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ANNE ALLEN 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 wrtte to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London. W.1.

Contributors

Introduces:
Anne Allen

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

Contributors

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

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
Have I Missed Something?:
BASIL BOOTHROYD talks about some blanks in his experience. 2: Dancing
Armchair Gardener: some simple hints and tips from FRED LOADS
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Talks:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Talks:
Basil Boothroyd
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe abridged by Neville Teller as an eight-part reading
Read by NORMAN RODWAY
Part 7: In which I recount all the strange events that occurred in my island during my absence, and how I established my colony and thus departed from my island, only to suffer a most grievous bereavement.

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

Stories of the heroic and tragic campaign of 1915-16 as told for the most part by British and Anzac veterans who, after fifty years, returned last May to the Peninsula
Narrator. ALAN WHEATLEY
Reader, ALEXANDER JOHN
Compiled and produced by MAURICE BROWN

Contributors

Reader:
Alexander John
Produced By:
Maurice Brown

The News
Background to the News
People in the News
Tonight's edition includes items from the LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE at Blackpool
Interview by HARDIMAN SCOTT BBC Political Correspondent
Commentary by UWE KITZINGER
Excerpts from the day's debates introduced by ROBERT WILLIAMS 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

Commentary By:
Uwe Kitzinger
Introduced By:
Robert Williams
Introduces:
Walter Taplin

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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