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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

Regional Variations (2)

Service from Earlston Parish Church, Berwickshire

BBC Home Service Scottish

from the Parish Church of St. Mary, Lowgate, Hull conducted by the Rev. E. J. Tinsley, Senior Lecturer of Theology in the University of Hull
Preacher, The Rev. Donald W. Foster
Introduction
Introit: This is my commandment (Tallis)
The Lord's Prayer
Collect for Purity
Kyrie Eleison (Darke in F)
Collects
Epistle: Acts 2, vv. 22-30
Gradual: O King enthroned on high (E.H. 454)
Gospel: St. John 15, vv. 12-16 Nicene Creed (Darke in F)
Sermon
Offertory Hymn: Come down, O Love Divine (E.H. 152)
Prayer for the Church
Invitation: Confession and Absolution: Comfortable Words
Sursum Corda
Sanctus and Benedictus

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. E. J. Tinsley
Unknown:
Rev. Donald W. Foster
Organist:
A. E. Hall

Regional Variations (2)

Galw Heibio: records

BBC Home Service Welsh

A weekly review
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Prokofiev's Seventh Symphony by Colin Mason
Musical Profile: Mattiwilda Dobbs by Harold Rosenthal
Beethoven's late Piano Sonatas —2 by Geoffrey Bush
Free Ornamentation in Early Music by Robert Donington

Contributors

Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Colin Mason
Unknown:
Mattiwilda Dobbs
Unknown:
Harold Rosenthal
Unknown:
Geoffrey Bush
Music By:
Robert Donington

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

Regional Variations (2)

Fireside Sunday School: the Rev. Donald MacFarlan on people Jesus met

BBC Home Service Scottish

Poetry in. the afternoon chosen and introduced by Leonard Clark
11: Summer is i-cumen in Readers
Dame Edith Sitwell
Mairhi Russell , Leonard Clark

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leonard Clark
Readers:
Dame Edith Sitwell
Readers:
Mairhi Russell
Readers:
Leonard Clark

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

Regional Variations (3)

Service from St. Patrick's Church. Coleraine, Co. Derry; Rev. Canon S. P. Kerr

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Service from St. Michael's Parish Church, Buckhaven, Fife: the Rev. Robert Murray

BBC Home Service Scottish

Christians think about their faith and its living expression
In Search of the Truth
Miracles
Questions' about miracles are asked by Sixth Form scholars of Winchester College and answered by C. A. Coulsun , F.R.S.
Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford The Abbot of Downside
Canon Edward Patey of Coventry Cathedral Canon 1. T. Ramsey
Nolloth Professor of The Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford
Chairman, Alan Gibson
Presented by Colin James
Comments or criticisms from listeners about this programme should be sent to: Alan Gibson , c/o ' Christian Outlook,' BBC, London, W.1. A selection of these letters will be broadcast in ' Christian Outlook ' on June 21 in Network Three.

Contributors

Unknown:
C. A. Coulsun
Unknown:
Canon Edward Patey
Unknown:
T. Ramsey
Unknown:
Alan Gibson
Presented By:
Colin James
Unknown:
Alan Gibson

Regional Variations (2)

Patients' requests played by Dudley Savage, theatre organ

BBC Home Service West

Appeal on behalf of the Army Benevolent Fund by Lieutemant-General Sir Brian Horrocks K.C.B. , K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and. should be addressed to General Horrocks[address removed]
The Army Benevolent Fund, instituted one year before VJ Day, is already established as the mainstay of almost all the Corps and Regimental Associations which are coping with the task of alleviating the distress and hardship of old soldiers and their dependants. Much time has passed since the end of the Second World War, yet the need of the ex-soldier who has fallen on evil times is as acute as ever.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Brian Horrocks K.C.B.

Regional Variations (2)

Y Caethwas: serial by Islwyn Ffowc Elis-2

BBC Home Service Welsh

Midland Region's popular panel, game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
E. Arnot Robertson and Frank Muir challenge
Nancy Spain and Denis Norden
Umpire, Jack Longland

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
E. Arnot Robertson
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Nancy Spain
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

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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