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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Recent Guests of Woman's Hour: ALAN BULLOCK and Lord DEVLIN
Living on a Grant: students talk to ELIZABETH RUSSELL TAYLOR about making ends meet New Zealand Castaways: KAYE WEBB visits the Blanchard family on their island bird sanctuary
What is a Vocation?: ANNE EDWARDS visits the Convent of St. Mary the Virgin at Wantage

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Alan Bullock
Unknown:
Elizabeth Russell
Unknown:
Anne Edwards

A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: Fingal's Cave (Mendelssohn)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
11.32* Sea Pictures (Elpar)
GLADYS RIPLEY (contralto) with the London SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORGE WELDON
11.56* Vltava (Ma Vlast) (Smetana)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Contralto:
Gladys Ripley
Conducted By:
George Weldon
Unknown:
Vienna Philharmonic
Conducted By:
Rafael Kubelik

We Do But Teach ... by Alan Cowan with John Sharp and Peter Howell Theory without practice is blind, as the sincere but priggish new teacher finds to his cost when the boys and masters of a Grammar School help him, despite themselves, to understand what education is all about.
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Broadcast on January 23, 1960

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Cowan
Unknown:
John Sharp
Unknown:
Peter Howell
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Batty:
John Sharp
Lecturer:
Douglas Storm
Mr Lawson:
John Scott
Mr Wilson:
David Spenser
Mr Watson:
John Hollis
Mr Mason:
Philip Cunningham
Mr Dillon:
Malcolm Hayes
Mr Cameron:
Tom Watson
Mr Hobbs:
Norman Claridge
Mr Tiller:
John Rye
Headmaster:
Hugh Manning
Chairman:
Charles Simon
Merriweather:
Peter Howell
Ironmonger:
Edgar Norfolk
Lady Governor:
Coral Fairweather
Boy:
Nigel Anthony
Monitor:
Nicholas Edmett
Pendleton:
Jon Rollason
Mr Pendleton:
David Bird

Dr. Carl van Aswegen talks to
PETER DUVAL SMITH
In British Basutoland, Dr. Carl van Aswegen , an Afrikaner rebel, is the only doctor for a quarter of a million Basuto people in the wild Maluti Mountains. He reaches his patients by flying in a small aircraft into dangerous mountain strips Recently Peter Duval Smith flew with him to a remote bill village where this programme was recorded.

Contributors

Talks:
Dr. Carl van Aswegen
Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Dr. Carl Van Aswegen
Unknown:
Peter Duval

Some recent comers to the British Film Industry talk about the problems of becoming and remaining a film director
MICHAEL BIRKETT producer of The Caretaker
Clive DONNER director of The Caretaker and Nothing But The Best
SIDNEY J. Furie director of The Leather Boys and Wonderful Life
CHRISTOPHER MILES director of Six-Sided Triangle
KAREL REISZ producer of This Sporting Life, producer and director of Night Must Fall
KEN RUSSELL director of French Dressing and many Monitor films and PETER KING
Booking Manager of Shipman and King Cinemas Ltd.
Introduced by JOHN COLEMAN film critic of the New Statesman
Produced by RICHARD KEEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Birkett
Unknown:
Clive Donner
Unknown:
Sidney J. Furie
Unknown:
Karel Reisz
Unknown:
Ken Russell
Unknown:
Peter King
Introduced By:
John Coleman
Produced By:
Richard Keen

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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