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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:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell

Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Priority on the Right: David HARRISON discusses with a French motoring correspondent this rule of the road
Les Anglais on the French Roads: JEAN CLAUDE SERVANS SCHREIBER gives a Parisian's view of British tourists
The Motorist in Belgium: PAUL WEST, a motoring journalist, compares conditions across the Channel
Spanish Inquisition: MAY ABBOTT describes the procedure after an accident in Spain
Friday's broadcast in the Third
Network and The Latest Road Traffic News

Contributors

Unknown:
David Harrison
Unknown:
Jean Claude Servans

A sort of radio show written by ERIC MERRIMAN with Kenneth Home
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 26. In the Light Programme

Contributors

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

Percy Merriman, leader of The Roosters' Concert Party of the First World War, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the gramophone records he would take to a desert island

(Last Monday's broadcast)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Percy Merriman
Producer:
Monica Chapman

Murder Beyond by Philip Levene
Three people wanting to get in touch with close relatives who had met with accidental deaths attend a seance!
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Broadcast on March 4 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Levene
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Stephen Kendall:
Peter Coke
Alice Gardner:
Moira Mannion
Dr Fletcher:
Rolf Lefebvre
Hilary Sands:
Margaret Wolfit
Mrs Bayliss:
Nicolette Bernard
Inspector Alchin:
William Fox
Sergeant Treeves:
Fraser Kerr

Every Saturday, top musical stars are joined by some of their favourite artists for thirty minutes of top entertainment
Tonight's star host: Kenneth McKellar and his guests:
Denis Woolford
Jack Radcliffe with THE Cliff ADAMS SINGERS
BBC REVUE Orchestra Leader, Julien Gaillard
Conductor, MALCOLM LOCKYER
Continuity by Alistair Foot
Produced by BILL WORSLEY
Repeated, Tuesday, 7.31 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth McKellar
Unknown:
Denis Woolford
Unknown:
Jack Radcliffe
Singers:
Cliff Adams
Leader:
Julien Gaillard
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

The last novel by the late Nevil Shute adapted by Stephen Grenfell
with Simon Lack and Inia Te Wiata

Keith Stewart was once an engineer in the toolroom, and he had remained a simple, diffident man. But those close to him knew that he would always be faithful to a trust, even if it took him halfway across the world...

Contributors

Author:
Nevil Shute
Adapted by:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Keith Stewart:
Simon Lack
Commander John Dermott:
Patrick Barr
Katie Stewart:
Eva Stuart
Jo Dermott:
Mary Wimbush
Janice:
Jo Manning Wilson
Mr Carpenter:
Hamlyn Benson
Peter Sanderson:
Frederick Treves
Oliver Thorn:
Garard Green
Captain Fielding:
Peter Howell
Alec Bourne:
Bruce Beeby
Captain Davies:
Ralph Truman
Jack Donnelly:
Inia Te Wiata
Dawn:
Nicolette Bernard
McNeil:
Norman Claridge
Cyrus O'Leary:
Eric Anderson
Molly:
Isabel Rennie
Sol Hirzhorn:
Robert Ayres
Chuck Ferris:
Guy Kingsley Poynter
Jim:
Wilfrid Carter
Petersen:
Peter O'Shaughnessy
Other parts played by:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

News and views on books from MAURICE CRANSTON, IAN GRIMBLE DAVID WILLIAMS
FRANCIS STEEGMULLER and EDWARD LUCIE ,SMITH discussing Apollinaire and C. DAY LEWIS on Erotic Poetry
Introduced by Robin HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Grimble
Unknown:
David Williams
Unknown:
Francis Steegmuller
Unknown:
Edward Lucie
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Schumann
Etudes symphoniques
11.28* Scherzino; Leld ohne
Ende; Impromptu: Burla; Schlummerlied; Elfe; Botschaft; Fantasiestuck in A major (Albumblatter. Op. 124) played by ANGUS MORRISON (piano)
Seventh of twelve weekly programmes of Schumann's piano music

Contributors

Piano:
Angus Morrison

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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