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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Basement Room: ideas from
John S ddeley
The sort of youngster we look for: three theatre people attempt definitions
Proposal in 1885: recalled by Maud Anderson
Glimpses of Great Women: 2: Emily Bronte. An impression of genius

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Recalled By:
Maud Anderson

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage Berlioz and Goethe's Faust by A. E. F. Dickinson Stravinsky's Pulcinella by David Drew
Eva Turner : a Birthday Tribute by Cedric Wallis
Copland on Music
Book review by William Mann

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Edited By:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
David Drew
Unknown:
Eva Turner
Unknown:
Cedric Wallis
Review By:
William Mann

The Patient Listeners . The last of three programmes on the history of bird recording
Introduced by James Fisher with the recorded voices of: V. C. LEWIS. E. W. TURNER ] Roger PERRY , E. BALFOUR ! CARL WEISMANN
Additional recordings by P. Sellar and D. Bradlev Devised and produced by Jeffery Boswall ;

Contributors

Introduced By:
James Fisher
Unknown:
C. Lewis.
Unknown:
Roger Perry
Unknown:
E. Balfour
Unknown:
P. Sellar
Unknown:
D. Bradlev
Produced By:
Jeffery Boswall

Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano)
Alexander Young (tenor) Geraint Evans (baritone)
Gilbert Webster (cimbalom)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Erich Leinsdorf Part 1

Contributors

Mezzo-Soprano:
Josephine Veasey
Tenor:
Alexander Young
Baritone:
Geraint Evans
Baritone:
Gilbert Webster
Conducted By:
Erich Leinsdorf

The novel by FRANCES HODCSON BURNETT adapted as a new radio play in six episodes by John Keir Cross
3: A Cry in the Night
Mary Lennox worked in the secret garden, and she forgot her old loneliness and contrariness altogether. She had discovered a new way to it, along by a laurel-hedged walk, with a little gate leading out to a small wood on the edge of the moor. And suddenly as she approached it ... suddenly, magic again.....
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Novel By:
Frances Hodcson Burnett
Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Unknown:
Mary Lennox
Produced By:
David Davis
The Storyteller:
David Davis
Mary:
Kika Markham
Martha:
Pat Pleasance
Mrs Medlock:
Kathleen Helrne
Dickon:
Martin Starkie
Colin Craven:
June Tobin
Mr Craven:
Frank Atkinson
The Robin:
Percy Edwards

Poetry in the afternoon chosen and introduced by Rumer Godden
4: Towns and Villages
' And all the spring in this sweet Jane is seen '
Readers:
Rumer Godden , David Davis
Denis McCarthy , Barbara Jefford John Neville , John Glen

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rumer Godden
Readers:
Rumer Godden
Readers:
David Davis
Unknown:
Denis McCarthy
Unknown:
Barbara Jefford
Unknown:
John Neville
Unknown:
John Glen

by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY dramatised as a serial in thirteen parts by Howard Agg
After Pen has promised Mr. Bows not to see Fanny Bolton again, he plunges feverishly into his work with the Pall Mall Gazette. One morning Mr. Bows calls and finds him in bed with a raging fever. Mr. Bows sends for the Major and Helen Pendennis , and when they arrive at Pen's bedside they find Fanny Bolton nursing him. Continued in next column
10: The Upper Hand
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Unknown:
Howard Agg
Unknown:
After Pen
Unknown:
Fanny Bolton
Unknown:
Helen Pendennis
Unknown:
Fanny Bolton
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
The Storyteller:
Simon Lack
Lady Clavering:
Vivienne Chatterton
Major Pendennis:
Ronald Baddiley
Captain Strong:
Anthony Viccars
Mrs Bonner:
Gladys Spencer
Lightfoot:
Jonathan Scott
Morgan:
Will Leighton
Sir Francis Clavering:
Philip Leaver

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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