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Do manners make the mid-century man? Or have they become meaningless to him? Does etiquette now equal non-etiquette?
How should the well-brought-up beatnik treat his girl friend? Or his mother? How should he rid himself of the unwelcome guest? Should he wash? If so, how much?
Compiled and, introduced by WILFRED DEATH ' in collaboration with Miche]] Raper

Contributors

Introduced By:
Wilfred Death

A requesti programme of records
Introduced by Denis Matthews
Excerpts from
Tristan undi Isolde, Act 2 (Wagner)
Birgit Nilsson (soprano) Fritz Uhl (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Georg Solti
La Mer (Debussy)
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Arturo ToscaninC

Contributors

Introduced By:
Denis Matthews
Soprano:
Birgit Nilsson
Tenor:
Fritz Uhl
Conducted By:
Georg Solti
Conducted By:
La Mer
Conducted By:
Arturo Toscaninc

Conducted by Philip Hope-Wallace
Radio: Jacques Brundus
Book: John Metcalf
Art: Bryan Robertson
Film: A. Alvarez
Theatre: Richard Findlater

Contributors

Conducted By:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Unknown:
Jacques Brundus
Unknown:
John Metcalf
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson
Unknown:
A. Alvarez
Unknown:
Richard Findlater

A transatlantic edition

Many of the sounds birds make in communicating with one another are produced mechanically, not vocally.
James Fisher in London and William Gunn in Ithaca, U.S.A., introduce a series of recordings of the clattering of bills, whistling of wings, beak-tapping, and stamping of feet, and explain their importance.

Contributors

Presenter:
James Fisher
Presenter:
William Gunn
Producer:
Jeffery Boswall

Introduced by Roy Hay
Vegetable Review: by Arthur Billitt. Head of the Lenton Experimental Station
Tips for the Show: by Alfred Lugg. Senior Horticultural: Adlviser at' the Hertfordshire Institute of Agriculture
Last. Friday's recorded broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Introduced By:
Roy Hay
Review By:
Arthur Billitt.
Unknown:
Alfred Lugg.

by JULES VERNE freely adapted as a serial in eight parts by Lance Sieveking
Part 6
The year 1866 is nearly at an end. The fleet of armed frigates sent out by Washington continue to scour the seven seas for the mysterious monster. The Admiralty in London thinks that the Americans may be mistaken. Perhaps the enormous Thing may not be a prehistoric monster but an unknown kind of machine which can move about underwater! A theory greeted everywhere with hoots of derision.
Professor Aronnax, Elbow, and Ned
Land, are believed drowned. But in fact they are on board the only submarine in the world, the Nautilus, prisoners of Captain Nemo, who explains how his vessel is worked by something called ' electricity.'
Produced by Norman Wright

Contributors

Unknown:
Jules Verne
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Narrator:
Philip Morant
Marysia:
Beverley Dunn
Tadzik:
Paul Bogdan
Ned Land:
Errol MacKinnon
Captain Nemo:
Julian Somers
Prof Pierre Aronnax:
Olaf Pooley
Norman Elbow:
Robert Webber
Senator Blanco:
Tom Whyte
Henry Philips:
Eric Anderson
George Barker:
Humphrey Morton
David Benfield:
Keith Williams

Christiansthink about their faitlhi and its living expression
SOME AN HUNDRED
'These are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty and some an hundred. ' St. Mark 4, v. 20
The story of William Carey, born August 17, 1761. and of his companions Andrew Fuller, Joshua Marshman and William Ward. founders of the Baptist Missionary Association and of the Serampore Mission
Others taking part:
Peter Claughton , Hugh Dickson Hilda Kriseman. Philip Leaver
Will Leighton , Diana Oisson
Jonathan Scott. Gladys Spencer Programme arranged by J. A. Fisher

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Claughton
Unknown:
Hugh Dickson
Unknown:
Hilda Kriseman.
Unknown:
Philip Leaver
Unknown:
Will Leighton
Unknown:
Diana Oisson
Unknown:
Jonathan Scott.
Unknown:
Gladys Spencer
Arranged By:
J. A. Fisher

A Ballad-Play by John Gay, 1685-1732
With the traditional ballads newly arranged by Christopher Whelen

With Ian Wallace, Alec McCowen Jane Wenham, June Tobin
Characters in the order of speaking and singing

Scene: Newgate and Tyburn, 1728

From 8.30 until 10.0

Contributors

Author:
John Gay
Traditional ballads arranged by/Musical Direction:
Christopher Whelen
Radio Adaptation/Production:
Raymond Raikes
The Beggar, a ballad-singer:
Ian Wallace
Peachum:
Norman Shelley
Filch:
Tom Watson
Mrs. Peachum:
Marjorie Westbury
Polly Peachum:
Jane Winham
Macheath:
Alec McCowen
Mat of the Mint:
William Eedle
Drawer:
Haydn Jones
Mrs. Coaxer:
Gladys Spencer
Dolly Trull:
Penelope Lee
Mrs. Vixen:
Mary O'Farrell
Betty Doxy:
Janet Burnell
Jenny Diver:
Janette Richer
Mrs. Slammekin:
Gladys Spencer
Sukey Tawdry:
Hilda Kriseman
Molly Brazen:
Diana Olsson
Lockit:
Lawrence Baskcomb
Lucy Lockit:
June Tobin
Diana Trapes:
Marjorie Westbury
Macheath's Gang played and sung by:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

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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