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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Letter to Someone's Dog: from MICHAEL BROOKE
Caravans on Concrete:
DAVID BEVAN visits a permanent gypsy encampment at Llanelly
George Orwell: recollected by publisher FREDRIC WARBURG
Twentieth-Century Women: PEGGY JAY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
David Bevan
Unknown:
Fredric Warburg
Unknown:
Peggy Jay

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Gabriele d'Annunzio and Music by MARTIN COOPER
The Duo-Sonata in Mozart's time by KATO HAVAS
A Study in Musical Analysis Book review by DERYCK COOKE
Musical Profile: Michelangeli by JOAN CHISSELL

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Music By:
Martin Cooper
Review By:
Deryck Cooke
Unknown:
Joan Chissell

A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: Manfred (Schumann)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Krakowiak for piano and orchestra (Chopin)
STEFAN ASKENASE (piano) with the HAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILLEM VAN OTTERLOO
Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin (Bartok)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTAL DORATI

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Piano:
Stefan Askenase
Conducted By:
Willem van Otterloo
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati

Chairman, SIR JOHN SUMMERSON
Art: GEORGE MELLY
Film: DEREK PROUSE
Theatre: LIONEL HALE
Broadcasting: H. A. L. CRAIG Book: JANET ADAM Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
George Melly
Unknown:
Derek Prouse
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
H. A. L. Craig
Unknown:
Janet Adam Smith

Buying a House
3: PAMELA DEEDES discusses the contract
Joint Property
2: THE BARRISTER considers estate duty
Introducing
LoRNA M. HUBBARD of the Preparation for Retirement Committee
Borrowing Money: from an Insurance 'Company by TOM WILMOT Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorna M. Hubbard
Unknown:
Tom Wilmot
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Last week The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Sydney. Brisbane, and the Snowy Mountains Project
AUDREY RUSSELL , ROBERT HUDSON and JOHN TIMPSON report on the week's events Introduced by WILFRID THOMAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Audrey Russell
Unknown:
Robert Hudson
Unknown:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Wilfrid Thomas

TO BE CONTINUED The Twelve Dancers
The novel by WILLIAM MAYNE abridged into seven episodes by Ann Watkins read by JEAN ENGLAND
4: Trying to find where the dance should start by doing it backwards

Contributors

Novel By:
William Mayne
Unknown:
Ann Watkins
Read By:
Jean England

DAVID FRANKLIN introduces the kind of songs and tunes you would have heard if you were honoured with a command to spend an evening with Queen Victoria with GEORGE MILES (piano) and some gramophone records
Produced by PEGGY BACON

Contributors

Introduces:
David Franklin
Piano:
George Miles
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

Poetry in the afternoon chosen and introduced by PATRIC DICKINSON
5: Travels tReaders: PENELOPE LEE
DAVID DAVIS , DAVID DICKINSON and DAVID LLOYD JAMES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Patric Dickinson
Unknown:
Penelope Lee
Unknown:
David Davis
Unknown:
David Dickinson
Unknown:
David Lloyd James

Appeal on behalf of The Friends of the Poor and Gentlefolk's Help by JOYCE GRENFELL , O.B.E.
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
This voluntary society provides help in cases outside the scope of the National Health Service, particularly among the old and sick. Its twelve Residential Homes for Gentlepeople aim to allay the two fears which beset old age-illness, and that of becoming a burden to the younger generation.

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell

by Charlotte Bronte dramatised for radio in twelve episodes by HELENA WOOD with In 1828 Lucy Snowe, then fourteen, spent a happy holiday with her godmother. Disaster followed, and at twenty-one Lucy is alone and penniless. She goes abroad. After various adventures, Lucy chances upon Madame Beck's Pensionnat and is engaged.
Episode 2
Other parts: members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Helena Wood
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Lucy Snowe:
Sheila Grant
Lucy Snowe:
Sheila Grant
Mme Beck:
Marjorie Westbury
Mrs Sweeney:
Mary O'Farrell
Desiree Beck:
Vivienne Chatterton
Fifine Beck:
Hilda Kriseman
Angelique:
Jenny Paul
Blanche:
Dorit Welles
Virginie:
Shirley Cooklin
Ginevra Fanshawe:
Beryl Calder
Dr John:
John Rye
Rosine:
Peggy Butt

Early Renaissance Painting
3: DOMENICO VENEZIANO died 1461
Miracle of St. Zenobius painted between 1442 and c. 1448 in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge
Speaker, FRANCIS HOYLAND artist and teacher at
Chelsea School of Art, London
Repeated on Friday at 6.20 in Network Three
These broadcasts are part of a scheme for subscribers who are supplied with a colour print of the painting to be discussed together with background notes and illustrations in black and white. This year the material will be despatched quarterly, and subscribers will also receive with the first despatch a stiff-backed folder in which to keep the year's reproductions. Subscriptions, which are now 30s., should be sent to[address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Domenico Veneziano
Artist:
Francis Hoyland

A conversation between five Nobel prizewinners recorded in Stockholm
F. H. C . CRICK J. C . KENDREW and M. F. PERUTZ all of Cambridge
J. D. WATSON of Harvard University
M. H. F. WILKINS of the University of London
Broadcast by courtesy of Svertges Radio. Stockholm

Contributors

Unknown:
F. H. C Crick
Unknown:
J. C Kendrew
Unknown:
M. F. Perutz
Unknown:
J. D. Watson
Unknown:
M. H. F. Wilkins

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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