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AUDREY RUSSELL introduces this midday edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics
Letters on lively talking points of any kind are welcome for these broadcasts
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London. W.I.

Contributors

Introduces:
Audrey Russell

Facts and guidance for teachers and other women who are thinking of returning to professional work
A representative of the MEDICAL WOMEN'S FEDERATION describes the background to the place of women in the medical profession
A CONSULTANT, a GENERAL PRACTITIONER, and a HOUSE PHYSICIAN diseuss questions put by IRENE HILTON and MARGARET CUDLIPP gives a layman's view of how some of the shortages might be met
Introduced by IRENE HILTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Irene Hilton
Unknown:
Margaret Cudlipp
Introduced By:
Irene Hilton

including:
Climbing. in the Andes:
DR. EVELYN McNICOL and ELIZABETH STARK , who joined eight men in the Scottish Andean Expedition, tell NORMAN THOMSON about the pleasures and problems of ' mixed ' climbing
To POlling Booth by Canoe:
Ross McADAM talks about the hazards, including crocodiles, that faced the people of Papua, New Guinea, in their recent election
Young and Old in Innerleithen: NANCY MITCHELL reports on the novel way in which pupils of a school in Peeblesshire help the elderly of their town
Music of Scotland: BILL MCCUE
(bass) and the BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA, conductor, JACK LEON
Introduced by ALEX ALLAN from Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Evelyn McNicol
Unknown:
Elizabeth Stark
Unknown:
Norman Thomson
Talks:
Ross McAdam
Unknown:
Nancy Mitchell
Bass:
Bill McCue
Conductor:
Jack Leon
Introduced By:
Alex Allan

A radio play in fifteen parts by LANCE SIEVEKING , based on the novel by VICTOR HUGO
Madame Vinchelez. on a visit to St. Malo with Captain Clubin. caught sight of a tall man dressed as a Quaker, walking along the quay. Both felt they had seen him before. Captain Marpole told Clubin that the Quaker was a fugitive from the French Revolution.
Part 7 Theme music by RONALD BINGE
Produced by JOHN PoWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Lance Sieveking
Novel By:
Victor Hugo
Novel By:
Madame Vinchelez.
Music By:
Ronald Binge
Produced By:
John Powell
Storyteller:
Antony Viccars
Captain Clubin:
Malcolm Terris
M Grotte:
Gordon Faith
Mme Vinchelez:
Gladys Spencer
Douce:
Patricia Leventon
Grace:
Jane Wenham
Captain Marpole:
Haydn Jones
Gilliatt:
Nigel Graham
Déruehette:
Jo Manning Wilson
Lethierry:
David March
Alphonse Rantaine:
Bruce Beeby

A radio competition for bands
Round
From Ireland:
FIRST OLD Boys BAND
Conductor, ALFRED BURCH
From the North
GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND
Conduetor, GEORGE THOMPSON
The Judges:
HARRY MORTIMER GILBERT VINTER

Contributors

Conductor:
Alfred Burch
Unknown:
George Thompson
Unknown:
Harry Mortimer

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by GEORGE SCOTT

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott

with JOHNNY DANKWORTH AND HIS ORCHESTRA
THE ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND
JIMMY RUSHING
BIX BEIDERBECKE
JACK TEAGARDEN and THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET on gramophone records
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Dankworth
Unknown:
Bix Beiderbecke
Unknown:
Jack Teagarden

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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