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Roll back the carpet and join in the fun with Jack Armstrong and his, Barnstormers
Joyce Foster
Bill Robinson
Master of Ceremonies, Bill Cain
From the Town Hall, Northallerton
Arranged by Richard Kelly

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Armstrong
Arranged By:
Richard Kelly

Jon Pertwee as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee
Leslie Phillips as Sub-Lieut. Phillips
Stephen Murray as Lieut. Murray, the No. 1
Richard (aldicot as Captain Povey Heather ('hasen as Heather with assistance from
Michael Bates , Ronnie Barker and Tenhiel Evans
Script by Laurie Wyman
Production by Alastair Scott Johnston
Recording of broadcast on Nov. 9. 1960. in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Jon Pertwee
Unknown:
Leslie Phillips
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Captain Povey Heather
Unknown:
Michael Bates
Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Script By:
Laurie Wyman
Production By:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Second of four true stories about the back country of Australia by Reginald Ottley
' As far as a man could see, from rain-blurred eyes, water swamped the countryside. Sheets of it. The leaden sky pelted it down. The river choked up and spewed it out across the plains. To me, squelching along on my big bay saddle horse, the world seemed all water. And dangerous water at that.....' Recorded broadcast of June 2, 1960

Contributors

Unknown:
Reginald Ottley

The Holiday
A play for radio by JOAN O'CONNOR and CECILY FINN
Richard and Celia go back to the picturesque village where they spent their honeymoon. But they find that the village has changed with the years, almost as much as they have.
Produced by ROBIN MIDGLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Unknown:
Cecily Finn
Produced By:
Robin Midgley
George Farr:
Anthony Viccars
Richard Whittaker:
Tom Watson
Jenny Farr:
Freda Dowie
Celia Whittaker:
Patricia Lawrence
Lucas Hammond:
Julian Somers
Julie:
Barbara Mitchell
Esther Hammond:
Kathleen Helme
John Eliot:
Norman Henry
Georges:
Harvey Ashby

from Gloucester Cathedral
Introit: This joyful Eastertide
(Charles Wood)
Responses (W. Smith) Psalms 27 and 29 First Lesson: Song of Songs 2, vv.
8-end
Magnificat (Stanford in C)
Second Lesson: St. John 21, vv. 1-14 Nunc dimittis (Stanford in C)
Creed and Responses (W. Smith)
Anthem: Blessed be the God (S. S.
Wesley)
Prayers
Final Responses (E. W. Naylor)
Organist and Master of the Choristers Herbert Sumsion
Assistant Organist, John Sanders

by John Seymour
An account in five instalments of a journey through the South of England from the North Foreland to Luccombe in Somerset, made by John Seymour and his wife, Sally, last April with the assistance of their pony, Pinto.
2: From Pett Bottom to Hawkhurst
Recorded broadcast of July 31, 1960

Contributors

Unknown:
John Seymour
Unknown:
John Seymour

JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights ' Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle ' from Tales from Grimm freely translated by Wanda Gag and told by David Davis
5.10 SPOT THE CULPRIT
A game for young detectives by Charles Witherspoon
In which you are invited to work with Inspector Magee on The Case of the Blackmailed Heiress
5.40 LUCK OF THE DRAW
Vote for the winning discs! played by Graham Gauld
Postcards should be sent to Children's Hour, BBC, London, W.I.

Contributors

Translated By:
Wanda Gag
Told By:
David Davis
Unknown:
Charles Witherspoon
Played By:
Graham Gauld

A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions
LONDON v. NORTHERN IRELAND
ROUND 3
London:
Barry Carman , Cedric Cliffe
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
Northern Ireland:
James Boyce , Ronald Green
Quiz-Master, Edward Ward
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
James Boyce
Unknown:
Ronald Green
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

Max Beerbohm , Eleonora Duse Sarah Bernhardt , and others
This is the second of DAVID TUTAEV 'S conversations with Gordon Craig when he visited him last year in the South of France
Recorded broadcast of Dec. 31. 1960, in the Third Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Max Beerbohm
Unknown:
Eleonora Duse
Unknown:
Sarah Bernhardt
Unknown:
David Tutaev
Unknown:
Gordon Craig

Folk Songs from the North Country sung by Owen Brannigan. (bass)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Ca' Hawkie!: Buy broom buzzems;
Footy again the wall; Dance ti thy daddy: Gan ti the kye wi' me: When this old, hat was new; The keel row; Blow the wind southerly: The Hexhamshire lass; The Water of Tyne; Lavender's blue; Bobby Shaftoe ; Maa bonny lad; Fair fyled. hinney; Derwentwater's farewell; Elsie Marley

Contributors

Bass:
Owen Brannigan.
Unknown:
Bobby Shaftoe
Unknown:
Elsie Marley

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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