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Cross Roads
Recorded before an audience of members of the Seven Fifty Motor Club in London
Answering their questions:
NORMAN W. GOODCHILD , Chief Constable of Wolverhampton RONALD PRIESTLEY. Chief Instructor of a driving school
RAYMOND BAXTER , BBC Motoring Correspondent
HARRY MUNDY. Technical Editor of the Autocar
Chairman, BILL HARTLEY
Produced by JAMES PESTRIDGE Last Friday's broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman W. Goodchild
Unknown:
Wolverhampton Ronald Priestley.
Unknown:
Raymond Baxter
Unknown:
Harry Mundy.
Unknown:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
James Pestridge

A sort of radio show written by Eric Merriman with Kenneth Horne
KENNETH Williams , HUGH PADDICK
BETTY MARSDEN. BILL PERTWEE
THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
EILEEN GOURLAY
BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conductor, PAUL FENOULHET
Sort-of-announcer, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS Broadcast on January 17 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden.
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Fraser Hayes
Unknown:
Eileen Gourlay
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

A Matter of Policy by Mark Irwin with Jon Rollason and Eart Cameron
The gossip-columnist on a provincial paper wages a campaign for a West Indian whom he believes to have been victimised. But how certain is he of the justness of his cause, and how honest really are his motives?
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Irwin
Unknown:
Jon Rollason
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Philip Holland:
Jon Rollason
Sylvia:
Paula Jacobs
Benjamin Dowdall:
Earl Cameron
George Hughes:
Denys Hawthorne
Mike Williams:
John Broster
John Swift:
Tom Watson
Mrs Flaherty:
Mary O'Farrell
Margaret Dowdall:
Ellen Dryden
Liz Holland:
Shirley Cooklin
Mr North:
George Merritt

Forty-second annual message of the children of Wales to the world
The programme includes recordings of exchange greetings from countries overseas; and it is hoped to include letters from boys and girls in Sweden, Germany, Yugoslavia, Spain, Monaco, Denmark, and Switzerland. From further overseas come messages from Bermuda, Gibraltar, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, India, Singapore, and North Borneo
* Edited and introduced by EVELYN WILLIAMS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Evelyn Williams

by Harold Brighouse
with Wilfred Pickles as Horatio Hobson, Bernard Cribbins as Willie Mossop and Barbara Young as Maggie

Horatio Hobson is a Salford bootmaker, a proud man who thinks he is master in his own house, but he gets shaken up when his daughter Maggie, a girl with a mind of her own, decides to marry Willie Mossop, one of the cobblers in his shop.

(Broadcast on November 14 1962 in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Author:
Harold Brighouse
Music composed by:
Neville McGrah
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Horatio Hobson:
Wilfred Pickles
Willie Mossop:
Bernard Cribbins
Maggie:
Barbara Young
Alice:
Anna Cropper
Albert:
John Normington
Tubby:
Graham Rigby
Jim Heeler:
Henry Livings
Dr Macfarlane:
Duncan McIntyre
Vickey:
Karal Gardner
Mrs Hepworth:
Marion Dawson
Ada Figgins:
Elizabeth Bell
Fred Beenstock:
Geoffrey Hinsliff

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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