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Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Cars at Sea: Interviews with motorists travelling across the Channel on the motor vessel Free Enterprise
Trial by Jury in cases of dangerous driving by THE LAWYER
The Specialist: Tyre tread design by Tom FRENCH
New Suspension Systems: by JOSEPH Lowrey , Technical Editor of The Motor
Produced by David Glencross Friday's broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Joseph Lowrey
Produced By:
David Glencross

with Cicely Courtneidge as Katie Hendrick
Vic Oliver as Oscar Hendrick
Jack Hulbert as Henry Ashford
Joan Benham as Amanda Studd
Also taking part: David Graham
Rosalind Knight
Madeline Blakeney Ronald Wilson Donald Bissett
Script by Bob Block Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Cicely Courtneidge
Unknown:
Katie Hendrick
Unknown:
Vic Oliver
Unknown:
Oscar Hendrick
Unknown:
Jack Hulbert
Unknown:
Henry Ashford
Unknown:
Joan Benham
Unknown:
Amanda Studd
Unknown:
David Graham
Unknown:
Rosalind Knight
Unknown:
Madeline Blakeney
Unknown:
Ronald Wilson
Unknown:
Donald Bissett
Script By:
Bob Block
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Paul Rogers, actor, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the eight gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Broadcast on July 23)
(Paul Rogers is in 'Photo Finish' at the Saville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Paul Rogers
Producer:
Monica Chapman

Honourable Gentleman by Huw Gargrave
Peter Godwin was a prisoner in Japanese hands for four years. He holds a responsible job in a woollen mill. His memories of the cruelty he suffered during the war are brought sharply into focus when he is told to arrange a deal with a Japanese business man.
Produced by James R. GREGSON Broadcast on March 20, North of England Home Service

Contributors

Unknown:
Huw Gargrave
Unknown:
Peter Godwin
Produced By:
James R. Gregson
Mr Robertshaw:
Edward Chapman
Sheila Robertshaw:
June Dawes
Peter Godwin:
Brian Trueman
Fred:
Tom Harrison
Mr Yamamoto:
Ronald Baddiley
Mr Sharp:
Geoffrey Banks

A play by SALLY MARTIN
When Mr. and Mrs. Young decided to take a boarder into their home during the Edinburgh Festival, they did not realise they were inviting mystery and adventure into the lives of their teenage son and daughter. Produced by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Play By:
Sally Martin
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Mum:
Joan Veitch
Dad:
John Young
Ann:
Sheila Donald
Neil:
Michael Elder
Mr Black:
Callum Mill
Commentator:
Meta Maltman
Attendant:
John Shedden
The artist:
Ian Trigger
His friend:
Paul KermacK

HARRY DAVIDSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA with CATHARINE LAWSON (contralto)
Introduced by Ivan SAMSON Master of Ceremonies, CHARLES CRATHORN
Produced by ANDREW GOLD
The dances: Boston Twostep; Hesitation Waltz: Ideal Schottische; The Chadwick; Midnight Tango: Veleta: Felice Foxtrot; The Donnybrook
The songs: The reason; My old Kentucky Home
Tickets for this programme are available on application to [address removed] enclosing stamped addressed envelope

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Davidson
Contralto:
Catharine Lawson
Introduced By:
Ivan Samson
Unknown:
Charles Crathorn
Produced By:
Andrew Gold

Cyril Fletcher introduces
' Mrs. Shufflewick '
Vivienne Gomori
Percy Edwards
John Hanson
Jill Day
David Kossoff and Libby Morris
Script by David Cumming and Derek Collyer
Frankie Howerd
THE ADAM SINGERS
BBC Revue ORCHESTRA Conducted by MALCOLM LOCKYER f Produced by BILL WORSLEY
Cyril Fletcher Is in ' Summer Masquerade ' at the Roya) Hippodrome. Eastbourne: David Kossoff and Libby Morris are in Come Blow Your Horn ' at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London: John Han. son is in ' The Student Prince ' at the King's Theatre, Southsea: ' Mrs. Shufflewick ' in ' The Hughie Green tacular at the Winter Gardens,

Contributors

Introduces:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Vivienne Gomori
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
John Hanson
Unknown:
Jill Day
Unknown:
David Kossoff
Unknown:
Libby Morris
Script By:
David Cumming
Script By:
Derek Collyer
Unknown:
Frankie Howerd
Conducted By:
Malcolm Lockyer
Produced By:
Bill Worsley
Produced By:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
David Kossoff
Unknown:
Libby Morris
Unknown:
John Han.
Unknown:
Hughie Green

Night Roundup Paris
A play for radio by John Whale with Hugh Burden and Nicolette Bernard
When Owen Sangster takes a temporary job as Paris representative of a London newspaper, everyone assures him nothing is likely to happen-but a British minister in Paris disappears.
Cast in order of speaking:
Telephonist, barman, author, and actors in studio played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by R. D. SMITH
Hugh Burden broadcasts by permission of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Repeated on Monday at 3.0

Contributors

Unknown:
John Whale
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Unknown:
Nicolette Bernard
Unknown:
When Owen Sangster
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Produced By:
Hugh Burden
Owen Sangster:
Hugh Burden
Etienne Marceau:
John Hollis
Hedda Bligh:
Coral Fairweather
Lucille Proust:
Nicolette Bernard
Lorimer:
Lee Fox
Humphrey Fortescue, m p:
James Thomason
Cracknell:
Ian Lubbock
Figgis:
Donald McKillop
Prout:
John Dearth
Morton Weede:
Bryan Pringle
Terence Tuohy:
Brian O'Higgins
Permanent Secretary:
Austin Trevor
Madame da Silva:
Grizelda Hervey
Edmond de Goncourt:
Malcolm Hayes
Victor Hugo:
Derek Blomfield
Chuck Moore:
Peter Claughton

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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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