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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

Regional Variations (4)

Service: as Midland

BBC Home Service South and West

Service from St. Patrick's Church. Ballymacarrett, Belfast

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Service from the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon

BBC Home Service Midland

from Gledholt Methodist Church, Huddersfield, conducted by the Minister, the Rev. W. Gower
Introit Christ whose glory fills the skies
(M.H.B. 924)
Prayers
Jcsu. thou joy (M.H.B. 109)
Lesson: St. Mark 14, vv. 12-31
(N.E.B.)
The Lord is my Shepherd (M.H.B.
Chant 25)
Address
I hunger and I thirst (M.H.B. 462) Sentences and Confession, Comfortable Words; Versicles and Responses ; Thanksgiving: Prayer of Humble Access; Words of Institution
Communion
Christ the Lord is risen today
(M.H.B. 204, vv. 2 and 4) Gloria
The Grace
Organist, Ralph Garside

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. W. Gower
Unknown:
Introit Christ
Organist:
Ralph Garside

Regional Variations (2)

Ar Fore Sul: songs, recordings. and new voices

BBC Home Service Welsh

A request programme of gramophone records
Sonata in C sharp minor. Op. 27
No. 2 (Moonlight) (Beethoven) Solomon (piano)
Three Songs (Mussorgsky)
Tell me star, where art thou?; Drinking Song: Mignon Boris Christoff (bass)
Alexandre Labinsky (piano)
Transcendental Study No. 5, in B flat major (Feux Follets) (Liszt) Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

Contributors

Bass:
Boris Christoff
Piano:
Alexandre Labinsky
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter

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

Regional Variations (2)

To Scotland from New Zealand: letter from Robin Cockburn

BBC Home Service Scottish

Information and advice on legal, social, and financial problems
A Housing Question: Michael Lewis
Children under an Intestacy: Pamela Deedes
Caravans: Rupert Townshend -Rose
Workmen's Compensation and Industrial Injuries: Edward Leader
Presented by Marjory Todd

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Lewis
Unknown:
Rupert Townshend
Presented By:
Marjory Todd

Regional Variations (2)

The Scottish Garden

BBC Home Service Scottish

visits Staffordshire
Members of the Wolverhampton and District Horticultural Society put their problems to Fred Loads , Bill Sowerbutts and Alan Gemmell
Question-Master,
Franklin Engelmann
Arranged by Peter Anderson

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Loads
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Question-Master:
Alan Gemmell
Question-Master:
Franklin Engelmann
Arranged By:
Peter Anderson

'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

Regional Variations (2)

Welsh news survey

BBC Home Service Welsh

Jim Bullock in conversation with Tony Van den Bergh
Jim Bullock , who comes from a family of Yorkshire miners, went down the pit more than forty years ago at the age of thirteen. While working at the coal face he studied for his first-class ticket and eventually became a colliery manager. He is now President of the British Association of Colliery Management. During his lifetime he has seen profound industrial and social changes in mining communities, some of which, influenced by his own early experiences, he has helped to bring about.
Recorded broadcast of Dec. 10, 1961 followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Bullock
Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Unknown:
Jim Bullock

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

Regional Variations (5)

Service from Elmwood Presbyterian Church, Belfast: the Rev. J. C. Crozier

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Service of the Scottish Christian Youth Assembly, held in the Assembly Hall, Edinburgh. conducted by Andrew Cockburn, Chairman

BBC Home Service Scottish

Service from Southampton: as South and West

BBC Home Service Midland

Service from the Avenue Congregational Church. Southampton: the Rev. E. T. Donald James

BBC Home Service South and West

Christians think about their faith and its living expression A DAY CALLED SUNDAY
Second of two programmes by New Zealand writer and broadcaster James McNeish in which he gives his impression of the British and Continental Sunday
2: The Continental
What's so different about the Continental Sunday? After the Sunday promenade, what then? Is the ' sane ' Sunday left any more?
Produced by Harold Rogers and David Allan

Contributors

Unknown:
James McNeish
Produced By:
Harold Rogers
Produced By:
David Allan

Regional Variations (2)

Appeal: Aberdeen Association of Social Service, by the Rev. James S. Wood

BBC Home Service Scottish

Appeal on behalf of the Family Welfare Association by the Countess of Longford (Lady Pakenham)
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to The Countess of Longford. Family Welfare Association, [address removed]
The causes of the disruption of family life are many. The effects are always complicated, far-reaching, and often tragic. The Family Welfare Association seeks, through the guidance of its trained and experienced workers, to restore unity, stability, and independence to disrupted homes. Every year (and the Association is 93 years old) thousands are helped by its service.

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

Regional Variations (2)

Awr Pawb: music, poetry, and literature requested by listeners

BBC Home Service Welsh

Joseph Cooper (piano)
The Riddick String Orchestra Leader, Vera Kantrovitch
Hubert Dawkes
(harpsichord continuo)
Conductor, Kathleen Riddick

Contributors

Piano:
Joseph Cooper
Leader:
Vera Kantrovitch
Harpsichord:
Hubert Dawkes
Conductor:
Kathleen Riddick

Regional Variations (2)

Scottish Life and Letters

BBC Home Service Scottish

A documentary programme by PETER BULL on the first London production and subsequent provincial tour Of SAMUEL BECKETT 'S play
Waiting for Godot with Peter Hall , Peter Bull
Paul Daneman , Peter Woodthorpe
Timothy Bateson , Leonard Cracknell Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by NESTA PAIN
Recorded broadcast of April 14,1961, in the Third Programme followed by an interlude

Contributors

Programme By:
Peter Bull
Unknown:
Samuel Beckett
Unknown:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
Peter Bull
Unknown:
Paul Daneman
Unknown:
Peter Woodthorpe
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Leonard Cracknell
Produced By:
Nesta Pain

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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