Programme Index

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Introduced by Bill Hartley
All Steamed Up: Jack Dwyer talks about the problem of window misting in cars and some ways of avoiding it
American Traffic: Ernest Davies, Editor of Traffic Engineering and Control, reports on a recent visit to America United States
Driving Instructor: James Vivian, an Englishman working in America, talks about his job
In My View...: a hard look at Road Safety by Ralph Britt
and Road Conditions for the week ahead

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Talks:
Jack Dwyer
Unknown:
Ernest Davies
Unknown:
James Vivian
Unknown:
Ralph Britt

Another sort of radio show
Written by Eric Merriman for Ian Carmichael, Joan Sims, Hugh Paddick, Anthony Sagar
Cool music from Rosemary Squires, The Mike Sammes Singers, The Ken Thorne Orchestra
(Broadcast on August 2 in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Writer:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Anthony Sagar
Unknown:
Rosemary Squires
Singers:
The Mike Sammes Singers
Musicians:
The Ken Thorne Orchestra
Producer:
John Simmonds

by Vian Smith

Arnold Cowley lives in an isolated house on Dartmoor. Many years ago he wrote one book, the best-seller of its time, but after that - nothing. A popular magazine thinks there is a story in this withdrawal from success and sends a feature writer to see Cowley and find out what it is.

Contributors

Writer:
Vian Smith
Producer:
Brandon Acton-Bond
Nick Carrington:
Ian MacNaughton
Jenny Harlow:
Annest Wiliam
Arnold Cow!ey:
Hedley Goodall
Bella Cowley:
Jennifer Wilson
Brian:
Peter Baldwin
Landlord:
Edgar Harrison
Other parts played by:
Michael Goldie
Other parts played by:
Phyllis Hill
Other parts played by:
Val Lorraine
Other parts played by:
Bernard Padfield

HARRY DAVIDSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Introduced by REX PALMER M.C. , CHARLES CRATHORN
The dances: Marine Fourstep: Waltz: Ideal Schottische; Royal Saunter; The Veleta; Melody Twostep: Mayfair Quickstep; Dinkie Onestep
Produced by BILL BEBB

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rex Palmer M.C.
Produced By:
Bill Bebb

by Winston Churchill, adapted for radio by John Tydeman
Paul Scofield as Savrola with June Tobin as Lucile Molara

In honour of Sir Winston Churchill's 90th birthday, the BBC has commissioned an adaptation for radio of his only novel, written in 1897 when he was a young officer in the 4th Hussars in India. The story is one of romantic and political intrigue set against the background of revolution in the imaginary Mediterranean state of Laurania.

Cast in order of speaking: [see below]

(Repeated Monday, Dec. 7, at 3.15)
See page 7

Contributors

Author:
Winston Churchill
Adapted by:
John Tydeman
Production:
Audrey Cameron
Louis Moret:
Gordon Gardner
Lieutenant Tiro:
Glyn Dearman
President Antonio Molara:
Norman Shelley
Colonel Sorrento:
Patrick Barr
Lucile Molara:
June Tobin
Mr Secretary Miguel:
William Fox
Savrola:
Paul Scofield
Mayor Godoy:
John Ruddock
Lucile's maid:
Jane Wenham
Kreutze:
Peter Marinker
Bettine:
Hilda Kriseman
Admiral de Mello:
Eric Anderson
Other parts played by:
Hamlyn Benson
Other parts played by:
Gordon Faith
Other parts played by:
Alan Haines
Other parts played by:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

News and views on books from MICHAEL BALDWIN , NAOMI LEWIS STEPHEN POTTER
JANINA DAVID in conversation with ZBIGNIEW PELCZYNSKI about her Jewish childhood in wartime Poland described in A Square of Sky and COLIN MACINNES on The Anarchists
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Baldwin
Unknown:
Naomi Lewis
Unknown:
Stephen Potter
Unknown:
Janina David
Unknown:
Zbigniew Pelczynski
Unknown:
Colin MacInnes
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Schubert
Sonata Movement in B flat major (D.28), for piano trio
11.10' Piano Quintet in A major
(The Trout)
Played by the London Piano Quartet
Emanuel Hurwitz violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Vivian Joseph (cello) James Gibb (piano) with STUART KNUSSEN (double-bass)
Ninth of thirteen weekly programmes of Schubert's chamber music
Broadcast on September 7, 1963

Contributors

Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Viola:
Watson Forbes
Cello:
Vivian Joseph
Piano:
James Gibb
Double-Bass:
Stuart Knussen

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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