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Wandering Minstrels
Joy HYMAN and JENNIFER RICE have collected and sung folk-songs in many places, from prisons to livery dinners and from Thaxted to Tel Aviv Introduced by JACK SINGLETON
Repeated on Thursday at 1.40

Contributors

Unknown:
Jennifer Rice
Introduced By:
Jack Singleton

A spontaneous discussion by MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
DR. J. BRONOWSKI
LADY BARNETT , CLIFFORD SELLY
Travelling Question-Master, FREDDY GRISEWOOD
From Ditcheat, Somerset Last Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Unknown:
Dr. J. Bronowski
Unknown:
Lady Barnett

A comedy for radio by Christopher Fitzsimons
A retired army officer and his wife are running an unsuccessful small-town cafe. A salesman persuades them that if they want to attract customers they will have to move with the times.

Contributors

Writer:
Christopher Fitzsimons
Producer:
Eileen Cullen
Harold Bridge:
Preston Lockwood
Joan Bridge:
Coral Fairweather
Miss Boswell:
Vivienne Chatterton
Mr Gates:
John Pullen
Mike:
John Baddeley
Joe:
Anthony Hall
Ted:
Timothy West
Shirley:
Fiona Nicolson
Mr Baylis:
David March
Colonel Marsh:
Kenneth Hyde
Laura Marsh:
Janet Burnell

by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker
The story of John Axon , G.c. and of the tradition of railway service for which he stands told by his widow and his workmates with footplate and engine shed recordings and set into song by EWAN MACCOLL with A- L. Lloyd , Isla Cameron Stan Kelly , Colin Dunn
Dominic Behan , Charles Mayo Dick Loveless
Jim Bray (bass)
Fitzroy Coleman (guitar) Terry Brown (trumpet) Bob Clark (fiddle)
John Cole (harmonica) Bryan Daley (guitar)
Alf Edwards (concertina) Billy Loch (drums)
Bob Mickleburg (trombone) Bruce Turner (clarinet)
Orchestration and music direction by Peggy Seeger
Technical direction under John Bower
Produced by CHARLES PARKER A revised version of the programme first broadcast en July 2. 1958
See page 25

Contributors

Unknown:
Ewan MacColl
Unknown:
Charles Parker
Unknown:
John Axon
Unknown:
Ewan MacColl
Unknown:
L. Lloyd
Unknown:
Isla Cameron
Unknown:
Stan Kelly
Unknown:
Colin Dunn
Unknown:
Dominic Behan
Unknown:
Charles Mayo
Unknown:
Dick Loveless
Bass:
Jim Bray
Guitar:
Fitzroy Coleman
Guitar:
Terry Brown
Unknown:
Bob Clark
Unknown:
John Cole
Guitar:
Bryan Daley
Guitar:
Alf Edwards
Concertina:
Billy Loch
Unknown:
Bob Mickleburg
Clarinet:
Bruce Turner
Unknown:
Peggy Seeger
Unknown:
John Bower
Produced By:
Charles Parker

Midland Region's panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
NANCY SPAIN and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, JACK LONGLAND
Repeated on Wednesday at 1.10

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

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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