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Seven variations on the duet:
Bei MSnnern , welche Liebe fuhlen from Mozart's ' The Magic Flute' played by Pierre Fournier (cello) Friedrich Gulda (piano) on a gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Bei Msnnern
Cello:
Pierre Fournier
Piano:
Friedrich Gulda

Work in the world of science
CERAMICS by N. F. Astbury , SC.D., Director of Research.
British Ceramic Research Association
Bricks and tiles, drainpipes and fine porcelain, furnace linings and electrical insulators-these are just a few of the applications of ceramics in daily life. Research faces the challenge of reducing an empirical craft to an exact science.
Last Thursday's recorded broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Unknown:
N. F. Astbury

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Rudolf Kempe
Waltz: Dynamiden (Josef Strauss ) Intermezzo (A Thousand and One
Nights) (Johann Strauss )
Waltz: Tales from the Vienna
Woods (Johann Strauss ) a recent gramophone record

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rudolf Kempe
Unknown:
Josef Strauss
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Johann Strauss

Professor Jimmy Edwards submits a weekly school report with Roddy Maude-Roxby as Aubrey Potter
Frederick Treves as Alfred Tennyson Norman Shelley as Sir Charles Roy Dotrice as Mr. Foster Roger Shepherd as Lumley David L-ott as Taplow
Script adapted by David Climie from an original by Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Produced by Edward Taylor
Recorded broadcast of August 22 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Unknown:
Aubrey Potter
Unknown:
Frederick Treves
Unknown:
Alfred Tennyson
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Sir Charles Roy Dotrice
Unknown:
Mr. Foster Roger Shepherd
Unknown:
Lumley David L-Ott
Adapted By:
David Climie
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

Paul Gallico, in a recorded programme, discusses with Roy Plomley the gramophone records he would choose to have with him if he were condemned to spend the rest of his life on a desert island.

(Previously broadcast on December 4)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Paul Gallico
Producer:
Monica Chapman

Miles Malleson in The Chimes by CHARLES DICKENS dramatised for radio by Mollie Hardwick
Music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen
A goblin story of some bells that rang an old year out and a new year in. The action takes place in London on New Year's Eve, 1845. The Voice of the Bells The Amhrosian Singers
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Harold Blackburn broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Mollie Hardwick
Conducted By:
Christopher Whelen
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Unknown:
Harold Blackburn
Narrator:
Gordon Davies
Toby (Trotty) Veck:
Miles Malleson
The Voice of the Great Bell:
Harold Blackburn
Meg, Trotty's daughter:
Carol Marsh
Richard, betrothed to Meg:
William Eedle
Alderman Cute:
Joss Ackland
Mr Filer:
Arthur Ridley
Tugby:
Willoughby Goddard
Sir Joseph Bowley:
Haydn Jones
Mr Fish:
John Bryning
Lady Bowley:
Hilda Kriseman
Will Fern:
Frank Windsor
Lilian:
Hilda Schroder
Mrs Tugby, formerly Mrs Chicken stalker:
Vivienne Chatterton

Gale Pedrick selects highlights of BBC sound and television broadcasts from more than one thousand items featured as the Pick of the Week
Introduced by John Ellison
Edited by Kenneth Pragnell

Contributors

Unknown:
Gale Pedrick
Introduced By:
John Ellison
Edited By:
Kenneth Pragnell

The 100th adventure of the boy detectives written by Anthony C. Wilson with Harold Reese as Norman Bones, Patricia Hayes as Henry, his cousin

"I don't expect an immediate decision, naturally. But if you feel the place would suit you, and we can come to terms over the price, there seems no point in delaying things longer than necessary, does there?"

Contributors

Writer:
Anthony C. Wilson
Producer:
Josephine Plummer
Norman Bones:
Harold Reese
Henry Bones:
Patricia Hayes
Jim Warner:
Preston Lockwood
Beryl Warner:
Kathleen Helme
Stephen Houghton:
Frank Duncan
Alec MacLean:
Simon Lack
George Murrell:
Frank Atkinson
Mrs Bones, Norman's mother:
Ann Codrington
Mr Bones, his father:
Leslie Perrins
Enid Lyle:
Armine Sandford
Kenneth Lyle:
Nicholas Edmett
Police Sergeant Green:
Hugh David

(See above and page 3)

by Philip Mackie
adapted for radio by Gale Pedrick

A conversation piece between a film star, his brother, his agent, his wife, and his prospective mistress, which takes place just after the discovery of a murder, and during which the truth about their secret relationships emerges.

Contributors

Writer:
Philip Mackie
Adapted by:
Gale Pedrick
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Richard Eyneshaw:
William Eedle
Paul, his agent:
Rolf Lefebvre
Michael, his brother:
John Pullen
Jane, a young actress:
Beverley Dunn
Lillian, Richard's wife:
June Tobin
Stella, his ex-wife:
Sheila Grant

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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