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2: Lincoln
Arranged and introduced by ROGER SNOWDON
Choir of Lincoln Cathedral
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Dr. GORDON SLATER with contributions by The Rt. Rev. COLIN DUNLOP. Dean of Lincoln
LAWRENCE BOND
ALFRED HIGGINS
DUNCAN GRANT
Mrs. MOLLY GIBSON
CANON COOKE , CANON SYNGE
W. E . BARRETT
Produced by Julian Budden Broadcast in the BBC General
Overseas Service on March 21 followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Gordon Slater
Unknown:
Rev. Colin Dunlop.
Unknown:
Lawrence Bond
Unknown:
Alfred Higgins
Unknown:
Duncan Grant
Unknown:
Mrs. Molly Gibson
Unknown:
Canon Cooke
Unknown:
Canon Synge
Unknown:
W. E Barrett
Produced By:
Julian Budden

A request programme of gramophone records
Symphony No. 2, in B minor
(Borodin)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Piano Concerto No. 1, in D flat major (Prokofiev)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Karel Ancerl
Sarka (Ma Vlast) (Smetana)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik
Piano:
Sviatoslav Richter
Conducted By:
Karel Ancerl
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik

Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis, Maxwell Knight and Ralph Wightman.
Question-Master, Vincent Waite

(Repeated on Thursday at 11.30 a.m.)

Contributors

Panellist:
Eric Hobbis
Panellist:
Maxwell Knight
Panellist:
Ralph Wightman
Question-Master:
Vincent Waite
Producer:
Bill Coysh

Gardening in the Shadow of the Alps
Second of a series of five programmes from Bavaria
ROY HAY and WILL INGWERSEN are shown round the Munich Botanic Gardens by the Director. WILHELM SCHACHT
Last Friday's broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Director:
Wilhelm Schacht

MRS. EASTER, aged 83, lives today in a quiet Kentish village. In her early twenties ' Minna ' Bozenhart, as she was then. entered a Silesian convent in East Germany. She recalls the memorable journey she made overland to Beirut as a nun during the first World War, and how, eventually, she left behind twenty years of life in a convent to return to the world Produced by Mary-Jean Hasler

Contributors

Produced By:
Mary-Jean Hasler

by Jane Austen adapted for radio in five episodes by DENIS CONSTANDUROS
1: A Journey and a Meeting
When Catherine Morland paid her first visit to Bath she had secret hopes that everything was going to turn out like the romantic novels she was so fond of. At first she was disappointed-until she met Mr. Tilney Produced by BRANDON Acton-BOND

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Denis Constanduros
Unknown:
Catherine Morland
Produced By:
Brandon Acton-Bond
Storyteller:
Jennifer Wright
Mr Mortand:
Robert Sansom
Mrs Morland:
Barbara Cavan
Catherine:
Susan Maudslay
Mr Allen:
George Holloway
Mrs Allen:
Phyllis Smale
Mr Tilney:
John Bonney
Mrs Thorpe:
Constance Chapman
Isobella Thorpe:
Sheila Steafel
John Thorpe:
Charles Hodgson
James Moriand:
Jeremy Longhurst

Christians think about their faith and its living expression
In Search of the Truth
'What is the Church doing about ... ? '
Questions put by members of the Church of England Men's Society Branch in Leyhill Open Prison, Gloucestershire answered by TOM DRIBERG , M.P.
THE REV. JOHN GIBBS DR. DONALD SOPER
PATRICIA DE TRAFFORD
Chairman, ALAN GIBSON
Produced by Colin James
Comments and criticisms about this programme should be sent to
Alan Gibson , c/o Christian Outlook. BBC, Plymouth. A selection of these letters will be broadcast In Christian Outlook on August 22. in Network Three

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Driberg
Unknown:
Rev. John Gibbs
Unknown:
Dr. Donald Soper
Unknown:
Patricia de Trafford
Unknown:
Alan Gibson
Produced By:
Colin James
Unknown:
Alan Gibson

Appeal on behalf of The Allied Circle by RICHARD GOOLD-ADAMS
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Richard Goold -Adams,[address removed]
The Educational Trust of the Allied Circle for International Understanding exists to extend club facilities in London to men and women from more than eighty countries, bringing them into contact with all classes of British people. A large part of the work is devoted to enabling students from overseas to meet and understand us.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Goold-Adams
Unknown:
Richard Goold

Midland Region's panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
NANCY SPAIN and DENIS NORDEN
Umpire, JACK LoNGLAND

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

The first part of an adventure in building as seen through the imaginary correspondence file of an architect's office from the book by H. B. CRESWELL adapted and introduced by EDWARD MILLS, F.R.I.B.A. with Kathleen Helme
Peter Claughton
John Rye, Richard Mayes
Produced by ROBERT GUNNELL Broadcast in October 1961
The sequel The Honeywood Settlement: August 26

Contributors

Book By:
H. B. Creswell
Unknown:
Kathleen Helme
Unknown:
Peter Claughton
Unknown:
Richard Mayes
Produced By:
Robert Gunnell

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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