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A story by Hugh Walpole adapted for radio by Mollie Hardwick with MOLLY RANKIN , PATRICIA LEVENTON MIRIAM MARGOLYES , GARARD GREEN
Produced by Herbert Davies followed by an interlude

Contributors

Story By:
Hugh Walpole
Unknown:
Mollie Hardwick
Unknown:
Molly Rankin
Unknown:
Patricia Leventon
Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Produced By:
Herbert Davies

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Frenchwoman and Her
Background: FLORA GROULT. co-authoress with her sister of a wartime diary, talks to CECILIA GILLIE
Driving the Children to School: RICHARD GATEHOUSE reminisces
Playgrounds: a child's-eye view Happy at Eighty: reflections from S. P. B. MAIS
No Child is ever Turned Away:
PAT PENN. describes the work of the Save The Children Fund in Hong Kong
NICOLETTE BERNARD reads Nectar in a Sieve by KAMALA MARKANDAYA Fourth of nine instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Cecilia Gillie
Unknown:
Pat Penn.
Unknown:
Hong Kong
Unknown:
Nicolette Bernard

A programme of old favourites sung by FRANCIS POPE (tenor) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and a chorus from the WESTON-SUPER-MARE OPERATIC SOCIETY
Chorus-Master, TOM SHERMAN
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE

Contributors

Sung By:
Francis Pope
Piano:
Ruby Taylor
Piano:
Dudley Savage
Chorus-Master:
Tom Sherman
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

including:
Harvest Fields I Remember: by MICHAEL J. MURPHY
Emily MacManus , former Matron of Guy's Hospital, talks to JIMMY HUGHES
My Pony: a story by JOE RODGERS read by RICHARD MCGEAGH
Ballads by W. B. Yeats : introduced and sung by GRAINNE YEATS
Introduced by MAURICE O'CALLAGHAN from Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael J. Murphy
Unknown:
Emily MacManus
Unknown:
Jimmy Hughes
Story By:
Joe Rodgers
Read By:
Richard McGeagh
Unknown:
W. B. Yeats
Introduced By:
Maurice O'Callaghan

A serial play in five parts adapted freely by VAL GIELGUD from the novel by ALFRED OLLlVANT with Denys Hawthorne
Glyn Dearman , Frank Duncan Paul Whitsun-dones
3:Fort Flint
In which the Gap Gang surround Fort Flint, imprisoning its occupants....Ralph Piper reveals the presence of an underground passage ... Parson Joy bargains with The Gentleman.... two of the Gang lose their lives. and Kit is taken prisoner.
Cast in order of speaking.-
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
Malcolm Terris is a National Theatre player

Contributors

Unknown:
Val Gielgud
Novel By:
Alfred Olllvant
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Glyn Dearman
Unknown:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
Paul Whitsun-Dones
Unknown:
Parson Joy
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron
Produced By:
Malcolm Terris
Parson Harry Joy (Abercrom by's Black Cock):
Frank Duncan
Ralph Piper:
John Bryning
General Peregrine Beauchamp:
Malcolm Terris
William Pitt, the Prime Minister:
Ronald Baddiley
Dolly Frayne, an actress:
Elizabeth Proud
Nipper Knapp:
Gordon Gardner
Christopher Caryll, a Midshipman................:
Glyn Dearman
Lord Alfred Fitzroy, 'The Gentleman '.:
Denys Hawthorne
Members of the Gap Gang: Fat George:
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Old Toady:
Leonard Trolley
Red Beard:
Henry Stamper
Capt Anstruther:
John Dearth

Jimmy Edwards , Dick Bentley June Whitfield in Take It From Here
WALLAS EATON, THE KEYNOTES
BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA
Conductor, HARRY RABINOWITZ
Script by FRANK MUIR and DENIS NORDEN
Produced by CHARLES MAXWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Dick Bentley
Unknown:
June Whitfield
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Script By:
Frank Muir
Script By:
Denis Norden
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street, are analysed by DOUGLAS BROWN

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Brown

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More