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by Ivan Turgenev translated by Jessie COULSON adapted for radio by WILLIAM Glen-Doepel with Peter Woodthorpe
Gwen Watford
Reginald Beckwith
Barrie Ingham
' Those were the days of youth and happiness, days of boundless hope and invincible strength, and if it was a dream, it was a wonderful dream..... '
A Quiet Backwater, one of Turgenev's most beautiful stories. was first published in 1854. Other parts played by Isabel Rennie and Eva Stuart
Pianist, PAUL HAMBURGER
Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Turgenev
Translated By:
Jessie Coulson
Unknown:
William Glen-Doepel
Unknown:
Peter Woodthorpe
Unknown:
Gwen Watford
Unknown:
Reginald Beckwith
Unknown:
Barrie Ingham
Played By:
Isabel Rennie
Played By:
Eva Stuart
Produced By:
William Glen-Doepel
Narrator:
James Thomason
Veretyev:
Peter Woodthorpe
Astakhov:
Barrie Ingham
Fedka:
Timothy Harley
Ipatov:
Reginald Beckwith
Bodryakov:
Andrew Sachs
Marya Pavlovna:
Gwen Watford
Egor Kapitonych:
Peter O'Shaughnessy
Nadezhda:
Jane Wenham
Grandmother:
Molly Rankin
Stelchinsky:
Peter Bartlett
Captain:
Bruce Beeby
Pomponsky:
James Thomason

A weekly meeting with young musicians
This week:
A Continental Exchange between
Wimbledon Girls Choir
Conductor, MALCOLM PARKER
DUSSEI.DORF
Boys AND GIRLS CHOIR
Conductor. RUDOLF STAUDE
Introduced by JOHN Hobday
Produced by CHARLES BEARDSALL
From the South-East

Contributors

Conductor:
Malcolm Parker
Introduced By:
John Hobday
Produced By:
Charles Beardsall

by Emyr Humphreys i
Brenda Bruce and Donald Houston with William Devlin
Rev owns most of the promenade at Penwent and yet he chooses to live in a dilapidated hotel with Queenie, who spends most of her life upstairs. They are both served by Cherran who reads horoscopes and was once Reg's teacher at school. To this strange hotel returns a young American who is looking for his father ... Produced by EMYR Humphreys

Contributors

Unknown:
Emyr Humphreys
Unknown:
Brenda Bruce
Unknown:
Donald Houston
Unknown:
William Devlin
Reg:
Donald Houston
Queenie:
Brenda Bruce
Cherran:
William Devlin
Al:
David Valla
Vi:
Liane Aurin
Gwil:
Artro Morris
Linda:
Margaret Wolfit
Policeman:
Trader Faulkner

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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