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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Action Stations: MARY WEBSTER with a proposal for helping unmarried women with dependants
Silence: AMALIA MAGRI presents a symposium of views
I.Q. Quiz: IRENE THOMAS and Roy HUMPHREY have a second try; FRANK GEORGE in the chair
Cell Multiplication and Cancer: explained by a bio-chemist

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Mary Webster
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Roy Humphrey
Unknown:
Frank George

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West by Mosco CARNER
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) by STANLEY SADIE
Musical Profile: Jan Krenz by ARTHUR JACOBS
Status Symbols in Music 3: A gentlemanly accent by SIDNEY HARRISON

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Mosco Carner
Unknown:
Arcangelo Corelli
Unknown:
Jan Krenz
Unknown:
Arthur Jacobs
Unknown:
Sidney Harrison

A request programme of gramophone records
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for soprano and eight cellos (Villa-Lobos)
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (soprano)
FERDINAND BENEDETTI (solo cello) and members of the FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
Brazilian Impressions (Respighi)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTAL DORATI

Contributors

Soprano:
Victoria de Los Angeles
Soprano:
Ferdinand Benedetti
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati

Listeners' questions about th« countryside answered by ERIC Hobbis , MAXWELL KNIGHT and RALPH WIGHTMAN
Question-Master, VINCENT WAITE
Repeated on Friday at 11.30 a.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Hobbis
Unknown:
Maxwell Knight
Question-Master:
Ralph Wightman
Question-Master:
Vincent Waite

For Better or Worse
RUPERT TOWNSHEND-ROSE dlscusses cruelty as a ground for divorce
Introducing
The General Secretary of th< National Marriage Guidance Council
From My Postbag
DOUGLAS HOUGHTON, M.P.
Money Matters
Some more questions answered by EDWARD LEADER Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Leader:
Edward Leader
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

by A. H. RASMUSSEN
The SaTi Marais lay half-submerged in Kiel harbour, when A. H. Rasmussen. who was one of the BBC's Naval Correspondents during the war, found her and bought her for two hundred cigarettes. His story concerns her attempt to reach the coast of Norway

Contributors

Unknown:
A. H. Rasmussen
Unknown:
A. H. Rasmussen.

Hetty
The novel by BARBARA WILLARD abridged into six episodes
by the author
read by OLIVE GREGG
† 1: Betty and Blanche
The shop at 66-68 Church Road, Hove, was really two shops, so the house above was really two houses made into one. The Jebbs were a large family and needed all the space they could find.

Contributors

Novel By:
Barbara Willard
Read By:
Olive Gregg

Three extracts from My Early Life by Winston S. Churchill arranged by Michael Hardwick, reader, Patrick Wymark
First published in 1930, My Early Life is more than classic study of a great and unique character in the making: it remains a stirring testament to youth.
Repeated on Tuesday at 3.0
Patrick Wymark broadcasts by permission of the Governors a the Royal Shakespeare Compan:

Contributors

Unknown:
Winston S. Churchill
Arranged By:
Michael Hardwicl
Reader:
Patrick Wymark
Unknown:
Patrick Wymark

tA radio portrait of the Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov
Written by COLIN Shaw
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Stead j Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by COLIN SHAW ] and ARTHUR SPENCER
From the BBC's North of England studios
See page 12

Contributors

Written By:
Colin Shaw
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Leader:
Reginald Stead
Produced By:
Colin Shaw
Produced By:
Arthur Spencer
Narrator:
Martin Starkie
Rimsky-Korsakov:
Garabd Green
Reader:
Graham Tennant

A radio essay on Charles Lamb whose first Elia series was ! published in January 1823 Written and narrated by JOANNA RICHARDSON with Bill Horsley as Charles Lamb
Others taking part: JOHN BAKER
ROBERT BERNAL
JOAN HART
, HILDA KRISEMAN !
DENIS MCCARTHY JONATHAN SCOTT
LEWIS STRINGER j tProduced by DOROTHY BAKER
See page 12

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Lamb
Unknown:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
Bill Horsley
Unknown:
Charles Lamb
Unknown:
John Baker
Unknown:
Robert Bernal
Unknown:
Joan Hart
Unknown:
Hilda Kriseman
Unknown:
Denis McCarthy
Unknown:
Jonathan Scott
Unknown:
Lewis Stringer
Unknown:
Dorothy Baker

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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