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from the BBC Sound Archives
STUART HIBBERD. formerly Chief Announcer, BBC and A. J. ALAN storyteller extraordinary
Introduced by LESLIE PEROWNE
See also 9.40 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Hibberd.
Unknown:
A. J. Alan
Introduced By:
Leslie Perowne

Stories of a Fire Investigator
The series written by PHILIP LEVENE with Robert Beatty
Frozen Alibi
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Broadcast on November 23,
1962, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Written By:
Philip Levene
Unknown:
Robert Beatty
Unknown:
Frozen Alibi
Miss Turner:
Barbara Mitchell
Mr Ackroyd:
Austin Trevor
Gloria:
Jill Hyem
Mr Thornton:
Denys Hawthorne
Joan Masters:
May Law
Bob Craig:
John Pullen
' Q ' Barnaby:
Robert Beatty
Valerie Chrane:
Gudrun Ure
Alec Groves:
Anthony Hall

Written and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL
Two small children from North Vietnam, in fear of their lives, stumble south before the Communist advance. Today they are teenage students at a remarkable school in New England. Their story brings sharply home the real meaning of that distant war against Communism on the other side of the world.
Produced by Alan Burgess
Broadcast on Sept. 26, 1964

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

ANNE ALLEN 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.I.

Contributors

Introduces:
Anne Allen

The Single Room by Robert Turley
' Go up to the churchyard. You'll see the name Barklay on a lot of broken-down old tombs that nobody ever looks at. Go to that block of old people's homes this afternoon and you'll see my name right across the door in big blue letters. Holder ('lose. Which do you think's worth more? Before I've done there won'be a soul in this town who doesn'know George Holder ! ' with John Sharp and Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Produced by BETTY Davies

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Turley
Unknown:
George Holder
Unknown:
John Sharp
Unknown:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Produced By:
Betty Davies
George Holder:
John Sharp
Sophie Holder:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Sir Hamilton Barklay:
Howieson Culff
Lady Barklay:
Molly Rankin
Mrs Wilkins:
Miriam Margolyes
Valerie:
Jane Wenham
Keith Barrett:
Nigel Graham

from the Chapel of New College, Oxford
Introit: Veni Sancte Spiritus
(Byrd)
Responses (Byrd)
Psalms: 47, 48, 49
Lessons: Wisdom 9
1 Corinthians 3
Canticles: The Short Service
(Byrd)
Anthem: Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes (Palestrina)
Office Hymn: Come, Holy
Ghost, our souls inspire (E.H. 153)
Organist, DAVID LUMSDEN
Organ Scholar, Alastair Ross

Contributors

Organist:
David Lumsden
Unknown:
Alastair Ross

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Shall we join the ladies?:
IRENE THOMAS introduces a programme of ballads
Getting a house to fit:
DEREK COOPER talks to MICHAEL INGLE -THORPE about his scheme to rehouse elderly people living in houses which are too large for them to manage
Coyotes for Company: DOLLY
LONG talks about her first-aid post in the London Zoo in Regent's Park
Off the beat: Memories of an ex-London bobby, by WILLIAM A. JOHNSON
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Introduces:
Irene Thomas
Talks:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Michael Ingle
Unknown:
William A. Johnson
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

A novel of the days of Roman Britain by Rosemary Sutcliff abridged for radio in six parts by DAVID SCOTT DANIELL
At a Roman feast, Beric, a house-slave, loses his temper and dashes the contents of a wine jar over his cruel young master. For this he is to be scourged and sent to the salt mines. For the time being he is shackled to the wall in a store-room.
Readers. GABRIEL WOOLF NIGEL GRAHAM and CECILE CHEVREAU

Contributors

Unknown:
David Scott Daniell
Readers:
Gabriel Woolf
Readers:
Nigel Graham
Readers:
Cecile Chevreau

An impression of Bermuda by FRANCES BAILEY
The Bermudas, with their superb climate, are a tourists' paradise. What the tourist sees, however, is not all there is to be seen-as the speaker, who is related, to the resident family with whom she stayed, discovered.
' Match me if you can ' is the local name of a shrub common in the islands.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Bailey

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 specialty welcome

Contributors

Introduces:
Kenneth Kendall

JUDITH LISTOWEL reports on a visit to four African countries
2: Rhodesia: both ends against the middle
Who determines the policies of Ian Smith 's Rhodesia Front party? What are its intentions about a unilateral declaration of independence? Did the black leaders play their cards right? Is there any resolution of the conflict?
Judith Listowel talked to white leaders and to the African nationalist JOSHUA Nkomo.
The Silent Revolution in Tanzania: Thursday at 10.45 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Smith
Unknown:
Judith Listowel
Unknown:
Joshua Nkomo.

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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