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ANNE ALLEN introduces this midday edition of a series designed to rellect 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.1.

Contributors

Introduces:
Anne Allen

Passages chosen and arranged to express a mood about God and man—VICTOR GOLLANCZ presents an adaptation for radio of his own Anthology
Part 2: Good and Evil beginning with the words of Goethe: ' I believe in God and In Nature and in the triumph of good over evil.' and ending with the conclusion of the Dungeon Scene in Beethoven's opera Fidelio.
The anthology is read by: VANESSA REDGRAVE
NICOLETTE BERNARD
MARGARET WOLFIT
FRANK DUNCAN
JACK SHEPHERD and GABRIEL WOOLF
Produced by Paul Oestreicher
Broadcast on October 9, 1964

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Gollancz
Read By:
Vanessa Redgrave
Read By:
Nicolette Bernard
Unknown:
Margaret Wolfit
Unknown:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
Jack Shepherd
Produced By:
Paul Oestreicher

A magazine of Interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
In Praise of the Tram: Words and some music extolling the days of the tramcar
†Town for all Ages: BARNEY
BAMFORD talks to GERRY BROOKE TAYLOR, the Social Relations Officer of Dawley New Town
Percy Thrower talks about the garden
Introduced by DAVID STEVENS from the Midlands

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Brooke
Talks:
Percy Thrower
Introduced By:
David Stevens

The Bird of Dawning
The novel by John Masefield dramatised for radio by JOHN KEIR CROSS with Trader Faulkner
PART
Other parts played by Bruce Beeby , Anthony Hall Timothy Harley , Basil Jones
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
Part 2: June

Contributors

Novel By:
John Masefield
Unknown:
John Keir
Played By:
Bruce Beeby
Played By:
Anthony Hall
Played By:
Timothy Harley
Produced By:
John Gibson
Presenter:
Russell Napier
Cruiser Trewsbury:
Trader Faulkner
Captain Duntisbourne:
Peter Claughton
William Kemble:
Patrick Barr
James Fairford:
Ralph Truman
Percy Chedglow:
Peter Marinker

The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street, are analysed by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE

Contributors

Unknown:
William Hardcastle

with THE VENUTI-LANG
ALL-STAR ORCHESTRA
OSCAR PETERSON and CLARK TERRY
BILLIE HOLIDAY, CHARLIE PARKER
MEADE ' Lux' LEWIS and CHARLIE CHRISTIAN with ED HALL'S CELESTE QUARTET on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Clark Terry
Unknown:
Charlie Parker
Unknown:
Charlie Christian

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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