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Two Steps Forward by Colin Cooper
If you're taking a long hard look at the world, there's no better observation-post than a heap of dead iliusions....
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Cooper
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Henry Mottson:
John Boxer
Bob Flemingway:
Alan Haines
Molly:
Joan Matheson
Hester Kirke:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Dora:
Eva Haddon
John Startop:
Garard Green
Sam Ellerby:
Wilfrid Carter
Lady Cannock:
Dorothy Black
Sir Charles Cannock:
Noel Howlett

from the Cathedral Church of Christ, Canterbury
Responses (Bernard Rose ) Psalms: 12, 13, 14
Lessons: Ezekiel 7, vv. 10-15,
23-27; 1 Timothy 1, V. 18, to 2, v. 10
Canticles (Walmisley in D major)
Anthem: The Lord is my Shepherd (John Blow)
Hymn: Firmly I believe and truly
Organist. ALLAN WICKS
Sub-organist, Stephen Crisp

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Rose
Organist:
Allan Wicks
Unknown:
Stephen Crisp

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Ϯ Come to the Opera:
DAVID FRANKLIN and PEGGY BACON take you on another visit to the State Opera in Vienna
Welcome Home: NESTA NUTTALL describes how, after the death of her husband, George Nuttall of Thaxted, she resettled in a Somerset hamlet
Pilot Extraordinary:
ROSEMARY HART talks to JOAN HUGHES , who) flew some of the planes used in the film Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
Armchair Gardener: simple hints and tips from FRED LOADS
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Peggy Bacon
Unknown:
Nesta Nuttall
Unknown:
George Nuttall
Talks:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Joan Hughes
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
3: Breaking-Point
Because he is of Roman blood. Beric has been cast out by the British clan with which he had lived his boyhood. Outcast and friendless. he goes to the Roman town at Exeter to join the Legion. but he is tricked by Greek slavers and finds himself in the slave market at Rome.
Readers,
GABRIEL WOOLF , NIGEL GRAHAM and VALERIE KIRKBRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Unknown:
David Scott Daniell
Readers:
Gabriel Woolf
Readers:
Nigel Graham
Readers:
Valerie Kirkbright

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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