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The Head that once was crowned with thorns (S.P. 175: C.H. 131; D.S. 66: P.H. 78, alL omitting v. 5: Tune, St. Magnus-S.P. 175)
Interlude: The Ascension
Prayers; the Prayer of Thanks-giving: the Lord's Prayer
Rejoice the Lord is King (S.P. 632;
C.H. 135. omitting v. 5: D.S. 122; P.H. 150: S.H. 148: Tune, Gopsal —S.P. 632)

Janet Baker (contralto)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Automne: Clair de lune; Chanson du pectoeur; Rencontre (Poème d''un jour); Les berceaux- Lydia; Le secret: En sourdine; Fleur jetee

Contributors

Contralto:
Janet Baker
Piano:
Frederick Stone

TIME AND TUNE
Songs to sing and music to listen to
Introduced by Kay Foster
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN
Egypt 1: A visit to an Egyptian school (c. 1800 b.c.) and to a Nilometer when the Nile is in flood
Script by Rhoda Power
11.40 LIGHT OPERA IN ENGLAND Roger Fipke talks about the London playhouses towards the end of the eighteenth century, with special reference to Charles Dibdin and the music-hall song

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kay Foster
Script By:
Rhoda Power
Unknown:
Charles Dibdin

Lancashire v. The Australians at Old Trafford
Essex v. Middlesex at Brentwood
Third and last day
Commentary by John Arlott and Bob Richardson , from Old Trafford, and by Rex Alston from Brentwood

Contributors

Commentary By:
John Arlott
Commentary By:
Bob Richardson
Unknown:
Rex Alston

A WITCH DOCTOR OF
LAKE TANGANYIKA
Jim Biddulph describes a journey which he once made from Ndola in Northern Rhodesia to a village on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, and tells of the witch doctor Tileka and the fishing god
2.20 THE BIBLE AND LIFE Christian Worship
3: The Bible and Worship
A programme about the central place of the Bible in Worship and the different impact of traditional and modern words
2.40'-LORNA DOONE by R. D. Blackmore adapted for broadcasting by Garry Lyle
3: Lorna gone away

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorna Doone
Unknown:
R. D. Blackmore
Broadcasting By:
Garry Lyle

A play in six parts written by Peter Elliott Hayes
with Felix Felton as Dr. Petrie
'We all saw it - that heavy jointed lamp shrink to a speck, and then literally sucked into the glowing core of the rod! Almost at once the disturbance - noise, light, vibration - began to subside ...'
Other parts played by members of the cast
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Written By:
Peter Elliott Hayes
Produced By:
David Davis
Dr Petrie:
Felix Felton
Tom Lambert:
David Spenser
Clifford Bowen:
Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryden:
Elaine MacNamara
Sir Edward Bancroft:
William Fox
Dr Trevor Hughes:
Basil Jones
Lord Hetherton:
Charles West
Peter Garrick:
Harold Reese
Prof McLaren:
Ian Sadler

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

Their Finest Hour
Written and compiled by LESLIE BAILY
The pages turned by FREDDY GRISEWOOD
The recorded voices of: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARGARET
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P.
EARL ATTLEE, SIR ANTHONY EDEN MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
LORD MORRISON op LAMBETH
FLYING-OFFICER RICHARD HILLARY
MR. J. B. PRIESTLEY
MR. CONSTANT LAMBERT
Ed Murrow. Bernard1
Stubbs Edward Ward , Charles Gardner Robin Duff , Alec Sutherland and other BBC War Reporters and members of the announcing staff
Arthur Askey Vera Lynn
George Formby. Judy Garland Jack Warner , Margaret Eaves Dorothy Carless with James McKechnie. Geoffrey Lewis Freda Bamford , Carl Jaffe
Dudley Rolph. Ronald' Baddiley Production by VERNON HARRIS
Recorded broadcast of Oct. 5. 1960

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Baily
Unknown:
Sir Anthony Eden
Unknown:
Richard Hillary
Unknown:
Ed Murrow.
Unknown:
Stubbs Edward Ward
Unknown:
Charles Gardner
Unknown:
Robin Duff
Unknown:
Alec Sutherland
Unknown:
George Formby.
Unknown:
Judy Garland
Unknown:
Jack Warner
Unknown:
Margaret Eaves
Unknown:
Dorothy Carless
Unknown:
James McKechnie.
Unknown:
Geoffrey Lewis
Unknown:
Freda Bamford
Unknown:
Carl Jaffe
Unknown:
Dudley Rolph.
Production By:
Vernon Harris

True stories' of the search for eniemy spies in wartime, based on the memoirs of Lb.-Colonel Oreste Pinto with Bernard Archard as Colonel Pinto
The V.I.P.
Script by Robert Barr
Production by Charles Maxwell

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Archard
Script By:
Robert Barr
Production By:
Charles Maxwell
Colonel Pinto:
Bernard Archard
R A F Orderly:
Francis Hall
Wing Commander Blake:
John Forde
Paul Denet:
Alex Scott
The V I P:
Ivan Samson
Miss Dykstra:
Helen Lindsay

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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