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THE YEARS GONE BY
ALAN KEITH brings you a selection of your recorded memories
Produced by Denys Gueroult
If you have a memory from the past, an event, a radio programme, a personality, which you would like to hear again, write on a postcard to: ' The Years Gone By,' BBC, London, W.I. Requests cannot be accepted for gramophone records.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Keith
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

The Desperation of John Holter written by BOB KESTEN with Robert Beatty
John Holter could have sung aloud as he walked into a Philadelphia Hospital to congratulate his wife upon their first baby. He did not realise that he was going to be set a problem in ' human hydraulics' of the utmost complexity and that the life of his own baby and the lives of many others would depend upon his skill.
Produced by ALAN BURGESS
Recorded broadcast of January 23, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
John Holter
Written By:
Bob Kesten
Unknown:
Robert Beatty
Unknown:
John Holter
Produced By:
Alan Burgess
John Holter:
Robert Beatty
Mary Holter:
Tucker McGiure
Dr James:
Roger Delgado
Neuro surgeon:
Jon Farrell
Doc:
Murray Kash
Manufacturer:
Bob Kesten
Nurse:
Gudrun Ure

The first of a weekly series in which six- to twelve-year-olds from several types of school confide in Harold Williamson
1: About School
' The only thing I like about school is the relief of getting out at 4 o'clock '
' I don't care if Mummy comes to school events or not.'
Produced by Michael Barton
Recorded broadcast of Sept. 9. 1961, in North of England Home Service

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Williamson
Produced By:
Michael Barton

Much Woolton Roman Catholic School. Liverpool
Conductor. Henry G. Baker
Shuttlewood County Primary School, Derbyshire
Conductor, Winifred Hutley
Wirral County Grammar School for Girls
Conductor. Doris Parkinson

Contributors

Conductor:
Henry G. Baker
Conductor:
Doris Parkinson

Advice and entertainment for retired and older people, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
Loneliness: The third talk by the Very Rev.H. C. L. Heywood
Never Darken My Door: Andrew Douglas tells the story of a family misfit
Musical Moments: Another choice by C. Gordon Glover
The Card: the third reading from Arnold Bennett 's book by Anthony Hall
Introduced by David Brown
The first and last items are recorded

Contributors

Unknown:
H. C. L. Heywood
Unknown:
Andrew Douglas
Unknown:
C. Gordon Glover
Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Book By:
Anthony Hall
Introduced By:
David Brown

Six plays by E. Lucia TURNBULL
1: Nine Hills based on a story from the Isle of Ruegen, in the Baltic
When Nils was twelve years old he was sent up for the summer months to look after the sheep on Nine Hills, under which-it was said-the Red-Cap Gnomes mined for silver and gold.
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Nils:
Kit Williams
Kurt:
Stephen Jack
Kirsten:
Mary Dalley
Red-Cap:
Peter Pratt
Storyteller:
David Davis

Miriam Karlin in Chicken Soup with Barley by ARNOLD WESKER
The Trilogy opens on October 4, 1936, with a picture of the East End awaiting one of Mosley's Fascist marches. We meet Sarah Kahn ; her shiftless husband, Harry; their two children, Ada and Ronnie; Harry's sister, Cissie (a trade union organiser); and Dave Simmonds , who will later marry Ada; and follow them through twenty years of doubt, difficulty, and disillusion, at the end of which the indomitable Sarah can still cry, ' We got through, didn't we? We got scars but we got through. You hear me, Ronnie? You've got to care, you've got to care or you'll die! ' *
Other parts played by Adrienne Poster and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Unknown:
Miriam Karlin
Unknown:
Arnold Wesker
Unknown:
Sarah Kahn
Unknown:
Dave Simmonds
Played By:
Adrienne Poster
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Sarah Kahn:
Miriam Karlin
Harry Kahn:
Frank Finlay
Monty Blatt:
Haydn Jones
Dave Simmonds:
Mark Eden
Prince Silver:
Malcolm Hayes
Hymie Kossof Sarah's brother:
Peter Claughton
Cissie Kahn:
Marjorie Westbury
Ada- Kahn:
Sheila Allen
Ronnie Kahn:
David Saire
Bessie Blatt, Monty's wife:
Hilda Kriseman

played by Leon Goossens (oboe) with Gerald Moore (piano)
Arioso (Fiocco, arr. Bent and O'Neill) Couvre feu (Bartht)
Andantino (Franck, arr. Doney) Jig (F. S. Kelly ) Aubade (Pierné)
Siciliana: Scherzo caprice (
Alec Templeton ) on a gramophone record

Contributors

Oboe:
Leon Goossens
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Unknown:
S. Kelly
Unknown:
Alec Templeton

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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