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Kenneth Bowen (tenor)
Janet Price (piano)
Three Greek Songs. Lennox Berkeley
Epitaph of times (Sappho) Spring song (Antipeter) To Aster (Plato)
Two Welsh Songs.....Mansel Thomas
Y Bardd (The Poet) Gwyn ap Nudd
Five Chinese Lyrics...Arthur Oldham
Under the pondweed The herd boy's song Fishing
The pedlar of spells A gentle wind

Contributors

Tenor:
Kenneth Bowen
Songs:
Mansel Thomas
Unknown:
Arthur Oldham

An anthology of famous wireless talks of the past
Chosen and introduced by Richard Church
Including:
FREYA STARK, LORD PONSONBY SIR ARTHUR GRIMBLE
HOWARD MARSHALL
BERNARD SPENCER
Second of three programmes Produced by Harold Rogers
Recorded broadcast of January 21

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Marshall
Unknown:
Bernard Spencer
Produced By:
Harold Rogers

Traditional music and song from a square dance party at Malmesbury in Wiltshire
Songs from Pat Shaw
Caller, Nibs Matthews
Music by the Jolly Waggoners Band
Led by Nan Fleming-Williams
Master of Ceremonies, Bernard Fishwick
Produced by Brian Patten

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Fleming-Williams
Unknown:
Bernard Fishwick
Produced By:
Brian Patten

Regional Variations (6)

Farming and Fishing, News

BBC Home Service Scottish

Farming: as North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

A Living from the Land

BBC Home Service Midland

The Farmer: magazine introduced by Ralph Wightman

BBC Home Service South and West

The Northern Farmer

BBC Home Service North

Introduced by Roger Massey
Hornless Shorthorns: John Green slade visits E. A. Strouts of Benenden, Kent, and talks to him about the breeding of a naturally polled Dairy Shorthorn herd
Charollais Comment: John Hodges , Chief Consulting Officer of the Milk Marketing Board, discusses the nature of the recent importation and the experimental programme planned
Produced by John Greenslade
The first item is recorded

Contributors

Introduced By:
Roger Massey
Unknown:
John Green
Unknown:
E. A. Strouts
Unknown:
John Hodges
Produced By:
John Greenslade

A light-hearted look at the advertising world
Michael Medwin as Michael Lightfoot an account executive
Eleanor Summerneld 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 November 20, 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 Summerneld
Unknown:
Michael Lightfoot
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
Nicholas Phipps
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

Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla (Glinka)
Lamoureux Orchestra
Conducted by Igor Markevitch
Piano Concerto No. 1. in C major (Beethoven)
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Alceo Galliera
Joyeuse Marche (Cliabrier)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Igor Markevitch
Piano:
Claudio Arrau
Conducted By:
Alceo Galliera
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

The Chameleon
A play for radio by JOAN O'CONNOR and CECILY FINN with Lydia Sherwood
Lois Stanton is an attractive widow, a woman who desires so intensely to please that she changes her personality to suit the taste of her admirers. But when you reject reality sometimes you find that it has escaped you for ever.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Pianist. Viola Tunnard
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Unknown:
Cecily Finn
Unknown:
Lydia Sherwood
Unknown:
Lois Stanton
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Lois Stanton:
Lydia Sherwood
Aunt Jennifer:
Grace Allardyce
Paul Lawrence:
Lewis Stringer
Jonathan:
Sean Scully
Hugh Pelham:
Leslie Perrins
Dr Allport:
Julian Somers
Colonel Bond-Green:
Derek Birch
Peter Durrant:
Denys Hawthorne

Introduced by Father Wilfrid Purney with the choir of Westminster Cathedral
Director, Colin Mawby in music from Palm Sunday,
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Eve, and Easter Day
Each year in the services of Holy Week and Easter, the Church leads us through the story of the sufferings and death and resurrection of our Lord.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Father Wilfrid Purney
Director:
Colin Mawby

Regional Variations (2)

Serenade for Three: the Albert Webb Trio

BBC Home Service Midland

by Vera Colebrook
In the last of this series of five talks about a remarkable Victorian woman, Vera Colebrook describes how Ellen struggled to mend her marriage and train her intellect, and how, finally, she became reconciled to her husband and found self-expression in the book of which her family so strongly disapproved.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vera Colebrook
Unknown:
Vera Colebrook

Regional Variations (2)

Pinky, the Pigeon ': series of stories by James Hewitt, read by Charles Witherspoon

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Stories of famous composers
Mozart the Wonder Boy
The book by Opal Wheeler and Sybil Deucher adapted and read by Kathleen Garscadden 1: Karly Days in Salzburg and Munich

Contributors

Book By:
Opal Wheeler
Book By:
Sybil Deucher
Read By:
Kathleen Garscadden

A story of adventure on the Isle of Skye told by two brothers
The' book by ALLAN CAMPBELL MACLEAN adapted in four parts by John Keir Cross
2: The Bed Hand
Produced by CLAIRE CHOVIL

Contributors

Book By:
Allan Campbell MacLean
Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Produced By:
Claire Chovil
Long John Macgregor:
Bryden Murdoch
Niall:
James Sleigh
Ruairidh:
James Grant
Murdo:
Angus Martin
Big Willie:
Alex MacKenzie
The stranger:
John Shedden

In F. R. BUCKLEY 'S time at sea he has experienced an armed hold-up in Marseilles, a torpedo attack, and a hurricane in the West Indies; but the voyage he liked least was one to New York, when, as he says, ' everything happened except something nice.'

Contributors

Unknown:
F. R. Buckley

Regional Variations (3)

Ulster Farm

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

That Reminds Me: Alderman E. G. Gooch, M.P., C.B.E., talks to Gerald Nethercot

BBC Home Service Midland

played by Gyorgy Cziffra (piano)
Recorded from a public recital given at the Besancon Festival on January 29 and made available by courtesy of Radiodiffusion-Television Française.

Contributors

Piano:
Gyorgy Cziffra

A series of five-round contests'
LONDON v. S('OTLAND: Round 5
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

Four Lenten talks by the Rev. Daniel Jenkins
4: My Neighbour and My Budget
' Christians should realise how hard it is to .be honest where our pockets are concerned.' In his last Lenten talk, the Minister of the King's Weigh House Congregational Church, London, helps us to confront this problem.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Daniel Jenkins

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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