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Summer Round-up
How has wildlife fared this summer?
BRUCE CAMPBELL discusses regional developments with CHRIS MYLNE , Principal Field Officer, National Trust for Scotland, in Edinburgh
C. DOUGLAS DEANE , Deputy Director of the Ulster Museum, in Belfast
WALTER FLESHER , gamekeeper, in Leeds
ROLAND CLEMENT , National Audubon Society, hopes to call up Bruce Campbell from New York to give the latest information about the Florida Everglades and the rare Californian Condor produced by John Sparks
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Campbell
Unknown:
Chris Mylne
Unknown:
Douglas Deane
Unknown:
Walter Flesher
Unknown:
Roland Clement
Unknown:
Bruce Campbell
Produced By:
John Sparks

Choices in paperback shared by L. P. HARTLEY
DILYS POWELL
KENNETH ROBINSON with IAIN HAMILTON in the deck-chair
Produced by Olive Shapley

Contributors

Unknown:
L. P. Hartley
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Iain Hamilton
Produced By:
Olive Shapley

A novel of the days of Roman Britain by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF abridged for radio in six parts by David Scott Daniell
4: Galley Slave
Readers,
GABRIEL WOOLF , NIGEL GRAHAM CECILE CHEVREAU

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Unknown:
David Scott Daniell
Readers:
Gabriel Woolf
Readers:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
Cecile Chevreau

Country dance music played by the ST. HELENS COUNTRY DANCE BAND with GERALDINE FRANCIS
Introduced by TOM KILGOUR
From Altrincham County Grammar School for Girls
Produced by Richard Kelly

Contributors

Unknown:
Geraldine Francis
Introduced By:
Tom Kilgour
Produced By:
Richard Kelly

Introduced by ANNE GREGG
Beach Combings: a report from PEGGY ARCHER in the West Country
A Day on a Donkey: CHARLES CRICHTON remembering a childhood holiday
Poet and People: PAUL ROCHE with some theories about poetry and poetry.reading
My Father, Augustus John :
VIVIEN WHITE , one of the artist's daughters, talks to ANNE EDWARDS
Upward Bound: JOAN PYPER visits a rock-climbing course in Sussex
PATIENCE COLLIER reads
All the Days of Minnie Sue by SUSAN BELL
Eighth of ten instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anne Gregg
Unknown:
Peggy Archer
Unknown:
Charles Crichton
Unknown:
Paul Roche
Unknown:
Augustus John
Unknown:
Vivien White
Unknown:
Joan Pyper
Unknown:
Minnie Sue

Alarm Call
A play for radio by Edward Hyams
Tom Wain. an honest young accountant. is engaged to Hilda Cragg. the daughter of a business magnate. He soon finds himself, however, in circumstances which put his honesty to the test.
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Hyams
Unknown:
Tom Wain.
Unknown:
Hilda Cragg.
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Barnaby Cragg:
George Hagan
Jabez Pattison:
Martin Lewis
Tony Railton:
Alan Haines
Hilda Cragg:
Eva Haddon
Waiter:
Alaric Cotter
Tom Wain:
Philip Guard
Secretary:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Det -Sgt Jones:
Peter Bartlett
Passport officer:
Peter Marinker
Q C:
Godfrey Kenton
Judge:
James Thomason

from Truro Cathedral
Sung by a choir of boys and men from churches and schools affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music
directed by Dr Gerald Knight
Introit: God, who hast prepared (Thomas Mudd)
Responses (Bernard Rose)
Psalms 93 and 94
Lessons: Isaiah 55; St. Luke 15. vv. 1-10
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Plainsong) (Carolus Andreas)
Anthem: Behold, now praise the Lord (Arthur Wills)
Fill thou my life, O Lord my God (A. and M. Rev 373)

Contributors

Organist:
Roy Massey
Organist:
Peter White

including:
Shall we join the ladies?:
IRENE THOMAS introduces another programme of ballads
Laurens van der Post: the famous author and traveller talks to Don Davis about race, class, and the split-man
'Uncle' — the poor man's
Banker: ARTHUR POVEY recalls working in a pawnshop at the beginning of the century
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Introduces:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Don Davis
Unknown:
Arthur Povey
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Midwinter by John Buchan adapted for radio by NORMAN PAINTING
7: The Place of Destiny
Alastair is now closest to the Prince's side, and at once farthest from it. With Midwinter's and Johnson's help, Alastair finds hope and purpose.
Other parts: James Grant and Norman Cockin
Incidental music arranged by HAMISH HENDERSON and played by ERNEST ELEMENT (violin)
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Radio By:
Norman Painting
Unknown:
James Grant
Unknown:
Norman Cockin
Arranged By:
Hamish Henderson
Played By:
Ernest Element
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Alastair Maclean:
Fraser Kerr
Amos Midwinter:
John Hencher
Samuel Johnson:
Peter Stephens
A landlady:
Dympna Morby
A landlord:
George Woolley
General Oglethorpe:
Philip Garston-Jones

Heather Harper (soprano)
Janet Baker (contralto)
John Mitchinson (tenor)
Victor Godfrey (bass-baritone)
Don Garrard (bass)
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Martindale Sidwell
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1 conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Contributors

Soprano:
Heather Harper
Contralto:
Janet Baker
Tenor:
John Mitchinson
Bass-Baritone:
Victor Godfrey
Bass:
Don Garrard
Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Conducted By:
Martindale Sidwell
Unknown:
Albert Hall
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

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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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