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Regional Variations (2)

Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

by Norah Burke
Norah Burke , naturalist and novelist, who spends many night-hours in forests observing wild creatures for her talks and stories, tells here of swallows that nested inside her house, and of the owl that followed them indoors to kill them.

Contributors

Unknown:
Norah Burke
Unknown:
Norah Burke

Use Wolf (soprano)
Martin Iarepp (piano)
In der Fremde; Waldesgespräch ; Mondnacht; Wehmut; Frtlhlingsnacht ; Stille Liebe; Frühlingsamkunft: Frage; Ich wandielte unter den Bäumen ; Aufträge
Recording of the broadcast on Nov. 28. 1960

Contributors

Piano:
Martin Iarepp

RHYTHM AND MELODY
A programme of songs and orchestral music for children between the ages of nine and eleven
Introduced by Gladys Whitred
11.20 ARABIA
ACROSS THE EMPTY QUARTER
Wilfred Thesiger gives a vivid word-picture of the hardships and mode of life of Bedouin tribesmen who accompanied him on his now famous travels across the Rub 'al Khali Desert of Southern Arabia— the notorious ' Empty Quarter '
Schools Geography series
11.40 FIDELIO
A story of tyranny, oppression, and cruelty, with a happy ending.
The story of Beethoven's opera adapted for Intermediate German by Else Johannsen-Wagner

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gladys Whitred
Unknown:
Wilfred Thesiger

Regional Variations (2)

County Cricket: Glamorgan v. Essex, from Cardiff Arms Park

BBC Home Service Welsh

Derbyshire v. The Australians at Chesterfield
Kent v. Somerset at Gillingham
Second day
Commentary by Rex Alston and Bob Richardson from Chesterfield, and by Brian Johnston from Gillingham

Contributors

Commentary By:
Rex Alston
Commentary By:
Bob Richardson
Unknown:
Brian Johnston

Regional Variations (3)

The Farmer: Channel Island edition, introduced by Ralph Wightman. from Guernsey

BBC Home Service West

What's On?: Coming events

BBC Home Service Midland

Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train , Richard Dimbleby and Kenneth Home
Wednesday's recorded broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Joy Adamson
Unknown:
Jack Train
Unknown:
Richard Dimbleby

Regional Variations (4)

The Week Ahead

BBC Home Service North

Very Much at Home, with Frank Elmes: records

BBC Home Service West

I Ysgolion Cymru

BBC Home Service Welsh

An autobiography by MRS. ROBERT HENREY read by Cecile Chevreau arranged for broadcasting in fifteen episodes by Mollie Greenhalgh
PART 13
In Part 12 Madeleine told how she passed her school leaving certificate and took her first job. Her father's health deteriorated rapidly and it became obvious that he could not continue to work much longer. Her mother, fearing further poverty, wrote to Madeleine's Aunt Marguerite in England begging her to help the girl.

Contributors

Read By:
Cecile Chevreau
Unknown:
Mollie Greenhalgh

RED SUN AND BLUE MOON by James Britton
A series of poetry programmes dealing with everyday experiences-' Every morning the red sun rises warm and bright '—and with the fantastic and impossible-' once in a blue moon.'
2: Believe It Or Not
This programme includes four longer narrative poems, each telling a tall story, and a music-hall song ' Not for Joseph ' to express the feelings of those who reject, or wish to reject, the incredible tale.
Poems include
' The Seven Fiddlers ' by Sebastian Evans , ' The Mermaiden ' by Thomas Hennell , and ' Eddi's Service ' by Rudyard Kipling
Adventures in English series
2.20 SCIENCE AND FOOD
2: Better Soil
The good farmer or gardener is always trying to improve his soil. Why and how does he do this?
Script by F. Le Gros Clark
2.40 THE PRESS GANG
A story of rough and ready recruitment for the Navy in Nelson's day
Script by Zoe Bailey

Contributors

Unknown:
James Britton
Unknown:
Sebastian Evans
Unknown:
Thomas Hennell
Script By:
Zoe Bailey

Regional Variations (2)

The Hidden Valley: part 4

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

A Toytown play by S. G. Hulme Beaman
Part 2
Produced by Claire Chovit

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Produced By:
Claire Chovit
Larry the Lamb:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
Dennis the Dachshund:
Preston Lockwood
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton
Mr Growser:
John Glyn-Jones
Captain Higgins:
Norman Shelley
The Magician:
Norman Shelley
The inventor:
Ivan Samson
Peter Brass:
Ivan Samson
Letitia the Lambkin:
Sheila Moloney
Cannibal Chief:
Stephen Jack

Regional Variations (6)

News

BBC Home Service North

News. Stock Market Report

BBC Home Service Midland

News, sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News. Stock Market Report

BBC Home Service Welsh

News. Round-up of events

BBC Home Service West

South-Eastern News
6.30 Cricket
Derbyshire v. The Australians at Chesterfield
Kent v. Somerset at Gillingham
Close of play summary
6.35 Town and Country
Comment, controversy and character for listeners in London and the counties in the South-East
6.57 London Stock Market Report

Regional Variations (4)

Lois: Welsh serial

BBC Home Service Welsh

Music at Seven: BBC West of England Players

BBC Home Service West

Farm Forum, from Troloss

BBC Home Service Scottish

Bach
Alan Loveday (violin)
Char,les Spinks (harpsichord)
Sonata in E minor, for violin and continuo (S.1023)
Gavotte from Partita in E. for unaccompanied violin (S.1006)
Sonata in B minor, for violin and harpsichord obbligato (S.1014)
Practically all old violins have been considerably modified to suit the modern demand for a larger and more brilliant tone. Alan Loveday is using for this recital an unaltered instrument dating from Bach's time.

Contributors

Violin:
Alan Loveday
Unknown:
Alan Loveday

A monthly programme in which radio is used to link speakers in London and other world centres to exchange views on important issues of common interest
Chairman in London
Robert McKenzie
The subjects dealt with in Radio Link are always topical. They, and the names of the speakers, will be announced shortly before each broadcast.

Regional Variations (4)

Gaelic programme: ceilidh at the Highlanders' Institute, Glasgow

BBC Home Service Scottish

Band of the Royal Ulster Constabulary

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

The Archduke Piano Trio: Mozart; Frank Bridge

BBC Home Service Midland

Song and dance rhythms of Spain on gramophone records
Introduced by Gordon Morrison

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gordon Morrison

Seventeenth-Century English Music
Boyd Neel String Orchestra directed from the harpsichord by Thurston Dart
Alman (Simpson) Pavan (Dowland)
The Witty Wanton (Robert Johnson ) Four-note Pavan (Daniel Farrant ) The Temporiser (Robert Johnson ) Passamezzo Pavan. (Phillips) Ayre (Adson)
Coranto: Heigh ho holiday
(Holborne) on a gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Thurston Dart
Unknown:
Robert Johnson
Unknown:
Daniel Farrant
Unknown:
Robert Johnson

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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