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A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
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Through the Barrier:
ROBERT RUSSELL , an American professor who is blind, talks to ANNE CATCHPOLE
Pen to paper: a series in which GALE PEDRICK talks about writing for fun and profit 5: Writing for radio
Introduced by KEN SYKORA ,

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Russell
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

A new occasional series of documentary programmes dealing with advances in various fields of modern medicine which merit the description ' breakthrough '
Written and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL
1: Spare Parts Surgery
Among other new surgical techniques the programme deals with organ transplantation (such as kidney transplants), the restoring of severed limbs, and the transplantation of limbs from one human being to another.
Taking part are leading surgeons interviewed by Stephen Grenfell in Britain and the United States
Produced by ALAN BURGESS

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Grenfell
Interviewed By:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

Written and compiled by Leslie Baily with the voices of CHALIAPIN
LADY DIANA COOPER
DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE THE RT. HON.
PHILIP NOEL-BAKER M.P. , FRANK O'CONNOR J. W. S. MARR HARRY BATEMAN TED HEATH
IVY ST. HELIER
DOROTHY DICKSON JACK BUCHANAN DAVY BURNABY with James McKechnie , Eva Stunrt Gordon Davies , Dudley Rolph and Peter Wilde
Music by Paul Whiteman 's Band and other orchestras of the period
Narrator, FREDDY GRISEWOOD
Produced by VERNON HARRIS
Broadcast on October 2, 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Baily
Unknown:
Lady Diana Cooper
Unknown:
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Unknown:
Philip Noel-Baker M.P.
Unknown:
Frank O'Connor
Unknown:
J. W. S. Marr
Unknown:
Harry Bateman
Unknown:
Ted Heath
Unknown:
Dorothy Dickson
Unknown:
Jack Buchanan
Unknown:
Davy Burnaby
Unknown:
James McKechnie
Unknown:
Eva Stunrt
Unknown:
Gordon Davies
Unknown:
Dudley Rolph
Unknown:
Peter Wilde
Music By:
Paul Whiteman
Produced By:
Vernon Harris

Adagio (Souvenir de Florence) (Tchaikovsky)
LEONID KOGAN (violin)
ELISABETH GILELS (violin) RUDOLF BARSHAI (viola)
GENRIKH TALALYAN (viola) SVIATOSLAV KNUSHEVITSKY
(cello)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello)
11.24* String Quartet No. 8
(Shostakovich)
THE BORODIN QUARTET
Rostislav Dubinsky (violin) Jaroslav Alexandrov (violin) Dmitry Shebalin (viola)
Valentin Berlinsky (cello) on gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Leonid Kogan
Violin:
Elisabeth Gilels
Viola:
Rudolf Barshai
Cello:
Sviatoslav Knushevitsky
Violin:
Rostislav Dubinsky
Violin:
Jaroslav Alexandrov
Viola:
Dmitry Shebalin
Cello:
Valentin Berlinsky

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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