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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson.
Letter to Someone's Son: from Lionel Hale.
In Partnership: Colin Davis and April Cantelo.
House and Home: Alfred Wilcock talks about lighting in the home.
How set in a rut are you?: Jean Metcalfe puts questions to three housewives.

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Reporter:
Lionel Hale
Speaker:
Colin Davis
Speaker:
April Cantelo
Reporter:
Alfred Wilcock
Reporter:
Jean Metcalfe

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Sergei Rachmaninov , 1873-1943 by BENNO MOISEIWITSCH
Musical Profile: Donald Bell by CEDRIC WALLIS
Mahler's Unfinished Symphony by DONALD MITCHELL
An Operatic Handbook and Companion book review by HAROLD ROSENTHAL

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Unknown:
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Unknown:
Donald Bell
Unknown:
Donald Mitchell
Review By:
Harold Rosenthal

Chairman.
SIR JOHN SUMMERSON
Theatre: LIONEL HALE
Broadcasting: JEREMY NOBLE
Book: JANET ADAM SMITH
Art: GEORGE MELLY
Film: ROGER MANVELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Janet Adam Smith
Unknown:
George Melly
Unknown:
Roger Manvell

Joint Property. 3: The barrister, who includes joint bank accounts
Introducing: DOUGLAS GIBSON of the Central After-Care Association
Buying a House: The Completion, by PAMELA DEEDES
Borrowing Money: from a Building Society, by ANDREW BREACH Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Gibson
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

After spending two days in Darwin, The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh sailed on Monday for Perth, Western Australia. En route Britannia has called at Koolan Island, Broome, and Geraldton
AUDREY RUSSELL and JOHN Timp -SON describe the events of the week Introduced by WILFRID THOMAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Audrey Russell
Unknown:
John Timp
Introduced By:
Wilfrid Thomas

Appeal on behalf of Aid to European Refugees by ELISABETH RUSSELL , Chairman
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed].
Aid to European Refugees makes grants to help displaced persons and their children. Funds are urgently needed for the training of youngsters, rehabilitation of severely handicapped middle-aged refugees, and annuities for the sick and aged.

Contributors

Unknown:
Elisabeth Russell
Unknown:
Elisabeth Russell

by Charlotte Bronte dramatised for radio in twelve episodes by HELENA WOOD with Sheila Grant as Lucy Snowe
Madame Beck sends daily for Dr. John. He comes willingly. Why? He is not in love with Madame. Lucy finds a mysterious billetdoux in the garden. Dr. John takes it and begs her to protcctthere is no time to give the name, for Madame approaches. Lucy learns that Ginevra's friend Isidore ' is Dr. John.
Episode 4 Produced bv
MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Helena Wood
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Unknown:
Lucy Snowe
Unknown:
Madame Beck
Unknown:
Martyn C. Webster
Lucy Snowe:
Sheila Grant
M Paul:
Rolf Lefebvre
Marie Broc:
Hilda Kriseman
Goton:
Gladys Spencer
Ginevra:
Beryl Calder
Pere Silas:
John Ruddock
Mrs Bretton:
Joan Matheson
Dr John Graham:
John Rye

A radio portrait of Franz Liszt
Written by COLIN SHAW
JOHN OGDON (piano)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Led by James Davis Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON Produced by COLIN SHAW and ARTHUR SPENCER in the BBC North of England Studios

Contributors

Unknown:
Franz Liszt
Written By:
Colin Shaw
Piano:
John Ogdon
Unknown:
James Davis
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Produced By:
Colin Shaw
Produced By:
Arthur Spencer
Narrator:
Richard Bebb
Readers:
Garard Green,
Readers:
Ralph Hallett
Amy Fay:
Jill Fenson

If there is one gift more essential to a novelist than another it is the power of combination-the single vision. Virginia Woolt
RICHARD CHURCH will be seventy on Tuesday and he celebrates the occasion with the publication of his seventeenth novel, Prince Albert
In this programme he looks back at his life as a novelist and talks about the craft of novel writing, with the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives Produced by HAROLD ROGERS

Contributors

Unknown:
Prince Albert
Produced By:
Harold Rogers

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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