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A magazine of interest to all, but with older listeners specially in mind including:
You asked us to play ... record requests
JAMES MASON talks to
KEITH HARRISON
For your library list: by EDWARD BLISHEN
Wembley Cup Final 1923:
BRIAN JOHNSTON meets some who were there
Winning choir at Blackpool
Introduced by GEOFFREY EARLE

Contributors

Talks:
James Mason
Unknown:
Keith Harrison
Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Introduced By:
Geoffrey Earle

A weekly meeting with young musicians
This week:
The Young Musicians of THE ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND (by permission of the Officers, R.A.)
Conductor,
WARRANT OFFICER N. H. TROTMAN
Introduced by JOHN HOBDAY
Produced by CHARLES BEARDSALL

Contributors

Unknown:
N. H. Trotman
Introduced By:
John Hobday
Produced By:
Charles Beardsall

Regional Variations (7)

News. Sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

Voice of the North (261 m. until 6.35)

BBC Home Service North

News

BBC Home Service Midland

News. Round-up

BBC Home Service South and West

News. Ulster Review

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News. Stock Market Re-j orts. News In Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

News, comment controversy and character from town and country

Regional Variations (4)

Gaelic request songs

BBC Home Service Scottish

The Delphos Ensemble

BBC Home Service Midland

Caredigion Tallesin: extracts from the Welsh Academy meeting at Swansea

BBC Home Service Welsh

Rauel Menuet
sur Ie nom d'Haydn
7.2* Gaspard de la nuit
Ondine; Le gibet; Scarbo played by DAVID PARKHOUSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Rauel Menuet
Unknown:
Gaspard de La
Played By:
David Parkhouse

Regional Variations (3)

Ser y Siroedd: stars of West Glamorgan and Anglesey

BBC Home Service Welsh

BBC Scottish Orchestra. conductor Norman Del Mar: Rossini. Cedric Thorpe Davie: Bliss

BBC Home Service Scottish

VILEM TAUSKY conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in highlights from operetta, opera, and ballet with JANET COSTER (mezzo-soprano) BRYAN DRAKE (baritone)
THE JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
Introduced by DAVID BROWN
Produced by ALAN ABBOTT
Including excerpts from:

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Mezzo-Soprano:
Janet Coster
Baritone:
Bryan Drake
Singers:
John McCarthy
Introduced By:
David Brown
Produced By:
Alan Abbott

Regional Variations (2)

' Armstrong's Last Good-night ': play by John Arden

BBC Home Service Scottish

A radio play by Brian Deakin and Martin Starkie from the novel by Henry James with Rosalie Crutchley Ernest Milton
Meg Wynn Owen and Peter Marinker
Cast in order of speaking:
Organist, WILLIAM DAVIES
Other parts played by Isabel Rennie , Wilfrid Carter Norman Claridge
Peter O'Shaughnessy
Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL

Contributors

Play By:
Brian Deakin
Play By:
Martin Starkie
Novel By:
Henry James
Unknown:
Rosalie Crutchley
Unknown:
Ernest Milton
Unknown:
Meg Wynn Owen
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Organist:
William Davies
Played By:
Isabel Rennie
Played By:
Wilfrid Carter
Played By:
Norman Claridge
Unknown:
Peter O'Shaughnessy
Produced By:
William Glen-Doepel
Mrs Luna:
Elizabeth London
Basil Ransom:
Peter Marinker
Olive Chancellor:
Rosalie Crutchley
Miss Birdseye:
Gladys Spencer
Dr Prance:
Margaret Wolfit
Mrs Farrinder:
Olga Lindo
Verena Tarrant:
Meg Wynn Owen
Matthias Pardon:
Stephen Thorne
Dr Tarrant:
Ernest Milton
Mrs Tarrant:
Catherine Willmer
Henry Burrage -:
Glyn Dearman
Mr Gracie:
Gabriel Woolf
Mrs Burrage:
Betty Bowden

First of four programmes of seasonal verse
GABRIEL WOOLF reads poems by Surrey, Spenser, William Drummond of Hawthornden. Wordsworth, Herrick and Blake
Programme arranged by Rayner Heppenstall

Contributors

Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
William Drummond
Arranged By:
Rayner Heppenstall

MELVIN KAPLIN (oboe)
RONALD ROSEMAN (oboe)
MORRIS NEWMAN (bassoon)
ALBERT FULLER (harpsichord) THE JACOBEAN ENSEMBLE
Directed by THURSTON DART (organ)
Trio-Sonata No. 6, in D major, for two oboes and continuo (Handel)
11.25* Trio-Sonata No. 6, in G minor (set of ten) (Purcell)
11.34* Trio-Sonata No. 4, in F major, for two oboes and continuo (Handel) on gramophone records

Contributors

Oboe:
Melvin Kaplin
Bassoon:
Morris Newman
Directed By:
Thurston Dart

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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