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Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Re-sale price maintenance: PAT GREGORY and FRANK HIGHAM , Director General of the Motor Agents' Association, discuss the effect this will have on car purchasers
Beware of the dotted line: advice from a lawyer, RUPERT TOWNSHEND-ROSE , for intending car purchasers
What to look for-if you are motoring for pleasure: Roy MCCARTHY talks about things to be seen on roads and in the country at this time of year and Road conditions for the week ahead

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Pat Gregory
Unknown:
Frank Higham
Unknown:
Rupert Townshend-Rose
Talks:
Roy McCarthy

Another sort of radio show
Written by ERIC MERRIMAN for Ian Carmtchael , Joan Sims Hugh Paddick
Cool music from ROSEMARY Squires
THE MIKE SAMMES SINGERS
THE KEN THORNE ORCHESTRA
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Broadcast on August 16 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Ian Carmtchael
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Rosemary Squires
Unknown:
Ken Thorne
Produced By:
John Simmonds

The Fire by David Spenser
* A little fire is quickly trodden out: Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench '
A famous writer and poet in a totalitarian state is accused of writing a novel damaging to the regime. With the help of his wife he fights for Life and Liberty with MAURICE DENHAM as Janik
ROLF LEFEBVRE as Nikolas
JUNE TOBIN as Marya JEREMY SPENSER as Ivan
GLYN DEARMAN as Zoltan
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Spenser
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Rolf Lefebvre
Unknown:
Marya Jeremy Spenser
Unknown:
Glyn Dearman
Produced By:
John Tydeman

A Marriage Has Been Arranged adapted from her novel by Paula Allardyce with David March
Denise Bryer , and Olga Lindo
Sarah Leigh is determined to keep up the 700-year-old feud between her family and the Strattons. but she is not so sure about it after she meets Sir Richard Stratton.
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Production by AUDREY CAMERON
Repeated on Monday at 3.15

Contributors

Novel By:
Paula Allardyce
Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
Denise Bryer
Unknown:
Olga Lindo
Unknown:
Sarah Leigh
Unknown:
Sir Richard Stratton.
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Sarah Leigh:
Denise Bryer
Kit Leigh, her brother:
Glyn Dearman
Mr Henry Leigh, her uncle:
John Graham
Sir Richard Stratton:
David March
The Dowager Lady Stratton:
Olga Lindo
Will Sorocold, a poet:
Gordon Gardner
Caroline Court:
Nicolette Bernard
John Weldon, a highwayman:
Hamlyn Benson
Moll:
Jo Manning Wilson

News and views of books from SYLVIA CLAYTON and DESMOND STEWART
JOHN BRAINE talks to
MICHAEL RATCLIFFE about The Jealous God
GILBERT COPE on The New Churches of Europe
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Sylvia Clayton
Unknown:
Desmond Stewart
Talks:
John Braine
Unknown:
Michael Ratcliffe
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Schubert
Quartet in G major
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Eleventh of thirteen weekly programmes of music by Schubert
Broadcast on February 2 in the Third Programme

Contributors

Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Cello:
Martin Lovett

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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