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An impression of schoolleavers in Newcastle
LEIGH CRUTCHLEY has talked to some of the boys and girls who left school in Newcastle this summer. How have they enjoyed their time at school? How do they see their prospects for the future?
Songs by BRETT STEVENS
Lyrics by ALAN REEVE-JONES t Broadcast on May 21

Contributors

Songs By:
Brett Stevens
Unknown:
Alan Reeve-Jones

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
4: Foreign Parts
Read by FRANK DUNCAN with WILFRID CARTER , PETER MARINKER t Produced by Rayner Heppenstall

Contributors

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

from the University of Nottingham
Second hearings of the programme in which scientists and technologists answer listeners' questions
In the Chair, Professor
G. P. WELLS
Panel:
Ernest Barrington Professor of Zoology
JAMES CROSSLAND
Reader in Pharmacology
DAVID EVANS
Professor of Geology
KENNETH STEVENS
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Arranged by David Edge t Broadcast on .June 17

Contributors

Unknown:
G. P. Wells
Unknown:
Ernest Barrington
Reader:
James Crossland
Unknown:
David Evans
Unknown:
Kenneth Stevens
Arranged By:
David Edge

Introduced by Pamela CREIGHTON t Ages and Attitudes: BUNTY
GUNN reflects t Special Schools in Moscow:
STANLEY SEGAL. Headmaster of a special school for educationally subnormal children, reports on a visit to the Soviet Union
Reading Your Letters t Going to the Theatre: a personal view from MARY STOCKS on some current plays t Gems of Worldly Wisdom: cynical sayings on social sue- cess considered by Baroness Phillips . Anne Scott-James, and Freddy Bloom
NICOLETTE BERNARD reads Nectar in a Sieve by KAMALA MARKANDAYA t Eighth of nine instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Stanley Segal.
Unknown:
Baroness Phillips
Unknown:
Anne Scott-James,
Unknown:
Freddy Bloom
Unknown:
Nicolette Bernard

Chairman, SIR JOHN SUMMERSON
Art: DAVID SYLVESTER
Film: DEREK PROUSE
Theatre: JOHN HOLMSTROM
Broadcasting: JACQUES BRUNIUS
Book: C. V. WEDGWOOO
Produced by Helen Rapp t Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
John Holmstrom
Produced By:
Helen Rapp

A magazine ,of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
It's Home to Me ... : ANGELA PAIN looks at some of the problems that may arise when circumstances force a change of house or flat - with musical comment from JOY ADAMSON
The Major Came Late: WALLACE ARTER talks about the memories revived by a visit to his old village church t
Cordon Rouge: with GEORGE VILLlERS in the kitchen
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
George Villlers
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe abridged by Neville Teller as an eight-part reading t Read by NORMAN RODWAY
Part 4: In which I discover the origin of the footprint in the sand which so disturbed me. and in which I have a strange dream that I afterwards turn to reality with the most unexpected, yet gratifying, results.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robinson Crusoe
Unknown:
Daniel Defoe
Abridged By:
Neville Teller
Read By:
Norman Rodway

Josef Suk (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader. Hugh Maguire Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Norman Del Mar
From the Royal Albert Hall. London
Part 1
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Contributors

Violin:
Josef Suk
Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Conducted By:
Norman Del Mar
Unknown:
Albert Hall.
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent

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 tWALTER 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

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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