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Country Ceili
From St. Ronan's
Hall Lisnaskea. Co. Fermanagh
CHARLIE KELLY SCEILI BAND
UNA O'CALLAGHAN (contralto)
JOHN HUGHES (guitar)
Master of Ceremonies, JACK SLOANE Produced by SAM DENTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Hall Lisnaskea.
Guitar:
John Hughes
Unknown:
Jack Sloane
Produced By:
Sam Denton

Stories based on the work of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
Handsome Is with JAMES McKECHNIE as Dr. Chris Rogers
BILL KERR as Tommy O'Donnell ROSEMARY MILLER as Mary West
BETTINA DICKSON as Sally MacAndrew
Guest artist: NOEL JOHNSON as Jonathan Rawlish
Written by Rex Rienits
Produced by VERNON HARRIS Broadcast on April 20, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
James McKechnie
Unknown:
Dr. Chris Rogers
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Tommy O'Donnell
Unknown:
Rosemary Miller
Unknown:
Mary West
Unknown:
Bettina Dickson
Unknown:
Sally MacAndrew
Artist:
Noel Johnson
Unknown:
Jonathan Rawlish
Written By:
Rex Rienits
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
Helen Carter:
Josephine Price
Ben Carter:
Rex Dawe

Better Than Nowhere
A play for radio by JILL HYEM
Mrs. Voss. who runs the Park View Rest Home for indigent old ladies, has no easy task, because they all have very definite likes and dislikes; and when Miss Coleridge is asked to leave the trouble really begins.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Hyem
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron
Miss Coleridge:
Grizelda Hervey
Mrs VOSS:
Marjorie Westbury
Mrs Ackerman:
Mary O'Farrell
Mrs Simpson:
Janet Burnell
Mrs Harris:
Barbara Mitchell
Dr Wilmer:
John Graham
Miss Trippet:
Kathleen Helme
Shop assistant:
Dorit Welles
Bus conductor:
Andrew Irvine

A play by ELSIE RUSSELL
Catherine finds settling in at her new school made more difficult by the enmity of another new girl.
Produced by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Play By:
Elsie Russell
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Catherine:
Hilary Thomson
Anne:
Marsail McCuish
Joan:
Eileen McCallum
Peggy:
Julia Mark
Greta:
Evelyn Elliot
Betty:
Elaine Mustard
Mrs Munro:
Deirdre Murray
Matron:
Jean Faulds

A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Midlands
Round 1
London:
PETER CALVOCORESSI BARRY CARMAN
Quiz-Master,
LIONEL HALE Midlands :
H. E. HOWARD
GEOFFREY JAGGARD
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Calvocoressi
Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
Lionel Hale Midlands
Unknown:
H. E. Howard
Unknown:
Geoffrey Jaggard
Unknown:
Roy Plomley

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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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