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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
An Explorer Talks: Eric Shipton
The Elements: seen by a scientist and poet. 1: Fire
An Omelette-in Chinon:
Eleanor Farjeon reminisces
Looking at Life: Ada Reeve

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Eric Shipton
Unknown:
Eleanor Farjeon
Unknown:
Ada Reeve

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage Classical Myth in French Music by Martin Cooper
Musical Profile: Louis Kentner by Harold Rutland
Introduction to a Schoenberg Concert by Robert Henderson Vaughan Williams and the Stream of Music book review by Scott Goddard

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Edited By:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Music By:
Martin Cooper
Unknown:
Louis Kentner
Unknown:
Robert Henderson
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Review By:
Scott Goddard

A request programme of gramophone records
Introduced by Norman Fnlton
Elegy and Musette (Suite: King
Christian II (Sibelius)
New Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Mackerras
Petite Symphonie Concertante for harp. harpsichord, piano, and string orchestra (Frank Martin) Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski

Contributors

Introduced By:
Norman Fnlton
Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras
Conducted By:
Leopold Stokowski

Chairman, J. W. Lambert
Book: Elspeth Huxley
Art: David Sylvester
Film: Paul Dehn
Theatre: T. C. Worsley
Broadcasting: Cyril Ray

Contributors

Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Elspeth Huxley
Unknown:
David Sylvester
Unknown:
Paul Dehn
Unknown:
T. C. Worsley
Unknown:
Cyril Ray

The novel by HENRY SETON MERRIMAN freely adapted for broadcasting in ten parts by Norman Edwards
The story is centred round a household in Dantzig, at the time of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia.
7: Barlaseh returns
Continued in next column
Storyteller, Godfrey Kenton
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Novel By:
Henry Seton Merriman
Unknown:
Norman Edwards
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Sergeant:
Donald McKillop
Charles Darragon:
Allan McClelland
Barlasch:
George Merritt
Colonel de Casimir:
Malcolm Hayes
Dubois:
Charles Simon
Lautrec:
John Pullen
Désirée:
Elizabeth London
Mathilde:
Annabel Maule
Louis de Varennes:
Simon Lack
Antoine Sebastian:
Martin Lewis

The Colonial Reckoning by MARGERY PERHAM , C.B.E.
Fellow of Nuffield College. Oxford 3: The Politics of Emancipation
In her lecture tonighMiss Perharm talks about the evolution of British policy towards colonial self-government, and about the difficulties for rulers and ruled inherent in the transfer of power.

Contributors

Unknown:
Margery Perham
Talks:
Miss Perharm

Haydn
Quartet in C, Op. 54 No. 2
Quartet in F, Op. 74 No. 2 played by the Allegri String Quartet Eli Goren (violin)
James Barton (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello)
Recording of broadcast of Jan. 10, 1960. in the Third Programme

Contributors

Violin:
Eli Goren
Violin:
James Barton
Viola:
Patrick Ireland
Cello:
William Pleeth

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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