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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Legal Roundabout: Dudley Perkins comments on cases in the Law Courts
This is Your Wife: a diversion on a hackneyed theme
Dilemma: a mother describes a shock and its effect on her
Dropping In: Leslie Smith attends a one-day conference on group tensions.

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Speaker:
Dudley Perkins
Speaker:
Leslie Smith

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage Edward German (1862-1936) by Mark Lubbock
Purcell's Fantasias and In Nominee by Denis Stevens
Musical Profile: Georg Solti by Harold Rosenthal
Two Books by Pianists reviewed by Joan Chissell

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Edited By:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Mark Lubbock
Unknown:
Denis Stevens
Unknown:
Georg Solti
Unknown:
Harold Rosenthal
Reviewed By:
Joan Chissell

'Almost my first memory of that journey is of twenty-nine boys standing forlorn on the platform at Calais, discussing the lowness of the platform. "It's mad," said Smith, "well, how do you get into the train then?"'
Edward Blishen recalls a journey to Switzerland he is not likely to forget.

Contributors

Speaker:
Edward Blishen

byRUDYARD KIPLING adapted by Maurice Brown
How the Rhinoceros got his Skin told by David
Recorded broadcast of April 6. 1959
The Elephant's Child
Produced by Josephine Plummer
Recorded broadcast of March 30, 1959

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Adapted By:
Maurice Brown
Produced By:
Josephine Plummer
Elephant's Child:
Charles E. Stidwill
Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake:
Maurice Denham
Crocodile:
John Moffatt
Kolokolo Bird:
Rosamond Barnes
The Storyteller:
David Davis

Poetry in the afternoon chosen and introduced by Rumer Godden
1: The Universe
' I fill the earth, the whole world and the streams of ocean far and wide with myself. Tell me my name.'
Readers:
Rumer Godden
David Lloyd James
David Davis

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rumer Godden
Readers:
Rumer Godden
Readers:
David Lloyd James
Readers:
David Davis

by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY dramatised as a serial for broadcasting in thirteen parts by Howard Agg
Pen attends a party given to launch the Pall Mall Gazette, and he becomes a regular contributor to the magazine, with great success. His uncle tells him that Sir Francis and Lady Clavering are in town for the Season and Pen calls on them. There he meets Blanche Amory and realises how easy it would be to fall in love with her all over again.
7: Fame and Folly
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Unknown:
Howard Agg
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
The Storyteller:
Simon Lack
Arthur Pendennis:
John Rye
George Warrington:
Peter Coke
Mr Bacon:
Rolf Lefebvre
Helen Pendennis:
Joan Matheson
Laura Bell:
Beryl Calder
Major Pendennis:
Ronald Baddiley
Lady Clavering:
Vivienne Chatterton
Blanche Amory:
Marjorie Westbury
Henry Foker:
John Pullen
Sir Francis Clavering:
Philip Leaver
Colonel Altamont:
Peter Claughton
Policeman:
William Eedle
Footman:
Anthony Hall

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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