Programme Index

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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
To set you puzzling: Picador gives the results of the Desert Island Competition
What is a secretary worth ?: Audrey Russell makes enquiries Pavlova: recalled by Commander Ibbett
Dreams: a psychiatrist looks at an activity of the unconscious mind

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

A request programme of gramophone records
Introduced by David Lloyd-Jones
Symphonic Poem: Phaeton (Saint-Saëns)
Colonne Concerts Orchestra
Conducted by Louis Fourestier
A group of Faure songs
Gerard Souzay (baritone) with Dalton Baldwin (piano)
Cello Concerto in E flat, Op. 107 (Shostakovich)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Philadelphia Orchestra
Conducted by Eugene Ormandy

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Lloyd-Jones
Conducted By:
Louis Fourestier
Baritone:
Gerard Souzay
Piano:
Dalton Baldwin
Cello:
Mstislav Rostropovich
Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy

Conducted by J. W. Lambert
Art: J. M. Richards
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Ivor Brown
Radio: Stephen Potter
Book: Margaret Lane

Contributors

Conducted By:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
J. M. Richards
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Ivor Brown
Unknown:
Stephen Potter
Unknown:
Margaret Lane

Listeners questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis
Maxwell Knight 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 CHARLES DICKENS
Adapted for radio in twelve episodes by H. Oldfield Box with Barbara Couper
Norman Shelley and Hugh Dickson as Pip
Episode 9
Produced by Robin MIDGLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
H. Oldfield Box
Unknown:
Barbara Couper
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Produced By:
Robin Midgley
Abel Magwitch:
George Merritt
Estella:
Prunella Scales
Miss Havisham:
Barbara Couper
Mr Jaggers:
Norman Shelley
Herbert Pocket:
Aubrey Woods
Bentley Drummle:
Nigel Anthony
Waiter:
John Bryning
Ostler:
Kenneth Dight

Quartet in D minor (K.421) Mozart Quartet in D minor. Op. 34...Dvorak played by the Smetana String Quartet Jiri Novak (violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa (viola)
Antonin Kohout (cello)
Recorded at a public concert at Dartington last August

Contributors

Violin:
Jiri Novak
Violin:
Lubomir Kostecky
Viola:
Milan Skampa
Cello:
Antonin Kohout

A gallery of portraits in close-up
Tyrone Guthrie in conversation with Larry Morrow
Programme edited by Alan Hancock Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
The recorded broadcast of November 12, 1959 followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Tyrone Guthrie
Unknown:
Larry Morrow
Edited By:
Alan Hancock
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon

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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