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Highlights from 1961 including
Uncommercial; What it feels like to be handsome; What are they up to?: Women on other women; Members of the younger and older generations; The cost of an old school tie; What is a secretary worth?; and LADY VIOLET BONHAM CARTER
DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE
J. B. BOOTHROYD
COLIN COWDREY
BEN TRAVERS
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson

Contributors

Unknown:
Lady Violet Bonham Carter
Unknown:
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Unknown:
J. B. Boothroyd
Unknown:
Colin Cowdrey
Unknown:
Ben Travers
Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas—1 by Rosemary Hughes
The Strauss-Hofmannsthal Correspondence
Book review by William Mann
Musical Profile: Carl Dolmetsch by Cedric Wallis Opera in 1961 by Harold Rosenthal

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Edited By:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Rosemary Hughes
Review By:
William Mann
Unknown:
Carl Dolmetsch
Unknown:
Cedric Wallis
Unknown:
Harold Rosenthal

Chairman, J. W. Lambert
Broadcasting: Stephen Potter
Book: J. G. Weightman
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Roger Manvell
Theatre: Bamber Gascoigne
Repeated on Thursday at 3.20

Contributors

Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Stephen Potter
Unknown:
J. G. Weightman
Unknown:
Roger Manvell
Unknown:
Bamber Gascoigne

by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY dramatised as a serial for broadcasting in thirteen parts by Howard Agg 1: Fair Ophelia
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Repeated on Tuesday at 3.0
See page 10

Contributors

Unknown:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Unknown:
Howard Agg
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
The Storyteller:
Simon Lack
Major Pendennis:
Ronald Baddiley
Helen Pendennis:
Joan Matheson
Arthur Pendennis:
John Rye
Morgan:
Will Leighton
Henry Foker:
John Pullen

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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