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John Orczy-Barstow son of the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel describes how the book came to be written and recalls experiences in Hungary as a schoolboy before the 1914-18 war. in conversation with WILFRID THOMAS
Broadcast on February 3

Contributors

Unknown:
John Orczy-Barstow

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
6: Manoeuvring
Read by FRANK DUNCAN with BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT ELIZABETH PROUD
WILFRID CARTER, PETER MARINKER
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr. C. J. Yellowplush
Unknown:
William Makepeace
Unknown:
Terence Tiller
Read By:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall

from
The Bishop of Birmingham and Peter Cook humorist, pop star, and writer with four teenagers to ask the questions
In the chair, PETER HAIGH
Produced by Roger Ordish
Broadcast on September 9 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Cook
Unknown:
Peter Haigh
Produced By:
Roger Ordish

Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
Edward J. Mason
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Aunt Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Christine Johnson:
Joyce Gibbs
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Carol Grenville:
Anne Cullen
Harvey Grenville:
Ronald Baddiley
Anne Grenville:
Heather Canning
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Betty Barratt:
Brenda Dunrich
Paddy Redmond:
John Bott
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Sue Bent:
Linda Polan
Roger Patillo:
Jeremy Mason

from Newcastle
Introduced by GILLIAN HUSH
Servants in the 'Sixties: MARY
REDCLIFFE examines the relevance of servants today
It Was a Lovely Funeral:
JAKE KELLY on the Tyneside way of death
Early Leavers: an enquiry into why so many Northern children leave school at fifteen
Lost Empires: BILLY RUSSELL recalls the spiendour of the Northern music-hall
Why Flats?: ALEX GLASGOW looks at multi-storey living
The Sheltered Days
DEREK LAMBERT 'S book abridged by Ba Mason
Read by MARTIN JARVIS
First of five instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gillian Hush
Unknown:
Jake Kelly
Unknown:
Billy Russell
Unknown:
Derek Lambert
Abridged By:
Ba Mason
Read By:
Martin Jarvis

The fourth of a series of talks on five selected masterpieces of fiction from Ireland, France, Germany, Russia, and America
4: Dr. Zhivago by BORIS PASTERNAK discussed by PROFESSOR FRANK KERMODE
Broadcast on December 27. 1964
(BBC World Seivice)
' Moby Dick ': September 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Boris Pasternak
Unknown:
Professor Frank Kermode
Unknown:
Moby Dick

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to GROUP CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BADER , C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C.
For Your Library List: some suggestions from HONOR WYATT
Can you tell me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Talks:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Captain Douglas Bader
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Home is the Sailor by Rumer Godden arranged as a dramatised reading in four parts
3: Two come back
Sadness filled the playroom and the doll's house, because Curly had gone. But on board the Golden Galleon, Bertrand Lesseps , with Curly in his jersey pocket. felt that he had found a friend.
Adapted and produced by EVELYN WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Rumer Godden
Unknown:
Bertrand Lesseps
Produced By:
Evelyn Williams
Narrator:
John Darran
Bertrand:
Gwenyth Petty
Sian:
Olive Michael
Curly:
Annest Wiliam

The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
"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

Duo in G major (K.423) (Mozart)
IGOR OISTRAKH (violin) DAVID OISTRAKH (viola)
11.31* Variations, Op. 36
(Spohr)
NICANOR ZABALETA (harp)
11.38* Trio in B flat major
(D.471) (Schubert)
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) DEREK SIMPSON (cello) on gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Igor Oistrakh
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Derek Simpson

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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