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Opening Music:
Schubert's Symphony No. 6
9.35 AN ACT OF WORSHIP
Prayer
Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore him (S.P. 624; P.H. 222, both omitting Pt. 2; C.H. 35; D.S. 12: Tune, Austrian Hymn—S.P. 600)
Interlude: St. Francis and the Gospels. 2: The Rich Young Ruler
Prayers; the Prayer of Erasmus; the Lord's Prayer
Father, hear the prayer we offer
(S.P. 487; D.S. 123: P.H. 120: BBC Supplement 11: Tune, Gott will's machen—S.P. 487)
Blessing
Closing Music:
Handel's Water Music Suite
Previously broadcast last Friday in the Home Service

A light-hearted look at the advertising world
Michael Medwin as Michael Lightfoot an account executive
Eleanor Summerfield as Maggie, a TV executive Fenella Fielding as Janet
Secretary to Michael Lightfoot
Joan Sims as Mavis, a shorthand typist Nicholas phipps as Adrian Beales , copywriter Warren Mitchell as most other characters
Script bv
Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Recorded broadcast of October 23. 1961, in the Light Programme
Joan Sims broadcast by permission of Andrew Broughton and David Corville

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Medwin
Unknown:
Michael Lightfoot
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Michael Lightfoot
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
Adrian Beales
Unknown:
Warren Mitchell
Unknown:
Myles Rudge
Unknown:
Ronnie Wolfe
Produced By:
John Simmonds
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
Andrew Broughton
Unknown:
David Corville

The Ostrich
A play for radio by ELIZABETH DAWSON with Oliver Johnston as Joe Braithwaite
Joe Braithwaite , master cabinet-maker, is a craftsman and proud of it. But he is an old man, his business is not prospering, and young Tom, his nephew and partner, could do a lot better with Baxter's Furniture Factory. Cast in order of speaking:
Production by AUDREY CAMERON
Recorded broadcast of Jan. H, 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Dawson
Unknown:
Oliver Johnston
Unknown:
Joe Braithwaite
Unknown:
Joe Braithwaite
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
The Vicar:
George Hagan
Tom Braithwaite:
Geoffrey Matthews
Joe Braithwaite:
Oliver Johnston
Cathie Tom's wife:
Eva Stuart
Hogan's secretary:
Freda Dowie
Bill Hogan, a timber merchant:
Wilfred Barbage
Mr Baxter:
Malcolm Hayes
Mr Rundle, a bank manager:
Norman Claridge

from St. Peter's Parish Church, Belfast
Sentence: Confession; Absolution Preces and Responses (Tallis) Psalms 73 and 74 First Lesson: Genesis 46, vv. 26-34;
47, vv. 1-12
Magnificat (Morley: Faux Bourdons) Second Lesson: Philippians 3
Nunc dimittis (Morley: Faux Bourdons)
Creed: Lesser Litany; the Lord's
Prayer
Responses (Tallis) Collects
Anthem: St. Patrick's Breastplate
(arr. Melville Cook)
Prayers and Grace God. whose city's sure foundation
(I.C.H. 193)
Organist and Choirmaster, Lister Wood

Contributors

Unknown:
Grace God.
Choirmaster:
Lister Wood

by Vera Colebrook
This is the story of a remarkable Victorian woman whose ideas were so much in advance of her time that when she published them in a book her family destroyed every copy they could find. But Vera Colebrook found one that had been overlooked and from it, in five instalments, reconstructs the life and experience of her indomitable relative.
This first episode deals with Ellen's childhood and her trials and tribulations at a Seminary for Young Ladies.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vera Colebrook
Unknown:
Vera Colebrook

A serial play about the Donnelly family by CHARLES WITHERSPOON
4: Surprise Ending
If you have been trying to follow up the clues of the disappearance of stuff from the nylon factory with Brian and Paddy and Ricky Donnelly , you know that they accomplished quite a lot last week during their rather unorthodox visit to the Clifton Manufacturing Company in Belfast. But, even when back at Inishbahn, Paddy refused to rell anyone what they had discovered.
Produced by CICELY MATHEWS

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Witherspoon
Unknown:
Ricky Donnelly
Produced By:
Cicely Mathews
Brian Donnelly:
Robin Graham
Paddy Donnelly:
Marilyn Fox
Ricky Donnelly:
Damien Davey
Big Jim McClenaghan:
John F. Tyrone
Annie McClenaghan:
Kathleen Feenan
Terry Bishop:
Charles Witherspoon
Gunning:
George Loxton
Mr Barlow:
Harold Goldblatt
Young man:
Michael Byrne

Songs and stories of the American Gold Rush
Introduced by Alexis Korner
5: Alaska and the Yukon
There is more romance attached to the Yukon Territory than to any other gold mining area in the world, with names such as Klondyke River, Chilkoot Pass, and Eldorado Creek, to stir the imagination.
Reader, Guy Kingsley Poynter
Produced by David Lloyd James

Contributors

Introduced By:
Alexis Korner
Reader:
Guy Kingsley Poynter
Produced By:
David Lloyd James

A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions LONDON v. SCOTLAND
ROUND 1
London:
Denis Brogan , Cedric Cliffe
Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale Scotland:
Sir James Fergusson Jack House
Quiz-Master, Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Sir James Fergusson
Unknown:
Jack House
Unknown:
Patrick Harvey

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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