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Caring for Clothes
The possibilities of damaging clothes in washing, ironing, and cleaning are increased by the wide variety of cloth and fibres used today. Each one has its own particular properties which must be recognised if clothes are to be cared for safely.
Script by J. M. Holt
Science and the Community series

Contributors

Script By:
J. M. Holt

Chairman, Walter Allen
Broadcasting: Jacques Brunius
Book: Alan Brien
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Roger Manvell
Theatre: Eric Keown
Sunday's recorded broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Allen
Unknown:
Jacques Brunius
Unknown:
Roger Manvell
Unknown:
Eric Keown

Michael Ross admits to being a Simenon addict. When in France he is apt to let his imagination run riot. Sometimes this nearly gets him into trouble. In this talk he tells the story of a strange encounter in a Paris bar and its consequences.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ross

Spike Hughes introduces a programme for young musicians
This month's guests:
From Northern Ireland:
Peter Worrall (cello)
Accompanist, Havelock Nelson
From the Midlands:
Songs bv the Madrigal Group of King Edward's Five Ways School Birmingham
From London:
Susan Jackson (piano)

Contributors

Introduces:
Spike Hughes
Cello:
Peter Worrall
Accompanist:
Havelock Nelson
Piano:
Susan Jackson

Character studies from
Thomas Hardy , Jane Austen and Charles Dickens
4: Catherine Morland from ' Northanger Abbey ' by Jane Austen
. arranged by Donald Bancroft
' Catherine reached the age of seventeen without having seen one amicable youth who could call forth her passion. But when a young lady is to be a heroine, something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.'
Reader, Betty Hardy

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Catherine Morland
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Arranged By:
Donald Bancroft
Reader:
Betty Hardy

this week examines Britain's Defence Policy
The Government's White Paper on Defence will be published shortly, setting out policy for the next five years.
ERSKINE CHILDERS introduces an examination of the problems and possible solutions with Richard GOOLD-ADAMS ,Vice-Chairman. Institute for Strategic Studies
COLONEL ALUN GWYNNE-JONES. Defence correspondent of The Times
SIR FITZROY MACLEAN, m.p.. Secretary of State for War 1954-1957
PROFESSOR TOM WILSON, Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at Glasgow University
THE RT. Hon. Kenneth YOUNGER, Director-General of Royal Institute of International Affairs
Editorial research by Anthony Moncrieff

Contributors

Introduces:
Erskine Childers
Unknown:
Richard Goold-Adams

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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