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A series of six programmes on Britain's coloured immigrants
5:Solutions (i)
Some 800,000 coloured immigrants are living in this country today. They are legally here and they are ' British.' What can the Govern. ment do to help them enter the life of Britain more fully? What can Trade Unions and Churches do?
Narrated by MICHAEL SMEE with E. J. B. Rose
Anthony Richmond
Marjorie Nicholson and The Rev. Clifford S. Hill
Produced by Richard Hooper
Broadcast on January 26 in the Third Network

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Smee
Unknown:
E. J. B. Rose
Unknown:
Anthony Richmond
Unknown:
Marjorie Nicholson
Unknown:
Rev. Clifford S. Hill
Produced By:
Richard Hooper

LANCASHIRE COUNTY YOUTH CHOIR
LANCASHIRE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Conductor, HERBERT HORROCKS tExcerpts from the Youth Festival
Concert given in Liverpool in March UKRAINIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION
CHILDREN'S MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA
Conductor. BOHDAN BASHAK
Introduced by SANDRA CHALMERS

Contributors

Conductor:
Herbert Horrocks
Introduced By:
Sandra Chalmers

Shadow of Murder
Adapted from her novel by Charity Blackstock with David March , Gudrun Ure and Rona Anderson
John Shawfield. author, travels north to Argyllshire after his divorce from his actress wife Sylvia Court to get away from it all. When there he gets involved in something far more serious.
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
Gudrun Ure
Unknown:
Rona Anderson
Unknown:
John Shawfield.
Unknown:
Sylvia Court
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Running a Postbag:
JACK SINGLETON talks to URSULA BLOOM
Argument: another in a series of conversations on an issue of the day
Away From It All: LESLIE GAR
DINER describes holidays spent off the main tourist stream. 6-A Showplace of Iceland
Have you read this?: four listeners' suggestions from the recent competition
You asked us to play.... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Talks:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Leslie Gar
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

The Borrowers by Mary Norton arranged as a dramatised reading in four parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
Pod and Homily are horrified to discover that Arrietty has not only been ' seen ' by the boy upstairs but has talked to him: and they get a dreadful fright when the boy uncovers their home under the kitchen floor. But soon their lives are transformed.
4: Mrs. Driver on the Warpath
Produced by HERBERT SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Norton
Unknown:
Bertha Lonsdale
Unknown:
Mrs. Driver
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Storyteller:
Marah Stohl
Homily:
Rosalie Williams
Arrietty:
Margaret Dew
Pod:
Jack Woolgar
The Boy:
Peter Landon

Le Proces de Sainte Therese de L'Enfant Jesus by Marcelle-Maurette
English adaptation by Adrian Vale and Chloe Gibson adapted for broadcasting by Adrian Vale
Members of an Ecclesiastical cast
Nuns and lay sisters of the Carmelite Order:
Singer, Jean Allister
Chorus-Master, John McCarthy
Scene: Lisieux. August 30. 1911
Produced by Archie Campbell
(Megs Jenkins is in "Return Ticket" at the Duchess Theatre, London)

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Adrian Vale
Singer:
Jean Allister
Chorus-Master:
John McCarthy
Produced By:
Archie Caiilpbell
Produced By:
Megs Jenkins
Promoter of the Faith:
Denys Blakelock
President:
Edward Chapman
Vice-President:
John Boxer
Apostolic Notary:
Noel Howlett
Mother Agnes, the Superior:
Olga Lindo
Sister Anne of Jesus:
Carmel McSharry
Sister Joan of the Divine Mercy:
Megs Jenkins
Sister Jacob of the Holy Angels:
Nicolette Bernard
Sister Louise of the Cross:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Sister Mary Gabriel of the Conception:
Mary Wimbush
A Novice:
Chairman May
Sister:
Mechtiide Smrleyhah
Voice of Therese:
Rosalind Shanks
Guichard, a workman:
Stephen Thorne

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
LESLIE SIIlITH introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to refieet listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome

Contributors

Introduces:
Leslie Siilith

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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