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Excerpts from
Donizetti's comic opera
The cast includes:
HILDE GUEDEN as Adina
GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO as Nemorino
RENATO CAPECCHI as Belcore
FERNANDO CORENA as Doctor Dulcamara with the CHORUS and ORCHESTRA of the MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
Conducted by FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI on a gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Hilde Gueden
Unknown:
Renato Capecchi
Unknown:
Fernando Corena
Conducted By:
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Last of three programmes telling the story of a British coasting seaman, shipmaster, and shipowner in the last years of the wooden sailing ships
CAPTAIN WILLIAM SLADE of Appledore talks about his life to
GEORGE VILLIERS
Produced by John Blunden Broadcast in the South and West Home Service in August

Contributors

Unknown:
Captain William Slade
Unknown:
George Villiers
Produced By:
John Blunden

A spontaneous discussion by A. G. STREET
VICTOR MISHCON
JOHN CONNELL
PENELOPE GILLIATT
Travelling Question-Master, FREDDY GRISEWOOD
Produced by Michael Bowen From Jubilee Hall, Ditcheat, Somerset" Last Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
A. G. Street
Unknown:
Victor Mishcon
Unknown:
John Connell
Unknown:
Penelope Gilliatt
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Three extracts from
My Early Life by Winston S. Churchill arranged by Michael Hardwick
Reader, PATRICK WYMARK 1: Schoolboy to Subaltern Sunday's broadcast
Patrick Wymark broadcasts by permission of the Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Contributors

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

Everyone knows of Malta but few people have ever visited the neighbouring isle of Gozo, legendary home of Calypso
The sounds and sights of this island are recorded and described by WYNFORD VAUGHAN THOMAS Produced by DAVID WOODWARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Produced By:
David Woodward

Introduced by DAVID CAIRNS Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique played by the BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Peter Gibbs
Conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE
Before an invited audience in the BBC Studios, Broadcasting House, Glasgow
January 15: BBC Welsh Orchestra, conductor, Rae Jenkins. Introduced by Donald Leggatt

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Cairns Berlioz
Leader:
Peter Gibbs
Conducted By:
Bernard Keeffe
Conductor:
Rae Jenkins.
Introduced By:
Donald Leggatt

A series of fakes, frauds, and forgeries The Prince of Poyais by Victor Allen
The story of His Serene Highness Gregor I, Sovereign Prince of the Independent State of Poyais, Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of the Green Cross, Cazique of the Poyer Nation. But where was the State of Poyais? with Hugh Burden as Narrator
Douglas Storm as The Prince Produced by DAVID THOMSON
* See page 25

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Allen
Unknown:
Grand Master
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Produced By:
David Thomson
Captain Woodbine:
George Merritt
The Princess:
Diana Olsson
The historian:
James Thomason
Strangeways:
John Pullen
First agent:
Jonathan Scott
Picken:
Alan Thompson
Second agent:
Robert Baird
A farmer:
Duncan McIntyre
Edward LOW:
Will Leighton

by Dr. Denis Chapman
' The Autonomous Generation '
The independent ways of young people of today are often puzzling to their elders. Dr. Chapman, Senior Lecturer in Social Science in the University of Liverpool, explains how modern life makes it possible for the young to choose for themselves an ethic by which to live.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Denis Chapman

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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