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† JOHN ELLISON introduces this midday edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on liveiv talking points of any kind are welcome for these broadcasts
Correspondents are invited to write ing House. London. W.l.

Contributors

Introduces:
John Ellison

Historians give several different accounts of this battle and of the character of Richard III. who lost it, and of Henry VII , who won it. This programme discusses them and shows why the events of 1485 proved to be a turning-point in British history.
History Work Units series

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Unknown:
Richard Iii.
Unknown:
Henry Vii

A cycle of twelve plays by Dorothy L. Sayers
8: Royal Progress
Now the Feast of the Passover was nigh. and Jesus set his face steadfastly to go up to Jerusalem. And when Jesus came to Bethany they made him a supper in the house of Simon the leper . . .
Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Produced By:
William Glen-Doepel

The first of two programmes compiled with recordings from the Sound Archives examining the plays of Shakespeare in performance

With the voices and opinions of: Edith Evans, Robert Donat, Peggy Ashcroft, Ralph Richardson, Richard Burton, Henry Irving, Donald Wolfit, Albert Finney,
Peter O'Toole, Tyrone Guthrie, Arthur Bourchier, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, J. C. Trewin, Frank Benson, Laurence Olivier, Beryl Reid, Frankie Howerd, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson, Ellen Terry, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave

Narrator, John Pullen
Reader, Godfrey Kenton
Narration written by Derek Parker
Devised and produced by John Powell

(Broadcast on August 21, 1964
('To be or not to be' Tuesday, April 13)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edith Evans.
Unknown:
Robert Donat
Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroft
Unknown:
Ralph Richardson
Unknown:
Richard Burton
Unknown:
Henry Irving
Unknown:
Donald Wolfit
Unknown:
Albert Finney
Unknown:
Peter O'Toole
Unknown:
Tyrone Guthrie
Unknown:
Arthur Bourchier
Unknown:
Herbert Beerbohm
Unknown:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Marlon Brando
Unknown:
J. C. Trewin
Unknown:
Frank Benson
Unknown:
Laurence Olivier
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Beryl Reid
Unknown:
Frankie Howerd
Unknown:
Beatrice Forbes-Robertson
Unknown:
Ellen Terry
Unknown:
Michael Redgrave
Unknown:
Vanessa Redgrave
Narrator:
John Pullen
Reader:
Godfrey Kenton
Written By:
Derek Parker
Produced By:
John Powell

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1Washday Togetherness: a review, with the help of recordings, of communal laudering, from public wash-house to laundrette. Introduced by PAMELA HOWE
† Alan Melville renects tSilver Lining: THE PSYCHIATRIST returns to answer questions about his first two talks
Your Letters
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Howe
Introduced By:
Steve Race

The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† GILES PLAYFAIR 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 specialty wekome

Contributors

Introduces:
Giles Playfair

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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