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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
How do you accept a compliment?: thoughts on this from E. Arnot Robertson
What Are They Up To?: Jeanne Heal looks at some of the women's organisations 5: Mothers' Unions
Robbed in a Youth Hostel: Tim Bowden relates his experience in Italy
Clubtime for Motorists: with Sheila Van Damm in the chair

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
E. Arnot Robertson
Unknown:
Tim Bowden
Unknown:
Sheila van Damm

Regional Variations (2)

Low Mass from St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church. Paisley: Fr. James E. Nevin

BBC Home Service Scottish

from Amesbury Parish Church Wiltshire; conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. E. G. Hazelton
Venite
First Lesson: Genesis 7. v. 17, to 8. v. 4
Psalm 148
Second Lesson: St. Mark 4, vv. 35-
41
Jubilate Deo
Creed; Lesser Litany; Collects
Come. ye faithful, raise the anthem
(E.H. 380)
Sermon
Prayers
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (E.H.
139)
Blessing
Organist, Florence Williams

Contributors

Organist:
Florence Williams

Regional Variations (2)

Galw Heibio: record requests for hospital patients

BBC Home Service Welsh

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Record Review
Contributed by Joan Chissell
Edward Greenfield and Andrew Porter

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Unknown:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Joan Chissell
Unknown:
Edward Greenfield
Unknown:
Andrew Porter

A request programme of gramophone records
Introduced by John Warrack
Britten
Movements from Spring Symphony
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) Norma Procter (contralto) Peter Pears (tenor)
Chorus of boys from
Emmanuel School, Wandsworth
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Conducted by the composer

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Warrack
Soprano:
Jennifer Vyvyan
Contralto:
Norma Procter
Tenor:
Peter Pears

Conducted by Sir John Summerson
Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace Radio: Laurence Kitchin
Book: J. G. Weightman
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Edgar Anstey

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
Laurence Kitchin
Unknown:
J. G. Weightman
Unknown:
Edgar Anstey

Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis
Maxwell Knight and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Jack Longland
Produced by Bill Coysh

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Hobbis
Unknown:
Maxwell Knight
Question-Master:
Ralph Wightman
Question-Master:
Jack Longland
Produced By:
Bill Coysh

by William Townsend
Below the foothills of the Rocky Mountains lies Calgary. The painter, William Townsend , who has paid several visits to Canada, talks about the ' explosive confidence that bursts the city open, the never-stopping animation and go.'
: shortened version of the talk broadcast in the Third Programme on November 13, 1960

Contributors

Unknown:
William Townsend
Unknown:
William Townsend

Regional Variations (2)

Welsh news survey

BBC Home Service Welsh

Six Nations in Search of their History
How biased is history teaching? Do children in neighbouring European countries learn different versions of the same event? Are the feuds of the past being handed down to the next generation?
Answers by pupils of Manchester Grammar School
Watford Grammar School for Girls and schools in Brussels.
Hamburg, Munich, Zurich
Lausanne, Rome, and Paris
Narrator, ROLF LEFEBVRE
Compiled by John Sherwood
Special editing by David Spires Produced by Barbara Kendrick Recorded broadcast of Jan. 3

Contributors

Narrator:
Rolf Lefebvre
Unknown:
David Spires
Produced By:
Barbara Kendrick

Regional Variations (2)

Fireside Sunday School: The Rev. Donald McFarian on John the Baptist

BBC Home Service Scottish

Poetry in the afternoon chosen and introduced by Leonard Clark
3:
To plough and to sow, To reap and to mow,
And to be a farmer's boy. Readers.
Sylvia Read and Leonard Clark

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leonard Clark
Readers:
Sylvia Read
Readers:
Leonard Clark

by Charles Dickens
Adapted for radio in twelve episodes by H. Oldfield Box
with James Hayter and Hugh Dickson as Pip

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Adapted by:
H. Oldfield Box
Producer:
Robin Midgley
Pip:
Hugh Dickson
Young Pip:
Terry Raven
Abel Magwitch:
George Merritt
Joe Gargery:
James Hayter
Mrs Joe:
Patricia Routledge
Uncle Pumblechook:
Julian Somers
Mr Wopsle:
John Saunders
Sergeant Smithers:
Eric Anderson

Regional Variations (4)

Service: Abbey Foregate Congregational Church, Shrews-bury

BBC Home Service Midland

Evening Service. The Word for Living: Service from Radnor Park Parish Church. Clydebank

BBC Home Service Scottish

As Midland

BBC Home Service West

Christians think about their faith and! its living expression
TROUBLED AND ANXIOUS
A programme illustrating- the means by which those suffering from mental ill-health are relieved, and the role of compass sion and Christian ministry in the treatment of patients
Written in collaboration by a psychiatrist and the Rev. Derek Blows Chaplain of Warlingham Park Hospital who also takes parti
The part of Mrs1. Smith is taken by Gladys Spencer Produced by J. A. Fisher

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Derek Blows
Unknown:
Gladys Spencer
Produced By:
J. A. Fisher

Appeal on behalf of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists by Miss Leslie Caron
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and, should be addressed; to Miss Leslie Caron [address removed]
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is responsible for setting and maintaining a high standard of practice throughout the Commonwealth by supervising the training of doctors after qualification and by holding examinations both for specialists and for general practitioners who intend to practise midwifery. The College also sponsors research, which is urgently needed, on the causation and cure of many conditions responsible for death and disability in both mother and child.

Contributors

Unknown:
Miss Leslie Caron
Unknown:
Leslie Caron

Or Has It?
In conversation together, five travellers to the world's principal jungles share their experiences, make comparisons, and shatter a few popular illusions. The speakers are from South America, Africa, Burma, and Malaya. Richard Owen
Gerald Durrell Francis Huxley
John Hanbury-Tracey
Chairman, Stewart WaveH
followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
. Richard Owen
Unknown:
Gerald Durrell
Unknown:
Francis Huxley
Unknown:
John Hanbury-Tracey
Unknown:
Stewart Waveh

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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