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Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Wayside Toilets: JANE McKENZIE. Secretary of the National Federation of Consumer Groups, reviews what is being done by Local Authorities
Learning to drive at Fifty: AMY TOWNLEY gives encouragement to the not so young
That Kind of Driver: MARGOT LAWRENCE takes a look at her fellow motorists
Safety Belts: MARY NOBLE, S.R.N.. A.R.S.H., talks about safety belts for women motorists
Road conditions for the week ahead

Contributors

Unknown:
Amy Townley
Unknown:
Margot Lawrence

with Ken Dodd
JOHN LAURIE. PATRICIA HAYES
WALLAS EATON. JUDITH CHALMERS and BRIAN POOLE and THE TREMELOES
DODDY's DIDDY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by MALCOLM LoCKYER Script by Eddie Braben and Ken Dodd
Produced by BILL WORSLEY
Broadcast on May 2 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Dodd
Unknown:
John Laurie.
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Wallas Eaton.
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Brian Poole
Conducted By:
Malcolm Lockyer
Script By:
Eddie Braben
Script By:
Ken Dodd
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

The Shadowy Third by Gyles Adams
Helen Symes acquires old Mrs. Alardyce's country cottage, and soon begins to reflect on the village gossip—' Some say she was a witch....'
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Gyles Adams
Unknown:
Helen Symes
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Mrs Peale:
Grace Allardyce
The Rev Clive Jimson:
Michael Kilgarriff
John Varley:
Peter Marinker
Helen Symes:
Monica Grey
Judy Fraser:
Penelope Lee
Mrs Alardyce:
Gladys Spencer
Philip Symes:
Hector Ross
Tom Mason:
Brian Hewlett

MYERS FOGGIN conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with JEAN ALLISTER (contralto) JOHN WAKEFIELD (tenor) DEREK SIMPSON (cello) and the GALA CHORUS
Directed by JOHN MCCARTHY Introduced by JOHN ROBERTS produced by Elizabeth Johnson The programme includes music from The Grand Duchess by Offenbach, the first and second movements from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra by Elgar, and music from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
John Wakefield broadcasts by per. mission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Contralto:
Jean Allister
Tenor:
John Wakefield
Cello:
Derek Simpson
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Introduced By:
John Roberts
Produced By:
Elizabeth Johnson
Unknown:
John Wakefield

Marjorie Westbury and Carleton Hobbs in The Happiest Days of Your Life by John Dighton adapted for broadcasting by GILES COOPER
Scene: A boys' school in Hampshire. Time: Summer 1946.
Hilary Hall school for boys. returning to its own premises after war-time evacuation, finds that Ministerial muddle has created a situation in which one crisis leads to another and eventually to militant resistance.
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Repeated on Monday at 3.16 see facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Westbury
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs
Unknown:
John Dighton
Broadcasting By:
Giles Cooper
Unknown:
Hilary Hall
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
Dick Tassell:
Gordon Gardner
Rainbow:
Peter Cuughton
Rupert Billings:
John Dearth
Geoffrey Pond:
Carleton Hobbs
Evelyn Whitchurch:
Marjorie Westbury
Miss Gossage:
Nicolette Bernard
Hopcroft Mi:
Nicholas Charles
Barbara cahoun:
Sheila Grant
Joyce Harper:
Eva Haddon
The Rev Mr Peck:
Eric Anderson
Mrs Peck:
Jane Wenham
Mr Sowter:
Basil Jones
Mrs Sowter:
Betty Huntley-Wright

Irish Writing
SEAN O'FAOLAIN on a selection of recent Irish fiction, including John McGahern 's The Dark
ROBERT GREACEN on Louis MacNeice's autobiography, The Strings are False
H. A. L. CRAIG on Brendan Behan's Confessions
WALTER ALLEN on Iris Murdoch and Edna O'Brien, and their two recent novels
PETER DUVAL SMITH talking to ANTHONY BURGESS about his book on Joyce for the general reader, Here Comes Everybody Introduced by RoBIN HOLMES
Produced by Joseph Hone

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean O'Faolain
Unknown:
John McGahern
Unknown:
H. A. L. Craig
Unknown:
Brendan Behan
Unknown:
Walter Allen
Unknown:
Iris Murdoch
Unknown:
Edna O'Brien
Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Anthony Burgess
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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