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A weekly series of programmes devised by Roger Snowdon

A portrait in sound of the 'wedding-cake church'
With contributions by:
The Rev. Cyril Armitage
A Doctor
Lord Astor of Hever
Mr. Alfred Banks and the Choir of St. Bride's
Organist and Choirmaster, Gordon Reynolds
Produced by Julian Budden
(Recorded broadcast of Jan. 3, in the BBC's General Overseas Service)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Snowdon
Unknown:
Rev. Cyril Armitage
Produced By:
Julian Budden

A series of six programmes for the interested layman in which meteorologists discuss the science of the atmosphere with Alastair Dunnett

How useful are traditional sayings and local knowledge as guides to the weather? How accurate can the meteorologist be in making his predictions?
Speakers:
Sir Graham Sutton, F.R.S. Director General of the Meteorological Office
Dr. G.L. Hogben
(The recorded broadcast of April 19, in Network Three)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair Dunnett

Regional Variations (2)

Cricket: Somerset v. Yorkshire. Second day. From Taunton

BBC Home Service West

Lancashire v. Middlesex at Old Trafford
Essex v. Warwickshire at Colchester
Second day
Commentary by Robert Hudson from Old Trafford and by Brian Johnston from Colchester

Contributors

Commentary (Old Trafford):
Robert Hudson
Commentary (Colchester):
Brian Johnston

Regional Variations (5)

The Week Ahead

BBC Home Service North

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

261 m.) The Week Ahead in the North-East of England

BBC Home Service North

Ar Lin Mam: for the younger listeners'

BBC Home Service Welsh

An English Chronicle by T.H. White read by Carleton Hobbs, arranged for broadcasting in seven episodes by Mollie Greenhalgh Part 2
Last week's reading told of the childhood of tittie Mundy, son of Sir William's groom, on the country estate of Ambledon, and how, after encountering a carriage in the woods, he had been told he had seen Lady Catherine de Bourgh, 'and mind you don't forget her.'

Contributors

Author:
T. H. White
Reader:
Carleton Hobbs
Arranged for broadcasting by:
Mollie Greenhaigh

Conducted by J. W. Lambert
Book: Watter Alien
Art: Bryan Robertson
Film: Ditys Powell
Theatre; Bamber Gascoigne
JXadto.' Jacques Brunius
Sunday's recorded broadcast

Contributors

Conducted By:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson
Unknown:
Bamber Gascoigne
Unknown:
Jacques Brunius

A programme for the fives to eights
Come Along and Join Our Song with Sassie Rees and Maimie Noel Jones
The story: ' SiH-Go-Dwt ' by Linda Thomas Storyteller, Sheila Huw Jones
Introduced by Evelyn Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Sassie Rees
Unknown:
Maimie Noel Jones
Unknown:
Linda Thomaa
Introduced By:
Evetyn Wiuiama

Alec Robertson introduces a programme for young musicians
This month's guests:
From Scotland Ian Wright (xylophone)
Accompanist, Julian Dawson
From Birmingham
The Madrigal Group of King Edward's Five Ways School Birmingham
Conductor, Roy Massey
From London,
Middlesex Schools Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, Roy Stack

Contributors

Presenter:
Alec Robertson
Accompanist:
Julian Dawson
Conductor:
Roy Massey
Conductor:
Roy Stack

Regional Variations (3)

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Let's go Diving: talk by Alan Broadhurs

BBC Home Service North

Who was this remarkable man? Where did he live? What was he like? 1. 0. Evans answers these questions in a talk on Jules Verne 's life
A radio adaptation of Juies Verne 's ' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea * began on Sunday.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jules Verne
Unknown:
Juies Verne

Regional Variations (2)

BBC West of England Players; Susan Longneld, soprano

BBC Home Service West

Five programmes of records, illustrating the living tradition of the British batiad
Compiled and introduced by Peter Kennedy
2: Battads of Loving and Leaving
Th: songs range from the Scottish ' Kissin's Nae Sin' to a version of ' The Foggy, Foggy Dew' sung by Thames barge skipper, Bob Roberts. Production by Douglas Cteverdon Repeated on J'MMdO!/ ot 11.0 a.M.
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Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Kennedy
Sung By:
Thames Barge
Unknown:
Bob Roberts.
Production By:
Douglas Cteverdon

Regional Variations (2)

Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod: choirs from Corsica. Finland, Germany, and the U.S.A.

BBC Home Service Welsh

Written and narrated by Edgar Lustgarten
In 1934 one of the few people in Austria who stood between the Nazis and their domination of that country was Engetbert Dollfuss, the 'little' Chancellor. If the Nazis could remove him Austria was theirs.
BBC Recording

Contributors

Writer/Narrator:
Edgar Lustgarten
Producer:
Alan Burgess
Dollfuss:
Norman Shelley
Frau Dollfuss:
Irene Prador
Frau Mussolini:
Olwen Brookes
Rintelin:
Rudolf Offenbach
Otto:
Francis de Wolff
Fey:
Derek Blomfield
Chief:
Derek Birch
Karvinsky:
Philip Morant
Interrogator:
Michael Turner
Valet:
Keith Buckley

A programme of opera, operetta, and ballet
BBC Concert Orchestra
Leader, William Armon Conductor, Vilem Tausky
Elizabeth Fretwell (soprano) Alexander Young (tenor)

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Concert Orchestra
Leader:
William Armon
Conductor:
Vilem Tausky
Soprano:
Elizabeth Fretwell
Tenor:
Alexander Young

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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