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Prayer
All creatures of our God and King
(S.P. 439; C.H. 13; P.H. 10; S.H. 3 (all omitting vv. 4, 5, 6); D.S. 16 (omitting v. 4): Tune, Lasst uns erfreuen — C.H. 13)
Interlude: Bishop Berggrav
Prayers; the Prayer of St. Ignatius
Loyola; the Lord's Prayer
City of God, how broad and far
(S.P. 468; C.H. 209; D.S. 96; P.H. 103: S.H. 27: Tune, Richmond— S.P. 468)
Blessing

TIME AND TUNE
Songs to sing and, music to listen to
Introduced by Kay Foster
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN
What we have learnt this year
The BBC Observer from the past reminds listeners of the main stages in man's development beginning 340 million years ago.
Script by Rhoda Power
11.40 ISSUES IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA by Richard Harris
Talks for Sixth Forms series

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kay Foster
Script By:
Rhoda Power
Talks:
Richard Harris

Anne Allen introduces recordings made at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology by Eome young people' who recently sought help there in choosing a career
Some of the points raised are discussed by Dr. W. F. J. ROBERTS Headmaster of a Mixed County Grammar School JOHN EVERNDEN
Youth Employment Officer, Croydon and MICHAEL TRAVIS
Careers Adviser, National Institute of Industrial Psychology
The recorded broadcast in ' Parents and Children ' on March 27 in Network Three

Contributors

Introduces:
Anne Allen
Unknown:
Dr. W. F. J. Roberts

From the many broadcasts on BBC sound and television during the past seven days Gate Pedrick selects) highlights that listeners may have misled or might like to hear again
Introduced by John Ellison
Edited by Richard Burwood

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Ellison
Edited By:
Richard Burwood

TRAVEL TALKS
A Journey Through Greece
Johnny Morris describes a trip to Delphi
2.20 THE BIBLE AND LIFE
The Parables in Modern Dress
6: The Prodigal Son
(St. Luke 15. vv. 11-32)
Script by Jack Shepherd
2.40 BOOK REVIEW
Elaine Moss introduces three books for holiday reading: Boy at the Window * by E. W. Hildick ; 'Knight's Fee' by Rosemary Sutcliff ; Lauri's Surprising Summer ' by Lee Kingman. Senior English I series

Contributors

Script By:
Jack Shepherd
Introduces:
Elaine Moss
Unknown:
E. W. Hildick
Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Unknown:
Lee Kingman.

The Championships at Wimbledon
Latest results and commentary by Max Robertson and Raymond Glendenning on the final of the men's singles and the semi-finals of other events, with summaries and comments by Tony Mottram and Bea Walter
From the All England Club
Henley Royal Regatta
Commentary by John Snagge and John Hinde

Contributors

Commentary By:
Max Robertson
Commentary By:
Raymond Glendenning
Unknown:
Tony Mottram
Commentary By:
John Snagge
Commentary By:
John Hinde

Another adventure of the Derringer family written for broadcasting in two episodes by Alick Hayes
1: A Kidnapping is Arranged
Production by Trevor Hill

Contributors

Unknown:
Alick Hayes
Production By:
Trevor Hill
Colonel Derringer:
Russell Napier
Charles Derringer:
Paul Bond
Dick Derringer:
Michael Stirrup
Mary Derringer:
Sara Aimson
The Princess:
Joan Turner
Miss Fanshaw, the Headmistress:
Sybil Holroyd
The Matron:
Gladys Spencer
Miss Spencer:
Jean Telfer
Osborne:
John Daglish
Major Heywood:
Bertram Parnaby

by Fred Dickinson
Eighty-four-year-old Fred Dickinson talks about his mother's memories of the first railways, about life in rural Walworth, street cries, Jack-in-the-Green, the horse-bus, and helping his sisters on with their bustles.
Recorded broadcast of April 11

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Dickinson
Talks:
Fred Dickinson

True stories of the search for enemy spies in wartime
Bernard Archard as Colonel Pinto
The Infernal Triangle
Script by Robert Barr
Production by Charles Maxwell
The recorded broadcast of November 23. 1960, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Archard
Script By:
Robert Barr
Production By:
Charles Maxwell
The Mayor:
Carleton Hobbs
Mrs Sanders:
Margaret Wolflt
Ernst Sanders:
Deryck Guyler
Orderly:
Michael Sherwell

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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