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Philip Hattey (baritone)
Hugo d'Alton (mandolin)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Sarah Francis (oboe)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)
The Carter String Trio Mary Carter (violin) Anatole Mines (viola)
Eileen McCarthy (cello)
Produced by John Manduell
Recorded broadcast of Aug. 14, 1960

Contributors

Baritone:
Philip Hattey
Piano:
Clifton Helliwell
Oboe:
Sarah Francis
Violin:
Mary Carter
Cello:
Eileen McCarthy
Produced By:
John Manduell

by THOMAS HARDY
Adapted by John Keir Cross
6: How the Trumpet Major marched into the night
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Adapted By:
John Keir Cross
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
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 Holloway
The Storyteller:
Harold Reese

A weekly exploration of the BBC Sound Archives
THE RIVER WAR
REX KEATING describes a visit he made last year to the Sudan, where he found many traces of the Mahdieh rebellion which resulted in 1885 in the murder of General Gordon in Khartoum, and ended thirteen years later with the defeat of the Dervish armies by Kitchener at Omdurman.
Produced by Harold Rogers

Contributors

Produced By:
Harold Rogers

A play for broadcasting by Ian Rose
A chance find on the beach at Kildene, a village on the Firth of Clyde, leads Wattie and Dick into an adventure with a gang of smugglers.
Produced by Ian Wishart

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Ian Rose
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Wautie:
Arthurboland
Dick:
Frank Wylie
The Boss:
Clem Ashby
Murala:
W H D Joss
Jad:
Charles Bapmste
lain McDonald:
Colin MacKay
Mrs McDonald:
Jean Faulds
Mrs Ferguson:
Effle Morrison
Inspector:
James Sleigh

A magazine about Britain at work
George Scott questions industrialists, trade unionists, and workers in Britain, and overseas on industrial issues of the moment
A broadcast centred on the Manchester studios of the BBC

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott

True stories of the search for enemy spies in wartime, based on the memoirs of Lt.-Colonel Or&ste Pinto with Bernard Archard as Colonel Pinto
2: Three from Spain
Script by Robert. Barr
Production by Charles Maxwell
Recorded broadcast, of Sept. 14, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Archard
Unknown:
Colonel Pinto
Production By:
Charles Maxwell
Colonel Pinto:
Bernard Archard
Captain:
John Graham
Orderly:
Michael Sherwell
Eugene Timmermanns:
Barry Letts
Hana Helvig:
Ian Sadler
Jules Varaerta:
Frederick Treves

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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