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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Driving Mrs. Pankhurst: AILEEN GRAHAM JONES recalls 1911
Joyce Grenfell talks to alter ego
On the Spot: two romantic novelists-MARY HOWARD and ALEX STUART
Pamela Keily : producer of religious plays talks to JAMES McLEAN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Aileen Graham
Talks:
Joyce Grenfell
Talks:
Alex Stuart
Unknown:
Pamela Keily

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE Britten's Cantata Academica by DERYCK COOKE
Beethoven's Sonatas ' quasi una fantasia by PETER STADLEN
Musical Profile:
Galina Vishnevskaya by ARTHUR JACOBS
Debussy's Life and Mind Book review by MARTIN COOPER

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Deryck Cooke
Unknown:
Peter Stadlen
Unknown:
Galina Vishnevskaya
Unknown:
Arthur Jacobs
Review By:
Martin Cooper

A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: Gwendoline (Chabrier) played by the French National Radio Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Symphony No. 3, in C minor (Saint-Saens) played by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Paul Paray with Marcel Dupre (organ)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Paul Paray
Unknown:
Marcel Dupre

I Chairman:
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Film: ROBERT ROBINSON
Theatre: BAMBER GASCOIGNE
Broadcasting: CYRIL RAY
Book:
PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON
Art: BASIL TAYLOR
Repeated on Thursday at 3.20

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Bamber Gascoigne
Unknown:
Pamela Hansford Johnson

Chris BONINGTON , first Briton up the North Face of the Eiger compares notes with IAN MCNAUGHT-DAVIS , a member of the Anglo-Soviet Expedition to the Pamirs, who climbed Peak Communism Extended version of the talk first broadcast on October 9 followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Bonington
Unknown:
Ian McNaught-Davis

by MARGOT BENARY adapted for radio by Muriel Levy
5: Refugees
Produced by TREVOR HILL

Contributors

Unknown:
Margot Benary
Unknown:
Muriel Levy
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
Leni Winkelberg:
Sian Davies
Karlheinz Reilingen:
David Mahlowe
Gert Bellmer:
Ian Piper
Marlies:
Louise Jervis
Pat:
Frances Brozel
Soldiers: John:
Brian Trueman
Soldiers: Bill:
Terry Dean
Frau Friderike Rode:
Betty Hardy
Professor Hubertus Rode:
Robert Wallace
Herr Langner:
Graham Tennant
Dr Fiirchtnit:
Ronald Baddiley
Herr Katzelmeik:
Tom Harrison

Appeal on behalf of the National Society for Epileptics
(Chalfont Colony) by Marshal of the Royal Air Force
SIR DERMOT BOYLE
G.C.B., K.C.V.O., K.B.E., A.F.C.
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Chalfont Colony was started nearly seventy years ago to provide accommodation and employment for men and women afflicted by epilepsy. It is now caring for 500 epileptics from all parts of the United Kingdom.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Dermot Boyle
Unknown:
Sir Dermot Boyle

Marklake Witches read by MARY WIMBUSH
Puck of Pook's Hill takes Una and Dan back to Sussex in the days of the Regency. They meet Miss Philadelphia BucK-steed, daughter of the Squire of Marklake, and hear of her French prisoner friend, inventor of the stethoscope, and of her old servant Cissie attempted cure of 'Miss Phil's ' tiresome cough. But why did her song of the fading flower make them all SO sad? Series arranged by Mollie Hardwick

Contributors

Read By:
Mary Wimbush
Arranged By:
Mollie Hardwick

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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