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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson.
Before 1914: Athene Seyler's memories of entertaining.
Foundations: Princess Indira describes her childhood and upbringing.
Making a Fresh Start: David Bevan visits a Training Home for Girls at Old Colwyn.
Short Cuts to Grooming: views from Barbara Griggs, a model and a housewife.

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Speaker:
Athene Seyler
Speaker:
Princess Indira
Reporter:
David Bevan
Speaker:
Barbara Griggs

A weekly review
Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Record Review
Contributed by JOAN CHISSELL
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE and ANDREW PORTER

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Unknown:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Joan Chissell
Unknown:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Unknown:
Andrew Porter

A request programme of gramophone records
Bridal Procession and Lamentable End of King Dodon (Le Coq d'Or) (Rimsku-Korsakov)
PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK
Cantata: Alexander Nevsky , Op. 78 (Prokofiev)
Lili CHOOKASIAN (contralto) WESTMINSTER CHOIR
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by THOMAS SCHIPPERS

Contributors

Conducted By:
Vaclav Smetacek
Unknown:
Alexander Nevsky
Contralto:
Lili Chookasian
Conducted By:
Thomas Schippers

Chairman, T. C. WORSLEY
Theatre: J. W. LAMBERT
Broadcasting: BARBARA BRAY
Book: KARL MILLER
Art: BRYAN ROBERTSON
Film: EDGAR ANSTEY
Repeated on Thursday at 3.20

Contributors

Unknown:
T. C. Worsley
Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Karl Miller
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson

Hours of Trading
Some points explained by RUPERT TOWNSHEND-ROSE
The National Health Service 4: The Psychiatrist
In Trouble
1: Bankruptcy by JEAN JONES
Money Matters
A barrister describes The Payment of Wages Act Introduced by Robin HOLMES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

by HANS BAUMANN translated by Isabel McHugh and Florence McHugh adapted for radio in four parts by FELIX FELTON
3: The Voyage to the Bitter River
Aires and Tinoco were taken on the expedition that set out to conquer Tangier, and ended in disaster. When at last they reached Lagos again, the ' Barque of the Brothers ' was back in port. Produced by DAVID DAVIS
John Slater is in 'Policy for Murder ' at the Duke of York's Theatre. London.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hans Baumann
Translated By:
Isabel McHugh
Unknown:
Florence McHugh
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Produced By:
David Davis
Produced By:
John Slater
Manuel:
John Slater
Aires:
David Spenser
Tinoco:
Jeremy Spenser
Nuno Tristao:
Geoffrey Wincott
Lanzarote:
Philip Leaver
Adahur:
Stephen Jack
Luis:
Norman Shelley
Paolo:
Josefina Ray
Paolo:
Josefina Ray
Da Costa:
Derek Blomfield

Appeal on behalf of The Wings of Friendship
(Rehabilitation of Refugees) by JACK WARNER
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefu'ly acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Wings of Friendship, founded in 1955, helps refugees to make a new start in life by providing facilities they need to enable them to become independent and self-supporting.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Warner
Unknown:
Jack Warner

This Island Now by G. M. Carstairs
Professor of Psychological Medicine in the University of Edinburgh
5: Living and Partly Living
(T. S. Eliot )
Professor Carstairs draws attention to some unsolved problems in medicine, and to a neglected area of medical education.
Repeated on Tuesday at 8.0 p.m. in the Third Programme Next Sunday: The Changing British Character
These lectures are being printed in ' The Listener'

Contributors

Unknown:
G. M. Carstairs
Unknown:
S. Eliot

An introduction by Ian Waller, Political Correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph.
Upon one hand modernisation; on the other talk of closures and redundancies. How do the people who work on the railways feel about their jobs?
Ian Waller has talked to men and women ranging from platform and footplate staff to officers of the Transport Commission and the General Manager of the London Midland Region.
See page 13

Contributors

Presenter:
Ian Waller

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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