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Alan Keith brings you a selection of your recorded memories
Produced by Denye Gueroult
If you have a memory from the past - an event, a radio programme, a personality - which you would like to hear again, write on a postcard to 'The Years Gone By,' [address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Alan Keith
Producer:
Denye Gueroult

SINGING TOGETHER by William Appleby
11.20 JUNIOR SCIENCE Science in Nature
What do bonfires, kites, birds, and aeroplanes have in common? They all depend on Moving Air.
Script by Rodney Bennett
11.40 JEAN-PAUL ACHETE
UNE MOTOCYCLETTE
Jean-Paul is about to fulfil his secret wish and buy a motorcycle. His mother and sister know nothing of this. Intermediate French series

Contributors

Unknown:
William Appleby
Script By:
Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Jean-Paul Achete
Unknown:
Une Motocyclette

by GORDON DAVIOT adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe with John Westbrook as Valerius Valens ;
George Hagan as Rufus Sita David March as Claudius Paulinus
Time: A.D. 196. Place: The Fort of Vindobala on the Great Wall
Production by AUDREY CAMERON , Saturday's recorded broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Cynthia Pughe
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
George Hagan
Unknown:
Rufus Sita
Unknown:
David March
Production By:
Audrey Cameron

Advice and entertainment for retired people and older people generally, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
An Ever-Open Door
A portrait in sound of a club for elderly people at South Ben-fleet in Essex
Presented by John Dunn

Contributors

Presented By:
John Dunn

A programme for the fives to eights The further adventures of Smokciy by Margaret Potter
Incidental music composed by Henry Reed and played by the Harry Hayward Quintet Produced by Trevor Hill

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Composed By:
Henry Reed
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
The Inventor:
Geoffrey Banks
His Majestic Majesty:
Frederic Wilson
Cuthbert:
Patricia Birch
Big Chief Running Water:
Herbert Smith
Storyteller:
Graham Roberts

by JOHN MORTIMER with Mary Wimbush, Robert Stephens
Rolf Lefebvre Christine Finn
Elaine Lee lives in a world of sentimental nostalgia for her first husband; an overwhelming sense of unfulfilment dominates her second marriage. The arrival of a young man in the household precipitates a crisis that shakes her life to the foundations.
Cast in order of speaking:
Otiher parte played, by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by CEDRIC MESSINA

Contributors

Unknown:
John Mortimer
Produced By:
Cedric Messina
Mrs Lee:
Eithne Dunne
Elaine Lee:
Mary Wimbush
Miller:
Robert Stephens
Barbara:
Christine Finn
Mr Lee:
James Thomason
Henry Lee:
Rolf Lefebvre

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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