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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Sisters Under the Skin: EVE ORME and other Army wives on changing relationships
The Masculine Dream: SYLVIA CLAYTON takes a look at magazines for men
Turning a Blind Eye: DIANA GRAVES discovers life has a new dimension
Letter from a Voter: a symposium of views on ' What I expect from my M.P.'

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Sylvia Clayton

Regional Variations (5)

Service from the Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Mary's Training College, Belfast

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Service from Kirk-maiden Parish Church. Drum-more. Stranraer. Wigtownshire

BBC Home Service Scottish

Service: as West

BBC Home Service Midland

Holy Communion from King Street Methodist Church. Plymouth

BBC Home Service South and West

From St. Alban's, Church in Wales, Llanelly
Conducted by the Vicar, CANON HOWARD WILLIAMS
Hymns (from A. and M. Rev.):
Take my life (361, Tune, Nottingham); Alleluia! Alleluia! (137, Tune, Lux Eoi )
Lessons: Isaiah 12
1 Corinthians 15, vv. 35-58
Organist,
Mattie Bateman-Morris
Choirmaster, Leslie J. Morris

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon Howard Williams
Unknown:
Lux Eoi
Choirmaster:
Mattie Bateman-Morris
Choirmaster:
Leslie J. Morris

Regional Variations (2)

BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Arwel Hughes

BBC Home Service Welsh

by DONALD EDGAR
Not long ago three Indian trails met at a French trading post in the American Mid-West. Today the same spot has become the city of Cleveland-a place dominated, both structurally and spiritually, by the immense enterprises of its most successful citizen-John D. Rockefeller, Snr. Donald Edgar reports on a business trip there.

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Edgar
Unknown:
Donald Edgar

Edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) by MARK LUSBOCK
Hindemith and the Orchestra by COLIN MASON
Musical Profile: Florence Austral born April 26, 1894 by CEDRIC WALLIS
Tricks of the Trade: 4-Sex Appeal by SIDNEY HARRISON

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Mark Lusbock
Unknown:
Colin Mason
Unknown:
Cedric Wallis
Unknown:
Sidney Harrison

A request programme of gramophone records
Seven Variations on a duct from Mozart's The Magic Flute (Beethoven)
PIERRE FOURNIER (cello) FRIEDRICH GULDA (piano)
11.46' Welsh and Irish Folk Songs (arr. Haydn and Beethoven)
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (soprano)
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU (baritone)
GERALD MOORE (piano) EDUARD DROLC (violin) IRMGARD POPPEN (cello)
11.58* Kol Nidrei (Bruch)
JACQUELINE DU PRÉ (cello) with GERALD MOORE (piano)

Contributors

Cello:
Pierre Fournier
Piano:
Friedrich Gulda
Soprano:
Victoria de Los Angeles
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Cello:
Irmgard Poppen
Unknown:
Jacqueline Du
Piano:
Gerald Moore

Regional Variations (2)

Elspeth Low. piano

BBC Home Service Scottish

Sale of Goods: An auctioneer discusses some practical points including valuation fees
Collusion and Divorce: RUPERT TOWNSHEND-ROSE looks at a provision of the recent Matrimonial Causes Act to see how it is working out
With Holidays in Mind: PAMELA DEEDES has some information about the Health Service for people travelling abroad
Questions About Money: answered by ARTHUR COATES
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Pamela Deedes
Unknown:
Arthur Coates
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Regional Variations (3)

The Welsh Gardent

BBC Home Service Welsh

The Scottish Garden

BBC Home Service Scottish

visits Sussex
Members of the Fernhurst Horticultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL tQuestion-Master,
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann

by DENIS SHAW
Denis Shaw , who lived at Goalundo, remembers the old Bengali proverb: ' He who has doom on his brow, will live at Goalundo ' when he tells of his personal involvement in the celebrations at the Birth Festival of the Holy Prophet Mohammed. He was called 'for taking food' with the Arabian saint, the only local celebrity, and it was the food that caused the trouble.

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Shaw
Unknown:
Denis Shaw

Regional Variations (2)

Gaelic Service

BBC Home Service Scottish

The Rumour of the Rose
A play for radio by Leonard Baker Jones
Edward Steen. a successful businessman, swerves to avoid a cat and drives his car into Martha Fenton 's garden wall. The meeting between the two causes him to become dissatisfied with his ruthless and guilt-ridden career. But Miss Fenton has a secret too....
Produced by WILLIAM GLEN -DOEPEL
Broadcast on June 5, 1963

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonard Baker Jones
Unknown:
Edward Steen.
Unknown:
Martha Fenton
Produced By:
William Glen
Martha:
Brenda Dunrich
Edward:
Eric Anderson
Muriel:
Patricia Laffan
Charles:
Norman Claridge

Regional Variations (4)

Service: as West

BBC Home Service Midland

Service from the British Convention of the Gideons International. at Peebles Hydro

BBC Home Service Scottish

Service from the Monica Wills Memorial Chapel, University of Bristol

BBC Home Service South and West

Since thou hast for to go, bear not along
The clogging burthen of a guilty soul RICHARD II
Our dear Confession
MARTIN LUTHER
The promise of the keys does not pertain to a particular form of absolution John CALVIN
A programme about the history and practice of Confession as a sacrament for healing and reconciling sinners
Produced by PATRICK McENROE

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Luther
Unknown:
John Calvin
Produced By:
Patrick McEnroe

Appeal on behalf of The Star and Garter Home for Disabled Sailors, Soldiers, and Airmen by Marshal of the R.A.F. SIR JOHN SLESSOR , G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C,
Contributions, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Star and Garter provides a permanent Home for 200 ex-Servicemen disabled in war or in peacetime. It is not part of the National Health Service and help is needed to meet the ever increasing costs.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Slessor
Unknown:
Sir John Slessor

Regional Variations (3)

A radio portrait of a General Practitioner, by William McArthur

BBC Home Service Scottish

' Enoc Huws ': serial play by J. Ellis Williams—5

BBC Home Service Welsh

by Anthony Trollope adapted for broadcasting in twelve episodes by H. OLDFIELD BOX
It is the day of Lizzie's departure for Scotland and already she is in the carriage about to set off for the railway station. Beside her sits Miss Macnulty, her companion. and concealed by her skirt is the iron box containing the Eustace Diamonds.
Episode 6
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Trollope
Unknown:
H. Oldfield
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Narrator:
Simon Lack
Mr Camperdown:
James Thomason
Lizzie Eustace:
Belle Chrystall
Miss Macnulty:
Gladys Spencer
Sarah:
Eva Stuart
Andy Gowran:
James McKechinie
Frank Greystock:
Gabriel Woolf
Herriot:
Peter Bartlett

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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