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by Leslie Smith
When you are in a job that is challenging, rewarding, and secure, there must be strong reason for a change. Leslie Smith tells how he overcame doubts and fears at an age when most family men decide to stay where they are.

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Unknown:
Leslie Smith

Every year large numbers of young women from many European countries arrive in this country: some come with labour permits for domestic posts, some on an au pair basis. What do their employers and hostesses expect of them? What do they, in their turn, think of the homes to which they come?
JOYCE BUTLER M.P. , discusses, with the aid of recorded illustrations, a situation about which there has been some controversy.

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Butler M.P.

A light-hearted took at the advertising world
Michael Medwin as Michael Lightfoot an account executive
Eleanor Summerfield as Maggie, a TV executive
Fenella Fielding as Janet, secretary to Michael Lightfoot
Joan Sims as Mavis, a shorthand typist
Nicholas Phipps as Adrian Beales, copywriter
Warren Mitchell as most other characters
Script by Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe

(Recorded broadcast of April 17 in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Michael Lightfoot:
Michael Medwin
Maggie:
Eleanor Summerfield
Janet:
Fenella Fielding
Mavis:
Joan Sims
Adrian Beales:
Nicholas Phipps
Most other characters:
Warren Mitchell
Script:
Myles Rudge
Script:
Ronnie Wolfe
Producer:
Eric Miller

The Little Farm
A short story by H. E. BATES
Adapted for radio by Aileen Mills
A young farmer needs someone to help him in the house, and in answer to his advertisement Edna Johnson arrives.
Storyteller, Molly Rankin
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Story By:
H. E. Bates
Unknown:
Aileen Mills
Unknown:
Edna Johnson
Unknown:
Molly Rankin
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Tom Richards:
Richard Bebb
Office girl:
Barbara Mitchell
Edna Johnson:
June Tobin
Jack Bmmett:
William Eedle

sung by the Wellington Festival Choir from Wellington Parish Church, Somerset
Let thy merciful ears (Brian Head) Sentence; Confession; Absolution The Lord's Prayer
Responses (William Smith) Psaltais 47. 48. and 49 First Lesson: 1 Kings12, vv. 1-24
Maginiflcat (Wood in F: Collegium
Regale)
Second Lesson: St. Luke 18, v. 31, to 19. v. 10
Nunc dimittis (Wood in F: Collegium Regale)
Creedi; Lesser Litany; Collects
Anthem: Salvator Mundi (Tallis) Prayers; The Grace
Organist, John Langdon Director of Music, Christopher Bishop

Contributors

Organist:
John Langdon
Music:
Christopher Bishop

A programme for the fives to eights
Anatole and the Cat
A story by Eve Titus read by David Lloyd James
In all France, there was no mouse more honoured or respected than Anatole. He was very proud of his job as Cheese Taster at the factory of M'sieu Duval ...

Contributors

Story By:
Eve Titus
Read By:
David Lloyd James

A new serial thriller in four parts written by Geoffrey Morgan featuring
Steve Conroy and Penny Paige of the London Courier
2: Cause for Alarm
Produced by Graham Gauld

Contributors

Written By:
Geoffrey Morgan
Unknown:
Steve Conroy
Unknown:
Penny Paige
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Steve Conroy:
John Bentley
Penny Paige:
June Spencer
Mrs Reeder:
Beatrice Kane
Philip Straker:
Lewis Stringer
Boy Lawton:
Alaric Cotter
Alwyn Bland:
Laidman Browne
Spike Logan:
Fred Yule
Andy Thompson:
Leslie Perrins
Miss Walker:
Gwen Berryman
Bates:
Leonard Henry

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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