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Introduced by MICHAEL BROOKE
Half A Sixpence: MARTI WEBB talks to ALEX MACINTOSH
New Towns: investigated by JOAN PYPER
How to Travel and the Seeing Eye: ELSPETH HUXLEY
At Home: with MARY STOCKS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Brooke
Unknown:
Joan Pyper
Unknown:
Elspeth Huxley

The Witch Family by ELEANOR ESTES abridged by Naomi Lewis in five instalments read by PATRICIA HAYES 4: The Night of Hallowe'en
Amy and Clarissa had agreed that Old Witch could come down from her high glass hill for Hallowe'en, though on no other time in the year. Hallowe'en had to come round at last, and come it didl

Contributors

Unknown:
Eleanor Estes
Abridged By:
Naomi Lewis
Read By:
Patricia Hayes

Octet played by the PROMETHEUS Ensemble
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon) Alan Civil (horn)
Max Salpeter (violin) Jurgen Hess (violin)
. Kenneth Essex (viola)
Raymond Clark (cello)
Stuart Knussen (double-bass) Broadcast on May 13, 1962

Contributors

Clarinet:
Jack Brymer
Bassoon:
Gwydion Brooke
Violin:
Max Salpeter
Violin:
Jurgen Hess
Cello:
Raymond Clark
Double-Bass:
Stuart Knussen

Written and narrated by JOANNA RICHARDSON
Joanna Richardson asks if Victorian children's books were all precepts and no pictures. with YSANNE CHURCHMAN
JOAN MATHESON
GLYN DEARMAN , GEORGE MERRITT
JOAN HART , MARY O'FARRELL
HILDA KRISEMAN
NORMAN SHELLEY Produced by DOROTHY BAKER

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
Ysanne Churchman
Unknown:
Joan Matheson
Unknown:
Glyn Dearman
Unknown:
George Merritt
Unknown:
Joan Hart
Unknown:
Mary O'Farrell
Unknown:
Hilda Kriseman
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker

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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