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Some personal opinions mixed with music
This week: Day Dreams
Introduced by BRIAN MATTHEW with JILL HYEM , STEVE RACE
JONATHAN ROUTH , LANCE PERCIVAL and Ian WALLACE
Written and produced by DAVID CARTER
Broadcast on April 4

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Matthew
Unknown:
Jill Hyem
Unknown:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Jonathan Routh
Unknown:
Lance Percival
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Source: Radio Times
BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

In the Dark
How do animals find their way in places where they cannot see? At night, in caves, underground, and in deep or muddy waters they are faced with this problem. The solution is sometimes fascinating
Introduced by MAXWELL KNIGHT
Produced by RICHARD BROCK
Broadcast on March 1

Contributors

Introduced By:
Maxwell Knight
Produced By:
Richard Brock
Source: Radio Times
BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including
You asked us to play.... record requests
A school with a difference:
THENA HESHEL visits Peredur Home-School in Sussex f Armchair gardener: simple hints and tips from FRED LOADS
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Source: Radio Times
BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

A chronicle of the road by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF adapted for broadcasting by NAN MACDONALD
Hugh, not forgetting Argos of course, has joined Master Pennifeather's joyous company, and now he is going to see his first play, The True and Noble History of St. George.
2: The Piper
Incidental music composed by Thomas B. Pitfield and played by a section of the BBC Northern Orchestra
Conducted by John Hopkins
Produced by HERBERT SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Broadcasting By:
Nan MacDonald
Composed By:
Thomas B. Pitfield
Conducted By:
John Hopkins
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Storyteller:
Deryck Guyler
Hugh Copplestone:
John Thornley
Tobias Pennifeather:
David Mahlowe
Jonathan Whiteleafe:
Ronald Baddiley
Jasper Nye:
Basil Jones
Benjamin Bunsell:
Frank Poynter
Nicholas Bodkyn:
Bruce Bould
The Piper:
Carleton Hobbs
Alderman:
Geoffrey Banks
Source: Radio Times
BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Bert Holland the middle-aged schoolmaster. who as Director and Producer of the Stretford (Manchester) Children's Theatre, has given the drama a new meaning for hundreds of local youngsters
Among those helping to tell the story are film actress JUNE RITCHIE and members of the theatre
Compiled and narrated by GEOFFREY HOWARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bert Holland
Unknown:
Geoffrey Howard
Source: Radio Times

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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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