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Country Dancing from the Midlands
STEVE BENROW is the special guest with THE MIDLANDERS
Folk DANCE BAND
Led by John Masterson at Barford, Warwickshire
Master of Ceremonies, KENNETH CLARK
Introduced by RICHARD MADDOCK
Kenneth Clark broadcasts by permission of the English Folk Dance and Song Society

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Benrow
Unknown:
John Masterson
Unknown:
Kenneth Clark
Introduced By:
Richard Maddock
Introduced By:
Kenneth Clark

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Self-Interview: HUGH LLOYD puts some pithy questions to himself
I think you've blown a gasket: RENEE CHAMPNESS decided to find out what happens under the bonnet
Reading Your Letters
Help is Available: EILEEN CAPEL reports on a scheme in Bedford for the registered blind or partially sighted who might benefit from new optical lenses
Sport: The whys and where-fores discussed by MARJORIE POLLARD , J. L. MANNING ', and CHRISTOPHER BRASHER
WENDY CRAIG reads
Full Tilt by DERVLA MURPHY
Third of five instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Hugh Lloyd
Unknown:
Renee Champness
Unknown:
Eileen Capel
Unknown:
Marjorie Pollard
Unknown:
J. L. Manning
Unknown:
Christopher Brasher
Unknown:
Wendy Craig
Unknown:
Dervla Murphy

Bridge of Silence
A play for radio by Rosemary Timperley
Philip Varden. a young musician living in the North, feels that he must ko to London to launch himself as a concert pianist. Will the concert justify all the sacrifices that have been made?
Pianist, WILFRID PARRY
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Timperley
Unknown:
Philip Varden.
Pianist:
Wilfrid Parry
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron
Josef Stein, a music teacher:
Austin Trevor
Philip Varden:
Gordon Gardner
Mary Varden, his mother:
Mary Wimbush
Harry Varden, his father:
Walter Fitzgerald
Nina Varden, his sister:
Elizabeth Proud

from Edington Priory Church, Wiltshire sung by the EDINGTON FESTIVAL CHOIR
Psalms 119, vv. 73-104 (
Simon Preston )
Responses (Philip Taag )
Lessons: Jeremiah 32. vv. 26-44:
St. Luke 18. v. 31. to 19, v. 10
Magnificat (Tonus Peregrinus)
Nunc dimittis (Tippett)
Anthem: 0 sacrum convivium
(Messiaen)
Voluntary: Thema met variaties
(Andriessen)
Director of Plainsong Choir, GODFREY SALMON
Director of Polyphonic Choir, RICHARD SEAL
Organist, ROBERT BOTTONE

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Preston
Unknown:
Philip Taag
Organist:
Robert Bottone

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Come to the Opera:
DAVID FRANKLIN takes you on a visit to the Old Vic in the 1920s
Thatcher on the roof: TOM
SALMON talks to REG BURNETT , Cornish master-thatcher
Date with a Doctor
Off the beat: Memories of an ex-London bobby, by WILLIAM A. JOHNSON
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Reg Burnett
Unknown:
William A. Johnson
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

by Charles Kingsley, dramatised for radio in thirteen episodes by Howard Agg

Into Bideford one bright morning in 1575 came John Oxenham, adventurer and explorer, full of tales about gold on the Spanish Main and the exploits of Drake. To young Amyas Leigh, a school-boy, he offers the challenge of 'Westward Ho!'

Sailors played by Hubert Tucker and Robert Bashford

from the West of England

Contributors

Author:
Charles Kingsley
Dramatised by:
Howard Agg
Producer:
Brian Miller
Storyteller:
Antony Viccars
John Oxenham:
David Lawton
Salvation Yeo:
Norman Tyrrell
Amyas Leigh:
Jeffry Wickham
Sir Richard Grenville:
Stephen Jack
Mrs Leigh:
Ruth Porcher
Mr Leigh:
Antony Viccars
Mr Brimblecombe:
Robert Bashford
Sailors played by:
Hubert Tucker
Sailors played by:
Robert Bashford

Erna Spoorenberg (soprano)
Peter Glossop (baritone)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
The London Ensemble Felix Kok (violin)
Jeffrey Wakefield (violin) Raymond Ovens (violin)
Malcolm Latchem (violin) Sydney Mann (violin) Meyer Stolow (violin) Harry Danks (viola) John Coulling (viola) Alexander Kok (cello) Denis Vigay (cello)
Gerald Brinnen (double-bass) Philip Ledger (harpsichord) Alexandra Choir
Conductor,
Charles Proctor Harrow Choral Society
Conductor, Clarice Brooksbank
London Philharmonic Choir Conductor. Frederic Jackson
Watford Philharmonic Society
Conductor, Leslie Regan
BBC Symphony Orchestra Led by Norman Nelson Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall. London conducted by the COMPOSER

Contributors

Soprano:
Erna Spoorenberg
Baritone:
Peter Glossop
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Violin:
Felix Kok
Violin:
Jeffrey Wakefield
Violin:
Raymond Ovens
Violin:
Malcolm Latchem
Violin:
Sydney Mann
Violin:
Meyer Stolow
Viola:
Harry Danks
Cello:
Alexander Kok
Cello:
Denis Vigay
Double-Bass:
Gerald Brinnen
Harpsichord:
Philip Ledger
Conductor:
Charles Proctor Harrow
Conductor:
Leslie Regan
Unknown:
Norman Nelson
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

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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