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Seldom, surely, have a mother's letters to her daughter become classical literature. Madame de Sevigne, by her letters, reveals an interesting personality, a gifted writer, and a host of details concerning 17th-century France. Script by Rene Leplat
French for Sixth Forms series

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Script By:
Rene Leplat

The Concrete Garden by AILEEN BURKE and LEONE STEWART
When the Drummonds took over Hawthorn Cottage they believed they had found their ideal home. But there was a mystery surrounding the garden, a mystery that only the extra-sensory eye of an artist could fathom.
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

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Garden By:
Aileen Burke
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Perry Lincoln:
Rolf Lefebvre
Bill Drummond:
Ralph Hallett
Mr Wallace:
Charles Simon
Angela Drummond:
Monica Grey
Miss Combe:
Mary O'Farrell
Mrs Sanders:
Joan Geary
Mrs Benson:
Janet Burnell
Sergeant Tredcar:
Haydn Jones

from Hereford Cathedral
Preces and Responses (Byrd) Psalms 22, 23
First Lesson: Ezekiel 37, w. 15-28 Magnificat (Wood in F)
Second Lesson: Hebrews 2 Nunc dimittis (Wood in F) Creed; Collects
Anthem: Beat i quorum via (Stanford) Prayers; Grace
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Melville Cook
Assistant Organist, Michael Burton

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Organist:
Michael Burton

or Transformation by the Teddies by Mary Gough
They had all been in minor trouble with the police, and were definitely ' agin the Government,' but the speaker found a way of dealing with the boys that revealed them as affectionate and easily managed.

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Unknown:
Mary Gough

A series of five-round contests
LONDON v. WALES
ROUND 3
London:
Denis Brogan , Cedric Cliffe
Quiz-Master, Michael Flanders
Wales:
T. 1. Ellis, Wym Griffith
Quiz-Master, Roy Plomley
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

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Unknown:
Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Wym Griffith
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

(See panel and page 39)

BBC SYMPHONY CONCERTS

FROM THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL. LONDON
Part 1 at 8.0

The National Anthem

BEETHOVEN Mass in C

Part 2 at 9.10

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 16, in D (K.451)

BRUCKNER Te Deum
Joan Hammond SOPRANO

Janet Baker CONTRALTO

BBC Chorus
Richard Lewis TENOR
Stanislav Pieczora BASS
BBC Symphony Orchestra (Leader, Paul Beard)
Rudolf Firkusny PIANO

Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz

Naomi Lewis 's observations on an old tale
It was the Sleeping Beauty, of course, who slept in the castle in the wood, but everyone in the castle, everything in the enchanted wood slept too. It is a potent myth: has not every human, the speaker asks, somewhere in the mind such a dense wood where absent lovers, distant battles, unwelcome news and views are conveniently left to sleep?
Recording of the broadcast of July 9

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Unknown:
Naomi Lewis

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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