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Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
A Simple Guide to the Motor Car: 4-Transmission, by Robin RICHARDS
Motor Insurance Claims: by JOHN GASELEE , Insurance Correspondentof the Financial Times The Month's Motoring News: reviewed by COURTFNAY EDWARDS of the Sunday Telegraph
Road Conditions: a review of the week ahead
+ Friday's broadcast in the Third
Network

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Robin Richards
Unknown:
John Gaselee
Reviewed By:
Courtfnay Edwards

Members of the public and invited personalities put questions to
Jimmy EDWARDS , TED RAY
TOMMY TRINDER , CYRIL FLETCHER
In the chair, McDONALD HOBLEY
Guest, Jessie Matthews
From an idea by Jimmy Edwards
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Tommy Trinder
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Jessie Matthews
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

The Man who won the Football Pools
A new play by Geoffrey Hubbard with Margaret Wolfit
Allan McClelland
John Baddeley
John Raikes had won the football pools and his friends acclaimed him as a rich man. Yet the dividend might just as well have been no more than £ 23.
Radio Interviewer. FRASER KERR
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN

Contributors

Play By:
Geoffrey Hubbard
Unknown:
Margaret Wolfit
Unknown:
Allan McClelland
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
John Raikes
Interviewer:
Fraser Kerr
Produced By:
Martin Esslin
Charles:
Michael Goldie
John:
John Baddeley
Margaret:
Margaret Wolfit
Cabbie:
John Boxer
Waiter:
Kenneth Hyde
Morton:
Allan McClelland
Rigby:
James Thomason
Smith:
Kevin Flood
Pelf:
Ralph Truman
Angela:
Patricia Leventon

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

HARRY DAVIDSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Introduced by REX PALMER
Master of Ceremonies CHARLES CRATHORN
Produced by ANDREW GOLD
The dances: Waltz: Bradford Barn Dance: White Rose Tango: Starlight Saunter: Ideal Schottische: Hesitation Waltz; The Dashing White Sergeant

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rex Palmer
Produced By:
Andrew Gold

Set without rhyme or reason in the exact centre of the field was the house. It was the house of a fairy tale rather than the habitation of a farmer.....
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the cast
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Adapted By:
Muriel Levy
Unknown:
Mrs. Robert Henrey
Unknown:
Cecile Chevreau
Unknown:
Mary O'Farrell
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Madeleine:
Cecile Chevreau
Passenger:
Gordon Faith
Passenger:
Zara Jaber
Goguette:
Margaret Wolfit
Goguet:
Peter Claughton
Renee:
Isabel Rennie
Roger,as a child:
Jo Manning Wilson
Madame Bayard:
Joyce Latham
Madame Gal, Madeleine's mother:
Mary O'Farrell
Doctor:
Michael Goldie
Mademoiselle Lefranc, the midwife:
Moira Mannion
Robert Henrey:
Kenneth Hyde
Old Hommet:
George Merritt
Roger, grown up:
Peter Billingsley
German Officer:
Gabriel Woolf
President of the Court:
Ralph Truman

News and views on books from KAY DICK , Stephen TOULMIN and a barrister
STAN BARSTOW talking to EDWARD BLISHEN about his novel
Joby MARTIN ESSLIN on reading plays
Introduced by JOHN HOBDAY

Contributors

Unknown:
Kay Dick
Unknown:
Stephen Toulmin
Unknown:
Edward Blishen
Unknown:
Joby Martin Esslin
Introduced By:
John Hobday

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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