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A series of programmes on the work of wartime agents on special operations in occupied France
Written by Robert Barr with 2: No Joy with John Cazabon. Nicolette Bernard and Patrick Tull
Produced by CHARLES MAXWELL
Ϯ Broadcast on March 12 1n the Light
Richard Hurndall is in ' Hostile Witness' at the Haymarket Theatre, London

Contributors

Written By:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
John Cazabon.
Unknown:
Nicolette Bernard
Unknown:
Patrick Tull
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell
Unknown:
Richard Hurndall
Colonel Maurice Buckmaster:
Richard Hurndall
Actor:
As
Jules:
John Ronane
Fernand:
Ronald Wilson
François Guillot:
Anthony Newlands
Bernard:
Barry Letts

by Charles Dickens
A series of ten dramatic readings selected and arranged by Mollie Hardwick

(Trevor Martin is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Selected and arranged by:
Mollie Hardwick
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Storyteller:
Trevor Martin
Tom Roker/Mr Perkerr:
Wilfrid Carter
Mr Pickwick:
Peter Bathurst
Sam Weller/Mr Winkler:
Martin Jarvis
Mivins ('The Zephyr'):
Basil Jones
Mr Jingle:
Frederick Treves
Arabella:
Jane Wenham

Second hearings of the programme in which scientists and technologists answer listeners' questions
Panel:
B. J. MASON physicist
J. MAYNARD SMITH geneticist
J. G. PORTER astronomer
W. T. WILLIAMS botanist
In the chair,
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Arranged by Archie Clow
Broadcast on October 29, 1964

Contributors

Unknown:
B. J. Mason
Unknown:
J. Maynard Smith
Unknown:
J. G. Porter
Unknown:
W. T. Williams
Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Arranged By:
Archie Clow

LAUDREY RUSSELL 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:
Laudrey Russell

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Out of the News: involving a topic of interest
No Feeling of Loneliness:
SHEILA BURNESS talks about her own experience of widowhood
Beauty is in the eye of the be-holder: the saying considered by PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON. BRYAN ROBERTSON , and others
Holiday under a Jinx:
BARBARA OSTERWEIL took her children to France
The General Next to God RICHARD COLLIER 'S book abridged by Joan Yorke
Read by MICHAEL HORDERN
Last instalment

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Sheila Burness
Unknown:
Pamela Hansford Johnson.
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson
Unknown:
Barbara Osterweil
Unknown:
God Richard Collier
Abridged By:
Joan Yorke
Read By:
Michael Hordern

Chairman, J. W. LAMBERT
Theatre: HAROLD HOBSON
Broadcasting: lAIN HAMILTON
Book: JOHN BOWEN
Art: BRYAN ROBERTSON
Film: H. A. L. CRAIG
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Harold Hobson
Unknown:
Lain Hamilton
Unknown:
John Bowen
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson
Unknown:
H. A. L. Craig

The second of four contests
London:
SIR DENIS BROGAN , CEDRIC CLIFFE
Quiz-Master,
LIONEL HALE Dublin:
DENIS DONOGHUE , NOEL PEART
Quiz-Master, PATRICK HARVEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Denis Donoghue
Unknown:
Noel Peart
Unknown:
Patrick Harvey

including:
Peter Ustinov Slept Here:
JACK SINGLETON in London continues his conversation with PETER USTINOV in Paris
Carry it for Luck:
FRANCIS CELORIA talks about lucky charms, past and present
Our Miss Gibbs: BETTY NOQUET recalls her old nanny Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Talks:
Francis Celoria
Unknown:
Betty Noquet
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Pigs Have Wings by P. G. Wodehouse abridged by Geoffrey Jaggard in six parts
Lord Emsworth hopes that his pig Empress of Blandings will triumph at the Shropshire Show, but his neighbour Sir Gregory Parsloe has imported an enormous rival pig from Kent.....
PART 2
Read by BASIL JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
P. G. Wodehouse
Abridged By:
Geoffrey Jaggard
Unknown:
Sir Gregory Parsloe
Read By:
Basil Jones

Alfred Harmsworth ,
Viscount Northcliffe was born 100 years ago today
This programme describes his tremendous impact in the field of journalism and the very different story of his attempt to storm the world of politics
Script written by BOB KESTON
Produced by DAVID WOODWARD

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Harmsworth
Unknown:
Viscount Northcliffe
Written By:
Bob Keston
Produced By:
David Woodward

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
DOUGLAS BROWN 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:
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.

Appears in

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