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SPORTING PRINT
REX AI.STON and JOHN SNAGGE set the scene for
Henley Royal Regatta with recorded reminiscences by people connected with rowing in the past
Produced by Leslie Perowne

Contributors

Unknown:
John Snagge
Produced By:
Leslie Perowne

Lawn Tennis Championships
Commentary by Maurice Edelston and Max Robertson from the Centre and No. 1 Courts, with summaries and comments by Tony Mottram
Results and latest news from the other courts given by Basil Curtis
From the All England Club

Contributors

Commentary By:
Maurice Edelston
Commentary By:
Max Robertson
Unknown:
Tony Mottram

One Night in Styria by DAVID HOWARTH adapted for broadcasting by Giles Cooper
An English major in love with a young Austrian girl helps her family in arranging the evacuation of her fiancé from the Russian to the British zone.
Pianist. Sydney Crooke
Produced by CEDRIC MESSINA
Recorded broadcast of December 20, 1961, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
David Howarth
Broadcasting By:
Giles Cooper
Produced By:
Cedric Messina
Colonel:
Wilfred Babbage
Julian Winter:
Harry Andrews
Corporal:
Anthony Hall
Fini:
Peggy Butt
Frau Berner:
Gudrun Ure
Lisl:
June Tobin
Anton Berner:
Russell Napier
Bus driver:
Arthur Gomez
Count:
Norman Shelley
Smithy:
Nigel Anthony
Johann:
Keith Buckley
Priest:
David March
Carl:
Andrew Irvine

by W. M. LETTS adapted for broadcasting by the author
2: Sophia Hides in the Big Bell
The Archduchess Sophia has been sent to the toymaker's shop, where she has to live like all the children in the town, because she's so naughty and the Prince Regent is so cross with her.
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
W. M. Letts
Unknown:
Sophia Hides
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Storyteller:
Betty Hardy
Sophia:
Mollie Maureen
Master Johan, the toymaker:
John Ruddock
Babina his wife:
Ann Codrington
Hans their son:
Harold Reese
Jocasta, Queen of the Jackdaws:
Barbara Couper
Caspar von Franksberg:
Philip Cunningham
Max von Franksberg:
Keith Banks

by G. W. TARGET
Tommy Barrett. a pupil
CHRISTOPHER TURNER
Sue, another pupil...ADRIENNE POSTER
Teachers at Liddon Road
Pupils at Liddon Road
The action takes place in a London primary school. Time—the present Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
G. W. Target
Unknown:
Tommy Barrett.
Unknown:
Christopher Turner
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Mr Collins, Headmaster:
James Thomason
Mrs Southcott, Assistant Head:
Mary O'Farrell
Mr Miller (Dusty):
Malcolm Hayes
Mr Moriarty (Steve):
Denys Hawthorne
Miss Elliot (Kathie):
Sheila Grant
Miss Flynn:
Una Venning
Mr Woodgate:
Arthur Gomez
Mr Purnell:
Austin Trevor
Mrs Cooper:
Nan Munro
Miss Richards (Richie):
Beryl Calder
Mr Golding:
Maurice Kaufmann
Mrs Golding, a visitor at the school:
Barbara Mitchell
Boys:
Carlo Cura
Boys:
Bobby Bannerman
Boys:
Nicolas Clay
Girls:
Elizabeth Gold
Girls:
Janet Cox
Pianist:
Viola Tunnard

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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