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Chairman, LIONEL HALE
Film: DEREK PROUSE
Theatre: RICHARD FINDLATER
Broadcasting:
KATHARINE WHITEHORN
Book: KARL MILLER
Art: DAVID PIPER

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Derek Prouse
Unknown:
Richard Findlater
Unknown:
Katharine Whitehorn
Unknown:
Karl Miller
Unknown:
David Piper

Mine Hostess
La Locandiera by Carlo Goldoni
Translated by CLIFFORD BAX with Geraldine McEwan
Max Adrian , Colin Gordon
' If I had married everyone who has asked me I should now have a great many husbands. As many as come to the inn fall straightway in love with me and begin to pine.' \
The action takes place at Mirandolina's inn in Florence in 1751. Music selected from records of the works of Vivaldi
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Broadcast on July 13, 1962, in the Third Programme followed by an interlude

Contributors

Translated By:
Clifford Bax
Unknown:
Geraldine McEwan
Unknown:
Max Adrian
Unknown:
Colin Gordon
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
The Marquis of Forlipopoli:
Max Adrian
The Count of Albafiorita:
Colin Gordon
Fabrizio, a servant:
Haydn Jones
The Knight of Ripafratta:
Simon Lack
Mirandolina, Mistress of the Inn.:
Geraldine McEwan
The Knight's servant:
Lee Fox
Ortensia, a comedy actress:
Barbara Lott
Dejanira, another actress:
Patricia Clapton
The Count's man:
Peter Pratt

The Country in Trust
Recently the Somerset Trust for Nature Conservation was
'formed. Now almost every county in Britain has its own Trust devoted to protecting the countryside.
BRUCE CAMPBELL traces the spread of the movement since it began in Norfolk in 1926. and visits Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Sussex, and Somerset
Produced by RICHARD BROCK [

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Campbell
Produced By:
Richard Brock

Eighth of thirteen programmes
Young Lochinvar from Marmion by Scott
Reader, FREDERICK TREVES
Give a Rouse
A Cavalier tune by Browning Reader, NORMAN CLARIDGE
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Browning
Reader, GODFREY KENTON

Contributors

Reader:
Frederick Treves
Reader:
Norman Claridge
Reader:
Godfrey Kenton

by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatised as a serial in thirteen episodes by Howard Agg

As the season continued. Clive went on attending parties on the chance of meeting Ethel Newcome; happy when he saw her and downcast and miserable when he didn't. When visiting Barnes at the Bank - now Sir Barnes after the death of his father - Clive heard that Colonel Newcome was on his way back to England.

Contributors

Author:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatised:
Howard Agg
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Arthur Pendennis:
Simon Lack
Colonel Newcome:
Carleton Hobbs
Barnes Newcome:
Ian Ricketts
Countess of Kew:
Janet Burnell
Ethel Newcome:
Valerie Kirkbright
Hobson Newcome:
James Thomason
Mr Quilter:
John Boxer
Potter:
Fraser Kerr

11: TITIAN
.c. 1487190-1576
Tarquin and Lucretia painted c. 1570 in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Speaker, GEOFFREY AGNEW
Produced by GEORGE WALTON SCOTT
Repeated on Friday at 6.44 in the Third Network
These broadcasts arc part of a scheme for subscribers who receive coloured prints of all the paintings and black and white illustrations of all the ether works discussed, together with background notes
The series is to be continued in 1965. when the theme will be ' Art in Britain.' Annual subscriptions are 35s., and these may be registered now with BBC Publications. [address removed]
These talks are being printed in The Listener.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Agnew
Produced By:
George Walton Scott

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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