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Country Ceili from Jonesboro', Co. Down
Jim DALY 'S CEILI BAND
JANETTE SIMPSON (soprano)
FRANK RITCHIE
(songs with guitar)
M.C., JACK SLOANE
Produced by SAM DENTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Daly
Soprano:
Janette Simpson
Soprano:
Frank Ritchie
Unknown:
Jack Sloane
Produced By:
Sam Denton

Regional Variations (4)

A Living from the Land

BBC Home Service Midland

Farming and Fishing News

BBC Home Service Scottish

The Farmer

BBC Home Service South and West

Introduced by BRYAN PLATT
News for Commercial Growers: GORDON SCHAFFER on work in progress at some of the horticultural research stations
Grains of Truth: J. W. MURRAY talks to corn growers about the new cereal arrangements
Produced by JOHN GREENSLADE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bryan Platt
Unknown:
Gordon Schaffer
Talks:
J. W. Murray
Produced By:
John Greenslade

Regional Variations (2)

Welsh Schools: Current affairs for Sixth Forms

BBC Home Service Welsh

2: The Ballad of Billy Rose
LESLIE Norris and ROBERT GITTINGS discuss how they wrote their poems The Ballad of Billy Rose and The Fox
Books. Plays. Poems series

Contributors

Unknown:
Billy Rose
Unknown:
Leslie Norris
Unknown:
Robert Gittings
Unknown:
Billy Rose

A Little Lower
Than the Angels
A play for radio by Joan O'Connor based on a story by Anton Chekhov
The Ogneffs , whose respectability is outraged by their daughter's running away with a bohemian poet, insist that their son Sasha go and bring her home. But Sasha has an emotional problem of his own....
Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Story By:
Anton Chekhov
Story By:
The Ogneffs
Produced By:
William Glen-Doepel
Osip:
Charles Leno
Ivan Ogneff:
Peter O'Shaughnessy
Stepka:
Timothy Harley
Katya:
Isabel Rennie
Sasha:
Andrew Sachs
Olga Ogneff:
Olga Lindo
Andrey Vlassitch:
Stephen Thorne
Vera:
Janette Richer
Messenger:
Peter Flannery

from Bristol Cathedral
Versicles and Responses
(Bristol Use)
Psalms 142, 143
Lessons: Joshua 7;
Acts 24, vv. 1-23
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
(Hylton Stewart in the Dorian Mode)
Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway (Redford)
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Clifford Harker

Contributors

Unknown:
Hylton Stewart
Unknown:
Clifford Harker

Four talks on man and his environment
4: Man in the Future by BILL WILLIAMS
Professor of Botany.
Southampton University
What will our day-to-day life be like in forty years' time? Professor Williams takes a look at some of the predictions of science-fiction and sorts out the plausible guesses from the far-fetched.

Regional Variations (6)

Grimethorpe Colliery Instttute Band

BBC Home Service North

Ulster Farm

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Ivor Keys, organ, from Nottingham University!

BBC Home Service Midland

William Coulthard. organ. from Wellington Church, Glasgow

BBC Home Service Scottish

Barn y Bobl: topical discussion

BBC Home Service Welsh

Eighth Year
The ninth of eleven programmes in the BBC's annual competition for amateur choirs in the South-East region
Male Choirs
BROMLEY AND DISTRICT MALE VOICE CHOIR
Conductor,
GEORGE HURDMAN THURROCK MALE VOICE CHOIR Conductor, ARTHUR JONES
Ladies' Choirs
THE FLORIAN LADY SINGERS Conductor,
FREDERICK T. DURRANT
ROWANTREE EVENING INSTITUTE LADIES' CHOIR
Conductor, WILLIAM BROOM
Adjudication summary by TREVOR HARVEY
Programme introduced by JOHN HOBDAY
† Produced by CHARLES BEARDSALL

Contributors

Conductor:
George Hurdman Thurrock
Conductor:
Frederick T. Durrant
Unknown:
Trevor Harvey
Introduced By:
John Hobday
Produced By:
Charles Beardsall

Regional Variations (2)

BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Michael Tippett and Arwel Hughes: music by Welsh composers

BBC Home Service Welsh

Ann Schein (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Michael Gielen
From the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
In association with Wolverhampton County Borough Council

Contributors

Piano:
Ann Schein
Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Michael Gielen

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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