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COUNTERPOINT
Variations on matters musical arranged and introduced by John Amis
3: A Peach, a Bass, and a Twanging Guitar
The contributors include Dame Nellie Melba Beverley Nichols Feodor Chaliapin Ivor Newton
Julian Bream
Produced! by John Powell

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Amis
Unknown:
Dame Nellie Melba
Unknown:
Beverley Nichols
Unknown:
Feodor Chaliapin
Unknown:
Ivor Newton
Produced By:
John Powell

Singing Together
by William Appleby
(Revision)

11.20 Science is Everywhere: Machines Around You
Simple experiments that explain the mechanism of machines used at home.
(Junior Science series)

11.40 Premier Jour des Vacances
Today the Arnaud family - Madame Arnaud, Jeannine, and Jean-Paul - arrive for their holidays at the little fishing port of Pornic.
(Intermediate French series)

Contributors

Presenter (Singing Together):
William Appleby
Script (Science is Everywhere):
Frank Blackwell
Script (Premier Jour des Vacances):
Emile Harven

Yeoman's Hospital
The novel by HELEN ASHTON adapted for radio by Jonquil Antony with Nonnan Shelley Cécile
Chevreau John Westbrook , June Tobin
Cast in order of speaking
Production by AUDREY CAMERON
Recorded broadcast of Dec. 6. 1959

Contributors

Novel By:
Helen Ashton
Unknown:
Jonquil Antony
Unknown:
Chevreau John Westbrook
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
The Voice:
Gabriel Woolf
Dolly Clark, staff nurse:
June Tobin
Joan Capper, a probationer:
Sheila Grant
Mr Pedlar, a patient:
Ronald Baddiley
Nurse Gow:
Eva Stuart
Nurse Miller:
Joan Matheson
Dr Hans Durich, resident surgical officer:
Rolf Lefebvre
Dr Neil Marriner, pathologist:
David March
Dr Arthur Cook, house physician:
Keith Williams
Sophia Dean, house surgeon:
Cécile Chevreau
Richard Groom, casualty officer:
John Weetbrook
Mrs Groom, Richard's mother:
Sylvia Coleridge
Philip Groom, senior surgeon,Richard's father:
Geoffrey Wincott
Hospital Sergeant:
Jeffrey Segal
A deaf girl:
Freda Dowie
Mrs Deacon:
Molly Lumley
Mrs Pedlar:
Kathleen Helme
Sister Abbott:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Dr. Thomas Shoosmith, Senior Physician:
Norman Shelley
Matron:
Janet Burnell
Mr Brewster:
Norman Claridge
Miss Farmer:
Joan Matheson
Sister Wilson:
Catherine Salkeld
Mr Burgese, a patient:
John Scott
Sister Harbinger:
Ella Milne
Sister Mercer:
Molly Rankin
Nurse Hooper:
Tobi Weinberg
Nurse Fisher:
Judy Bailey

Advice and entertainment for retired and older people and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
Preventing Accidents: The doctor talks on ways of preventing the accidents' to which elderly people are particularly prone.
Theatre Addict: John Watt remembers early theatre-going days
Presented by John Dunn
The second item is recorded

Contributors

Unknown:
John Watt
Presented By:
John Dunn

A programme for the fives to eights The Big Pond written by Bertha Lonsdale
4: Farmer Tuckle in trouble again
Music for flute composed) and played by Bernard' Herrmann Produced by Herbeit Smith

Contributors

Written By:
Bertha Lonsdale
Produced By:
Herbeit Smith
Storyteller:
Trevor Hill
Nicholas:
Karal Gardner
Gamekeeper George:
Joseph Hancock
Mr Albert Fizzle:
Brian Trueman
Farmer Tuckle:
Tom Harrison

A monthly science magazine
7: Roman London
Leonard Cottrell talks to
Norman Cook
Keeper of the Guildhall Museum and John Morris
Lecturer in Ancient History at University College. London about the work of archaeologists in. digging up London's past

Contributors

Talks:
Leonard Cottrell
Unknown:
Norman Cook
Unknown:
John Morris

with The Harry Hayward Sextet Douglas Lester (drums) Harold Earle (bass)
Harry Hayward (piano) Bert Brown (trumpet)
Gordon Forsyth , (tenor sax)
Ernie Waite (alto sax and clarinet)
Introduced by Peter Wheeler

Contributors

Bass:
Harold Earle
Piano:
Harry Hayward
Piano:
Bert Brown
Tenor:
Gordon Forsyth
Unknown:
Ernie Waite
Introduced By:
Peter Wheeler

by BRUNO TRAVEN adapted for broadcasting by Sam Wanamaker with William Sylvester , David- Knight Malcolm Hayes and John Glen
Continued in next column
Produced by CEDRIC MESSINA

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Sam Wanamaker
Unknown:
William Sylvester
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Unknown:
John Glen
Produced By:
Cedric Messina
Fat man:
Wilfred Babbage
Dobbs:
William Sylvester
Leader:
Arthur Gomez
Mestizo:
Tom Watson
Boy:
Nigel Anthony
Curtin:
David Knight
Clerk:
Julian Somers
Man:
Anthony Hall
Howard:
Malcolm Hayes
Stranger:
John Glen
Young man:
John Bryning

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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