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Background to Musical Form
Twenty-second of twenty-seven programmes about the structure of music and its composition
Speaker, ALAN RIDOUT
Produced by Peter Dodd
Broadcast on May 26 (Third Net.)
A booklet is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Ridout
Produced By:
Peter Dodd

Nine talks on the history and relationship of the principal languages of Europe
4: The Romance Languages Today by R. C. JOHNSTON
Professor of French Language and Literature, University of London
Produced by Rosemary Jellis
Broadcast on April 8 (Third Net.)

Contributors

Unknown:
R. C. Johnston
Produced By:
Rosemary Jellis

Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Policing Trunk Roads: some details of the experiment in the West Country by the Officer in Charge, CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT R. M. RUNDLE of the Devonshire Constabulary
The Sound of Clangers: a light-hearted confession by SAM HENF. Y
That Old Traffic Problem: PHIL DRACKETT looks back on congestion sixty years ago
Three-lane Carriageways: JOHN J. LEEMING , retired County Surveyor of Dorset, discusses their present-day value
Latest road traffic information

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
R. M. Rundle
Unknown:
Sam Henf.
Unknown:
John J. Leeming

Five characters in search of the authors-
BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN starring
Kenneth Horne with KENNETH WILLIAMS
HUCH PADDICK
BETTY MARSDEN
BILL PERTWEE
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
EDWIN BRADEN
AND THE HORNBLOWERS
Announcer, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Broadcast on May 2 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Huch Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Fraser Hayes
Unknown:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

A Jove story set in pastoral France Martine by Jean-Jacques Bernard adapted for broadcasting by PEGGY WELLS from the translation by JOHN LESLIE FRITH
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean-Jacques Bernard
Broadcasting By:
Peggy Wells
Translation By:
John Leslie Frith
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Martine:
Patricia Leventon
Julian:
Gabriel Woolf
Alfred:
Gordon Faith
Madame Mervan:
Mary O'Farrell
Jeanne:
Angela Piper

by Emlyn Williams, adapted for radio by Raymond Raikes
with Donald Wolfit as Maddoc Thomas, an old actor

Contributors

Author:
Emlyn Williams
Adapted by:
Raymond Raikes
Folk Singer:
Anita Williams
Pianist:
Roger Webb
Producer:
Herbert Davies
Maddoc Thomas, an old actor:
Donald Wollit
Cattrin, his lame daughter:
Liane Aukin
Robert, a young composer:
Fraser Kerr
Fan, a cockney romantic:
Eva Haddon
Barty, a layabout:
Patrick Barr
Bevan, a policeman:
Henley Thomas
Mrs Banner, lodging-house keeper:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Mrs Lothian, admirer of Maddoc Thomas:
Molly Rankin

Publishing in Britain and America
T. G. ROSENTHAL reviews a recent book about American publishing, and talks to FREDERIC WARBURG about his An Occupation for Gentlemen and to ALAN Ross who is starting his own firm this month
ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL on two railway books
GABRIEL FIELDING on a novel The Round Mosaic
RICHARD FREEBORN on two Russian novels
Introduced by PETER BARKER
Produced by Joseph Hone

Contributors

Unknown:
T. G. Rosenthal
Unknown:
Frederic Warburg
Unknown:
Alan Ross
Unknown:
Arthur Calder-Marshall
Introduced By:
Peter Barker
Produced By:
Joseph Hone

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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