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John Seymour introduces a programme of living memory about the former life of the English countryside The Farm
These thoughts on village existence sixty years ago were recorded in villages of the Midlands and East Anglia, from Shropshire to Suffolk.
Produced by Philip Donnellan
Recorded broadcast of May 12, 1960. in the Midland Home Service

Contributors

Introduces:
John Seymour
Produced By:
Philip Donnellan

A series of programmes in which
Leslie Baily journalist and broadcaster looks back on some of the events of our lives and introduces the recorded voices of famous personalities, past and present
2: (Clamorous Nights
Production by Vernon Harris
BBC Transcription Service recording

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Baily
Production By:
Vernon Harris

Ivan Matveyevitch and the Crocodile by OTTO SCHNABBE translated by William Glen-Doepel
An alarming but truthful account of what took place on February 29, 1865, when Ivan Matveyevitch unwisely went with his family to see a crocodile on show in St. Petersburg.
Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Matveyevitch
Translated By:
William Glen-Doepel
Unknown:
Ivan Matveyevitch
Produced By:
William Glen-Doepel
Nikita:
James Thomason
Ninotchka:
Dorit Welles
Helena HESTER:
Paton Brown
Ivan Matveyevitch:
Richard Goolden
Herr Schmidt:
Peter Claughton
Frau Schmidt:
Vivienne Chatterton
Malyshkin:
Malcolm Hayes
Old Lady:
Janet Burnell
Police Sergeant:
Willl Eighton
General:
Godfrey Quigley

from Durham Cathedral
Preces and Responses (Tallis, first-version)
Praise the Lord of heaven (A. and M. Rev. 381)
Psalms 59, 60, and 61 First Lesson: Proverbs 4. v. 20, to
5, v. 14
Magnificat (Howells in G major)
Second Lesson: St. Mark 12, v. 35, to 13, v. 13
Nunc dimittis (Howells in G major) Creed: Lesser Litany; Collects
When the tower of Babel fell (Ivor
Keys)
Prayers: The Grace
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Conrad Eden
Sub-organist, Cyril Maude

Contributors

Unknown:
Conrad Eden
Unknown:
Cyril Maude

A serial play in four parts written for broadcasting by R. E. ROGERSON
2: The Tunnel
Ian, Jimmy, and Stringy, having learned that the runaway bulldozer was only one of several mysterious happenings. at Ben Elder, are about to start work in the cookhouse at the construction camp of the hydroelectric scheme at Duneigg.
Production by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
R. E. Rogerson
Production By:
Ian Wishart
Ian:
John Duncanson
Jimmy:
Michael Elder
Stringy:
John Shedden
Mr Scott:
Alex Allan
Murgatroyd:
Brian Carey
McPhee:
Alex MacKenzie
Sir Hector Mclrving:
Leonard Maguire
Muldoon:
Gerald Slevin

Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train , Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Kenneth Home knows some of the answers
Produced by C. F. MEEHAN
Tickets for this series are available on application to [address removed], enclosing stamped addressed envelope.

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Joy Adamson
Unknown:
Jack Train
Unknown:
Richard Dimbleby
Produced By:
C. F. Meehan

Talk by Sybil Marshall
Mrs. Marshall, formerly head teacher in a village school in Cambridgeshire, took an English Literature course at Bassingbourn Village College. Her tutor there encouraged her to enter for a competitive bursary offered by Cambridge University's Department of Extra-Mural Studies. Mrs. Marshall won the bursary and went to Cambridge, and has recently sat for her finals in the English Tripos.

Contributors

Talk By:
Sybil Marshall

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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