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by WALLY HERBERT
Life is a dangerous business in a country where huskies are so numerous that children are penned up while the dogs roam at large. Wally Herbert describes his adventures when choosing huskies in Greenland to take to the Antarctic.

Contributors

Unknown:
Wally Herbert
Unknown:
Wally Herbert

visits Comberton, near Cambridge to join a country dance party at Comberton Village College to the music of KAY GRAHAM 'S BAND with songs by DAVID BUTSON
Master of Ceremonies, KENNETH CLARK Introduced by RICHARD MADDOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Kay Graham
Songs By:
David Butson
Unknown:
Kenneth Clark
Introduced By:
Richard Maddock

Last Chance
A play for radio by Rex Batten
Ken Beckworth has just been appointed to a secure and well-paid job as personnel officer with a big firm. But his first love is photography, and an unexpected opportunity arises to go as photographer on an archaeological expedition to South America. Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Rex Batten
Unknown:
Ken Beckworth
Produced By:
William Glen-Doepel
Mr Topp:
Malcolm Hayes
Ken Beckworth:
Christopher Guinee
Richard Hedger:
John Baddeley
Susan:
Shirley Cooklin
Jean:
Patricia Leventon
Mike:
Davyd Harries
Mrs Beckworth:
Mary O'Farrell
Mr Beckworth:
Will Leighton

from Llandaff Cathedral
Introit: Sicut cervus (Palestrina)
Preces (Byrd)
Psalms 69 and 70 Lessons: Exodus 8, vv. 1-19;
Colossians 4, vv. 2-18
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
(Gibbons' short service)
Anthem: Ecce quomodo moritur Justus (Jacob Handl )
Hymn: Still nigh me, 0 my
Saviour, stand (A. and M. Rev. 90)
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Robert Joyce
Assistant Organist, V. Anthony Lewis

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacob Handl
Organist:
V. Anthony Lewis

A new adventure serial in six episodes written by AUBREY FEIST
' After four years I had speech with my father again but, as Jevon feared, he was chained to the wall by fetters so strong that it would take hours to file them through.'
6:Assault-at-Arms
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Written By:
Aubrey Feist
Produced By:
David Davis
Simon Guestlyn:
David Peel
Robin Hood:
Timothy Bateson
Sir Matthew Boys:
Stephen Jack
Friar Tuck:
Peter Claughton
Jevon le Fay:
Jill Balcon
Stephen Poins:
Wilfred Babbage
Dickon o' the Mark:
Derek Birch
Sir John Guestlyn:
Norman Shelley
Horn Player:
John Burden

A A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Northern Ireland
Round 4
London :
DENIS BROGAN , BARRY CARMAN Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE Northern Ireland:
JAMES BOYCE , RONALD GREEN Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY Produced by PATRICK HARVEY
Repeated on Thursday at 1.10

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Barry Carman
Unknown:
James Boyce
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

ALAN LOVEDAY (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London
Requests for tickets should be sent to [address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Alan Loveday will be the soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto on Friday at 7.0 p.m.

Contributors

Violin:
Alan Loveday
Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

A series of four talks for Lent by THE REV.
G. R. BEASLEY-MURRAY , Ph.D.
Principal of Spurgeon's College Lent is to be used and understood, like all seasons of the Christian year, in the light of the glory of the risen and living Lord
1: Christ's Resurrection-a spotlight on existence

Contributors

Unknown:
G. R. Beasley-Murray

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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