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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
London Fashion: MARY HILL investigates what overseas buyers want from the clothes they have seen this week
Twentieth-century Women:
TESSIE O'SHEA , Variety artist
War and Peace: contrasts in the lives of men and women who served in a World War

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Tessie O'Shea

for Remembrance Day
From Spennithorne Parish
Church, Leyburn, Yorkshire
Conducted by the Rector THE REV. J. N. JORY
Hymns (from A. and M.
Rev.): Rejoice, 0 land, in God thy might (582); Ye holy angels bright (371)
Organist, Mary Elder

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. J. N. Jory
Organist:
Mary Elder

from
The Cenotaph, Whitehall
At 11 o'clock: The Silence
The Last Post
The Laying of Wreaths
A short Service
Conducted by the Rt. Rev. and Rf. Hon.
THE LORD Bishop OF LONDON
0 God, our help in ages past
Prayer The Lord's Prayer
The Blessing Reveille
God Save the Queen
Before the Service:
The Massed Bands of the Brigade of Guards play:
Rule, Britannia: Heart of Oak: The Minstrel Boy; Men of Harlech; Flowers of the Forest; Isle of Beauty; David of the White Rock; Oft in the stilly night; Skye Boat Song; Nimrod; When I am laid in earth; Solemn Melody
During the Wreath Laying:
Funeral March in B flat minor
The scene set by Robert Hudson

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hudson

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE Music Forty Years Ago by JOHN WARRACK
Wagner's Die Walkiire by WILLIAM MANN
Musical Profile: Maurice Cole by HAROLD RUTLAND
Concerning
Stravinsky Book review by JEREMY NOBLE

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
John Warrack
Unknown:
William Mann
Unknown:
Stravinsky Book
Review By:
Jeremy Noble

Soldiers' Songs of the First World War
Introduced by BUD FLANAGAN with BENNY LEE , RITA WILLIAMS
JOHN GOWER , JOHN BOULTER
ANDY COLE , BARBARA LEIGH
THE GEORGE MITCHELL CHOIR
BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MALCOLM LOCKYER
Devised and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
John Boulter is In ' The Black and White Minstrel Show ' at the Victoria Palace. London

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bud Flanagan
Unknown:
Benny Lee
Unknown:
Rita Williams
Unknown:
John Gower
Unknown:
John Boulter
Unknown:
Andy Cole
Unknown:
Barbara Leigh
Unknown:
George Mitchell
Conducted By:
Malcolm Lockyer
Produced By:
Charles Chilton
Produced By:
John Boulter

by JOHN KEIR CROSS based on the short story by SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH
The scene of this story is set in a remote Cornish village, near a terrible group of spiky rocks known as the Manacle Reef. It is an April evening in the year 1814.
Trumpet solo,
Harry Mortimer
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keir
Story By:
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Unknown:
Manacle Reef.
Unknown:
Harry Mortimer
Produced By:
David Davis
Matthew Hockaday:
Hedley Goodall
Parson Kendall:
Geoffrey Wincott
William Tallifer:
Deryck Guyler
John Christian:
Nigel Anthony
Ann Ede:
Sheila Allen
Billy Ede:
Basil Jones

Christians think about their faith and its living expression The Rev.
G. A. Studdert Kennedy
The life story of a famous priest, prophet, and poet, popularly known as Woodbine Willie told by some of those who knew him and through his personal writings
Extracts from his books read by his son,
THE Rev. CHRISTOPHER STUDDERT KENNEDY and from his poems by SUSAN RICHARDS and Kim GRANT
Produced by RICHARD MADDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
G. A. Studdert Kennedy
Unknown:
Woodbine Willie
Unknown:
Rev. Christopher Studdert Kennedy
Unknown:
Susan Richards
Unknown:
Kim Grant
Produced By:
Richard Maddock

Appeal on behalf of the British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled by FIELD-MARSHAL THE LORD HARDING
G.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledge and should be addressed to Field-Marshal The Lord Harding, [address removed]

This Island Now by G. M. Carstairs
Professor of Psychological Medicine in the University of Edinburgh who chose the title of his lee tures from a poem by W. H. Auden ' Look stranger at this island now.' He will concern himself with the interaction of tradition, social environment, and personality in our changing society; and he will select for particular examination a number of areas in which things seem to have gone wrong-indicators of malaise in our community today. 1: Stability and Change in Social Environment
Professor Carstairs examines different methods of studying the stresses which have arisen in our own contemporary society during the period of rapid change.

Contributors

Unknown:
G. M. Carstairs
Unknown:
W. H. Auden

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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