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Opening Music: Joseph Gelineau : Two Psalms
9.35 AN ACT OF WORSHIP
Prayer
Soldiers of Christ, arise (S.P. 641,
C.H. 534, D.S. 85, P.H. 128, all omitting v. 4: Tune, St. Ethelwald-S.P. 641)
Interlude:
Faith: 3-As Continuing Obedience
Prayers: the Prayer for God's
Presence; the Lord's Prayer
Fill thou my life (S.P. 492; P.H.
143; BBC Supplement 26: Tune, Richmond—A.M. 705)
Blessing
Closing Music: Brahms's Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale
Previously broadcast last Friday in the Home Service

Contributors

Music:
Joseph Gelineau

Roll back the carpet and join in the fun with Alf Adamson and his Border Band
Elizabeth Porter
Joe WaMace
Master of Ceremonies, Bill Cain
From Harraby, Carlisle
Arranged by Richard Kelly

Contributors

Unknown:
Alf Adamson
Unknown:
Elizabeth Porter
Unknown:
Bill Cain
Arranged By:
Richard Kelly

Dear Miss Bright ...
A radio play by L. S. HOWARTH
To give advice to readers in a women's magazine is a delicate enough job, but when one's own children are among those writing in, it becomes much more delicate.
Production by MARTIN ESSLlN

Contributors

Play By:
L. S. Howarth
Production By:
Martin Esslln
Catherine, a widow:
June Tobin
Robin, her son:
David Spenser
Jill, her daughter:
Sheila Grant
Lionel, a magazine editor:
Derek Birch
Bevis, a young accountant:
Hugh Dickson
Penny, a friend of Jill's:
Patricia Bendall
Jane, Penny's mother:
Janet Burnell
Colin, a young car salesman:
Michael Spice
Judy, an attractive showgirl:
Diana Olsson

from Durham Cathedral
Preces (William Byrd )
Responses
Give us the wings of faith to rise
(A. and M. rev. 571)
Psalms 6. 7, 8
First Lesson: Ecclesiasiticus 44, vv.
1-15
Magnificat (Hylton Stewart , Mode 1) Second Lesson: Revelation 7, vv.
9-17
Nunc dimittis (Hylton Stewart ,
Mode 1)
Creed; Lesser Litany; Collects What are these (Alan Gray) Prayers; Grace
Organist, Conrad Eden
Sub-Organist, Cyril Maude

Contributors

Unknown:
William Byrd
Unknown:
Hylton Stewart
Unknown:
Hylton Stewart
Organist:
Conrad Eden
Unknown:
Cyril Maude

The further adventures of a very useful baby dragon by Margaret Potter.
Smokey has already been 'incorporated' into the Dragon-fired central heating up at the palace. Now he is put to work in the Royal Laundry.

Contributors

Writer:
Margaret Potter
Incidental music composed by:
Henry Reed
Played by:
A section of the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra
Leader:
Ken Frith
Production:
Trevor Hill
The Inventor:
Geoffrey Banks
His Majestic Majesty:
Frederic Wilson
Cuthbert, the duck:
Patricia Birch
Storyteller:
Graham Roberts

The book by CAMPBELL K. FINLAY adapted for radio by Ian G. Ball
2: The skeleton in the cave
The rival gangs on Goat Island reach an uneasy truce, until Sandy makes a discovery.
Produced by Ian Wishart

Contributors

Book By:
Campbell K. Finlay
Unknown:
Ian G. Ball
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
John Maclnnes:
John Johnston
Campbell:
Leonard Maguire
Angus Maclnnes:
Marsail McCuish
Sandy:
James Grant
Janet:
Rosemary Eadie
Alex:
Neil Brown
Sergeant:
Angus Martin
Mrs Maclnnes:
Sheila Donald
Iain the post:
Alex MacKenzie
Alasdair:
Bryden Murdoch
Mary Campbell:
Jean Faulds

A series of five-round contests
LONDON v. MIDLANDS
ROUND 2
London:
Barry Carman , Cedric Cliffe
Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale Midlands:
H. E. Howard , Geoffrey Jaggard
Quiz-Master, Roy Plomley
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
H. E. Howard
Unknown:
Geoffrey Jaggard
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

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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