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ANNE ALLEN introduces this midday edition of a series designed to retlect 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:
Anne Allen

Widow Preferred by Derek Wellman
John Hesseltine advertises for new wife and encounters several surprises before achieving his 'heart's desire.'
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Wellman
Unknown:
John Hesseltine
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Valerie Petitt:
Jill Stuart
Harold Petitt:
Donald Shaw
John Hesseltine:
Derek Smith
A Postman:
John Bott
Fred Cook:
Philip Garston-Jones
Dulcie Rowlands:
Elspeth Duxbury
Gloria Townsend:
Vera Ashe
Nora Mitchell:
Eileen Barry

for the Eve of Ascension Day from Liandaff Cathedral
Introit: Ascendlt Deus (Philips)
Preces and Responses (Byrd)
Psalms 15, 97, 99
Lessons: Song of Three Children. vv. 29-37; Hebrews 1
Canticles (Murrill in E)
Anthem: O clap your hands
(Gibbons)
Office hymn: 0 thou eternal King most high (A. and M. Rev. 145)
Hymn: Hail the day that sees him rise (A. and M. Rev. 147)
Organist. ROBERT
JOYCE Assistant organist, V. Anthony Lewis

Contributors

Organist:
Joyce Assistant
Organist:
V. Anthony Lewis

Richard Wagner Slept Here: Colin Gibson illustrates, with records, some connections between Wagner and London.
†The World of Wooster in the 'Sixties: Marjorie Bilbow talks to four of the people who are to present the humour of P. G. Wodehouse on BBC Television (beginning next Sunday) - Michael Mills and Richard Waring, who are adapting the stories, and Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price, who will play Bertie Wooster and Jeeves.
The Road to Chelsea: Anne Catchpole joins some exhibits on their way to the Flower Show
Date with a Hairdresser
Introduced by Polly Elwes

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Wagner
Unknown:
Colin Gibson
Talks:
Marjorie Bilbow
Unknown:
G. Wodehouse
Unknown:
Richard Waring
Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Unknown:
Bertie Wooster
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

Outcast
A novel of the days of Roman Britain by Rosemary Sutcliff abridged for radio in six parts by DAVID SCOTT DANIELL
When a Roman ship was wrecked off the south-west coast of Britain the only survivor was a baby ... 2: Cast Out
Readers, GABRIEL WOOLF
NIGEL GRAHAM , JOAN MATHESON

Contributors

Unknown:
Roman Britain
Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Unknown:
David Scott Daniell
Readers:
Gabriel Woolf
Readers:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
Joan Matheson

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
KENNETH KENDALL 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:
Kenneth Kendall

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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