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JOHN Huw DAVIES helps with some more tune-making and teaches a musical description of some rather curious preparations for Christmas
The Crib: C'arlito the Rat; Fernando the Bull from The Four Friends
Written by William Murphy

Contributors

Unknown:
John Huw Davies
Written By:
William Murphy

You're Only Middle-aged Once by Honoria Tirbutt with Brenda Dunrich
Helen Palmer lived only for her children-and they had come to take this for granted ......
Other parts played by members of the cast
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Honoria Tirbutt
Unknown:
Brenda Dunrich
Unknown:
Helen Palmer
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Margaret:
Valerie Kirkbright
Annabel:
Patricia Leventon
Helen:
Brenda Dunrich
David:
Michael Kilgarriff
Aunt Lucy:
Grace Allardyce
Neil:
Fraser Kerr
Edward Stanning:
Humphrey Morton
Mr Norman:
Hamlyn Benson
Hospital Sister:
Eva Stuart

from Magdalen College, Oxford
Preces and Responses (Byrd) Psalms 59, 60, 61
Lessons: Proverbs 3, 'vv. 1-20;
Acts of the Apostles 11, vv. 19-30
Canticles (Tallis, in the Dorian mode)
Anthem: Justorum animae
(Byrd)
Organist and Instructor in Music: Bernard Rose , d.mus.
Organ Scholar, Peter Dennison

Contributors

Music:
Bernard Rose
Unknown:
Peter Dennison

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
How art thou translated:
LAURENCE COTTERELL reads a poem he wrote on service in the Western Desert and reveals its unusual source
Fifty years ago today:
DAVID FRANKLIN brings back memories of people, places, and music on November 11. 1914
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Cotterell
Unknown:
David Franklin
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

HOWARD SPRING and his wife MARION: HUGH SCULLY talks to them at their home in Falmouth
BRUCE CAMPBELL : What makes a good animal book?
, TIAN OGILVIE talks about 2,000 children's books
ALAN GIBSON reviews some recent publications
Introduced by Bill SALISBURY

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Spring
Talks:
Hugh Scully
Unknown:
Bruce Campbell
Talks:
Tian Ogilvie
Unknown:
Alan Gibson
Introduced By:
Bill Salisbury

Written and compiled by Leslie Baily with the voices of THE COUNTESS OF
OXFORD AND
ASQUITH LT. -GEN. SIR BRIAN HORROCKS , K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM GOODENOUGH
J. B. PRIESTLEY
CLAUDE GRAHAME-WHITE PHYLLIS MONKMAM
GWENDOLINE BRODGEN
CHARLES BREWER
DR. JOSEF SEWALD
MRS. DOROTHY FOSTER
MR. OSCAR ANDERSON
MR. A. E. WEBB
MR. G.F.HYDE and Geoffrey Lewis
Olive Gregg. Dudley Rolph Joan Sterndale Bennett
Barbara Leigh. Benny Lee and Ian Frost
Narrator. FREDDY GRISEWOOD
The Orchestra and Chorus conducted by ALAN PAUL who also arranged the music
Produced by VERNON Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Baily
Unknown:
Asquith Lt.
Unknown:
Sir Brian Horrocks
Unknown:
Sir William Goodenough
Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Unknown:
Claude Grahame-White
Unknown:
Phyllis Monkmam
Unknown:
Gwendoline Brodgen
Unknown:
Charles Brewer
Unknown:
Dr. Josef Sewald
Unknown:
Mrs. Dorothy Foster
Unknown:
Mr. Oscar Anderson
Unknown:
Mr. A. E. Webb
Unknown:
Mr. G.F.Hyde
Unknown:
Geoffrey Lewis
Unknown:
Olive Gregg.
Unknown:
Dudley Rolph
Unknown:
Joan Sterndale Bennett
Unknown:
Barbara Leigh.
Unknown:
Benny Lee
Narrator:
Ian Frost
Narrator:
Freddy Grisewood
Conducted By:
Alan Paul
Produced By:
Vernon Harris

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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