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Prayer
From all that dwell below the skies
(S.P. 408; C.H. 228; D.S. 121: P.H. .228: Tune, Wareham)
Interlude: Courage. 1: Facing
Danger
Continued in next column
Prayers; the Prayer of Goodwill: the Lord's Prayer
Fight the good fight (S.P. 491; C.H.
517: D.S. 69; P.H. 121: Tune, Duke Street)
Blessing
Closing Music: Holst's Jupiter' from ' The Planets'

What more can we know about them?
A discussion between
Hugh Lloyd-Jones , M. I. Finley John Boardman , and Sir Mortimer Wheeler , chairman
In the last of ten programmes Sir Mortimer Wheeler discusses the disciplines of classical scholarship and its future prospects with a textual scholar, a historian, and an archaeologist.
The recorded broadcast of March 15 in Network Three

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Unknown:
M. I. Finley
Unknown:
John Boardman
Unknown:
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Unknown:
Mortimer Wheeler

Osian Ellis
(who plays the harp and sings to his own accompaniment)
Hugh Bean (violin)
Eileen Croxford (cello)
David Parkhouse (piano)
Produced by John MandueU
Part of the recorded broadcast of August 7, 1960

Contributors

Unknown:
Osian Ellis
Violin:
Hugh Bean
Piano:
David Parkhouse
Produced By:
John Mandueu

Stories based on the work of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
ROAD TRAIN with James McKechnie as Dr. Chris Rogers
Bill Kerr as Tommy O'Donnell
Rosemary Miller as Mary West
Bettina Dickson as Sally MacAndrew
Written by Rex Rienits
Production by Vernon Harris
The recorded broadcast of March 31 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
James McKechnie
Unknown:
Dr. Chris Rogers
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Tommy O'Donnell
Unknown:
Rosemary Miller
Unknown:
Mary West
Unknown:
Bettina Dickson
Unknown:
Sally MacAndrew
Written By:
Rex Rienits
Production By:
Vernon Harris

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

The book by Charles Kingsley arranged as a serial for broadcasting in six parts by Nan Macdonald
3: How Hereward won Torfrida and got his famous mare Swallow
Countess Gertrude.Sandra Chambers
Produced by Herbert Smith

Contributors

Book By:
Charles Kingsley
Unknown:
Nan MacDonald
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Charles Kingsley, the Chronicler:
Ivan Samson
Hereward:
David Mahlowe
Martin Lightfoot:
Geoffrey Banks
Arnoul, Prince of Flanders:
Robert Huxter
Torfrida:
Judith Bradshaw
Nurse:
Rosalie Williams
Dirk Hammerhand:
Graham Tennant
Queen Adela of Flanders:
Madeleine Vacher
A Knight:
Alan Sykes

See panel and page 54
Part 1

Part 1 at 7.30
Part 2 at 8.30
Janet Craxton (oboe) Colin Bradbury (clarinet) Douglas Moore (horn) Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon)
Elizabeth Simon (soprano) Marjorie Thomas (contralto) Ronald Dowd (tenor) Donald Bell (bass)
BBC Choral Society
BBC Chorus
Royal Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent and Bernard Keeffe

Part 1
Conducted by Bernard Keeffe

Overture: Ezio...Handel

Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and orchestra (K.297b)...Mozart

Part 2
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Beethoven Symphony No. 9, in D minor (Choral)

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Three programmes of poems about animals
Arranged and introduced by George MacBeth
3: The Creatures of the Land
Including verses on a cat, a leech. a crocodile, a spider, a kangaroo, and a koala bear
Readers: Hugh Dickson
Anthony Jacobs and Gary Watson

Contributors

Introduced By:
George MacBeth
Readers:
Hugh Dickson
Readers:
Anthony Jacobs
Readers:
Gary Watson

BBC Home Service Basic

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