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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
The Silver Jubilee of the Business and Professional Women's Clubs: JOAN YORKE reports
The way poems come: PAUL ROCHE explains the genesis of some of his poetry
At Home with VERONICA PAP-WORTH, Fashion Editor of the Sunday Express
What I expect from my newspaper: RUTH ADAM
Living with Leukemia: a personal story from someone who has this disease

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Paul Roche

A request programme of gramophone records
Ballet Music: The Perfect Fool (Holst)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Songs of Sunset (Delius)
MAUREEN FORRESTER (contralto)
JOHN CAMERON (baritone) BEECHAM CHORAL SOCIETY ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
The Banks of Green Willow (Butteruwth)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Contralto:
Maureen Forrester
Baritone:
John Cameron
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

A serial in six parts by MARGARET POTTER
4:A Knight of the Road Produced by TREVOR HILL
Originally broadcast in 1959

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
Philip Bellinger of Hindleford Hall:
David Peel
The Highwayman:
Geoffrey Matthews
Luke:
Leonard Williams
Isaac Knipe, alias 'The Parson:
Geoffrey Banks
Joanna Drew:
Judith Bradshaw
Landlord of the 'Black Swan ':
Tom Harrison
Colonel Charnock:
Fred Fairclough
Mark, his son:
Barrie Hesketh
Nathanial Merryweather, the Coach Guard:
Herbert Smith
Driver:
John Broadbent

A radio portrait in words and music of the composer Cesar Franck
Written by STANLEY WILLIAMSON
JEAN LANGLAIS at the organ of the Church of St. Clothilde, Paris
NORMA PROCTER (contralto)
REGINALD STEAD (violin)
VINCENT BILLINGTON (piano)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead Conducted .by STANFORD ROBINSON
Narrator, GEOFFREY MATTHEWS
Other parts spoken by Daphne Oxenford
Geoffrey Banks. Bert Parnaby Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON and ARTHUR SPENCER

Contributors

Unknown:
Cesar Franck
Written By:
Stanley Williamson
Written By:
Jean Langlais
Contralto:
Norma Procter
Piano:
Vincent Billington
Leader:
Reginald Stead
Narrator:
Stanford Robinson
Narrator:
Geoffrey Matthews
Spoken By:
Daphne Oxenford
Spoken By:
Geoffrey Banks.
Spoken By:
Bert Parnaby
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson
Produced By:
Arthur Spencer

John Dodd
The remarkable story of a man who has given up a successful career as a salesman to devote his life to helping prisoners to rehabilitate them selves upon release
It is told for the first time by JOHN DODD himself and others The programme compiled and introduced by GEOFFREY HOWARD

Contributors

Unknown:
John Dodd
Unknown:
John Dodd
Introduced By:
Geoffrey Howard

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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