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DENYS HAY
Professor of Medieval History in the University of Edinburgh gives the first of eight talks on Renaissance thought, with special reference to its influence on the educational ideas of Western Europe, illustrated from contemporary material 1: The Uncloistered Scholar
The discovery in Florence in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries of a justification for the active life
Readers. GARY WATSON and MICHAEI SPICE
1 Broadcast on October 2, 1963, in the Third Network

Contributors

Readers:
Gary Watson

Country Ceili from the Town Hall,
Ballymena, Co. Antrim
THE MCCUSKER BROTHERS CEILI BAND
MAUREEN TYSON (soprano)
EILEEN GAVIN (contralto)
JOHN HUGHES
(songs with guitar)
Master of Ceremonies, JACK SLOANE Produced by SAM DENTON

Contributors

Soprano:
Maureen Tyson
Contralto:
Eileen Gavin
Contralto:
John Hughes
Unknown:
Jack Sloane
Produced By:
Sam Denton

Give A Dog A Bad Name
A new play by Lydia Ragosin with William Fox
Olga Lindo
Fred Ambet lives alone with his dog. Joey, but the magistrate orders him to have Joey put down ...
Cast in order of speaking: Produced by AUDREY CAMERON

Contributors

Play By:
Lydia Ragosin
Unknown:
William Fox
Unknown:
Olga Lindo
Unknown:
Fred Ambet
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron
Joey, the dog:
Andrew Sachs
Peter Banks:
Christopher Witty
Roy Banks:
Roger May
Fred Ambel:
William Fox
Mrs Banks:
Moira Mannion
Mrs Mace:
Olga Lindo
Corney:
John Baddeley
Mr Mace:
Hamlyn Benson
The Magistrate:
John Ruddock
P C Low:
Stephen Thorne
Station Sergeant:
Garard Green
Giles:
Andrew Sachs
Spicer:
Frederick Treves
Derek Ambel:
Alan Haines
Glenda:
Jo Manning Wilson

from St. Joseph's Roman Catholic College, Upholland, Wigan, Lancashire
Introduced by FR. J. L. ALSTON
Introduction
Deus in adjutorium:
Gloria Patri
Psalms: 127, 128, 129, 130, 131
Little Chapter
(Ecclesiasticus 31, vv. 8-9)
Hymn: Iste Confessor Domini Magnificat (Lassus)
Benedicamus Domino
Motet: Ave Maria
(Josquin des Pres)
Recessional Hymn: Firmly I believe and truly (W.H. 185)
Choirmaster, Fr. A. K. Snape
Organist, Fr. J. J. Gaine

Contributors

Introduced By:
Fr. J. L. Alston
Organist:
Fr. J. J. Gaine

'One day when I've got money I'll go and live in the country, because living in the East End all my life I don'like London at all. not only the East End, the West End, any part of London. -
TED LEWIS fish-porter, crane driver, and ex-professional featherweight boxer talking to PAUL STEPHENSON Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Lewis
Unknown:
Paul Stephenson

from the novel by ERIC LINKLATER dramatised for radio-by MURIEL LEVY
Incidental music written by HENRY REED who conducts a section of the BBC. NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Led by James Davis 3: The Battle Begins Produced by HERBERT SMITH

Contributors

Novel By:
Eric Linklater
Unknown:
Muriel Levy
Written By:
Henry Reed
Unknown:
James Davis
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
The speaker:
Noel Johnson
Hew:
John Thornley
Timothy:
Michael Stirrup
Mrs Matches:
Ella Atkinson
Old Mattoo:
Jameson Clark
James William Cordiall:
Paul Webster
William Bulton:
Peter Ducklln
Darby Kelley:
Graham Tennant
Dingy:
Barry Dixon
Inky Poop:
Norman Somers
Dan Scumbrill:
John Blain
Miss Dildery:
Doris Gambell
Davy Jones:
Norman Shelley
Aaron Spens:
John Young
Crab:
Robert Wallace

A tribute to the late Sir Jack Hobbs
1882-1963 the great Surrey and England cricketer
Introduced by ALFRED Cover with recollections by some of his friends, including SIR DONALD BRADMAN
SIR LEARIE CONSTANTINE GEORGE DUCKWORTH P. G. H. FENDER BERT OLDFIELD
WILFRED RHODES ANDREW SANDHAM HERBERT SUTCLIFFE Edited and produced by JOHN BRIDGES

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Jack Hobbs
Introduced By:
Alfred Cover
Unknown:
Sir Donald Bradman
Unknown:
Sir Learie Constantine
Unknown:
George Duckworth
Unknown:
P. G. H. Fender
Unknown:
Bert Oldfield
Unknown:
Wilfred Rhodes
Unknown:
Andrew Sandham
Unknown:
Herbert Sutcliffe
Produced By:
John Bridges

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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