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Six programmes offering advice and information to parents and all who are concerned in advising school-leavers taking G.C.E. and similar courses
2: Should boys and girls have the same opportunities?
The range of career openings for girls is increasing because the economy needs their skills, but most girls these days marry young. Is it worth giving girls the same chances as boys? Should they be educated for work, or family life, or both?
Brian Groombridge puts these and other questions to
Irene Hilton
Organising Secretary,
Women's Employment Federation
Margaret Miles Headmistress,
Mayfield School. Putney and Judith Hubback author of ' Wives who went to College '
Recorded broadcast of May 8 in Network Three

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Groombridge
Unknown:
Irene Hilton
Unknown:
Judith Hubback

Devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
E. Arnot Robertson and Frank Muir challenge
Nancy Spain and Denis Norden
Umpire, Jack Longland
Recorded broadcast of July 9

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
E. Arnot Robertson
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

Dear Miss Prior from the novel
' Lovel the Widower ' by W. M. THACKERAY adapted for radio by Mollie Greenhalgh
When an impoverished but attractive young lady tries to adapt herself to a new life in order to keep her fatherless family, it is naturally somewhat unsettling to have her past maliciously brought to the attention of her new employer.
Produced by ROBIN MIDGLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
W. M. Thackeray
Unknown:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced By:
Robin Midgley
Mr Batchelor:
Kenneth MacKintosh
Mrs Prior:
Patricia Lawrence
Captain Prior:
Arthur Gomez
Elizabeth Prior:
Peggy Butt
Glorvina O'Dowd:
Prunella Scales
Her mother:
Prunella Scales
Popham Lovel:
Prunella Scales
Frederick Lovel:
Donald McKillop
Cissy Lovel:
Patricia Bendall
Lady Baker:
Gladys Spencer
Dick Bedford:
Wilfred Babbage
Mr Drencher:
Philip Leaver
Captain Clarence Baker:
Anthony Viccars

from the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, London
Introit: Laudate nomen Domini (Tye) Preces and Responses (Tomkins) Psalm 104
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 15. w. 17-21 Magnificat (Thomas Caustun )
Second Lesson: St. John 11, w. 1-16 Nunc dimittis (Thomas Caustun ) Creed
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Collects
Anthem: Now blessed be thou,
Christ Jesu (Brian Brockless )
Prayers; The Grace
Organ Voluntary: Voluntary in D
(Thomas Tomkins )
Organist and Choirmaster, Brian Brockless

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Caustun
Unknown:
Thomas Caustun
Unknown:
Christ Jesu
Unknown:
Brian Brockless
Organist:
Thomas Tomkins
Choirmaster:
Brian Brockless

by LAURENCE MEYNELL adapted by. Nan Macdonald 4: On the Run
Production by Trevor Hill

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Meynell
Adapted By:
Nan MacDonald
Production By:
Trevor Hill
David Walker:
Geoffrey Matthews
Taul:
Keith Buckley
Special Constable:
John Broadbent
Carl Lipscombe:
Heron Carvic
Sigmund Herst:
Graham Tennant

Dr. Cecil Northcott gives some personal impressions of the famous Protestant community at Taize in south-east France
' It's not everybody's way of life, but you can't help feeling that these men are on to something that the present-day world badly needs.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Cecil Northcott

Four talks for
Advent by the Rev. Alan Booth
Secretary of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs who explores, from a standpoint of Christian belief, the challenge offered by some of the major political problems of our time.
4: No Abiding City

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Alan Booth

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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