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Some personal opinions mixed with music
This week: First nights, last nights
Introduced by Brian Matthew
with Richard Wattis, Kenneth Horne, Jimmy Young, Moira Lister, Peter Haigh, Mrs. Mills
(Broadcast on April 18)

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Matthew
Panellist:
Richard Wattis
Panellist:
Kenneth Horne
Panellist:
Jimmy Young
Panellist:
Moira Lister
Panellist:
Peter Haigh
Panellist:
Mrs. Mills
Writer/Producer:
David Carter

Range Change
The distribution of bird species in Britain and the rest of Europe is continually altering STANLEY CRAMP discusses these changes and their causes with KENNETH WILLIAMSON and JAMES FERGUSON-LEES
Produced by JEFFERY Boswall
Broadcast on June 7

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williamson
Produced By:
Jeffery Boswall

Chairman.
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Film: ROGER MANVELL
Theatre: J. W. LAMBERT
Broadcasting: JOHN GROSS
Book: PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON
Art: DAVID SYLVESTER
Last Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Manvell
Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Pamela Hansford Johnson

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
You asked us to play .. record requests
The Victorians: 4 —
DEREK PARKER looks at Florence Nightingale
Queen of the Herd:
JAMES MCNEISH talks about his visit to a cow contest in Switzerland
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Talks:
James McNeish
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

A chronicle of the road by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF adapted for broadcasting in six parts by NAN MACDONALD
After a fight at the market cross in Maidenhead, the Players happily got away and now it was time to head for Cambridgeshire and Stourbridge Fair.
3: The Seisin of the Road
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
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
Zachary Hawkins:
Harry Markham
Tom o' Bedlam:
Geoffrey Banks

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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