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Business for Sale Soon?: Honor Wyatt quotes some of the entries for this competition, and gives the results
Kaye Webb in America: in conversation with some of the people she met
The Game's the Thing: Alma Stott recalls a Malayan netball match
What are they up to?: Jeanne Heal discusses with representatives of some of the women's organisations the influence they exert in public life

Contributors

Unknown:
Kaye Webb
Unknown:
Alma Stott
Unknown:
Jeanne Heal

Conducted by Philip Hope-Wallace
Film: A. Alvarez
Theatre: Bamber Gascoigne
Radio: Jacques Brunius
Book: Walter Allen
Art: Bryan Robertson

Contributors

Conducted By:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Unknown:
A. Alvarez
Unknown:
Bamber Gascoigne
Unknown:
Jacques Brunius
Unknown:
Walter Allen
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson

Introduced by Maxwell Knight
BUTTERFLIES OF
CHALK AND LIMESTONE
Michael Chalmers-Hunt and Walter Murray visit attractive butterfly haunts in the Home Counties and discuss their inhabitants with Maxwell Knight
Produced by Bruce Campbell

Contributors

Introduced By:
Maxwell Knight
Unknown:
Michael Chalmers-Hunt
Unknown:
Walter Murray
Produced By:
Bruce Campbell

FREDERICK WILLIS recalls some aspects of the social scene in the late Victorian and Edwardian years when contrasts-between rich and poor, for instance-were shockingly great. And one very big contrast between those times and the present was that then there was no housing shortage.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Willis

by Jules Verne, freely adapted as a serial by Lance Sieveking
It is the late summer of 1866. Professor Aronnax has been swept into the sea as the monster rammed the frigate, and his servant Elbow has jumped in after him.
When daylight comes the frigate has disappeared, but they are hailed by the Canadian harpooner Ned Land, who is sitting on the back of the stationary monster. He helps them up, naked and exhausted. The monster begins to glide through the water. It is a machine It is about to dive. A manhole opens and they are hustled inside by sailors speaking an unknown language.
Repeated on Tuesday at 3.0

Contributors

Author:
Jules Verne
Adapted by:
Lance Sieveking
Producer:
Norman Wright
Narrator:
Philip Morant
Norman Elbow:
Robert Webber
Professor Pierre Aromnax:
Olaf Pooley
Captain Nemo:
Julian Somers
Ned Land:
Errol MacKinnon
Sailor:
Paul Bogdan
Senator Blanco:
Tom Whyte
Mr Denver:
Jon Farrell

Appeal on. behalf of The Sta Cadet Corps by Anthony Kimmins, O.B.E., R.N.
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Captain. Anthony Kimmins, O.B.E., R.N.[address removed]
The Corps is a voluntary organisation for boys between twelve and eighteen. Its discipline and sea training greatly assist those wishing to make their career in the Royal Navy, Merchant Navy, or Royal Marines. The high standard of the Corps develops such qualities of leadership, devotion to duty, and self-respect as to ensure good citizenship.

1893-1941
Music on records and memories of a great London concert hall with contributions from Sir Adirian Boult
Muriel Brunskill , Basil Cameron Marcel Dupre. Edgar Mays Gerald Moore , C. B. Rees Sir Malcolm Sargent
Bernard Shore , W. W. Thompson and otihers
Compiled and introduced by Felix Felton
Produced, by John Lade

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Adirian Boult
Unknown:
Muriel Brunskill
Unknown:
Basil Cameron
Unknown:
Marcel Dupre.
Unknown:
Edgar Mays
Unknown:
Gerald Moore
Unknown:
C. B. Rees
Unknown:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Unknown:
Bernard Shore
Unknown:
W. W. Thompson
Introduced By:
Felix Felton
Produced By:
John Lade

Haydn
Quartet in E flat, Op. 20 No. 1
Quartet in C, Op. 20 No. 2 played by the DartingtonString Quartet Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)
Part of the recorded broadcast of June 28 in the Third Programme

Contributors

Violin:
Colin Sauer
Violin:
Peter Carter
Viola:
Keith Lovell
Cello:
Michael Evans

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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