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Introduced by MICHAEL BROOKE
You Ask For It: AUDREY RUSSELL recalling countries she knows
Taking the Honey Crop: ARBEL ALDOUS
Lazy Days around Country Houses: LAURENCE KITCHIN 'S recommendations
An Experiment in Education: SYBIL MARSHALL talks to MARGHANITA LASKI

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Brooke
Unknown:
Audrey Russell
Unknown:
Laurence Kitchin
Talks:
Sybil Marshall

Gardening in Switzerland
Five programmes of horticultural reports from Switzerland
4: ROY HAY. ARTHUR BILLITT , and WILL INGWERSEN continue their journey from places of interest in Geneva to the University of Lausanne's Alpine Garden at Pont-de-Nant. From here, near Bex. they travel southwards to Locarno Last Friday's broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Billitt

The Greatest Gresham by GILLIAN AVERY abridged by Neville Teller read in five instalments by DAVID DAVIS
1: New Neighbours
It is 1891, and in a London suburb the Greshams live very uneventfully with their three children, Julia, Henry, and Amy -uneventfully, that is, until new neighbours move in next door.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Avery
Abridged By:
Neville Teller
Unknown:
David Davis

Appeal on behalf of The Asthma Research Council
by MOIRA SHEARER
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be' gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
There are about 500,000 asthmatics in Great Britain alone. To pursue the cure of asthma and the alleviation of the suffering it causes, the Council, which is entirely dependent on voluntary contributions, is urgently appealing for £ 250,000.

Contributors

Unknown:
Moira Shearer

The Renaissance in Venice
8: TITIAN 14S0/5-1576
Bacchus and Ariadne painted 1522-3 in the National Gallery, London Speaker, MICHAEL KITSON
Lecturer in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute. University of 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 is 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:
Michael Kitson

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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