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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Brooke's London Genealogy: an underground publication
The sort of youngster we look for: three hospital matrons attempt definitions
Legal Roundabout : Dudley Per kins glances at some cases in the English courts
How much does that cold in the nose cost you?: Edwina Coven enquires

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Dudley Per
Unknown:
Edwina Coven

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet by Bernard Rose
Vaughan Williams and the Concerto by 'Scott Goddard
Musical Profile: David Willcocka by Allen Percival
Strauss's Capriccio by William Mann

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Edited By:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Bernard Rose
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
David Willcocka
Unknown:
Allen Percival
Unknown:
William Mann

The Patient Listeners
The second of three programmes on the history of bird recording
Introduced by James Fisher with the recorded voices of: ERIC SIMMS
H. R. E. WALLIS
TONY SOPER
JOAN HALL CRAGGS
Additional recordings by F. STERNE and N. ORR
Devised and produced by Jeffery Boswall

Contributors

Introduced By:
James Fisher
Unknown:
Eric Simms
Unknown:
H. R. E. Wallis
Unknown:
Tony Soper
Unknown:
F. Sterne
Unknown:
N. Orr
Produced By:
Jeffery Boswall

Records of operatic duets
This week:
Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi Bjorling with the Orchestra of the Rome Opera House Conducted by Gabriele Santini in the closing scene from Act 1 of Puccini's ' Madam Butterfly '

Contributors

Unknown:
Jussi Bjorling
Conducted By:
Gabriele Santini

by RUDYARD KIPLING adapted for broadcasting by Maurice Brown
6: The Crab that Played with the Sea
Produced by Josephine Plummer

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Maurice Brown
Produced By:
Josephine Plummer
Crab:
Leslie French
Eldest magician:
Robert Farquharson
Man:
Simon Lack
Daughter:
Delia Walker
Fisherman:
Noel Dryden
Various animals:
Ivan Samson
The Storyteller:
David Davis

by William Makepeace Thackeray, dramatised as a serial in thirteen parts by Howard Agg.
Arthur Pendennis leaves Fairoaks and goes to London where he intends to enter for the Law. He meets an old friend from his Oxford days, George Warrington, and they decide to have rooms together. Warrington introduces Pen to his literary friends and persuades him to take up writing again.

Contributors

Author:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatised by:
Howard Agg
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
The Storyteller:
Simon Lack
George Warrington:
Peter Coke
Arthur Pendennis:
John Rye
Captain Shandon:
George Hagan
Mr Bungay:
Malcolm Hayes
Jack Finucane:
William Eedle
Mrs Bungay:
Janet Burnell
The Hon Percy Popjoy:
Jonathan Scott
Mr Wagg:
James Thomason
Colonel Sumph:
Philip Morant
Major Pendennis:
Ronald Baddiley
Lady Clavering:
Vivienne Chatterton
Blanche Amory:
Marjorie Westbury

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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