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The Cocktail Party Problem by Neville Moray
Lecturer in Psychology, Sheffield University
How is it that we can follow a conversation through all the babble of a cocktail party? This seemingly innocent question uncovers some very complex mechanisms in the brain.
Last Thursday's recorded broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Unknown:
Neville Moray

Introduced by Bill Hartley
Let the Buyer beware: Michael Rose on the pitfalls in buying a used car To Signal a Stop: The controversial use of the left-hand indicator when stopping is discussed by Denis O'Neill , of the Ministry of Transport, and Ronald Priestley
It's a Fair Deal-Perhaps: Hamish M. Henderson talks about the law of Sale of Goods and how it applies to the motorist
Produced by James Pestridge

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Michael Rose
Unknown:
Denis O'Neill
Unknown:
Ronald Priestley
Talks:
Hamish M. Henderson
Produced By:
James Pestridge

Regional Variations (4)

The West at Westminster

BBC Home Service South and West

Ulster Band: Templemore Avenue Silver Band; conductor, Alfred E. Bell

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Forces' Favourites: records

BBC Home Service Scottish

Stars and personalities who are In Town Today
Introduced by LESLIE MITCHELL Produced by Richard DINGLEY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leslie Mitchell
Produced By:
Richard Dingley

A sort of radio show written by Eric Merriman with Kenneth Home
Kenneth Williams
Hugh Paddick , Betty Marsden
Bill Pertwee , Jill Day
The Fraser Hayes Four
BBC Variety Orchestra Leader, John Jezard
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Incidental music by Edwin Braden Sort-of-announcer, Douglas Smith Produced by Jacques BROWN
Recorded broadcast of November 16, 1961. in the Light Programme

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Kenneth Home
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Jill Day
Unknown:
Fraser Hayes
Leader:
John Jezard
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Music By:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
Jacques Brown

Regional Variations (2)

Sands of Dee: people of the Dee estuary

BBC Home Service Welsh

Returned Empty
A play for radio by ARTHUR CURTIS
Seventeen years ago Frank Lariatt did wrong-and now his past has caught up with him.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Curtis
Unknown:
Frank Lariatt
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Frank Lariatt:
Anthony Viccars
Ruth Parker:
Margaret Gordon
Robert Crawford:
Derek Birch
Hilda Lariatt:
Hilda Kriseman
Percy Radford:
Peter Claughton
Janet Radford:
Elizabeth Morgan
Michael:
Terry Raven
Edith Birchdale:
Grace Allardyce
Henry Birchdale:
Arthur Gomez

Some expert opinions of the game at home and of the British Lions' tour of South Africa this summer, from ex-internationals:
Cliff Morgan in Cardiff
Sammy Walker in Belfast
Jock Wemyss in Edinburgh
John Kendall-Carpenter and C. H. Gadney , M.B.E. Vice President of the Rugby Football Union in London
Chairman, Rex Alston
Produced by Kenneth Pragnell

Contributors

Unknown:
Sammy Walker
Unknown:
C. H. Gadney
Unknown:
Rex Alston
Produced By:
Kenneth Pragnell

Regional Variations (4)

Holiday-Go-Round: records

BBC Home Service Scottish

Rugby League Challenge Cup: Wakefield Trinity v. Wigan

BBC Home Service North

Association Football: Irish Cup, a semi-final tie

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Wales v. France
Rex Alston and Gilbert Bennett describe play in this afternoon's international match at Cardiff Arms Park
W. E. N. Davis sums up from time to time

Contributors

Unknown:
Rex Alston
Unknown:
Gilbert Bennett
Unknown:
W. E. N. Davis

Last of a new series of six plays written by ANTHONY BUCKERIDGE
6:Jennings and the Mysterious Raindrops
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Written By:
Anthony Buckeridge
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Jennings:
Hugh Janes
Darbishire:
Adrian Walker
Mr Carter:
Geoffrey Wincorr
Mr Wilkins:
Wilfred Babbage
Venables:
David Robinson
Atkinson:
Andrew Beeching
Temple:
David Lorr

Regional Variations (7)

News. Ulster Sports Report

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News

BBC Home Service Scottish

News. Sports Medley

BBC Home Service Welsh

News. Sport Spotlight

BBC Home Service North

News. Sport

BBC Home Service Midland

Sport in the West

BBC Home Service South and West

Racing
Results from Sandown Park, Sedgefield, and Uttoxeter
Association Football
Results, reports, and comments on matches played by south-eastern clubs
Minor Leagues
Results of matches played by clubs in the Athenian, Isthmian. and Southern Leagues
Rugby Union
A report on the match between the Army and the R.A.F.. and news of games played by London and south-eastern teams
Comment in Sport
Well-known sports personalities are invited to express their views on affairs of the moment
Introduced by Jacob de Vries
Produced by Gerald Sinstadt

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacob de Vries
Produced By:
Gerald Sinstadt

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra
Introduced by Ivan Samson Master of Ceremonies, Charles Crathorn
Produced by Andrew Gold
The dances: Military Twostep; Waltz; Shadow Saunter; Princess Gavotte: Royal Empress Tango; Hesitation Waltz; Mayfair Quickstep

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Davidson
Introduced By:
Ivan Samson
Unknown:
Charles Crathorn
Produced By:
Andrew Gold

Introduced by Dennis Price
The singers
Catherine Wilson
Julia Shelley , Otakar Kraus
The first broadcast of Rucky Van Mill
Comedy from
Leslie Crowther , Ronnie Barker
This month's comedy guest Arthur Askey
This month's storyteller Fay Compton
Variety Playhouse Orchestra Leader, John Jezard
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Script by Carey Edwards and Leslie Crowther
Short story by Robert Rietty Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Dennis Price
Singers:
Catherine Wilson
Singers:
Julia Shelley
Singers:
Otakar Kraus
Unknown:
Leslie Crowther
Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Fay Compton
Leader:
John Jezard
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Script By:
Carey Edwards
Script By:
Leslie Crowther
Story By:
Robert Rietty
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Regional Variations (3)

John Braine: as North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

John Braine and his Work: the Northern writer interviewed by Leeds University students

BBC Home Service North

News of books and their makers in reviews, quotations and interviews
Geoffrey Gorer speaks on fiction as fact
Introduced by Corbet Woodall

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Gorer
Introduced By:
Corbet Woodall

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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