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KENNETH BOWEN
ST. DEINIOL SINGERS
COLWYN BAY GIRLS Choir BETHESDA LADIES CHOIR LLITHFAEN AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY
PENRHYN MALE VOICE CHOIR accompanied by MENNA LEYSHON , WILLIAM BACON and FFRANCON THOMAS
Conducted by JAMES WILLIAMS
Introduced by Die HUGHES

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Bowen
Accompanied By:
Menna Leyshon
Accompanied By:
William Bacon
Conducted By:
James Williams

The Queen and the Rebels by Ugo Betti
Translated and adapted by HENRY REED with Irene Worth and Leo McKern
In a town near a frontier In a time of revolution, the rebel authorities detain a group of travellers. They think the Queen is one of the group, but which one they do not know.
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Broadcast on January 22. 1962
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Ugo Betti
Adapted By:
Henry Reed
Unknown:
Irene Worth
Unknown:
Leo McKern
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Orazio, the hall porter:
Derek Birch
The Engineer:
Wilfred Babbage
The Traveller:
Leo McKern
Raimondo:
Hugh Burden
Argia:
Irene Worth
General Biante:
Haydn Jones
Maupa:
John Bryning
Elisabetta:
Dorothy Primrose

Introduced by BRUCE CAMPBELL
Botanists in action: DAVID MCCLINTOCK reports on an exhibition about recent work on British plants and reviews this year's events
Greece for small mammals: ANDREW NEAL , back from a trapping expedition
Birds and the Big Freeze: a final summing-up on 1963 by HUMPREY DOBINSON
The click of a bat: ANDREW WATSON describes, with recordings, some new ' bat-detector ' developments
How many ducks? BRUCE CAMP BELL does his monthly count at a lake near his home

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bruce Campbell
Unknown:
David McClintock
Unknown:
Andrew Neal
Unknown:
Andrew Watson
Unknown:
Bruce Camp

Appeal on behalf of the Leukaemia Research Fund bv PROF. SIR ALAN MDNCRIEFF
C.B.E., M.D., J.P.
President of the Fund
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Leukaemia attacks at all ages and young people are particularly susceptible. The Fund was established to promote research into cause, cure, and treatment of this disease.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Alan Mdncrieff
Unknown:
Professor Sir Alan Mon
Unknown:
Ormond Street

by William Makepeace Thackeray Dramatised in thirteen episodes by HOWARD AGG
The battle for Newcome is over, and by an overwhelming vote the Colonel has been chosen Member of Parliament for the borough of Newcome.
12: Brutal Facta
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Repeated Tuesday at 3.10

Contributors

Unknown:
William Makepeace
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Arthur Pendennis:
Simon Lack
Col Newcome:
Carleton Hobbs
Mrs MacKenzie:
Eva Stuart
Rosey Newcome:
Isabel Rennie
Clive Newcome:
Nigel Graham
Mr Jolly:
Kenneth Hyde
George Warrington:
Peter Coke
John James Ridley:
Gordon Gardner
Marie:
Gladys Spencer

(piano)
Three Songs Without Words
(Mendelssohn)
G minor, Op. 53 No.
D major, Op. 85 No. 4 C major, Op. 102 No.
9.7* Suite: Pour Ie piano
(Debussy)
9.19' Poem in F sharp major.
Op. 32 No. 1; Prelude in E major. Op. 15 No. 4 (Scriabin)
9.24' Jeux d'eau (Ravel) on gramophone records

The Age of Automation by Sir Leon Bagrit Chairman of Elliott-Automation, Ltd. 4: Some Political Considerations
Unless we in Britain establish automation rapidly and energetically, we shall find ourselves relegated to the position of a backward and impoverished country. An agreed national policy is essential, aimed at rebuilding our industry and economy on modern lines, and at creating a public opinion which will accept the fundamental technological and social changes involved.
Repeated on Monday at 7.30 (Third) Next Sunday: Some Industrial and Economic Consequences
These lectures are being printed In I The Listener'

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Leon Bagrit

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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