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We make decisions every day, but sometimes we are brought to a halt by a problem so serious that any decision we make must change our lives
SONYA CALLINGHAM
ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL and C R. HEWITT listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered.
First of a new Feries cf four programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Sonya Callingham
Unknown:
Arthur Calder-Marshall
Unknown:
C R. Hewitt

The novel by John Masefield dramatised for radio by JOHN KEIR CROSS with Trader Faulkner
PART 5: With half a crew and the men exhausted, young Cruiser Trewsbury heads The Bird of Dawning towards the Channel in the last desperate lap of the China tea race.
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
Broadcast on June 25
Cast for the week:

Contributors

Novel By:
John Masefield
Unknown:
John Keir
Produced By:
John Gibson
Presenter:
Russell Napier
Cruiser Trewsbury:
Trader Faulkner
Captain Duntisbourne:
Peter Claughton
Will Kemble:
Patrick Barr
Jim Fairtord:
Ralph Thuman
Percy Chedglow:
Peter Marinker
Coates:
Timothy Harley
Nailsworth:
Basil Jones
Stratton:
John Hollis
Efans:
Antony Viccahs
Perrot:
Alan Lawrance
Rodmarton:
Anthony Hall
Bauer:
Miciiael McClain
MacNab:
Henry Stamper
Edseworth:
Bruce Beeby
Clutterbucke:
Bruce Beeby
Bloody Bill China:
Hector Ross

Catherine Dickens
An account of the tragic marriage of Catherine Hogarth to Charles Dickens written and narrated by Thea Holme with Others taking part:
Pamela Binns , Barbara Mitchell Pauline Wynn , Jon Farrell
Douglas Hankin , Denys Hawthorne Bill Horsley
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Dickens
Unknown:
Catherine Hogarth
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Thea Holme
Unknown:
Pamela Binns
Unknown:
Barbara Mitchell
Unknown:
Pauline Wynn
Unknown:
Jon Farrell
Unknown:
Douglas Hankin
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Bill Horsley
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker
Charles Dickens:
Douglas Blackwell
Catherine Dickens:
Eva Stuart

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Looking-glass: a ghost story by H. M. Slade , read by CONSTANCE CHAPMAN
Bees for Export: TOM SALMON talks to BROTHER ADAM about his work at Buckfast Abbey Apiaries in Devon
Christmas Recollections:
MARGARET ROWLING looks back to the 1920s at St. Ives. Cornwall
Recorder Solitaire:
MARGARET ROACH talks about recorders and takes pleasure in playing some
Introduced by RALPH WIGHTMAN From the West of England

Contributors

Story By:
H. M. Slade
Read By:
Constance Chapman
Unknown:
Margaret Rowling
Talks:
Margaret Roach
Introduced By:
Ralph Wightman

Oak, Ash, and Thorn
The Puck of Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON
1: Weland's Sword
The People of the Hills have all left. I saw them come into Old England and 1 saw them go. I came into England with Oak. Ash, and Thorn, and when Oak, Ash, and Thorn are gone I shall go too.
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Stories By:
Rudyard Kipling
Dramatised By:
A. R. Rawlinson
Produced By:
David Davis
Dan:
Jo Manning Wilson
Una:
Sian Davies
Hobden:
Peter Claughton
Puck:
Geoffrey Wincott
Weland:
Stephen Jack
Farmer:
Peter Claughton
Hugh:
Denis Goacher
Abbot:
Preston Lockwood
Father:
Stephen Jack

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 ROBERT EDWARDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Edwards

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More