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Sight Into Sound
Bryan Forbes and Barbara Shelley in The Angry Silence
Screenplay by BRYAN FORBES
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
The action takes place in and around the works of the Martindale Engineering Company Limited, Melsham. Time: the present.
Saturday's recorded broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Bryan Forbes
Unknown:
Barbara Shelley
Unknown:
Bryan Forbes
Produced By:
Archie Campbell

Advice and entertainment for retired and older people, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
The Under-Privileged: Elizabeth Ring resents a comment by a young man about the days of her youth
Retirement: An assessment by Rose Odle
Presented by John Dunn
The second item is recorded

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Ring
Presented By:
John Dunn

A programme for the fives to eights THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Kenneth Grahame
A new adaptation in twelve parts by Felix Felton
5: Dulce Domum
The Rat and the Mole, returning across country after a long day's outing with Otter, found the track, and in both it answered to that small enquiring something which all animals carry inside them, saying unmistakably, ' Yes, quite right, this leads home! '
Produced and narrated by David Davis

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
David Davis
The Water Rat:
David March
The Mole:
Charles E Suidwill
The Fieldmouse:
Sheila Moloney

presents two early English comedies
John Laurie in Noah's Flood
Arranged from the fifteenth-century miraclie plays of Newcastle, Chester, Wakefield, and Hegge by John. Barton
9.0 app.
Norman Wooland in Gammer Gurton's Needle
Anon. (c. 1560)
Music composed' by Elizabeth Poston played by the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by Douglas Robinson
The plays adapted for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES and edited from his original productions for The First Stage broadcast in the Third Programme from 1956 to 1957

Contributors

Unknown:
John Laurie
Unknown:
John. Barton
Unknown:
Norman Wooland
Composed By:
Elizabeth Poston
Conducted By:
Douglas Robinson
Unknown:
Raymond Raikes
Noah:
John Laurie
The AngeL:
Godfrey Kenton
Satan:
Anthony Jacobs
Noah's wife:
Mary O'Farrell
Shem:
John Glen
Ham:
John Forrest
Japhet:
Allan McClelland
Shem's wife:
Annette Kelly
Ham's wife:
Betty Linton
Japhet's wife:
Janette Richer
Deus:
Deryck Guyler
Diccon, the Bedlam:
Bedlam Wooland
Hodge, her servant:
Michael Bates
Tib, her maid:
Denise Bryer
Cock, her boy:
Geoffrey Matthews
Dame Chat, an alehouse keeper:
Betty Hardy
Doctor Rat, the curate:
John Ruddock
Master Bailey, the bailiff:
James Dale
Scapethrift, his servant:
Servant Manning

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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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