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Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
John Keir Cross
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Aunt Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Christine Johnson:
Joyce Gibbs
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Mabel Larkin:
Kay Hudson
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
Dawn Kingsley:
Patricia Bendall
Roger Patillo:
Jeremy Mason
Valerie Trentham:
Jenny Lee
Nigel Burton:
Bryan Kendrick
Joan Burton:
Esma Wilson
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux

The last of a series of talks on five selected masterpieces of fiction from Ireland, France, Germany, Russia, and America
5: Moby Dick by HERMAN MELVILLE discussed by WALTER ALLEN
Excerpts read by LEIGH CRUTCHLEY
† Broadcast on October 18. 1964
(BBC World Service)

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Allen
Read By:
Leigh Crutchley

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to GERALD MOORE tFor Your Library List: some recommendations from LEIGH CRUTCHLEY
Argument: another in a series of conversations on an issue of the day
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Talks:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Gerald Moore
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Home is the Sailor by Rumer Godden arranged as a dramatised reading in four parts
4: Something old, something new On Mrs. Lewis's ' magical morning ' Captain Raleigh has been found in the sand dunes, and Thomas, in his dark blue and gold uniform, has been sent back in a box from France.
Adapted and produced by EVELYN WILLIAMS

Contributors

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

Written and adapted for radio by Donald Howarth with and The Rev. Jacob Bowers pianist, Viola Tunnard
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
Sebastian Shaw broadcasts by permission of the English Stage Company; Eileen Atkins is in The Killing of Sister George' at the Duke of York's Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Howarth
Pianist:
Rev. Jacob Bowers
Pianist:
Viola Tunnard
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Produced By:
Sebastian Shaw
Unknown:
Eileen Atkins
Cicely Bowers:
Marian Spencer
her husband,:
Sebastian Shaw
Their children: Anna:
Eileen Atkins
Maurice:
Gary Watson
Clifford:
Gabriel Woolf
Uncle Frank:
John Dearth
Elizabeth Mathews:
Kathleen Helme

The News
Background to the News
People in the News 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

Contributors

Introduces:
Twalter Taplin

by Robert Seeds
For many of us Saudi Arabia is only vaguely identified as part of a blurred and highly romanticised Middle Eastern 'image.' Robert Seeds, for many years lecturer in English at the University of Riyadh, tries to bring the real Saudi Arabia into focus.

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor Robert Seeds

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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