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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
William Sansom : a recent guest of Woman's Hour
Simple Sums for Shopkeepers: an arithmetical quiz with Kenneth Horne keeping count
The Sort of Youngster We Look For: three hairdressers attempt definitions
Glimpses of Great Women: 1— Marie Curie. A study of applied passion, with Mary O'Farrell as Madame Curie

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Introduced By:
William Sansom
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Marie Curie.
Unknown:
Mary O'Farrell

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage Dvorak's String Quartets by Alec Robertson
Musical Profile: Mindru Katz by Harold Rutland
Prokofiev and Soviet Music
Book review by Martin Cooper Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas-2 by Rosemary Hughes

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Edited By:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Alec Robertson
Unknown:
Mindru Katz
Unknown:
Harold Rutland
Review By:
Martin Cooper
Unknown:
Rosemary Hughes

Chairman, Philip Hope-Wallace
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Eric Keown
Broadcasting: Jacques Brunius
Book: Alan Brien
Art: Eric Newton

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Eric Keown
Unknown:
Jacques Brunius
Unknown:
Alan Brien
Unknown:
Eric Newton

The novel by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT adapted as a new radio play in six episodes by John Keir Cross 2: Magic
Mary Lennox , orphaned in India, had been sent to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor, far on the Yorkshire moors. She had made a friend of Martha, the housemaid, and heard of Martha's brother Dickon and his great love for wild animals. She had also heard a strange sound of crying in the night! But above all, she had discovered the whereabouts of the little garden ... the secret garden.
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Novel By:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Unknown:
Mary Lennox
Produced By:
David Davis
The Storyteller:
David Davis
Mary Lennox:
Kika Markham
Martha:
Pat Pleasance
Mrs Medlock:
Kathleen Helme
Ben Weatherstaff:
Stephen Jack
The Robin:
Percy Edwards

Poetry in the afternoon chosen and introduced by Rumer Godden 3: Countries
0 Land where I was born to me so homely, where clings the root whence all my being flows '
Readers :
Rumer Godden
David Davis
Valentine Dyall

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rumer Godden
Readers:
Rumer Godden
Readers:
David Davis
Unknown:
Valentine Dyall

by William Makepeace Thackeray, dramatised as a serial in thirteen parts by Howard Agg.

Pen is telling his friend Harry Foker that he is thinking of marrying Blanche Amory, when Harry confesses that he himself is in love with her. Pen meets Captain Costigan with Mrs. Bolton, his landlady, and her daughter Fanny at Vauxhall Gardens. Pen calls on Fanny at Shepherd's Inn and finds that Mr. Bows is lodging there.

Contributors

Author:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatised by:
Howard Agg
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
The Storyteller:
Simon Lack
Arthur Pendennis:
John Rye
Henry Foker:
John Pullen
Captain Costigan:
Tommy Duggan
Mrs Bolton:
Janet Burnell
Fanny Bolton:
Peggy Butt
Mr Bows:
Keith Williams
Doorkeeper:
Kenneth Dight

Despite his many memorable activities in other fields, it is probably as one of the greatest advocates of all time that Lord Birkett will be remembered. His own advocacy was based on a deep knowledge of the law and a deeper understanding of human nature. In this talk, originally broadcast last year as a postscript to a series of sketches of great advocates, he speaks of the principles and practice of advocacy, not merely in Courts of Law but wherever men feel impelled to convince others of the justice of their cause.

Beethoven's Violin Sonatas played by Peter Mountain (violin) Angela Dale (piano)
Eighth of ten programmes comprising the complete violin sonatas of Beethoven. March 7: Sonata in A major, Op. 47, played by Tessa Robbins (violin) and Robin Wood (piano)

Contributors

Violin:
Peter Mountain
Piano:
Angela Dale

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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