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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson.
Self-Interview: Spike Milligan.
The day I lost a trout: Honor Wyatt was working as assistant cook in a London pub.
British Orchestras: an enquiry by Arthur Jacobs.
Some twentieth-century women: Margaret Bourke-White, war correspondent and photographer.

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Interviewee:
Spike Milligan
Speaker:
Honor Wyatt
Reporter:
Arthur Jacobs
Speaker:
Margaret Bourke-White

Regional Variations (3)

Service from Donegall Square Methodist Church. Belfast

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Low Mass from St. Columba's Roman Catholic Cathedral. Oban

BBC Home Service Scottish

from the Parish Church of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Conducted by the Vicar, CANON C. M. S. CLARKE
Preacher,
THE ARCHDEACON OF LEICESTER, THE VEN. R. BERKELEY COLE
Psalm 1
Lessons: Isaiah 6, vv. 1-8;
Acts 9, vv. 1-8
Hymns (from A. and M.): Ye servants of God (704): Bright the vision that delighted (161); My God, how wonderful thou art (169)
Organist and Choirmaster, The Rev. Harold L. Barnes

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon C. M. S. Clarke
Unknown:
Rev. Harold L. Barnes

Regional Variations (2)

Idyllwild. California. Youth Symphony Orchestra. conductor. Ralph Matesky

BBC Home Service Welsh

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Festival by PAUL TILLEY
Shakespeare in Music
3-Macbeth, by Noel GOODWIN
Church Music in History and Practice book review by DAVID LUMSDEN
Musical Profile: Tamas Vasary by JOAN CHISSELL

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Unknown:
Julian Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Paul Tilley
Review By:
David Lumsden
Unknown:
Tamas Vasary
Unknown:
Joan Chissell

A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: Iphigénie en Aulide (Gluck)
MUNICH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ARTUR ROTHER
11.33* Harp Concerto in E minor (Reinecke)
NICANOR ZABALETA (harp) with the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
11.56* Festive Prelude (Strauss)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL BÖHM

Contributors

Conducted By:
Artur Rother

From My Post-Bag: SIR KENNETH THOMPSON , M.P.
More Questions About Money: answered by ARTHUR COATES
The Deserted Wife and the Matrimonial Home: PAMELA DEEDES explains how she stands
Residential Property and Planning Control: by A SOLICITOR
Introduced by ROBIN Holmes

Contributors

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

Regional Variations (2)

For the Commercial Grower

BBC Home Service Scottish

visits Yorkshire
Members of the Filey Garden Association put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Question-Master,
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Repeated Sat., 11.30 a.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Question-Master:
Alan Gemmell
Question-Master:
Franklin Engelmann

An Experiment in Memory by ELLEN HOLMES and her brother DAN TRESTON
Nellie and Dan were taken out to tea when they were little. They both remember the occasion clearly, but what sticks in their minds? In two separate talks. written without collaboration, their differences in character, in philosophy, and in their very different lives seem to have affected their memories differently.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ellen Holmes
Unknown:
Dan Treston

Regional Variations (2)

Welsh hymn-singing from Rhosllanerchrugog

BBC Home Service Welsh

The Anger of Achilles
An epic for radio in three parts by Robert Graves from his translation of Homer's Iliad
Music by ROBERTO GERHARD with Robert Hardy , Denis Quilley
Maurice Denham , John Slater
Part 3
Other parts played by members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company with the BBC WOMEN'S CHORUS
Conductor, Peter Gellhorn
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway Conductor, RAE JENKINS
Scene, a Greek Courtyard Time. 650 B.C.
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Robert Hardy is in 'A Severed Head at the Criterion Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Graves
Music By:
Roberto Gerhard
Unknown:
Robert Hardy
Unknown:
Denis Quilley
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
John Slater
Conductor:
Peter Gellhorn
Leader:
Philip Whiteway
Conductor:
Rae Jenkins
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Produced By:
Robert Hardy
A King:
William Fox
Phemias, son of Homer; a Bard:
Denis Quilley
Nestor, aged King of Pylus:
Norman Shelley
Agamemnon, High King of Greece:
Maurice Denham
Odysseus, King of Ithaca:
John Slater
Diomedes, King of Argos:
Alan Haines
Hera, Mother of the Gods wife of Zeus:
Isla, Cameron
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love:
Christina Gray
Morpheus, God of Sleep:
Ralph Truman
Zeus, Father of the Gods:
Francis de Wolff
Poseidon, God of the Sea:
Bruce Beeby
Patroclus, Achilles' best friend:
Kevin Flood
Achilles, Prince of Phthia:
Robert Hardy
Hector, Commander-in-Chief of the Trojans:
Gabriel Woolf
Son of Nestor:
Trader Faulkner
Thetis, a Sea-goddess, mother of Achilles:
Molly Rankin
Briseis, a captive slave-girl:
Mary Wimbush
Priam, King of Troy:
Peter O'Shaughnessy
Athene, Goddess of Wisdom:
Jill Balcon

Regional Variations (4)

Service: as West

BBC Home Service Midland

Programme to commemorate the quatercentenary of John Calvin's death

BBC Home Service Scottish

Service from the Methodist Church. Chard. Somerset

BBC Home Service South and West

Israeli Journey
Part 1
Week by week thousands of would-be ' pilgrims arrive in the Holy Land. Coach load upon coach load, they speed from one more or less authentic site to another, with hardly time to recollect that when the disciples went to Jesus's tomb, it was empty.
PAUL OESTREICHER takes us on a journey that began in Nazareth and ended in Jerusalem, in search not of the past but of enduring life and hope among the Jews, Arabs, and Christians of modern Israel

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Oestreicher

Regional Variations (2)

Appeal: The Scottish Council for the Care of Spastics

BBC Home Service Scottish

Appeal on behalf of Hephaistos School for the Education and Rehabilitation of Physically Disabled Boys by DEREK MCCULLOCH , O.B.E.
(Uncle Mac of the BBC)
Contributions, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]Hephaistos School trains intelligent boys with very severe physical disabilities so that they can make a life and career for themselves as far as their handicaps allow. Education is offered up to G.C.E. Advanced Level, and boys may be admitted at any age from five upwards. Money is needed for a new class-room block specially designed for use by boys in wheel-chairs.

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek McCulloch

Regional Variations (3)

Wedi Oedfa: anthology Of words and music

BBC Home Service Welsh

BBC Scottish Orchestra. conductor. Norman Del Mar: Brahms. Delius, Mendelssohn, lain Hamilton

BBC Home Service Scottish

by Anthony Trollope adapted for broadcasting in twelve episodes by H. OLDFIELD Box
For Lizzie Eustace events are shaping very well. Her fears that the police will discover the truth about the robberies are fading, and her cousin Frank, she feels. would readily make her his wife if only he weren'engaged 10 Lucy Morris.
Episode 11
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Trollope
Unknown:
H. Oldfield
Unknown:
Lizzie Eustace
Unknown:
Lucy Morris.
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Narrator:
Simon Lack
Lizzie Eustace:
Belle Chrystall
Lucy Morris:
Sheila Grant
Sarah:
Eva Stuart
Major Mackintosh:
Michael Goldie
Frank Greystock:
Gabriel Woolf
Magistrate:
William Fox
Counset:
Frederick Treves
Lord Fawn:
Rolf Lefebvre

A tribute from her friends
Mary Somerville , who died on September 1.1963, was one of radio's most remarkable personalities. Both as Director of School Broadcasting and later as Con. troller of BBC Talks Department she exerted a marked influence upon the course of broadcasting in this country. Some of her closer friends remember her in this farewell tribute.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Somerville

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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