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Chairman, T. C. WORSLEY
Book: WALTER ALLEN
Art: EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH Film: RICCARDO ARAGNO Theatre: BARBARA BRAY
Broadcasting: JOHN GROSS
Repeated on Thursday at 3.0

Contributors

Unknown:
T. C. Worsley
Unknown:
Walter Allen
Unknown:
Edward Lucie-Smith
Unknown:
Barbara Bray

The King Must Die by Mary Renault adapted in five episodes by CEDRIC MESSINA with Keith Michell as Theseus
In Crete, Theseus, elected leader of the youthful bull-fighters known as ' The Cranes.' attracts the attention of the Goddess-on-Earth, Ariadne, daughter of King Minos.
4: Crete
Other parts played by members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company
Music by CHRISTOPHER WHELEN Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Broadcast on June 30, 1963
Keith Michell broadcasts by arrangement with the Rank Organisation

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Renault
Unknown:
Cedric Messina
Unknown:
Keith Michell
Music By:
Christopher Whelen
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Unknown:
Keith Michell
Theseus:
Keith Michell
Amyntor:
Glyn Dearman
Asterion:
Ralph Truman
Hippon:
Peter Bartlett
Iros:
Nigel Anthony
Phaedra:
Adrienne Poster
Melantho:
Shirley Cooklin
Old Priestess:
Grizelda Hervey
Ariadne:
Anna Castaldini
Helike:
Isabel Rennie
King Minos:
Frederick Treves
Perimos:
George Merritt
Alektryon:
Denys Hawthorne

The earliest representation of Christ in Britain?
Last autumn in a Dorset village archaeologists excavated an elaborate fourth-century Roman mosaic. Its central feature is a portrait bust upon the ' Chi Ro ' Christian symbol.
Speakers:
JOHN WHITE , blacksmith on whose land the mosaic was found
PROFESSOR JOCELYN TOYNBEE of Oxford University expert in early Christian art
I Introduced by JOHN IRVING

Contributors

Unknown:
John White
Unknown:
Professor Jocelyn Toynbee
Introduced By:
John Irving

Appeal on behalf of the League of Remembrance 1914-1945 by Miss M. MARRIOTT , O.B.E. Matron of the Middlesex Hospital, London
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The League, which celebrates its Jubilee this year, gives financial aid and companionship (in return for light occupational duties, making surgical dressings etc., at hospitals) to widows and dependants of officers of the three services and to retired members of the nursing service who need such help.

Contributors

Unknown:
Miss M. Marriott
Unknown:
Miss M. Marriott
Unknown:
Ormond Street

by William Makepeace Thackeray dramatised as a serial in thirteen episodes by HOWARD AGG
1: A Visitor from India
Barnes Newcome. ..IAN Ricketts
Male Voice Quartet from the PURCELL SINGERS
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER Repeated on Tuesday at 3.10

Contributors

Unknown:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Unknown:
Howard Agg
Unknown:
Barnes Newcome.
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Arthur Pendennis:
Simon Lack
George Warrington:
Peter Coke
Mr Hoskins:
Alan Haines
Olive Newcome:
Nigel Graham
Colonel Newcome:
Carleton Hobbs
James Binnie:
Duncan McIntyre
Sir Brian Newcome:
Rolf Lefebvre
Hobson Newcome:
James Thomason

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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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