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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Voices and Views on Romance: including CHRISTIANNA BRAND, ALISON SETTLE, GWYN THOMAS. COMMANDER IBBETT
Father's Place: an enquiry into family attitudes
A Picnic in Jordan: VALENTINE VESTER I
Twentieth-century Women: a portrait of the American dancer, Martha Graham

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Gwyn Thomas.
Unknown:
Martha Graham

A request programme of gramophone records
Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1 (Beethoven)
WILHELM KEMPFF (piano)
Die junge Nonne; Der Musensohn iSchubert)
ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF (soprano)
EDWIN FISCHER (piano)
The Island Spell (Decorations) Ragamuffin (London Pieces) (Ireland)
ALAN ROWLANDS (piano)

Contributors

Piano:
Wilhelm Kempff
Soprano:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Piano:
Edwin Fischer
Piano:
Alan Rowlands

Chairman, T. C. WORSLEY
Book: JOHN BOWEN
Art: GEORGE MELLY
Film: A. ALVAREZ
Theatre: HAROLD HOBSON
Broadcasting: IAN RODGER
Repeated on Thursday at 3.0

Contributors

Unknown:
T. C. Worsley
Unknown:
John Bowen
Unknown:
George Melly
Unknown:
Harold Hobson
Unknown:
Ian Rodger

A serial play in four parts set in Yorkshire at the time of the Civil War
Written by BERTHA L0NSDALE
4:Prince Rupert comes to Wharfedale
Produced by HERBERT SMITH

Contributors

Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Margaret Craven:
Rosalie Williams
Anthony:
Randolph Stubington
John:
Peter Ducklin
Robert:
Barry Dixon
William:
Mark Powell
Obadiah:
John Lee
Francis Baildon:
Paul Bond
A Roundhead Sentry:
Frank Poynter
William, Lord Craven:
John Westbrook
Anne Fairfax:
Margaret Dew
Jane Hawksworth:
Sara Aimson
Betsy Hawkins:
Alison Bayley
Prince Rupert:
David Mahlowe
A Royalist Captain:
John Daglish
A Royalist Sergeant:
Jim Wiggins

Dance of the Comedians (The Bartered Bride) (Smetana)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
Rhapsody No. 1. for violin and orchestra (Bartok)
ISAAC STERN (violin) with the NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Orchestra
Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Symphony No. 9, in E minor (From the New World) (Dvorak)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FERENC FRICSAY on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Rudolf Kempe
Violin:
Isaac Stern
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Ferenc Fricsay

STUART HALL ex-Editor of New Left Review BRIAN MACCABE
President of the I.P.A.
FRANCIS NOEL-BAKER , M.P.
LORD ROBENS
President of the Advertising Association LESLIE SMITH , chairman
A discussion about a young, prosperous but increasingly controversial industry. Is it an essential part of a free enterprise economy, or a threat to our cultural and moral values, or both?

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian MacCabe
Unknown:
Francis Noel-Baker
Unknown:
Leslie Smith

Bartok and Wolf played by the AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Trevor Williams (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) Broadcast on May 26, 1M1, in the Third Programme

Contributors

Violin:
Trevor Williams
Viola:
Watson Forbes
Cello:
Derek Simpson

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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