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The fourth of nineteen programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. 'O' Level examinations in English Language and Literature, planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course
Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Friday's broadcast (Third Net.)
The remaining fifteen programmes tn the series will be broadcast
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from the National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge

Crossroads
Experts answer questions from an audience of motorists
The Panel:
STEPHEN SWINGLER, M.P.
Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
JOHN GOTT
Chief Constable, Northamptonshire
J. J. LEEMING
Retired County Surveyor of Dorset
JOHN OLDAKER
Secretary of the Motor Agents' Association
Chairman, BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge
† Recorded at the Gloucestershire Fire Service Headquarters, Cheltenham
Road Conditions for the week ahead

Contributors

Unknown:
John Oldaker
Unknown:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

Five characters in search of the authors-
BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN starring Kenneth Horne with KENNETH WILLIAMS , HUGH PADDICK
BETTY MARSDEN , BILL PERTWEE
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
EDWIN BRADEN and THE HORNBLOWERS
Announcer, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Fraser Hayes
Unknown:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

The Rev. David Sheppard, Warden and Chaplain of The Mayflower Family Centre, Canning Town, and former Test cricketer, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Last Monday's broadcast)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Rev. David Sheppard
Producer:
Monica Chapman

by Arnold Yarrow
Which of two men is telling the truth? And what would be their reasons for lying? with Hugh Burden as David Sorrell
Noel Johnson as Sir Harold Wilshire
Richard Hurndall as Mason
John Dearth as Colonel Rafer
† Produced by EILEEN CULLEN
Richard Hurndall is in 'Hostile Witness' at the Haymarket Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Yarrow
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Unknown:
David Sorrell
Unknown:
Noel Johnson
Unknown:
Sir Harold Wilshire
Unknown:
Richard Hurndall
Produced By:
Eileen Cullen
Produced By:
Richard Hurndall

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James adapted for broadcasting by Peggy Wells from the stage adaptation by CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR with Meg Wynn Owen , Donald Sinden and Ursula Jeans
A love story set in Venice in the year 1900
Cast in order of speaking:
Gondolier's song sung by Gordon Faith
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry James
Broadcasting By:
Peggy Wells
Unknown:
Christopher Taylor
Unknown:
Meg Wynn Owen
Unknown:
Donald Sinden
Unknown:
Ursula Jeans
Sung By:
Gordon Faith
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Susan Shepherd:
Ursula Jeans
Milly Theale:
Meg Wynn Owen
Maud Lowder:
Janet Burnell
Kate Croy:
Polly Murch
Pasquale:
Gordon Faith
Lord Mark:
Patrick Barr
Ganaseta:
Anthony Jackson
Merton Denver:
Donald Sinden

SIR GERALD BARRY on two books about Edwardian England
JOHN TERRAINE on armaments: Pedlar of Death, the story of Sir Basil Zaharoff, and a book on the submarine
T. G. ROSENTHAL on an anthology of war poems and talking to BERNARD BERGONZI about his study of the literature of the Great War
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
Produced by Joseph Hone

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Gerald Barry
Unknown:
John Terraine
Unknown:
Sir Basil Zaharoff
Unknown:
T. G. Rosenthal
Unknown:
Bernard Bergonzi
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes
Produced By:
Joseph Hone

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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