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Capriol Suite (Warlock)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra Conducted by Boyd Neel
Musette (Armide) (Gluck)
Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski
Minuet (A Downland Suite)
(Ireland)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra Conducted by Boyd Neel
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams) Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Boyd Neel
Conducted By:
Boyd Neel
Conducted By:
Leopold Stokowski
Unknown:
Boyd Neel
Conducted By:
Boyd Neel
Unknown:
Thomas Tallis
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

by THOMAS HARDY adapted for broadcasting by John Keir Cross
2: How a sailor returned from sea
Other parts played by Edgar Harrison and Clive Batchelor
Produced by Archie Campbell
Recorded broadcast of March 20, 1960
Not everyone in Overcombe is pleased to have Dragoons and Yeomanry encamped near the village. With them has come Festus Derriman to pester his old uncle, Squire Derriman of Oxwell Hall. The Squire has returned home late at night to find Festus carousing with friends in the house, and the crafty old man devises a trick to get them out and keep them out.

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Broadcasting By:
John Keir Cross
Played By:
Edgar Harrison
Played By:
Clive Batchelor
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Unknown:
Festus Derriman
Unknown:
Squire Derriman
Unknown:
Oxwell Hall.
Anne Garland:
Angela Brooking
Mrs Garland:
Ruby Luscombe
Miller Loveday:
Basil Jones
John Loveday:
John Drake
Bob Loveday:
John Bennett
Festus Derriman:
Hugh David
Squire Derriman:
George Holtoway
Matilda Johnson:
June Bart Ie
Storyteller:
Harold Reese

A weekly exploration of the BBC Sound Archives
LISTEN
A magazine of recordings from the past and the present including
Guest Brains: answers given by some of the guest members to questions put to the original wartime Brains Trust
Harps and Parties: Joan Rimmer talks about and demonstrates harps from past ages and different parts of the world
The Luncheon: Somerset Maugham reads his own short story Edited and introduced by Denys Gueroult

Contributors

Talks:
Joan Rimmer
Introduced By:
Denys Gueroult

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra
Introduced by Ivan Samson Master of Ceremonies, Charles Crathorn
Produced by Fredric Bayco
The dances: Naval Threestep: Hesitation Waltz; Eva Threestep; Fifth figure of the Lancers; Tango Scintilla; Starlight Saunter; Lilac Waltz
Tickets may be obtained for the recording of this programme on March 29 at
6.45 on application to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Davidson
Introduced By:
Ivan Samson
Unknown:
Charles Crathorn
Produced By:
Fredric Bayco

JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
Alexander Armstrong
A serial dialogue story by John D. Stewart
22: Easter Holidays
Introduced by Cicely Mathews
5.15 JOHN MARK 'S STORY
A play for Good Friday by S. T. Hartshorne with John Baddeley , Peter Claughiton John Graham. Jack Holloway Geoffrey Lewis
Geoffrey Matthews , Arnold Peters Michael Shaw , Eric Skelding and Charles E. Stidwill
Produced by Peggy Bacon
: a new production of the programme broadcast on April 15, 1960

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Armstrong
Story By:
John D. Stewart
Introduced By:
Cicely Mathews
Unknown:
John Mark
Unknown:
S. T. Hartshorne
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
Peter Claughiton
Unknown:
John Graham.
Unknown:
Jack Holloway
Unknown:
Geoffrey Lewis
Unknown:
Geoffrey Matthews
Unknown:
Arnold Peters
Unknown:
Michael Shaw
Unknown:
Eric Skelding
Unknown:
Charles E. Stidwill
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

A short story by Eric Davidson
Read by David Steuart
The place is Scotland, the time is the present; but in this story Eric Davidson is dealing with the eternal pressures and tensions which beset the refugee in any age.

Contributors

Story By:
Eric Davidson
Read By:
David Steuart
Unknown:
Eric Davidson

Modern Poet
Introduced by Martin Bell
Edward Thomas was killed in the first world war. His poetry is a major influence on the poets of today. Why?
Poems read by C. Day
Lewis Ted Hughes and Anthony Thwaite
With comments by the poet's widow Helen Thomas
Produced by Owen Leeming

Contributors

Introduced By:
Martin Bell
Introduced By:
Edward Thomas
Read By:
C. Day
Read By:
Lewis Ted Hughes
Read By:
Anthony Thwaite
Unknown:
Helen Thomas
Produced By:
Owen Leeming

Beethoven
Quartet in C sharp minor
Op. 131 played by the Stross String Quartet Wilhelm Stross (violin)
Kurt Christian Suier (violin) George Schmid (viola)
Rudolf Metzmacher (cello)
Recorded broadcast of March 31. 1960, in the Third Programme

Contributors

Violin:
Wilhelm Stross
Violin:
Kurt Christian Suier
Viola:
George Schmid
Cello:
Rudolf MetzmacHer

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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