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Choices in paperback shared by MARCARET DRABBLE
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
BERNARD HOLLOWOOD with lAIN HAMILTON in the deck-chair
Produced by Paul Humphreys

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcaret Drabble
Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Bernard Hollowood
Produced By:
Paul Humphreys

Ϯ by MARY ROGERS
' ... My father, a retired Anglo-Indian Colonel, used to say that he could always judge a woman's poise by the way she walked across a barrack square. I have never had to do that, but arriving as a master's bride at a public school. I knew what he meant when I first had to cross the Quadrangle alone! '

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Rogers

LESLIE SMITH introduces this midday edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on lively talking points of any kind are welcome for these broadcasts
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London. W.l.

Contributors

Introduces:
Leslie Smith

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
The Search Goes On: one man's experience of trying to find a wife
Point of View: LESLIE TARGETT on accents and education
Interview: JOHN SCHLESINGER , director of the new film Darling, talking to GORDON Gow
The Cost of a Cabbage: JOAN PYPER follows one from field to kitchen
Air Letter from San Francisco: ANDRÉE MELLY gives her impressions of a recent visit. Recording
MARTIN JARVIS reads
The Sheltered Days by DEREK LAMBERT
Third of five instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Leslie Targett
Unknown:
John Schlesinger
Unknown:
Gordon Gow
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Derek Lambert

Holy Joe by Denis Constanduros
Produced by BRANDON ACTON-BOND in the BBC's Bristol studios
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Constanduros
Produced By:
Brandon Acton-Bond
Joe Cheeseman:
Colin Douglas
Ted Luscombe:
Michael Bradford
Mr Luscombe:
William Robinson
Mrs Luscombe:
Phyllis Smale
Dot, their daughter:
Aileen Mills
Doctor:
Bernard Padfield
Old Mrs Cheeseman:
Betty Hardy
Mrs Gurd:
Constance Chapman
Diane Smithers:
Pat Heywood
Van driver:
Jeremy Longhurst

from
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
Preces and Responses (St.
Patrick's Cathedral Use)
Psalm 78
Lessons: Lamentations 2, vv.
10-19; St. John 4. vv. 1-26
Canticles (Hylton Stewart in the First Mode)
Anthem: Greater love hath no man (John Ireland )
Organist and Master of the Choristers, WILLIAM S. GRIEG

Contributors

Unknown:
Hylton Stewart
Organist:
John Ireland
Unknown:
William S. Grieg

A magazine of interest to all. with older listeners specially in mind. including:
Songs from the 'Forties: ERIC
MASCHWITZ recalls some of the musicals of the time
Laurens van der Post:
DON DAVIS talks to the famous author and traveller about his work for Africa after the war and his personal philosophy
Dream Cottage: ROBERT GUN-
NELL visits Pendomen. the dream cottage of WINIFRED GILMORE JONES , high in the hills of Wales
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurens van Der
Talks:
Don Davis
Unknown:
Winifred Gilmore Jones
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley dramatised for radio in thirteen episodes by HOWARD AGG
4: Soldiers of Fortune
Amyas Leigh and Will Cary were soon off to Ireland to fight the Spanish, together with Captain Walter Ralegh. In one scuffle at dead of night Amyas took a Spanish prisoner-none other than the formidable Don Guzman de Soto ...
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by BRIAN MILLER from the West of England

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Kingsley
Unknown:
Howard Agg
Unknown:
Amyas Leigh
Unknown:
Walter Ralegh.
Unknown:
Don Guzman De Soto
Produced By:
Brian Miller
Storyteller:
Antony Viccars
Lord Grey:
Stephen Jack
Walter Ralegh:
David Lawton
Admiral Winter:
Charles Bardell
Amyas Leigh:
Jeffry Wickham
Colonel Sebastian:
Geoffrey Matthews
Don Guzman de Soto:
Kim Grant

from The Music Room.
Assembly House, Norwich
ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON JACK TRAIN. NORMAN HACKFORTH with a Mystery Voice and KENNETH HORNE in the chair
Produced by Humphrey Barclay Repeated: Thursday, 1.10 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Adamson Jack
Unknown:
Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Produced By:
Humphrey Barclay

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Ϯ 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 specialty welcome

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter Taplin

3: Brazil-The New People
In the third of five talks
PETER DUVAL SMITH discovers the democratic qualities of the Brazilians-' the new people,' as he sees them, ' and it's their gift for living in the present that makes them new. They are the people with the knack-the knack of living.'
Thursday: The Amazon-On the River Sea

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith

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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