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A series of six programmes in which representative Humanists are questioned by KENNETH HARRIS about their assumptions and ideals
4: WENDY KAPLAN and DAVID POLLOCK speak as young Humanists
Next Saturday: Lord WiUis on the Making of a Humanist

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Harris
Unknown:
Wendy Kaplan
Unknown:
David Pollock

Crossroads
Members of the Elliott Motor Club put questions to a panel of experts
Lord Chesham previously Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
Harry Sanders, Assistant Chief Constable of Lancashire
Pat Gregory, Senior Executive of the R.A.C.
Les Leston, Motor racing commentator and journalist
Chairman, Bill Hartley
Produced by Jim Pestridge
Recorded at the Elliott Sports Ground, Lee Green, London
Road Conditions for the week ahead

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord Chesham
Unknown:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

with Ken Dodd
JOHN LAURIE
PATRICIA HAYES
WALLAS EATON
PERCY EDWARDS
JUDITH CHALMERS and THE COUNTRYMEN
DOODY'S DIDDY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Malcolm Lockyer
Produced by Bill Worsley
Broadcast on April 18 (Light)

Contributors

Comedian:
Ken Dodd
Unknown:
John Laurie
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Wallas Eaton
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Conducted By:
Malcolm Lockyer
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

Peter Hall Managing Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Extended version of last Monday's broadcast)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Peter Hall
Producer:
Monica Chapman

A House for Teena by Samuel Selvon with Barbara Assoon , Tommy Eytle and Frank Singuineau
A stolen fiver, a wrongful arrest and a marriage that depends on finding a house give the members of a steel band plenty to worry about.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Selvon
Unknown:
Barbara Assoon
Unknown:
Tommy Eytle
Unknown:
Frank Singuineau
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Teena:
Barbara Assoon
Humming Bird:
Tommy Eytle
Battersby:
Frank Singuineau
Tom:
Anthony Hall
Poor:
Charles Hyatt
Gallows:
Brian Hewlett
Nobby:
George Webs
Fitz:
George Saunders
Derek:
John Dearth
Jack:
Brian Hewlett
Fred:
Colin Campbell

HARRY DAVIDSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Introduced by REX PALMER
Master of Ceremonies, CHARLES CRATHORN
Produced by Roger Eames
The dances: Waltz: Military Two-step; Gypsy Tango; Progressive Barn Dance; Pride of Erin Waltz; Felice Foxtrot; Party Dance

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rex Palmer
Produced By:
Roger Eames
Unknown:
Erin Waltz

VILEM TAUSKY conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with ELLEN DALES (soprano) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
DAVID MASON (trumpet) and THE GALA CHORUS
Directed by JOHN MCCARTHY
Introduced by JOHN ROBERTS
Produced by Elizabeth Johnson The programme includes music from Romeo and Juliet by Gounod and Les Patineurs by Meyerbeer (arranged Constant Lambert), and two movements from Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat.

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Tenor:
Kenneth Bowen
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Introduced By:
John Roberts
Produced By:
Elizabeth Johnson

The Boy Who Made It by Vian Smith
Produced by BRIAN MILLER
Reveated: Monday, 3.15

Contributors

Unknown:
Vian Smith
Produced By:
Brian Miller
Grannie Damerell:
Daphne Heard
Johnny Driscoll:
Nigel Anthony
Denley:
Malcolm Gerard
Henry Pickford:
Bernard Padfield
Taxi driver:
Bernard Padfield
Porter:
Norman Tyrrell
Jessica:
Jacquellne Rose
Dorothy Brownleigh:
Thelma Barlow
Station announcer:
Thelma Barlow
Harold Brownleigh:
Roy Brimble
Tom Driscoll:
Edgar Harrison
Mrs Driscoll:
Angela Brooking
Joe:
Esmond Rideout
Racing commentator:
Alan Haines
TV Voice:
Bernard Fishwick
Wainwright:
Hubert Rees
Bookmaker:
Hubert Rees
Keith Kennedy:
Trevor Danby
Mrs Sullivan:
Hope Meredith

Walter Allen on Olivia Manning's Balkan trilogy, including the last, just-published volume Friends and Heroes

Dilys Powell talking to Vincent Cronin about his biographies - Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal

Desmond Stewart on Abu Simbel by William MacQuitty and two other Egyptian histories

Vernon Scannell on a selection of recent fiction

Introduced by Robin Holmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Allen
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Vincent Cronin
Unknown:
Desmond Stewart
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Presenter:
Robin Holmes
Producer:
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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