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A year of Gardeners' Question Time
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recalls some of the places visited and some of the questions asked during the past year, with FRED LOADS , BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Last Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

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

Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Car Stolen: An unpleasant experience and the problems that go with it, by MARGOT LAWRENCE
Insurance against Theft: JOHN GASELEE. Editor of The Insurance Record, explains this aspect of Motor Insurance
Mixing Tyres: DANE SINCLAIR , a tyre expert, draws attention to a particular problem
Friday's broadcast in the Third
Network and The Latest Road Traffic News

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Margot Lawrence
Unknown:
John Gaselee.
Unknown:
Dane Sinclair

A sort of radio show written by ERIC MERRIMAN with Kenneth Horne
KENNETH WILLIAMS , HUGH PADDICK
BETTY MARSDEN , BILL PERTWEE
THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conductor, PAUL FENOULHET
Sort-of-announcer, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Broadcast on January 19 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

The Man Who Loved Timber by Aled Vaughan with Cyril Shaps
David Davies , Betty Hardy
David Pritchard is the editor of a weekly paper published about timber. He is on the verge of retirement. All his life he has collected antiques, and two crooks, Maurice Gunther and Jim Lewis , suspect that the house contains treasure of even greater value than antiques.
Francis Gascoyne. JOHN RUDDOCK
Other parts played by members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company
Produced by HERBERT DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Aled Vaughan
Unknown:
Cyril Shaps
Unknown:
David Davies
Unknown:
Betty Hardy
Unknown:
David Pritchard
Unknown:
Maurice Gunther
Unknown:
Jim Lewis
Unknown:
Francis Gascoyne.
Unknown:
John Ruddock
Produced By:
Herbert Davies
David Pritchard:
Cyril Shaps
Alice Harries:
Betty Hardy
Maurice Gunther:
Windsor Davies
Jim Lewis:
Philip Madoc
Arthur Hall:
David Davies
Gillian Finlay:
Rita Street
John Oakley:
Alan Haines

Every Saturday top musical stars are joined by some of their favourite artists for thirty minutes of top entertainment
Tonight's star host: David Hughes and his guests:
Hugo D'Alton and Jimmy Gaye with THE CLIFF ADAMS SINGERS
BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA Leader, John Jezard
Conductor, PAUL FENOULHET
Continuity by Alistair Foot
Produced by BILL
WORSLEY David Hughes broadcasts by permission of Glundebourne Festival Opera; Jimmy Gaye is in Old Time Music Hall at the Channel Island Hotel, Guernsey

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hughes
Unknown:
Hugo D'Alton
Unknown:
Jimmy Gaye
Singers:
Cliff Adams
Leader:
John Jezard
Unknown:
Worsley David Hughes
Unknown:
Jimmy Gaye

A play adapted from her novel by Paula Allardyce
with Gudrun Ure, Bryden Murdoch, Lennox Milne, Mary Wimbush
Cast in order of speaking: [see below]

Contributors

Author/Adapted by:
Paula Allardyce
Producer:
Audrey Cameron
Tamar Brown:
Gudrun Ure
Humphrey Sloane:
Fraser Kerr
Mrs Belling:
Mollie Maureen
Mrs Leigh:
Molly Rankin
Abigail Parkes:
Mary Wimbush
Doreen Kingham:
Valerie Kirkbright
The Rev Mr Kingham, her father:
Ralph Truman
Johnny Leigh:
Jo Manning Wilson
Dr William Randall:
Bryden Murdoch
Tom Belling:
Hamlyn Benson
Ruth Randall:
Lennox Milne

News and views on books from SYLVIA CLAYTON , APRIL FITZLYON
JOHN TERRAINE on Winston Churchill and the Dardanelles
Major T. W. WILLANS in conversation with ANTHONY SMITH about
Parachuting and Skydiving and WALTER ALLEN on Americans in English fiction
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Sylvia Clayton
Unknown:
April Fitzlyon
Unknown:
John Terraine
Unknown:
Anthony Smith
Unknown:
Walter Allen
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

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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