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A serial in eight episodes by FRANCIS DURBRIDGE with Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury
4: The Encounter
Other parts played by David Spenser , James Beattie , Frank Partington , and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by MARTYN C.WEBSTER
Broadcast on November 4,
1963, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Durbridge
Unknown:
Peter Coke
Unknown:
Marjorie Westbury
Played By:
David Spenser
Played By:
James Beattie
Played By:
Frank Partington
Helen Ferguson:
Grizelda Hervey
Paul Temple:
Peter Coke
Steve:
Marjorie Westbury
Robert Ferguson:
John Glen
Sir Graham Forbes:
James Thomason
Rudolph Charles:
Anthony Hall
Mark Elliot:
William Fox
Eddie Paget:
John Baddeley
Dinah Nelson:
Valerie Kirkbright
Mrs Gulliver:
Vlvienne Chatterton
Inspector Gerrard:
Rolf Lefebvre
Mavis Russell:
Isabel Rennie
Richard Ferguson:
Gabriel Woolf

Chairman, HAROLD HOBSON
Theatre: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Broadcasting: JACQUES BRUNIUS
Book: IAIN HAMILTON
Art: GEORGE MELLY
Film: ROGER MANVELL
Last Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Hobson
Unknown:
Iain Hamilton
Unknown:
George Melly
Unknown:
Roger Manvell

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specialty in mind. including: The Unreturning Spring:
JAMES FARRAR was killed in the Second World War, aged twenty. DEREK PARKER intro-extracts from his writings and and talks to his mother
Sixty Years a Publisher: SIR
STANLEY UNWIN , eighty this week, talks to Roy SMITH
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
James Farrar
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Stanley Unwin
Unknown:
Roy Smith
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

A six-part serial by CHARLES WITHERSPOON
' If Ricky hadn'been a yount; man of spirit we might not have discovered what Porky Pat kept in the strongroom. Ricky was not the only one interested! '
4: The Big Steal

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Witherspoon
Unknown:
Porky Pat
Brian Donnelly:
Robin Graham
Paddy Donnelly:
Denise McKenna
Ricky Donnelly:
Richard McGeagh
Mrs Donnelly:
Ann Maguire
Terry Bishop:
Charles Witherspoon
The Rev Pennington Parr:
Sam McCready
Mr Holmes:
Buxton Forsyth
Produced by:
Ronald Mason

Lt.-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks K.C.B.. K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. presents the story of the biggest battle ever fought by the British Army told by those who were there
Material collected by Robert Pocock
Produced by DAVID WOODWARD
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Brian Horrocks K.C.B.
Produced By:
David Woodward

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
KENNETH KENDALL introduces a programme specially designed to reflect listeners' comments on public affairs and policy
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House, London. W.I.

Contributors

Introduces:
Kenneth Kendall

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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