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Incidents from Bird Life
TONY SOPER invites three countrymen to exchange stories about wild birds
FRED LEXSTER , swanherd
Frank SAWYER , riverkeeper
WALTER FLESHER , gamekeeper
Produced by John Sparks
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Lexster
Unknown:
Frank Sawyer
Unknown:
Walter Flesher
Produced By:
John Sparks

Choices in paperback shared by JOYCE GRENFELL , JOHN BETJEMAN
SIR EDWARD BOYLE , Bt., M.P. with IAIN HAMILTON in the deck-chair
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
John Betjeman
Unknown:
Sir Edward Boyle
Unknown:
Iain Hamilton
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

with WILFRED PICKLES visits
Bishop's Castle
The smallest borough in England with MABEL at ' The Table ' and HARRY HUDSON at the piano
Produced by Stephen Williams
Broadcast on October 27. 1964, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Hudson
Produced By:
Stephen Williams

Tim MATTHEWS 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 Posl, BBC. Broadcasting House. London. W.l.

Contributors

Introduces:
Tim Matthews

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Slant on Success: Liz BOWER talks to NIGEL DOUGLAS , an English tenor who has made a success on the Continent
Practical Books: reviewed by ANN DONALDSON tAir Letter: KATHLEEN KING describes her new life in Bermuda
The Country Code: ANNE JONES has a countrywoman's view of picnics
Ideas in the Air: discussed by SHIRLEY WILLIAMS , M.P., and THE Rt. Hon. EDWARD DU CANN , M.P.
ANTHONY JACOBS reads The Boy with a Sling by JONATHAN WADE
Fourth of ten instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Liz Bower
Unknown:
Nigel Douglas
Reviewed By:
Ann Donaldson
Unknown:
Kathleen King
Unknown:
Anne Jones
Unknown:
Shirley Williams
Unknown:
Rt. Hon. Edward du Cann
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs
Unknown:
Jonathan Wade

from Ely Cathedral
Preces and Responses (Tomkins)
Psalm 106
Lessons: 1 Samuel 16. vv. 14-23
St. Luke 8. vv. 1-3
Canticles (Blow in F)
Anthem: When Jesus sat at meat
(Nicholson)
Office hymn: 0 Maria non flere
(E.H. 231)
Organist and Master of the Choristers, DR. A. W. WILLS
Assistant Organist, Anthony Greening

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. A. W. Wills
Organist:
Anthony Greening

including:
Klever Kaff: ANNE CATCHPOLE talks to WINIFRED FERRIER about her sister Kathleen, and introduces the voices of some of the people who knew her and some of the songs she sang
Laurens van der Post : The author and traveller talks to DoN DAVIS about his origins and early days in South Africa
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Klever Kaff:
Talks:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
Winifred Ferrier
Unknown:
Laurens van Der Post
Unknown:
Don Davis
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Midwinter by John Buchan adapted by NORMAN PAINTING
3: Snowbound at
' The Sleeping Deer '
Alastair again seeks help from the Spoonbills and has cause once more to question the movements of Nicholas Kyd. with Eric Ball
Incidental music arranged by HAMISH HENDERSON and played by ERNEST ELEMENT (violin)
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Adapted By:
Norman Painting
Unknown:
Nicholas Kyd.
Arranged By:
Hamish Henderson
Played By:
Ernest Element
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Alastair Maclean:
Fraser Kerr
Edom Lowrie:
James Grant
Kit:
Roger Milner
Squire Thicknesse:
George Woolley
Mother Jonnet:
Vera Lennox
Amos Midwinter:
John Hencher
Tappet:
George Woolley
Samuel Johnson:
Peter Stephens

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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