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† DENYS HAWTHORNE reads
The Game Cock by MICHAEL McLAVERTY
'The night before the fight the steel spurs were tied on him to see how he would look in the pit. " Ah, Jimmy, if you could only see him," said my father to the blind man. There's not another cock this side of the Bann nor in all County Derry that could touch him." '
Repeated Tuesday, 11.20 a.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Michael McLaverty

For retired and older people and for those concerned for their welfare
King Edward VII: ELIZABETH BREWER selects some readings from the new book by Philip Magnus
Bird Watching: STANLEY BENNETT invites you to share his hobby
From the Post-bag
Requiem: CHARLES HOWARD talks to JACK SINGLETON about the Robert Louis Stevenson he knew at Vailima
Introduced by SAM POLLOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Brewer
Book By:
Philip Magnus
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Introduced By:
Sam Pollock

A series of plays about the boy detectives by ANTHONY C. WILSON with A quiet tea-party with a middleaned lady didn'seem a very exciting way of spending an afternoon until the skeleton was mentioned.
6: The Bones of a Dinosaur Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony C. Wilson
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Norman:
Harold Reese
Henry:
Patricia Hayes
Inspector Henry:
Preston Lockwood
Mrs Bones:
Ann Codrington
Miss Coulton:
Vivienne Chatterton
Mrs Youngs:
Jill Nyasa
Mr Youngs:
Middleton Woods
Mrs Joan Stevens:
Gillian Maude
Michael Stevens:
Lewis Stringer
Ted Targett:
Peter Augustine
Dr. Zappaulos:
Cameron Miller

by Ivan Turgenev adapted for radio by MILES MALLESON with Vic Oliver Narrator. JOHN BOXER
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
See page 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Turgenev
Narrator:
Vic Oliver
Narrator:
John Boxer
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Misha Moshkin:
Vic Oliver
Stratilat:
Gordon Gardner
Cook:
Elsa Palmer
Philip Shpundic:
Peter Bathurst
Masha:
Elizabeth Proud
Anna Savishna:
Betty Hardy
Peter:
Michael Deacon
Carl von Fonk:
Derek Blomfield
Mitka:
Alan Reid

String Quartet in E minor (Verdi)
THE BASTIAAN Quartet Hans Bastiaan (violin) Johannes Blau (violin) Fritz Steiner (viola) Peter Steiner (cello)
11.37* Chrysanthemums (Puccini)
THE QUARTET OF LA SCALA Enrico Minetti (violirf)
Giuseppe Gambetti (violin) Tommaso Valdinoci (viola) Gilbertq Crepax (cello) on gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Hans Bastiaan
Violin:
Johannes Blau
Viola:
Fritz Steiner
Cello:
Peter Steiner
Unknown:
La Scala
Unknown:
Enrico Minetti
Violin:
Giuseppe Gambetti
Viola:
Tommaso Valdinoci
Cello:
Gilbertq Crepax

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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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