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Stories based on the work of The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
Rendezvous at Palomah with JAMES McKECHNIE as Dr. Chris Rogers BILL KERR as Tommy O'Donnell
ROSEMARY MILLER as Mary West
BETTINA DICKSON as Sally MacAndrew
Written by Rex Rienits
Produced by VERNON HARRIS Broadcast on April 6 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
James McKechnie
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Rosemary Miller
Unknown:
Bettina Dickson
Written By:
Rex Rienits
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
Sergeant Flannery:
Ken Wayne
Spike Hodges:
Tommy Duggan
Mr Chung:
Maurice Travers
Josh Barrett:
Ray Roberts
Tony Rankin:
Leon Thau
Mavis Miller:
Paula Green

Beyond the Night by RAYMOND OWEN with William Lucas and Mary Wimbush
Can a young country doctor survive in a new practice when an influential patient becomes antagonistic? Produced bv HUGH STEWART in the BBC's Midland studios
A new production of the broadcast of 1956 Vera Lennox broadcasts by arrangement with the Northampton Repertory Theatre

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Owen
Unknown:
William Lucas
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Hugh Stewart
Lady Wilberforce Scott:
Vera Lennox
Dr Smith Watson:
Ross Hutchinson
Dr John Staverton:
William Lucas
Mary Staverton:
Mary Wimbush
Lily Hardcastle:
Mary Chester
Noakes:
Frank Veasey
Mrs Jones:
Patricia Gibson
Mrs Bull:
Olive Pendleton
Mr Ponsonby:
Edward J Webb
Mr Gray:
Arnold Peters
Mr Willis:
Keith Banks
Albert Smith:
Harry Stubbs
Sir William Wilberforce Scott:
Jack Holloway

The story of the laying of the first Transatlantic Submarine Cable
A dramatised documentary in two parts by ALAN DIXON
The men who forged the vital two-lhousand-mite link between the Old World and the New, were ill-equipped to conquer the six-mile deeps of a mighty ocean. Yet their courage and genius not only harnessed the new power of electricity but were to place a girdle of sound round the Earth. Produced by Herbert Smith
Part 1
Part 2: next Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Dixon
Produced By:
Herbert Smith

A new series of five-round contests between London and the regions
London v. Wales
Round 4
London :
BARRY CARMAN , CEDRIC CLIFFE
Quiz-Master,
LIONEL HALE Wales:
T. I. ELLIS , Wrw GRIFFITH
Quiz-Master, ROY PLOMLEY Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
T. I. Ellis
Unknown:
Wrw Griffith
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

for United Nations Day
Part 1: From London
JACQUELINE du PRE (cello)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR
8.45 Part 2: From Geneva
ORCHESTRE DE LA SUISSE Romande
Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
9.15 Part 3: From Paris
(Part of the Inaugural Concert of the Semaines Musicales Internationales)
GALINA VISHNEVSKAYA (soprano)
HENRYK SZERYNG (violin)
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF THE DANISH RADIO
Conducted by THOMAS JENSEN
This concert is organised in collaboration with the United Nations and UNESCO

Contributors

Cello:
Jacqueline du Pre
Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Soprano:
Galina Vishnevskaya
Violin:
Henryk Szeryng
Conducted By:
Thomas Jensen

Schubert
Quartet in B flat major (D 112)
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) Second broadcast
Another performance: Nov. 1, Thursday Invitation Concert

Contributors

Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Cello:
Martin Lovett

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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