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A series of legal problems devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Introduced by JOHN SNAGGE , with a qualified legal opinion from F. W. BENEY, Q.C. and comments from a panel of everyday people from home and abroad
This week:
Death by Natural Causes
Casin order of speaking:
Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Broadcason February 13 in the BBC World Service

Contributors

Written By:
John P. Wynn
Introduced By:
John Snagge
Produced By:
Trafford Whitelock
Mrs Fosters:
Elizabeth London
Little girl:
Olwyn Griffiths
Dr Wood:
Kevin Brennan
Dr Miiller:
David Nettheim
Jim Stark:
Geoffrey Matthews
Arthur Fosters:
John Cazabon

by Charles Dickens
A series of ten dramatic readings selected and arranged by MOLLIE HARDWICK
1: A Shooand a CrickeMatch
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
Trevor Martin is a National Theatre player

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Arranged By:
Mollie Hardwick
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Produced By:
Trevor Martin
Storyteller:
Trevor Martin
Mr Pickwick:
Peter Bathurst
Mr Wardle:
Peter Claughton
Rachael Wardle:
Molly Rankin
Mr Tupman:
Eric Anderson
Mr Jingle:
Frederick Treves
Mr Staple:
Garard Green

in all around see ...
GILBERPHELPS takes some recordings from the BBC Sound Archives to help illustrate various social changes, both serious and trivial, thahave taken place since the turn of the century
1: An Era Ending
Produced by Rodney M. Bennet

Contributors

Produced By:
Rodney M. Bennet

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
How to be Elegant:
MADAME DARTAUX , directrice of a Paris fashion house, talks abouher book on elegance to TERESA MCGONAGLE tBuying a House-whato look oufor: advice from an architec
Writers Talking: JOAN YORKE interviews JOSEPHINE KAMM whose new book Hope Deferred is a history of girls' education in England from Anglo-Saxon days
A Temporary Solution: the speaker relates a personal story Points from the Postbag
ROBERRIETTY reads High Citadel by DESMOND BAGLEY
Eighth of ten instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Madame Dartaux
Unknown:
Teresa McGonagle
Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Josephine Kamm
Unknown:
Desmond Bagley

A magazine of interest to all with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Mannanin's Isle: a brief visit to the Isle of Man on Tynwald Day to hear about the island's Home Government, some of the old and odd laws, and other things peculiar to Manx. Interviews by Peter Cowin and Herbert Smith: introduced by Trevor Hill
S.P.B. Mais at Eighty: Robert Gunnell in conversation with the traveller, writer, and broadcaster
Handkerchief Memories: for Rose Gall the routine chore of ironing has a pleasure all of its own
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by Ken Sykora

Contributors

Presenter (Mannanin's Isle):
Trevor Hill
Interviewer (Mannanin's Isle):
Peter Cowin
Interviewer (Mannanin's Isle):
Herbert Smith
Interviewer:
Robert Gunnell
Interviewee:
S.P.B. Mais
Speaker (Handkerchief Memories):
Rose Gall
Presenter (Record Requests):
Ken Sykora

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell arranged as a dramatised reading in five parts by OLIVE SHAPLEY
Par1: Breaking in-a stormy day—finding a name
Produced by HERBER SMITH
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Sewell
Produced By:
Herber Smith
Black Beauty, who Is the storyteller .:
Ronald Baddiley
Duchess:
Daphne Oxenford
Farmer:
Tom Harrison
Merrylegs:
Frank Poynter
John:
Geoffrey Banks

by Lewis Carroll, adapted and produced by Charles Lefeaux
with Cherie Lunghi as Alice
and Eric Shilling, Cyril Shaps, Marjorie Westbury, David March

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland first appeared on July 4, 1865

(Eric Shilling broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells opera Company)

See facing page and Thursday at 8.30 p.m.

Contributors

Author:
Lewis Carroll
Adapted by/Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Music composed and conducted by:
Antony Hopkins
Special Effects:
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Lewis Carroll:
Gordon Davies
Alice:
Cherie Lunghi
The White Rabbit:
Cyril Shaps
The Mouse:
Andrew Sachs
The Dodo:
Cyril Shaps
The Caterpillar:
David March
The Pigeon:
Patricia Leventon
The Duchess:
Betty Huntley-Wright
The Cheshire Cat:
David March
The March Hare:
Frederick Treves
The Mad Hatter:
Cyril Shaps
The Dormouse:
Andrew Sachs
The Queen of Hearts:
Marjorie Westbury
The Knave of Hearts:
Alan Haines
The King of Hearts:
Hamlyn Benson
The Gryphon:
Arthur Ridley
The Mock Turtle:
Eric Shilling

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POS
† DOUGLAS BROWN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to refleclisteners' own views on currentopics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome

Contributors

Introduces:
Douglas Brown

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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