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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:
The Shot that Never Came
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by TRAFFORD WHITETOCK
Broadcast on March 6 in the BBC World Service

Contributors

Written By:
John P. Wynn
Introduced By:
John Snagge
Unknown:
F. W. Beney.
Produced By:
Trafford Whitetock
Julie Ferrier:
Delia Corrie
Ben Mellor:
Geoffrey Frederick
Jack Hill:
Ian Ricketts
Mr Christian:
Wilfred Babbage
Ambulance driver:
John Bryning
Mate:
John Baker

in all around I see ...
GILBERT PHELPS takes some recordings from the BBC Sound Archives to help illustrate various social changes, both serious and trivial, that have taken place since the turn of the century
3: Hopeful Austerity
Produced by Rodney M. Bennett

Contributors

Produced By:
Rodney M. Bennett

(Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Writer:
Edward J. Mason
Producer:
Tony Shryane
Editor:
Godfrey Baseley
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Pru Forrest:
Mary Dalley
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Carol Grenville:
Anne Cullen
Harvey Grenville:
Ronald Baddiley
Jack Woolley:
Phillp Garston-Jones
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Paddy Redmond:
John Bott
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Mead:
Hilary Newcombe
Sue Bent:
Linda Polan

from the North of England
Introduced by OLIVE SHAPLEY
In Partnership; CELIA and STAN BANNISTER talk about running a country pub
Second-class Citizens?: an enquiry into the status of women golfers
Britain's Happiest Family: DOROTHY BERRY recalls the day her family won the title
Foster-children:
MRS. EDITH DICKINS and her daughter JOYCE talk to PAMELA HOWE
Ideas in the Air: JOAN SEDDON and HENRY LIVINGS
ANTHONY JACOBS reads The Boy with a Sling by JONATHAN WADE
Second of ten instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
Stan Bannister
Unknown:
Dorothy Berry
Unknown:
Mrs. Edith Dickins
Unknown:
Pamela Howe
Unknown:
Joan Seddon
Unknown:
Henry Livings
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs
Unknown:
Jonathan Wade

Sybil Thorndike in The Sacred Flame by Somerset Maugham adapted for radio by PETER WATTS with Jill Balcon and Carleton Hobbs
' They tell me that one of these days they'll try operating again to see if they can put me right. But I know they're lying. I'm here for life.'
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Sybil Thorndike
Unknown:
Peter Watts
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Produced By:
Graham Gauld

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Royal Tournament:
RAYMOND BAXTER describes one of the highlights at Earls Court -the Fiji Military Forces
For Your Library List:
DEREK PARKER talks to A. E., CLARK-KENNEDY, author of Edith Cavell-Pioneer and Patriot
It all depends what you mean ': MABEL GREEN recalls when a famous broadcaster asked her to tea
Can you tell me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Baxter
Talks:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Edith Cavell-Pioneer
Unknown:
Mabel Green
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell arranged as a dramatised reading in five parts by OLIVE SHAPLEY
Part 3: Earlshall-Ginger's Strike for Liberty-Ruined
Produced by HERBERT SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Sewell
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Black Beauty, who is the Storyteller:
Ronald Baddiley
Ginger:
Daphne Oxenford
Mr York:
Tom Harrison
The Earl:
Geoffrey Banks

Citizens' Theatre Company, Glasgow in The Anatomist by James Bridie
with Iain Cuthbertson as Dr. Knox
'Do you think that because I strut and rant.... that my soul isn't sick within me at the horror of what I have done?'

Contributors

Author:
James Bridie
Spinet player:
Raymond O'Connell
Flautist:
David Nicholson
Adapted and produced by:
Stewart Conn
Mary Paterson:
Anne Kristen
Walter Anderson:
Bryden Murdoch
Mary Belle Dishart:
Mairhi Russell
Amelia Dishart:
Rona Anderson
Raby:
Stephen MacDonald
Landlord:
John Grieve
Davie Paterson:
James Gibson
Jessie Ann:
Jan Wilson
Janet:
Margaret Leslie
Burke:
Harry Towb
Hare:
Harry Webster

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 specially welcome

Contributors

Introduces:
Douglas Brown

Borodin
String Quartet No. 2 in D major played by THE BORODIN QUARTET
Rostislav Dubinsky (violin)
Jaroslav Alexandrov (violin) Dmitry Shebalin (viola)
Valentin Berlinsky (cello) on a gramophone record

Contributors

Violin:
Rostislav Dubinsky
Violin:
Jaroslav Alexandrov
Viola:
Dmitry Shebalin
Cello:
Valentin Berlinsky

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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