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A programme of old favourites sung by MARY CONDON (contralto) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and a chorus from the BRISTOL LIGHT OPERA CLUB
Chorus-Master, VERNON JONES Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE

Contributors

Contralto:
Mary Condon
Chorus-Master:
Vernon Jones
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

by M. R. James
adapted for radio by Michael and Mollie Hardwick
with Michael Hordern
'Easy enough to whistle - but there's no telling what will answer.'

Contributors

Writer:
M. R. James
Adapted by:
Michael Hardwick
Adapted by:
Mollie Hardwick
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Special Effects:
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Mrs Spenlow:
Hilda Kriseman
Professor Parkins:
Michael Hordern
Brown:
Earle Grey
Purdom:
James Thomason
Rogers:
Rolf Lefebvre
Colonel Wilson:
Austin Trevor
Chambermaid:
Sheila Grant
Waiter:
Anthony Hall

A Search at Year's End
Written and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL
Another year has passed ... overladen perhaps with its share of hatred and disaster. Yet among these there were peaks of humanity, love, and courage. Produced by ALAN BURGESS

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

Greetings and Christmas messages to the children of Britain recorded by boys and girls from many parts of the world.
The European greetings include messages from Belgium. Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Sweden. France, and Finland; and from further overseas come greetings from Fiji. British Guiana, Canada, Tanganyika, Solomon Islands, Japan, Mauritius, and Sierra Leone. Introduced by EVELYN WILLIAMS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Evelyn Williams

Christmas edition
Midland Region's popular 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 Before an invited audience at
St. Peter's Hospital, Chertsey

Contributors

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

Laurence Olivier talks to
WYNFORD VAUGHAN THOMAS
After the triumphant launching of the National Theatre in the home of the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier looks back on his exciting life in the theatre, and forward to the working out of a dream that has become a reality.

Contributors

Talks:
Laurence Olivier
Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan
Unknown:
Laurence Olivier

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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