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Eight portraits of the leaders of new nations
7: Moise Tshombe
Prime Minister of the Congo by WILLIAM KIRKMAN 8: Fidel Castro
Prime Minister of Cuba by JOHN LYNCH broadcast in the Third Network on November 12 and October 8. 1964. respectively

Contributors

Unknown:
Moise Tshombe
Unknown:
William Kirkman
Unknown:
Fidel Castro
Unknown:
John Lynch

A programme of old favourites sung by FREDERICK HARVEY (baritone) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and a chorus from the CARMENIANS OPERATIC SOCIETY
Chorus-Master,
Horace Williams
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE

Contributors

Baritone:
Frederick Harvey
Piano:
Ruby Taylor
Piano:
Dudley Savage
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

NAN WINTON 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.l.

Contributors

Introduces:
Nan Winton

The One Day of the Year by Alan Seymour
Produced by LESLIE REES for the Australian
Broadcasting Commission
ABC recording

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Seymour
Produced By:
Leslie Rees
Alf Cook:
Nigel Lovell
Dot Cook:
Ethel Lang
Hughie Cook:
John Ewart
Wacka Dawson:
Keith Buckley
Jan Castle:
Lola Brooks

from
Leeds Parish Church
This joyful Eastertide (Dutch carol, arr. Wood)
Preces (Gibbons)
Versicles and Responses (Barnard)
Psalms 136, 137, 138
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
(Howells—Collegium Sancti Johannis)
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 4, vv.
1-14
Second Lesson: Acts 4. vv. 5-22
Lesser Litany
Anthem: If we believe (Goss)
Prayers
Organist and Choirmaster, DONALD HUNT

Contributors

Choirmaster:
Donald Hunt

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind including:
Come to the Opera:
DAVID FRANKLIN takes you with him on a visit to Covent Garden
' Washing Hands' in Strange
Places: NINA EPTON , author and traveller, recalls some interesting occasions
The Old Carpentarians: next month the ' Old Boys ' of the Carpenters' Company's Technical School hold their annual dinner, although the school itself was closed sixty years ago. The story of this unusual Association is told by some of the ' Old Boys' and their President, CMDR. ALAN PRESTON
The Common Cold:
SIR CHRISTOPHER ANDREWES , F.R.S., formerly in charge of the Common Cold Research Unit, talks about catching and curing a cold
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Nina Epton
Unknown:
Dr. Alan Preston
Unknown:
Sir Christopher Andrewes
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Griff and Tommy and the Golden Image by John Griffiths
Grift and Tommy have failed to make contact with their great-uncle and have been warned off the farm by two strange men. They found their tent slashed and their stores scattered, and now, in their new ' den,' they wait anxiously for Idwal, who is on holiday at Aber Gwyn. four miles away.
2: Uncle Isaac
Readers,
GWENYTH PETTY and JOHN DARRAN

Contributors

Unknown:
John Griffiths
Unknown:
John Darran

Annual Dinner

(See foot of page)

The scene will be described by Robert Hudson from the Royal Academy of Arts, London

Her Majesty's Ministers
Proposed by The President, Sir Charles Wheeler, K.C.V.O., C.B.E
Reply by
The Rt. Hon. Michael Stewart M.P., Foreign Secretary

The Armed Forces of the Crown
Proposed by The President

Reply by Admiral of the Fleet
The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, K.G, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., D.S.O.

The Guests
Proposed by The President

Reply by Sir Isaiah Berlin, C.B.E.
who also proposes The Royal Academy of Arts

Reply by The President

Contributors

Commentator:
Robert Hudson
Speaker:
Sir Charles Wheeler
Speaker:
Michael Stewart
Speaker:
Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Speaker:
Sir Isaiah Berlin

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
LESLIE SMITH 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

Contributors

Introduces:
Leslie Smith

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.

Appears in

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