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Education in Action
A series of programmes on the structure and organisation of education in England
3: The Churches and the Schoolswith THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
ARCHBISHOP OF LIVERPOOL Chairman of the Catholic Education Council and THE REV. CANON ERIC WILD General Secretary of The National Society
Introduced by STUART MACLURE
Produced by Shirley Franklin
This series is Intended to be of special interest to those thinking of entering or returning to teaching

Contributors

Introduced By:
Stuart MacLure
Produced By:
Shirley Franklin

In the 1920s you could buy, if you were rich enough, a piano which -would automatically reproduce, without any assistance, the playing of masters of the keyboard. Recently some of the piano rolls made by great artists have been transcribed to tape for the BBC Sound Archives
DERYCK COOKE introduces piano rolls of the playing of Josef Lhévinne
Moritz Rosenthal
Sergei Rachmaninov
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Leopold Godowsky and Mischa Levitsky
Produced by Denys Gueroult
A World Service production previously broadcast on July 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Moritz Rosenthal
Unknown:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Unknown:
Benno Moiseiwitsch
Unknown:
Leopold Godowsky
Unknown:
Mischa Levitsky
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

including:
A Friend by Post: ERNEST MARWICK of Orkney talks about a new pen friend, the daughter of a former Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Town and Country: J. S. CAMPBELL invites DR. 1. M. RICHARDSON , Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine in the University of Aberdeen, and DR. H. S. MILLER of Shrewsbury. author of The Ageing Country-man, to compare the cost of living as it affects the town and country dweller
Piping Memories: ANGUS MAC-PHERSON of Invershin recalls some of the highlights from Highland Games and Braemar Gatherings he has attended during the past seventy years What's in a Name?: RUBY TURBERVILLE describes a journey with her husband through the Thomas Hardy country during which they tried to establish a link between their family and the D'Urbervilles
Introduced by HOWARD LOCKHART from Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Ernest Marwick
Unknown:
J. S. Campbell
Unknown:
M. Richardson
Introduced By:
Howard Lockhart

Cavalcade to Cowdray
A historical serial in six parts by Aubrey Feist
The mystery of Queen Elizabeth's disappearance is still unsolved, but the Queen's friends are a little nearer the truth now they know the identity of her companion ...
5: Lovers' Meeting
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Unknown:
Aubrey Feist
Produced By:
David Davis
Lord Burghley:
Patrick Barr
Viscount Montague:
Howleson Culff
Sir Robert Avery:
Tim Seely
Wallet:
Arthur Lawrence
Toby Hugguett:
Timothy Harley
Margery Ripe:
Miriam Margolyes
Anne Forest:
Sheila Whittingham
Queen Elizabeth I:
Lydia Sherwood
Diggory Shadbolt:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Jane Meryll:
Nicolette Bernard
Frank Meryll:
Jon Rollason

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 A Pattern of Islands, recalls with recordings her father as a storyteller and broadcaster
Reader. Garard Green
Produced by Rodney M. Bennett
Broadcast on September 26

Contributors

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

The memoirs of Betsy Mae Meadows starring
Avice Landon with Nicholas Phipps and Charles Hawtrey
Guest Fun-maker, HUGH PADDICK and BENNY LEE. JUNE SALTER
SHEILA BERNETTE and JOHN BADDELEY
This week:
You'll love Podgy's mild flavour
Script by KEN HOARE and MIKE SHARLAND
Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
A vice Landon Is in ' Present Laughter ' at the Queen's Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Avice Landon
Unknown:
Nicholas Phipps
Unknown:
Charles Hawtrey
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Benny Lee.
Unknown:
June Salter
Unknown:
Sheila Bernette
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Script By:
Ken Hoare
Script By:
Mike Sharland
Produced By:
Trafford Whitelock

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street, are analysed by William HARDCASTLE

Contributors

Unknown:
William Hardcastle

East German Attitudes
Second of two programmes by GEORGE COULOURIS
George Coulouris enquires from students in East Berlin, and from the Parliamentary Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, what democracy means in the German
Democratic Republic.

Contributors

Unknown:
George Coulouris
Unknown:
George Coulouris

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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