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GLENYS DOWDLE (soprano)
ST. DEINIOL SINGERS
COLWYN BAY GIRLS CHOIR
BETHESDA LADIES CHOIR
LLITHFAEN AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY
PENRHYN MALE VOICE CHOIR accompanied by MENNA LEYSMON , WILLIAM BACON and FFRANCON THOMAS
Conducted by JAMES WILLIAMS
† Introduced by DlC HUGHES

Contributors

Soprano:
Glenys Dowdle
Accompanied By:
Menna Leysmon
Accompanied By:
William Bacon
Accompanied By:
Ffrancon Thomas
Conducted By:
James Williams
Introduced By:
Dlc Hughes

A Sunday supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Happiness-can it be pursued?: JOYCE GRENFELL
Help is Available: EILEEN CAPEL reports on a scheme in Bedford for the registered blind or partially sighted who might benefit from new optieal lenses
I think you've blown a gasket: RENEE CHAMPNESS decided to find out what happens under the bonnet
Portrait of a Listener: THOMAS THOMPSON , a widower with four young children, talks to GWEN PAIN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Eileen Capel
Unknown:
Renee Champness
Unknown:
Thomas Thompson

Chairman,
SIR JOHN SUMMERSON
Broadcasting: JANET QUIGLEY
Book: WILLIAM COOPER
Art: BRYAN ROBERTSON
Film: ROGER MANVELL
Theatre: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
William Cooper
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson
Unknown:
Roger Manvell
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

A spontaneous discussion by DAVID PRICE, M.P.
DICK TAVERNE , M.P.
ANNE ALLEN
DOUGLAS ROBINSON
Travelling Question-Master, FREDDY GRISEWOOD
Produced by Michael Bowen from Verwood, Dorset
Last Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Taverne
Unknown:
Anne Allen
Unknown:
Douglas Robinson
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

'twixt ISOBEL BARNETT ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD and RICHARD MURDOCH LANCE PERCIVAL with some tune-twisters from ALAN PAUL
In the chair, Roy PLOMLEY
Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Produced by Charles Maxwell
Broadcast on June 1 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Lance Percival
Unknown:
Alan Paul
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Written By:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell

JUNE GRIMBLE, daughter of the late Sir Arthur Grimble who was a Colonial officer in the Pacific Islands for nineteen years and the author of Pattern of Islands, recalls with recordings her father as a storyteller and broadcaster
Reader, Garard Green
Produced by Rodney M. Bennett

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Grimble
Produced By:
Rodney M. Bennett

A radio serial in thirteen parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM freely dramatised from Dumas with Patrick Troughton
Anne Cullen and Victor Lucas
By means of forged documents Aramis has succeeded in releasing the Prisoner of the Bastille and in overthrowing King Louis and imprisoning him in his stead. But D'Artagnan has discovered the plot. and prepares for loyal action.
PART 11:The Humble Grocerand the Crown of France
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Patrick Troughton
Unknown:
Anne Cullen
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Produced By:
Norman Wright
D'Artagnan:
Patrick Troughton
Louise de la Vallière:
Anne Cullen
Malicorne:
Kenneth Dight
Porthos:
Francis de Wolff
Soldier:
Hector Ross
Planchet:
Bruce Beedy
Baisemeaux de Montlezun:
Philip Leaver
Jailer:
Norman Claridge
King Louis XIV:
Frederick Theves
Old Nicholas:
John Dearth
Bastille guard:
Alan Haines
Fouquet:
Philip Morant
Ararnis:
Victor Lucas
Prisoner of the Bastille:
Michael Spice
De Wardes:
Philip Guard
Truchen Gechet:
Patricia Leventon

ROGER MASSEY , a vet in general practice, looks at what is happening on some of our farms. How are the animals treated? How do they taste when they arrive on the table -and are they nutritionally as good? ... These are some of the questions he asks
Produced by Mick Rhodes
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Massey
Produced By:
Mick Rhodes

† Thou visitest the earth
A reading from ' The Private
Prayers of Lancelot Andrews '
What tongue can tell thy greatness, Lord? (BBC H.B. 451)
A reading from 'The Private
Prayers of Lancelot Andrewes '
Anthem: Thou visitest the earth (Maurice Greene )

Contributors

Unknown:
Lancelot Andrews
Unknown:
Lancelot Andrewes
Unknown:
Maurice Greene

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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