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Excerpts from the book by Winston S. Churchill arranged by Michael Hardwick
Read by PATRICK WYMARK
1: A Second Choice
Sir Winston reflects on life and destiny, and recalls how fate spared his life on the Western Front.
Broadcast on October 14, 1963

Contributors

Book By:
Winston S. Churchill
Arranged By:
Michael Hardwick
Read By:
Patrick Wymark

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including: tOn Parade: The senior Drum-
Major in the British Army, DRUM-MAJOR DAVID TAYLOR of the Scots Guards, has just retired after thirty-five years' military service. He talks to DAVID ROSE
When that I was and a little tiny boy: EDMUND SULLEY recalls the schoolboy games that filled his summer evenings
Mission to the Eskimo:
ELIZABETH FLEMING , wife of the late Archibald Fleming , first Bishop of the Arctic, talks to MATT SPICER
Introduced by HOWARD LOCKHART from Scotland

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Unknown:
Major David Taylor
Unknown:
Edmund Sulley
Unknown:
Elizabeth Fleming
Unknown:
Archibald Fleming
Introduced By:
Howard Lockhart

The Bird of Dawning
The novel by John Masefield dramatised for radio by JOHN KEIRCROSS with Trader Faulkner
The shipwrecked men of the clipper Blackgauntlet are overjoyed to see a sail on the horizon -but has disaster struck another of the great China clippers in the race from Foochow to London?
PART 4
Produced by JOHN GIBSON

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Novel By:
John Masefield
Unknown:
John Keircross
Produced By:
John Gibson
Presenter:
Russell Napier
Cruiser Trewsbury:
Trader Faulkner
William Kemble:
Patrick Barr
James Fairford:
Ralph Truman
Rodmarton:
Anthony Hall
Stratton:
John Hollis
Bauer:
Michael McClain
Coates:
Timothy Harley
Nailsworth:
Basil Jones
Edgeworth:
Bruce Beeby
Chedglow:
Peter Marinker
Perrot:
Alan Lawrance
Efans:
Antony Viccars
MacNab:
Henry Stamper

Louis Kentner (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Gerald Jarvis
Conductor
Constantin Silvestri
From the Pavilion. Bath
Part 1

Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 6

Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 (Louis Kentner pf)

Liszt Totendanz

Contributors

Piano:
Louis Kentner
Leader:
Gerald Jarvis
Conductor:
Constantin Silvestri

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 ROBERT REID

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Unknown:
Robert Reid

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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