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The story of a climb by DAVID SCOTT-BLACKHALL with incidental music by Dandel Jones
You have climbed a mountain because it was there. Now live your life because it is there. Another kind of life might be an easier life to live, but another kind of life does not belong to you, except in your imagination. David, the blind climber Patrick Garland
Music recorded by the BBC Welsh Orchestra
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by Daniel Jones
Production by JOHN GRIFFITHS
The recorded broadcast of April 2

Contributors

Unknown:
David Scott-Blackhall
Music By:
Dandel Jones
Unknown:
Patrick Garland
Conducted By:
Daniel Jones
Production By:
John Griffiths
Frank:
Charles Leno
Leslie:
Richard Bebb
Young Man:
Henley Thomas
Girl:
Patricia Mort

Leslie Phillips as Sub-Lieut. Phillips
Stephen Murray as Lieut. Murray , the No. 1
Jon Pertwee as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee
Written by Laurie Wyman
Produced by Alastair Scott Johnston The recorded broadcast of March 1, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Phillips
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Lieut. Murray
Unknown:
Jon Pertwee
Written By:
Laurie Wyman
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston
Captain Povey:
Richard Caldicot
Heather:
Heather Chasen
A B Johnson I:
Ronnie Barker
Lt -Cmdr Stanton:
Ronnie Barker
A B Goldstein:
Tenniel Evans
The Admiral:
Tennie Evans
Lieut Bates:
Michael Bates
A B Ginger:
Michael Bates

Ballet: The Rite of Spring
(Stravinsky)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra Conducted by the composer
Piano Concerto No. 1, in B flat minor (Tchaikovsky)
Clifford Curzon (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Georg Szell
Hungarian Rhapsody. No. 4 (Liszt)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Constantin Silvestri on gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Clifford Curzon
Conducted By:
Georg Szell
Conducted By:
Constantin Silvestri

The Dream Woman
The short story by WILKIE COLLINS adapted for broadcasting by Derek Hoddinott
Isaac Scatchard is haunted by a horrific dream of a woman with a knife. Then one day he meets her in real life ...
Other parts: members of the cast
Production by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL

Contributors

Story By:
Wilkie Collins
Broadcasting By:
Derek Hoddinott
Broadcasting By:
Isaac Scatchard
Production By:
William Glen-Doepel
Landlord:
Philip Morant
Doctor:
Peter Claughton
Policeman:
Julian Somers
Isaac:
Cyril Shaps
Innkeeper:
Tom Watson
Mrs Scatchard:
Grizelda Hervey
Chemist's assistant:
Roy Spencer
Rebecca:
Daphne Jonason
Richard:
Wilfred Babbage

from the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St. Alban, Hertfordshire
General Confession and Absolution
Preces and Responses (
Thomas Tomkins )
Psalms 98. 99, 100. and 101 First Lesson: 1 Samuel 28, vv. 3-28 Office Hymn: 0 Trinity of blessed light (E.H. 164)
Magnificat (Howells, Gloucester Service)
Second Lesson: St. Luke 9. vv. 1-17 Nunc dimittis (Howells, Gloucester
Service)
Creed; Lesser Litany; Collects
Anthem: My beloved spake (Hadley) Prayers and Grace
Organist and Master of the Choristers. Peter Hurford
Assistant organist, John Freeman

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Tomkins
Unknown:
Peter Hurford
Organist:
John Freeman

by HESTER BURTON adapted for radio in three parts by Philip Garston-Jones
2: The Morning After
Other parts played by Alan Devereaux and Eric Skelding
Produced by Shirley Franklin

Contributors

Unknown:
Hester Burton
Unknown:
Philip Garston-Jones
Played By:
Alan Devereaux
Played By:
Eric Skelding
Produced By:
Shirley Franklin
Mary Vaughan:
Mary Chester
Mark Vaughan:
Adrian Walker
Dr Vaughan:
Arnold Peters
Mrs Vaughan:
Kelty MacLeod
Myrtle Beamish:
Ysanne Churchman
Jim Foulger:
Peter Tuddenham
Hepzibah Foulger:
Janet Hitchman
Ned Brewster:
Gwen Dunn
Canon Crowfoot:
Peter Anderson
Rod Cooper:
Anthony Hall

Pat Hanna talks with Colin Wills
Well known in Australia as a Variety artist, over forty years, from 1919, Pat Hanna developed his own style of entertainment-in which the theme of simple British patriotism always ran strong-on the stage, in films, and in radio.
In this conversation with another
Australian he recalls some outstanding moments in his career and gives (informally) some samples from his repertoire.

Contributors

Talks:
Pat Hanna
Unknown:
Pat Hanna

RONALD LLOYD tells the unusual and amusing story of Abe Lockwood , a Yorkshire working man, blunt, unlettered, full of fun—erstwhile rake-who at the turn of the eighteenth century was converted and became an unconventional Methodist local preacher. Recorded broadcast from ' Two of a Kind ' on June 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Lloyd
Unknown:
Abe Lockwood

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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