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The New Music Mistress by Millicent Isherwood
Miss Isherwood went from a small private girls' school with fifteen in a class to a 6oo-strong secondary modern school with forty boys and girls in a class. She describes how she tamed some Yorkshire toughs and with the help of a bugle, trombone, and drum put on a concert at the end of term.
Introduced by Jack Singleton

Contributors

Unknown:
Millicent Isherwood
Introduced By:
Jack Singleton

Prelude and Fugue in E minor English Suite No. 3, in G minor Prelude and Fugue in A minor played by Stanislav Heller (harpsichord)
Sixth of twelve programmes to include all the French and English Suites and Book 2 of the Well-tempered Clavier.

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Stanislav Heller

Jacqueline Mathieu borrows her brother's car to go shopping, but she
' soon finds herself in difficulties.
Listeners are a]so invited to answer questions put by Pierre Lefevre and to sing with him ' Vie du chasseur '
Script by Sdnia Windsor
Early Stages in French series

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacqueline Mathieu
Unknown:
Pierre Lefevre
Script By:
Sdnia Windsor

A spontaneous discussion by John Arlott , Ralph Wightman
Hugh Delargy ,
M.P. Greville Howard ,
M.P. Question-Master , FREDDY GRISEWOOD
Arranged by Peter Lord
From St. Peter Port, Guernsey
Recording of last Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Ralph Wightman
Unknown:
Hugh Delargy
Unknown:
M.P. Greville Howard
Unknown:
M.P. Question-Master
Arranged By:
Peter Lord

The Central Sahara
Four members of the 1961 Joint Cambridge and Sheffield Universities' Expedition describe some of their surprising adventures in the Tibesti mountains.
ROCER AKESTER. CHRISTOPHER ALTY
BRUCE McDowell , CLAUDIO VITA-FINZI Chairman, PETER FLEMING
Recorded broadcast of February 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Rocer Akester.
Unknown:
Christopher Alty
Unknown:
Bruce McDowell
Unknown:
Peter Fleming

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This Month in Your Garden by Fred Loads
Young People's Guide to Current Affairs by Bob Reid
Sports News by Kenneth Wolstenholme London News by Judith Chalmers
Here and There-General News by Alan Dixon
Edited and introduced by Michael Barton

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Reid
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Alan Dixon
Introduced By:
Michael Barton

A short story by Elizabeth Bowen read by Mary Wimbush
Miss Rice's way with the children was perfect-so obviously good a governess must have been expensive. Why then had she come to this unlovable house -and for so small a salary.....

Contributors

Story By:
Elizabeth Bowen
Read By:
Mary Wimbush

An enquiry into the H.P. system and the influences it exerts on the national life of a country whose public owes £ 1,000,000,000 for goods obtained on the never-never
Compiled and narrated by Michael Pearson
Edited and produced by ROBERT POCOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Pearson
Produced By:
Robert Pocock

Introduced by Deryck Cooke
Denis Matthews (piano)
BBC Northern Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, George Hurst
Prelude: The Mastersingers. Wagner
Before an invited audience in the Town Hall, St. Helens

Contributors

Introduced By:
Deryck Cooke
Piano:
Denis Matthews
Conductor:
George Hurst

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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