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tAUDREY 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:
Taudrey Russell

Double Bill
Isn'That a Girl's Locket?
A new play for radio by Pat Connell with Denys Hawthorne and Mary O'Farrell
Produced by EILEEN CULLEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Connell
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Mary O'Farrell
Produced By:
Eileen Cullen
Robert Gunn:
Denys Hawthorne
Bridget:
Mary O'Farrell
Alice Richards:
Jill Cary
Dr Richards:
Bruce Beeby
Mrs Dent:
Margaret Wolfit
Mrs Smithers:
Gladys Spencer
Mrs Baxter:
Shirley Cooklin

from Liverpool Cathedral
Introduction
Versicles and Responses
Psalm 89
Magnificat (Byrd-Second Service)
First Lesson: Genesis 8, v. 15, to 9, v. 17
Nunc dimittis (Byrd-Second
Service)
Second Lesson: Romans 3
Lesser Litany
Anthem: 0 be joyful in the Lord (Britten)
Prayers
Organist, NOEL RAWSTHORNE Master of the Choristers, RONALD WOAN

Contributors

Organist:
Noel Rawsthorne
Unknown:
Ronald Woan

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Music by Lamplight:
David FRANKLIN introduces gramophone records of the songs and tunes you would have heard at musical evenings with Franz Schubert
Where to put Granny?:
MRS. R. L. GUNSTONE tells how her son solved the problem
Away To It All: ANNE MARSH and ADRIAN THOMAS compare notes on living in caravans
Today's Exercise: by a doctor
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Introduces:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Franz Schubert
Unknown:
Mrs. R. L. Gunstone
Unknown:
Anne Marsh
Unknown:
Adrian Thomas
Introduced By:
Steve Race

introduces
The Air Adventurers
A review in sound of some of the great adventurers in flying Research by Joan Bailey Written by PETER LAWSON
Produced by BRIAN WILLEY
Broadcast on July 28, 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Bailey
Written By:
Peter Lawson
Produced By:
Brian Willey

Five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Northern Ireland
Round 1
London:
SIR DENIS BROGAN , CEDRIC CLIFFE
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
Northern Ireland:
JAMES BOYCE , RONALD GREEN
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Repeated on Thursday at 1.10

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
James Boyce
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

SIR Harry LUKE during his visits to Lima became absorbed in the details of the life of a young eighteenth-century beauty of mixed Spanish and Indian blood
He recounts the various forms her legend has taken and compares them with the real mestizo, Micaela Villegas , better known as La Perrichoti.
Introduced by Carl Wildman
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Harry Luke
Unknown:
Micaela Villegas
Unknown:
La Perrichoti.
Introduced By:
Carl Wildman

Excerpts from
Offenbach's operetta on gramophone records Introduced by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
The cast includes:
SUZANNE LAFAYE in the title role
RAYMOND AMADE as Piquillo and Louis NOGUÉRA as The Viceroy with the RENÉ Duclos Chorus and the LAMOUREUX Orchestra Conducted by IGOR MARKEVITCH

Contributors

Introduced By:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Unknown:
Suzanne Lafaye
Unknown:
Raymond Amade
Conducted By:
Igor Markevitch

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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