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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Brenda Bruce and Donald Baverstock : recent guests in Woman's Hour
Logical Thinking: some examples by FRANK GEORGE
How We Live: some Irish immigrants speak for themselves
Writers on Writers: NORMAN LEVINE , a young novelist, on Graham Greene

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Introduced By:
Brenda Bruce
Introduced By:
Donald Baverstock
Unknown:
Frank George
Unknown:
Norman Levine
Unknown:
Graham Greene

The first part of the Service of Holy Communion from the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Welling, Kent
Celebrant and Preacher, the Vicar, THE REV. TIMOTHY RAPHAEL
Epistle: 1 Peter 2, vv. 11-17
Gospel: St. John 16, vv. 16-22
Hymns (from the English
Hymnal): Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem (380); Father, hear the prayer we offer (385); Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (319)
Organist, Grace Knott
Choirmaster, John Dudley-Cave

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Timothy Raphael
Organist:
Grace Knott
Choirmaster:
John Dudley-Cave

A weekly review
Edited by ANNA INSTONE and JULIAN HERBAGE
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Verdi's Macbeth by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Stravinsky after Le Sacre by JEREMY NOBLE
Choral Music and its Tradition book review by TREVOR HARVEY
Musical Profile:
Bernard Herrmann by JACK HENDERSON

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Edward Greenfield
Review By:
Trevor Harvey
Unknown:
Bernard Herrmann
Unknown:
Jack Henderson

A request programme of gramophone records
String Trio in G major, Op. 38 No. 2 (Boccherini)
Members of the CARMIRELLI QUARTET
The Shepherd on the Rock (Schubert)
RITA STREICH (soprano)
HEINRICH GEUSER (clarinet) ERIK WERBA (piano)
Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op. 34 (Weber)
MELOS ENSEMBLE OF LONDON

Contributors

Clarinet:
Heinrich Geuser

Liability for Repairs: a barrister explains what a land-lord is, and is not, obliged to do
Introducing: ROBERT GREEN , who has had wide experience in finding jobs for the disabled From My Postbag: SIR KENNETH THOMPSON, M.P.
The ' Lump Sum ': advice on what best to do with it, from EDWARD LEADER Introduced by Robin HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Green
Leader:
Edward Leader
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

ZARA NELSOVA (cello)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Jan Krenz
Part 1
3.32* The Interval
HAWORTH BEFORE
THE BRONTES by FREDERICK GILL
An account of church life in the Yorkshire village when Mad Grimshaw ' was both vicar of the parish and superintendent of the Methodist circuit.

Contributors

Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Jan Krenz

The historical novel by Stanley Weyman, adapted for broadcasting in six parts by Nan MacDonald
with Jack May

Contributors

Author:
Stanley Weyman
Adapted by:
Nan MacDonald
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Gil de Berault,the storyteller:
Jack May
Mademoiselle de Cocheforet:
Judith Bradshaw
The Innkeeper:
Geoffrey Banks
Antoine:
John Linstrum
Captain Larolle:
Ronald Baddiley
His Lieutenant, an elderly man:
Robert Wallace
A boy:
Michael Stirrup
A sergeant:
Brian Trueman
Soldier:
Harold Rottesman
Soldier:
John Daglish

Christians think about their faith and its living expression John Henry Cardinal Newman The First Vatican Council took place in 1870, and in the discussions and controversies behind the Council two Englishmen were prominent, Cardinal Manning, the Archbishop of Westminster, and Cardinal Newman, the Oxford scholar.
This is the first of two programmes in which the life and thought of these two great Englishmen are considered within the context of the present Vatican Council II.
Script by FATHER WILLIAM PURDY , Ph.D. Produced by AGNELLUS ANDREW , O.F.M.

Contributors

Script By:
Father William Purdy
Produced By:
Agnellus Andrew

by Charlotte Bronte
Dramatised for radio in twelve episodes by HELENA WOOD with Sheila Grant as Lucy Snowe
Episode 10
Lucy and M. Paul quarrel over her birthday present to him and her refusal to show off her French to the pupils' parents. Lucy sadly watches the ripening of love between Paulina and Dr. John. She decides she must make a life for herself.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Helena Wood
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Unknown:
Lucy Snowe
Unknown:
M. Paul
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Lucy Snowe:
Sheila Grant
Paulina Home:
Ursula Hirst
Mr Home:
Douglas Storm
Dr John Graham:
John Rye
M Paul:
Rolf Lefebvre
Mme Beck:
Marjorle Westbury
M Rochemont:
Michael Spice
M Brissec:
Anthony Viccars
Mile St Pierre:
Grizelda Hervey
Georgette Beck:
Elizabeth Morgan

Spanish March
(Johann Strauss)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY
Scherzo Capriccioso (Dvorak)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI
Symphony No. 4, in E minor (Brahms)
BAVARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CARL SCHURICHT on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Carlo Maria Giulini
Conducted By:
Carl Schuricht

The High Renaissance
5: LEONARDO DA VINCI
1452-1519
The Virgin of the Rocks painted between 1483 and 1508 in the National Gallery, London Speaker, BRYAN ROBERTSON
Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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 dispatched quarterly, and subscribers will also receive 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:
Bryan Robertson

ANN SCHEIN (piano) Schubert
Fantasy in C major (The Wanderer)
Chopin
Nocturne in D flat major, Op.
27 No. 2
Three Mazurkas:
A flat major, Op. 41 No. 4 B flat major, Op. 17 No. 1 C major, Op. 56 No. 2
Two Studies:
A flat major, Op. posth.
C sharp minor, Op. 10 No. 4 Second broadcast
Third of four programmes Including piano music by Schubert
Sunday, May 19: Rosemarie Wright

Contributors

Piano:
Ann Schein
Unknown:
Rosemarie Wright

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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