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Songs without Voices
THE REV. E. A. ARMSTRONG shows how non-vocal sounds have been developed not only in insects but in many birds and mammals
Produced by John Sparks
Edited version of Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. E. A. Armstrong
Produced By:
John Sparks

John Snagge with the help of recordings from Sound Archives retells the story of the Flying Enterprise and the volcanic eruption of Tristan da Cunha
Research and script by Anthony Chivers
A Sound Archives production by David Allan

Contributors

Unknown:
John Snagge
Script By:
Anthony Chivers
Production By:
David Allan

King's Ransom
A play for radio by Jack Grossman with David Spenser
Peter Bartlett , John Baddeley and Patrick Barr
Chalkey White , a nightclub owner and ex-paratrooper, involves Pete Dawson , another ex-paratrooper, and his young brother Johnnie in a kidnapping.....
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Grossman
Unknown:
David Spenser
Unknown:
Peter Bartlett
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
Patrick Barr
Unknown:
Chalkey White
Unknown:
Pete Dawson
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron
Charlie, a newsvendor:
Gabriel Woolf
Johnnie Dawson:
Peter Bartlett
Pete Dawson, his elder brother:
David Spenser
George (Chalkey) White:
John Baddeley
Sam King:
Noel Howlett
Detective-Inspector Owen:
Patrick Barr
Detective-Sergeant Bill Slade:
Cavan Malone
Mrs Kahn:
Eva Haddon
A Police Constable:
John Boxer
Sylvia King:
Mary Wimbush
Detective - Sergeant Harry Kempton:
Stephen Thorne
Airfield Controller:
Gabriel Woolf
Airfield Duty Officer:
Antony Viccars

from the Chapel of New College, Oxford
Responses (Tonkins) Psalms: 82, 83, 84, 85
Lessons: 1 Samuel 7, 3-13;
Mark 2, 1-17
Canticles: Evening Service in G minor (Purcell)
Anthem: Ascribe unto the Lord (S. S. Wesleu)
Organist, DAVID LUMSDEN
Organ Scholar, Walter Hillsman

Contributors

Organist:
David Lumsden
Unknown:
Walter Hillsman

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Come to the Opera:
DAVID FRANKLIN takes you on a visit to an opera house in a Sussex garden—Glyndebourne
Going to the Pictures: BETTY
BEST recommends films you might enjoy seeing this month and talks to TREVOR HOWARD
A Flower for the Teacher:
BILL TAYLOR recalls his early school-days in Sheffield
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by ALAN MELVILLE

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Trevor Howard
Unknown:
Bill Taylor
Introduced By:
Alan Melville

Outcast
A novel of the days of Roman Britain by Rosemary Sutcliff abridged for radio in six parts by DAVID SCOTT DANIELL
Beric has been sentenced to the galleys and is punished for attacking an overseer by being scourged. Chained again to his oar, he collapses from his ill-treatment ...
5: Freedom from the Arm Ring
Readers, GABRIEL WOOLF and NIGEL GRAHAM

Contributors

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

IMOGEN HOLST discusses with PETER MUNN some of the problems and rewards of arranging this famous Suffolk Festival
Imogen Holst , who has been associated with the Aldeburgh Festival since 1952. is co-director with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.

Contributors

Unknown:
Imogen Holst
Unknown:
Peter Munn
Unknown:
Imogen Holst
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Peter Pears.

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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