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A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including: tArgument: another in a series of conversations on an issue of the day
For Your Library List: some suggestions from VERNON SCANNELL tThe Biscuit with ' aus Liebe' on it: FRANCES KAY describes working in a refugee holiday villa in Austria
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Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Unknown:
Frances Kay
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Four Tales from
The Jungle Books by RUDYARD KIPLING abridged and read
by DAVID DAVIS
1: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.

Contributors

Read By:
David Davis

VILEM: TAUSKY conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in highlights from operetta, opera, and ballet with JEAN ALLISTER (contralto)
ALAN JONES (baritone)
THE JOHN MCCARTHY SINGERS
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
Produced by Alan Abbott including excerpts from:
Zaza by Leoncavallo Patience by Sullivan
Sicilian Vespers by Verdi

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Contralto:
Jean Allister
Singers:
John McCarthy
Introduced By:
John Dunn
Produced By:
Alan Abbott

The News Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
DOUGLAS BROWN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London. W.I.

Contributors

Introduces:
Douglas Brown

Walton
String Quartet in A minor
(1947) played by the ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET Eli Goren (violin)
James Barton (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello) on a gramophone record

Contributors

Violin:
Eli Goren
Violin:
James Barton
Viola:
Patrick Ireland
Cello:
William Pleeth

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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