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A programme of old favourites sung by Edna Bennett (soprano) with Ruby Taylor (piano)
Dudley Savage (organ) and a chorus from the Bristol Light Opera Club
Chorus-Master, Vernon Jones
Introduced by Dudley Savage

Contributors

Soprano:
Edna Bennett
Piano:
Ruby Taylor
Piano:
Dudley Savage
Chorus-Master:
Vernon Jones
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

by HARRY HARRISON
The Tractor Who Didn't Like Work
Produced by MICHAEL BowEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Harrison
Produced By:
Michael Bowen
Peter:
Paul Lavers
Pinkie:
Vanessa Hill
Forty-Fifty:
Hedley Goodall
Clara Chuff:
Ann Codrington
Pompey:
Harry Carter
Percy:
Ronald Short
Tractor:
Johnny Morris
Charlie Wagstaff:
Douglas Leach
Montgomery Stopgo:
Royston Brimbie
Muscular Mike:
Norman Tyrrell

The story of the current experiments involving
Telstar the world's first active communication satellite, through which direct telephone, telegraph. and television signals can be exchanged between America and Europe
The programme includes recordings made at the American ground station at Andover, Maine, and at Goonhilly. Cornwall, the site of the £ 800,000 ground station designed and built by the G.P.O. specially for this project
Narrator. FRANK DUNCAN
Compiled by JOHN IRVING
Produced by John Blunden in the BBC's Plymouth studios

Contributors

Narrator:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
John Irving
Produced By:
John Blunden

Fugue in G minor (S.947) (Bach)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Karl Munchinger
Dumbarton Oaks (Stravinsky)
English Chamber Orchestra Conducted by Colin Davis on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Karl Munchinger
Conducted By:
Dumbarton Oaks
Conducted By:
Colin Davis

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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