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Southwark is Sixty
THE REV. PETER NAYLOR , Vicar of the parish church of St. Anne, South Lambeth, introduces a programme in which are heard some of the people and clergy of Southwark
Produced by Sheila Anderson

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Peter Naylor
Produced By:
Sheila Anderson

We make decisions every day but sometimes we are brought to a halt by a problem so serious that any decision we take must change our lives.
ANNE ALLEN , STFPHEN BLACK, and C. R. HEWITT listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they woutd have offered
Produced by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Allen
Unknown:
C. R. Hewitt
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

including:
Ϯ Autumn in the Dales: a country talk by WALTER FLESHER
Marriage Bureau: IVAN and DAPHNE HARGRAVE talk about their service for older clients
There's a Good Time Coming: ELLEN HOLMES remembers her Irish mother
Getting Ready to Retire:
ALAN DIXON takes a look at the class arranged by a Bolton college
Songs sung by ALEX GLASGOW
Introduced by RONALD LLOYD from the North of England

Contributors

Talk By:
Walter Flesher
Talk By:
Daphne Hargrave
Unknown:
Ellen Holmes
Unknown:
Alan Dixon
Sung By:
Alex Glasgow
Introduced By:
Ronald Lloyd

Cavalcade to Cowdray
A historical serial in six parts by AUBREY FEIST
A night of storm and a jester's song had induced the ageing Queen Elizabeth to make a progress through Surrey and Sussex, and on August 13, 1591, the royal cavalcade set out on its journey from London to Cowdray ...
2: The House of Discord
Ϯ Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Aubrey Feist
Produced By:
David Davis
Lord Burghley:
Patrick Barr
Sir Robert Avery:
Tim Seely
Anne Forest:
Sheila Whittingham
Queen Elizabeth:
Lydia Sherwood
Wallet:
Arthur Lawrence
Jane Meryll:
Nicolette Bernard
Tom Meryll:
Walter Fitzgerald
Frank Meryll:
Jon Rollason
Ned:
Godfrey Kenton
Kate:
Joan Duan
Will Wend-Away:
Humphrey Morton
Diggory Shadbott:
Howard Marion-Crawford

by M. S. M. WEEDON
M. S. M. Weedon worked for some years as a schoolmaster in Bermuda. His hobbies of sailing and skin-diving led him to investigate a curious story—a group of islands near Bermuda, which in fact never existed but were solemnly charted for more than a century and still lead a kind of ghostly existence.

Contributors

Unknown:
M. S. M. Weedon

The News
Background to the News
People in the News including the final day of the LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE at Blackpool
Interview by HARDIMAN SCOTT. BBC Political Correspondent
Commentary by UWE KITZINGER followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street, are analysed by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Hardiman Scott.
Commentary By:
Uwe Kitzinger
Unknown:
William Hardcastle

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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