Gert and Daisy) talk about the National Gardens Scheme of the Queen's Institute of District Nursing
An illustrated booklet (2/- plus 6d. postage) giving full particulars of gardens in England and Wales may be obtained from The National Gardens Scheme[address removed] or for Scotland from Scotland's Gardens Scheme[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Elsie Waters (
Unknown:
Doris Waters

Regional Variations (4)

I Ysgotion Cymru

BBC Home Service Welsh

Week ahead: Farming diary

BBC Home Service North

What's On? Coming events

BBC Home Service Midland

An autobiography by MRS. ROBERT HENREY
Read by Cecile Chevreau
Arranged for broadcasting in fifteen episodes by Mollie Greenhaigh PART 7
In part 6 Madeleine told of her second school, where she first became conscious of religion. Her father and uncle came home on leave, and news came from the country that Cousin Ernestine had married the hairdresser, Henri Toulouse. Madeleine spent a happy winter at St. Cloud. Her father was injured in an accident and discharged from the army.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs. Robert Henrey
Read By:
Cecile Chevreau
Unknown:
Mollie Greenhaigh

JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
Come Along and Join Our Song with Sassie Rees and Maimie Noel Jones
' Slli-Go-Dwt '
Story by Linda Thomas
Storyteller, Sheila Huw Jones
Introduced by Evelyn Williams
5.15 WHITEY'S FIRST BOUND-UP
A story by Glen Rounds told by Guy Kingsley Poynter
5.30 ON RECORD
Roy Bradford reviews a mixed bag of recent records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sassie Rees
Unknown:
Maimie Noel Jones
Story By:
Linda Thomas
Unknown:
Sheila Huw Jones
Introduced By:
Evelyn Williams
Story By:
Glen Rounds
Told By:
Guy Kingsley Poynter
Unknown:
Roy Bradford

Regional Variations (7)

News. Stock Market report

BBC Home Service Welsh

News. Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

News, sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News. Stock Market report

BBC Home Service Midland

News

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News

BBC Home Service North

South-Eastern News
6.30 Town and Country
Comment, controversy and character for listeners in London and the counties of the South-East
6.57 London Stock Market Report

Regional Variations (6)

The Dancing English: from Peterborough

BBC Home Service Midland

Up Tempo: Johnny More; the Harry Hayward Trio

BBC Home Service North

Prizewinners' Concert: from the Belfast Music Festival

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Farm Forum.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Music at Seven: BBC West of England Players

BBC Home Service West

Verdi
Quartet in E minor played by the Aeolian String Quartet
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Trevor Williams (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)

Contributors

Violin:
Sydney Humphreys
Violin:
Trevor Williams
Viola:
Watson Forbes
Cello:
Derek Simpson

Regional Variations (3)

The Arts in Ulster

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

The Redshaw Singers; Dennis Townhill. organ

BBC Home Service North

Philip Hope-Wallace introduces excerpts from the operetta by Offenbach
The cast includes: witth the Rene Duclos Chorus Lamoureux Orchestra
Conducted by Igor Markevitch on gramophone records

Contributors

Introduces:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Unknown:
Rene Duclos
Conducted By:
Igor Markevitch
La Perichole:
Suzanne Lafaye
Piquillo:
Raymond Amade
The Viceroy:
Louis Noguera

Regional Variations (5)

Falbh no Fuireach? Gaelic debate on the crofter's son

BBC Home Service Scottish

'The Fugitives': play by Gad fan Morris

BBC Home Service Welsh

The Choir of Peterborough Cathedral; Stanley Vann, organ

BBC Home Service Midland

The James Young Show

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

George Mora introduces records of Latin-American music

Contributors

Introduces:
George Mora

Regional Variations (6)

Liverpool University undergraduates read their poetry

BBC Home Service North

Piping by Hector Mac-Fadyen

BBC Home Service Scottish

Newry Musical Society

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Agincourt Street

BBC Home Service Midland

Darts: News of the World Welsh Championships

BBC Home Service Welsh

from the Midlands
Little Sister by Alice Massie read by Georgie Henschel

Contributors

Unknown:
Alice Massie
Read By:
Georgie Henschel

Suite: Don Quixote (Telemann)
Lucerne Festival Strings
Directed by Rudolf Baumgartner
Symphony in D
(Frantisek Vaclav Mica )
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Vaclav Smetacek on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Quixote
Directed By:
Rudolf Baumgartner
Unknown:
Frantisek Vaclav Mica
Conducted By:
Vaclav Smetacek

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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