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Police Court Missionaries
MARJORY TODD a probation officer compares her life in the courts today with that described by THOMAS HOLMES eighty years ago
Reader, ANDREW TIMOTHY Introduced by JACK SINGLETON

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjory Todd
Unknown:
Thomas Holmes
Reader:
Andrew Timothy
Introduced By:
Jack Singleton

A spontaneous discussion by DR. J. BRONOWSKI LORD MANCROFT BASIL BOOTHROYD GERALD GARDINER
Travelling Question-Master, FREDDY GRISEWOOD
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN
From St. James's Church Hall, Emsworth, Hampshire Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. J. Bronowski
Unknown:
Lord Mancroft
Unknown:
Basil Boothroyd
Unknown:
Gerald Gardiner
Question-Master:
Freddy Grisewood
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Unit 3 ' Britain, workshop of the world ' begins with a programme on coal-mining in the North-East 120 years ago, as described by Thomas Burt , one of the first miners' M.P.s, with special reference to the 1844 strike
Written by Nan Macdonald
History Work Units series

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Burt
Written By:
Nan MacDonald

A report from Egypt on the building of the Aswan High Dam
Far up the River Nile, in the rocky wastes of the Nubian desert, a massive engineering project is now the focus of a nation's vision of plenty. Egypt's four-hundred-million-pound Aswan High Dam is beginning to take shape.
From a visit to the amazing Aswan site, where nearly 30,000 men are at work night and day, GODFREY TALBOT has brought back recordings which tell the dramatic story of the new Giant of the Nile
Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS Broadcast on Nov. 10, 1963

Contributors

Unknown:
Godfrey Talbot
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

Introduced by DERYCK COOKE MtCHAEL ROLL (piano)
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, John Georgiadis
Conducted by Alberto Bolet
Before an invited audience in the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton

Contributors

Introduced By:
Deryck Cooke
Leader:
John Georgiadis
Conducted By:
Alberto Bolet

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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