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A study of Peter Snell and the stamina techniques of the New Zealand coach Arthur Lydiard with his small group of world-class runners
Written and introduced by JAMES McNEISH with recordings he made in New Zealand
' Lydiard believes that the essential thintf is to inure a distance runner to the pain and punishment of extreme physical exercise so that when he goes to an Olympic track it's almost like having a dayotf....' t Produced by Sheila Anderson

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snell
Unknown:
Arthur Lydiard
Introduced By:
James McNeish
Produced By:
Sheila Anderson

or The Memoirs of Mr. C. J. Yellowplush
Sometime Footman in Many Genteel Families by William Makepeace Thackeray arranged in ten parts by Terence Tiller
2: Miss Shum's Husband (continued)
Read by FRANK DUNCAN with ANNA BURDEN , MARY WIMBUSH
BRUCE BEEBY. PETER MARINKER t Produced by Rayner Heppenstall

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr. C. J. Yellowplush
Unknown:
William Makepeace
Read By:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
Anna Burden
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Bruce Beeby.
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall

A play for radio by Christina Laffeaty with William Fox and Janet Burnell
Jack and Mary Amery have never had so much as a tiff, but on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary their tranquillity is shattered. t Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Christina Laffeaty
Unknown:
William Fox
Unknown:
Janet Burnell
Unknown:
Mary Amery
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Mary Amery:
Janet Burnell
Jack Amery:
William Fox
Valerie Bates:
Dorit Welles
Loudspeaker voice:
Alan Barry

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON t Talk of Books and Writers:
BERNARDINF. BISHOP reviews s( me new paperbacks: MARY STEWART talks to MARJORIE ANDERSON about her latest novel: JOHN HALE considers A Man of Sorrow, a biography of the Rev. Patrick Bronte tSamaritans Here: a volunteer talks about her work on the telephone, helping people in despair
Reading Your Letters
Art and Appetite: SUZANNE FELCHLIN-EPPES has her own criterion for appreciating pictures. t All at Sea: MARY DIXON and her daughter recall years spent sailing in the Mediterranean
NICOLETTE BERNARD reads Nectar in a Sieve by KAMALA MARKANDAYA t Sixth of nine instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Talks:
Mary Stewart
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Hale
Unknown:
Rev. Patrick Bronte
Unknown:
Suzanne Felchlin-Eppes
Unknown:
Mary Dixon

A radio serial in thirteen parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM freely dramatised from Dumas with Patrick Troughton
Anne Cullen and Victor Lucas
D'Artagnan and Porthos have seen the simple interment of the General of the Order of Jesus— and among the mourners they observed the cloaked figure of Aramis. Later, D'Artagnan presented Porthos to the King, and revealed to Aramis that he knew the true identity of the mysterious Prisoner in the Bastille.
' 8: Freedom and Seclusion
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT t Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Patrick Troughton
Unknown:
Anne Cullen
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Louise de la Valliere:
Anne Cullen
D'Artagnan:
Patrick Troughton
Aramis:
Victor Lucas
Baisemeaux de Montlezun:
Philip Leaver
The Prisoner of the Bastille:
Michael Spice
Madame (The Princess Henrietta):
Cècile Chevreau
Porthos:
, Francis de Wolff

including: t Fifty Miles for a Golden Horseshoe: JOHN EARLE describes last Saturday's long-distance ride across Exmoor and contrasts it with other journeys made by horse in the past tDaddy's Girl: When
ALICE MAY COLLIS was young her father took her for walks round London and taught her little ditties she still sings t I'm not religious, but ... : a talk by THE REV. DONALD CAIRNS of Belfast
Your Letters
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
John Earle
Unknown:
Alice May Collis
Unknown:
Rev. Donald Cairns
Introduced By:
Steve Race

A series of five imaginary chapters of autobiography written by young people 3: Head Like a Lodging-house Cat
by NEVILLE SMITH
Narrator, Neville Smith
Others taking part:
Peter Bartlett , Freddie Earlle Gordon Faith, Sheila Fay
Gordon- Gardner, James Hall
Arbet Hopner. Miriam Margolyes Michael McClain , Ray Mort t Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
Neville Smith is a young actor from Liverpool. In Head Like a Lodging-house Cat he describes, through his hero John Joseph Rollins , how, after some grandiose early ambitions and a University training. he finally decided what he wanted to do-and did it.

Contributors

Narrator:
Neville Smith
Narrator:
Neville Smith
Unknown:
Peter Bartlett
Unknown:
Sheila Fay
Unknown:
James Hall
Unknown:
Arbet Hopner.
Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Unknown:
Ray Mort
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker
Produced By:
Neville Smith
Unknown:
John Joseph Rollins

The News
Background to the News
People in the News
Tonight's extended edition includes special coverage from The T.U.C. Conference at Brighton followed by LISTENING POST t WALTER TAPLIN introduces . this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter Taplin

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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