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Chairman, HAROLD HOBSON
Film: ROGER MANVELL
Theatre: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Broadcasting: JACQUES BRUNIUS
Book: IAIN HAMILTON
Art: BRYAN ROBERTSON
Repeated on Thursday at 3.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Hobson
Unknown:
Roger Manvell
Unknown:
Iain Hamilton
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson

Action for Slander
A radio play adapted by Felix Felton from the novel by Mary Borden with William Eedle
Carleton Hobbs , William Fox
A weekend party in a country house; five quests sit down to a game of poker-suddenly one of the players is accused of cheating ...
The action takes place between October 1929 and November 1930.
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX Broadcast on July 29, 1961

Contributors

Adapted By:
Felix Felton
Novel By:
Mary Borden
Unknown:
William Eedle
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
William Fox
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Sir Quintin Jessops, k c:
Peter Claughton
Major George Daviot:
William Eedle
Mr Justice Trotter:
Derek Birch
Mr Grant:
Anthony Viccars
Mr William Cowbit:
Haydn Jones
Mr Charles Cinderford:
John Bryning
Lord Freshwater (Jim):
Derek Blomfield
Sir Bernard Roper:
Philip Morant
Lord Pontefract:
Felix Felton
Josie Bradford:
Brenda Kaye
Captain Bradford:
William Fox
Tandy:
Wilfred Babbage
Colonel Standish:
Godfrey Kenton
Ann Daviot:
Beverley Dunn
Sir Eustace Cunninghame, K c:
Carleton Hobbs

Please Advise Me: RUPERT TowNSHEND-RosE looks at the postbag
On the Statute Book: a new Act explained
Frost Damage: TOM WILMOT of the British Insurance Association
An Alphabet of Law: D stands for Deceit, Demise and Devise, Distraint
Introduced by Robin HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Rupert Townshend-Rose
Unknown:
Tom Wilmot
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Newsletter from Nubia: a re port on rescue excavations in the path of the rising waters behind Egypt's new High Dam at Aswan, by REX KEATING
Work in Progress: a review of current excavations in the United Kingdom by DEREK Roe
Produced by JOHN IRVING

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Roe
Produced By:
John Irving

by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatised in thirteen episodes by HOWARD AGG
13: Point of Honour
Arthur Pendennis .... SIMON LACK
Col. Newcome....CARLETON HOBBS
Ethel Newcome
VALERIE KIRKBRIGHT
Barnes Newcome. ... Ian RICKETTS
Mr. Luce GEOFFREY Wincott
Mrs. MacKenzie ....... EVA STUART
Continued in next column
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Repeated on Tuesday at 4.15
Next Sunday: ' Esther Waters

Contributors

Unknown:
William Makepeace
Unknown:
Howard Agg
Unknown:
Arthur Pendennis
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
Ethel Newcome
Unknown:
Valerie Kirkbright
Unknown:
Barnes Newcome.
Unknown:
Ian Ricketts
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Clive Newcome:
Nigel Graham:
Maria:
Hilda Kriseman
George Warrington:
Peter Coke
John James Ridley:
Gordon Gardner
Nurse Dawson:
Peggy Butt
Doctor:
Alan Haines

The Age of Automation by Sir Leon Bagrit Chairman of Elliott-Automation Ltd.
5: Some Industrial and Economic Consequences
The development of automation coincides with an urgent and growing demand for more goods and services to meet the needs of a rapidly increasing world population. The main economic problem of the last quarter of the twentieth century is likely to be one of distribution, rather than of overproduction.
Repeated on Monday at 9.55 (Third)
Next Sunday: New Opportunities for Social Enrichment

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Leon Bagrit

12: DEGAS c. 1834-1917
Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's opera ' Robert le Diable ' painted c. 1874-76
Victoria and Albert Museum Speaker, GEOFFREY AGNEW
Last Friday's broadcast in the Third Network
These talks are being printed In ' The Listener '

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Le Diable
Unknown:
Albert Museum
Unknown:
Geoffrey Agnew

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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