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An outline of the major works being carried out under the present roads improvement programme with special attention to the motorway which will link London and South Wales.
Compiled and introduced by James Dewar
Geography series

Contributors

Introduced By:
James Dewar

A group of poetry programmes by James Britton about animals and people-domesticated or wild 4: Nobody's Neighbours
The romantic and the realist view of people who are unusual or eccentric; including Gipsies ' by John Clare and - The Old Sailor' by Walter de la Mare
Adventures in English series
2.20 SCIENCE AND THE WEATHER
1: Flight BA 510-New York to London
The kind of weather that an aircraft might meet on its journey from Idlewild Airport, New York City. to London
Script by Neville Chesney
Science and the Community series
2.40 JOHN BUNYAN (1628-88)
The prison life of the author of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' Script by Margaret Boys
Stories from British History series
3.0 LOOKING AT THINGS
Designing a House
Edward Curtis. R.I.B.A., talks about a house he has recently designed

Contributors

Unknown:
James Britton
Unknown:
John Clare
Script By:
Neville Chesney
Script By:
Margaret Boys

by HARRY HARRISON
The Affair of the Milkman's Horse
Produced by MICHAEL Bowen

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Harrison
Produced By:
Michael Bowen
Peter:
Paul Levers
Pinkie:
Vanessa Hill
Forty-Fifty:
Hedley Goodall
Policeman J:
Hedley Goodall
Clara Chuff:
Ann Codrington
Boxer:
Preston Lockwood
Mrs Drinkwater:
Rosina Enright
Bella:
Rosina Enright
Bessie:
Sarah Stannard
George:
Johnny Morris
Mr Owl:
Harry Carter

A concert for young people from the Town Hall, Paisley given by the BBC Scottish Orchestra Leader. Peter Gibbs
Conducted by James Loughran who introduces the items requested by members of an invited audience from schools in Paisley

Contributors

Leader:
Peter Gibbs
Conducted By:
James Loughran

Four scientists answer listeners' questions about science and technology
In the chair:
Professor G. P. Wells , F.R.S.
Members of panel: Stevenson Buchan
The Geological Survey
John Maynard-Smith
University College, London
J. M. Tanner
Institute of Child Health University of London
Peter Sykes
University of Cambridge Arranged by Archie Clow
If you have a question you would like to put to the panel please write it on a postcard and address it to ' Who Knows? ', BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W.I

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Unknown:
Stevenson Buchan
Arranged By:
Archie Clow

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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