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Choices in paperback shared by JOYCE GRENFELL
CLIFF MICHELMORE
ERIC NEWBY with IAIN HAMILTON in the deck-chair t Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Cliff Michelmore
Unknown:
Eric Newby
Unknown:
Iain Hamilton
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

t A talk by D. PARRY MICHAEL
Letter-writing is one of the main casualties of the telephone age. D. Parry Michael reflects on some great letter-writers of the past. from St. Paul and Cicero to Lewis Carroll.

Contributors

Talk By:
D. Parry Michael
Unknown:
D. Parry Michael
Unknown:
Lewis Carroll.

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
3: Diamond Cut Diamond
Read by FRANK DUNCAN with ALAN HAINES , PETER MARINKER t Produced by Rayner Heppenstall

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr. C. J. Yellowplush
Unknown:
William Makepeace
Unknown:
Terence Tiller
Read By:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
Alan Haines
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall

Songs and dances in traditional style with PAT SHAW , CYRIL TAWNEY
Jim BAILEY
BERNARD FISHWICK
THE GREENSLEEVES BAND led by DENNIS DARKE
Produced by Brian Patten t from Horrabridge, Devon

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Shaw
Unknown:
Cyril Tawney
Unknown:
Jim Bailey
Unknown:
Bernard Fishwick
Unknown:
Dennis Darke
Produced By:
Brian Patten

with WILFRED PICKLES visits the town of Stroud, Gloucestershire with MABEL at ' The Table ' and HARRY HUDSON at the piano
Produced by Stephen Williams t Broadcast on Feb. 2 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Unknown:
Harry Hudson
Produced By:
Stephen Williams

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON t The Overdog: author
ALBERT BERMEL and designer OSBERT LANCASTER talk to GORDON Gow about their new play opening in London tomorrow t On My Head Be It!:
Maria BODENHAM got more than she bargained for when she called on some Red Indians
Out of the News: involving a topic of interest Worth All the Sweat and Tears:
HELEN REES describes how she and her husband built their own bungalow Medical Matters: news and views from doctors and medical workers
NICOLETTE BERNARD reads Nectar in a Sieve by KAMALA MARKANDAYA t Seventh of nine instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Albert Bermel
Designer:
Osbert Lancaster
Unknown:
Gordon Gow
Unknown:
Maria Bodenham
Unknown:
Helen Rees
Unknown:
Nicolette Bernard

A Bad Year for Monuments by Frank Bryce with Wilfred Pickles
' I've spent all my life as a demolition man-knocking things down, and now I'd like to build something for a change.' t Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Bryce
Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Produced By:
Alfred Bradley
Sam Gibson:
Wilfred Pickles
Edith Gibson:
Ella Atkinson
Joan Hanwell:
Pamela Craig
Brian Hanwell:
David Neal
Fred Holroyd:
John Sharp
Wallace Phillips:
Henry Livings
Peter Wright:
Alex Glasgow

from
Norwich Cathedral
Preces and Responses (
William Smith )
Psalms 41, 42, 43
Lessons: Ezekiel 33, vv. 7-19;
St. Luke 24, vv. 13-35
Office Hymn: 0 God of Jacob, by whose hand (A. and M 512)
Canticles (Murrill in E)
Anthem: How lovely are thy dwellings fair (Brahms)
Organist and Master of the Choristers. HEATHCOTE STATHAM
Assistant Choirmaster, Bernard Burrell

Contributors

Unknown:
William Smith
Choirmaster:
Bernard Burrell

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including: t Come to the Opera:
DAVID FRANKLIN remembers an English company's tour of opera houses in Germany
Going to the Pictures: BETTY BEST recommends some films you might enjoy seeing this month and talks to CHARLTON HESTON
A Bit of Pluck: BERYL SANDWELL recalls the simple courage of her grandmother which lasted until the end
Date with a Patient
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Charlton Heston
Unknown:
Beryl Sandwell
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley dramatised for radio in thirteen episodes by HOWARD AGG
3: The Golden Flag
Amyas Leigh was soon restless after his voyage round the world with Drake: in no time he was eager with his friend Will Cary to join the English forces fighting the Spaniards in Ireland. But first it was necessary to seek permission from his godfather and guardian, Sir Richard Grenville ...
Cast in order of speaking: t Produced by BRIAN MILLER from the West of England

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Kingsley
Unknown:
Amyas Leigh
Unknown:
Sir Richard Grenville
Produced By:
Brian Miller
Storyteller:
Antony Viccars
Amyas Leigh:
Jeffry Wickham
Sir Richard Grenville:
Stephen Jack
Adam:
Geoffrey Matthews
Salvation Yeo:
Norman Tyrrell
Will Cary:
Tim Seely
Soldier:
David Langford
Admiral Winter:
Charles Bardell
Lord Grey:
Stephen Jack
Don Guzman de Soto:
Kim Grant
Walter Ralegh:
David Lawton

A story of Jewish life in Nazi Europe by Joseph Bor translated by Edith Pargeter Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
The scene is Theresienstadt, used by the Nazis as a concentration centre for artists. t Broadcast on October 7. 1964
(Third)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Bor
Translated By:
Edith Pargeter
Read By:
Gabriel Woolf

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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