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A programme of old favourites sung by Francis Pope (tenor) with Ruby Taylor (piano)
Dudley Savage (organ) and a chorus from the Western Opera Players
Chorus-Master, Arthur Dunn
Introduced by Dudley Savage

Contributors

Tenor:
Francis Pope
Piano:
Ruby Taylor
Piano:
Dudley Savage
Chorus-Master:
Arthur Dunn
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis , Ernest Neal and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Vincent Waite

(Sunday's recorded broadcast)

Contributors

Panellist:
Eric Hobbis
Panellist:
Ernest Neal
Panellist:
Ralph Wightman
Question-Master:
Vincent Waite
Producer:
Bill Coysh

by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick with Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes has been ill and Dr. Watson arranges for him to have a few days in the country to convalesce, but even on holiday Holmes cannot resist solving a mystery.
Produced by ROBIN MIDGLEY
Recorded broadcast of December 4, 1961. in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
Michael Hardwick
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Sherlock Holmes
Produced By:
Robin Midgley
Dr Watson:
Norman Shelley
Sherlock Holmes:
Carleton Hobbs
Colonel Hayter:
Ivan Samson
Butler:
Philip Leaver
Inspector Forrester:
Anthony Woodruff
Cunningham:
Wilfred Babbace
Alec Cunningham:
Malcolm Hayes
Acton:
Martin Lewis

Kit Thornton and Bob Jones invite you to join their set and find out about
Gliding as a Hobby
The Teenage Fashion Council
Buying a Tape Recorder and introducing
The ' Crusaders ' Jazz Band
Produced by Shirley Franklin

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Jones
Produced By:
Shirley Franklin

Lady Montgomery-Massingberd in conversation with John Betjeman
Lady Montgomery-Massingberd lives at Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire, and is the widow of Field-Marshal Mont gomery-Massingberd, with whom she spent a great deal of time in India during the height of British, rule there. She is related to Charles Darwin and to Bennett Langton, the friend of Boswell, who was a frequent visitor to Gunby. Ralph Vaughan Williams was her cousin, and Rudyard Kipling and his wife were her close friends.
Produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Recorded broadcast of June 5

Contributors

Unknown:
John Betjeman
Unknown:
Field-Marshal Mont
Unknown:
Charles Darwin
Produced By:
John Bridges

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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