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Introduced by MARJORIEANDERSON
How Grandma passed the driving test: CHARLES CRICHTON recalls a grandfather's experience
A Survivor's Story: RITA HARRIS was aboard the Lakonia
What we were all prattling about: Rex MALIK looks forward to the time when the colour problem is no longer worth discussing
Some twentieth-century women: Lady Violet BONHAM CARTER , D.B.E.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Crichton
Unknown:
Rita Harris
Unknown:
Rex Malik
Unknown:
Lady Violet Bonham Carter

A request programme of gramophone records
English Rhapsody: Brigg Fair ( Delins)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted bv
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
11.17* Violin Concerto in B minor (Ergar)
Yehudi Menuhin with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER

Contributors

Violin:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Unknown:
Yehudi Menuhin

Chairman, JOHN METCALF
Book: PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON
Art: EDWARD Lucie-Smith
Film: ROBERT ROBINSON
Theatre: J. W. LAMBERT
Broodca.stinp. JANET Quigley

Contributors

Unknown:
John Metcalf
Unknown:
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Unknown:
Edward Lucie-Smith
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Janet Quigley

In the Channel Islands
Tony Soper recently back from the Islands introduces:
FRANCES LE SUEUR
Roderick Dobson
TED ELLIS
Bill Battrick
Produced by JEFFERY Bosh all

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Le Sueur
Unknown:
Roderick Dobson
Unknown:
Ted Ellis
Unknown:
Bill Battrick
Produced By:
Jeffery Bosh

A year of Gardeners' Question Time
FRANKLIN Engelmann recalls more of the places visited and some of the questions asked during the past year with Fred LOADS , BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Fred Loads
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell

by Viscount Esher
Preservation as a movement, as a battle, is less than a century old. Do we ask ourselves what in this day and age we want of our old environment, how much of it works, how much of it may even be better than we are able to create for ourselves?
Before an invited audience in Broadcasting House, London, Lord Esher, architect and town planner, gives a shortened version of the paper he delivered this summer at the Annual Conference of the Royal institute of British Architects. followed by questions from: Edward HOLI.AMBY
Borough Architect of Lambeth
DAVID E. PERCIVAL
City Architect of Norwich
PETER SHEPHEARD architect, planner, and landscape architect

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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