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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 take must change our lives
ANNE ALLEN. C. R. HEWITT , and GILBERT PHELPS listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered
Second or a new series of four

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Allen.
Unknown:
C. R. Hewitt

by VAUGHAN JEFFREYS
The speaker. who has enjoyed riding since he was a child in South Africa. contends'that horses are necessary to the good life, that man only attains human dignity when seated on a horse, and the horse only fulfils his true destiny when carrying a man.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Vaughan Jeffreys

from The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling abridged and read by DAVID DAVIS
3: The White Seal
' In the days when men killed us by the hundred-thousand, there was a story that some day a white seal would come out of the north and lead the seal people to a Quiet place.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Read By:
David Davis

Three programmes about class in the 'sixties
1: The Forge
For more than 600 years a pattern for living has been hammered out by the working people of the Black Country. It is a pattern that was made to last.
Narrated by KENNETH HILL
Additional recordings by Keith Ackrill
Compited and produced by Anne Owen

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Ackrill
Produced By:
Anne Owen

A mosaic in sound of the River Thames, through the words of lightermen, watermen, and dockers, and through songs made out of their speech by Alasdair Clayre '
Singers,
SANDRA KERR , JOHN FAULKNER and JIM O'CONNOR
Autoharp. concertina and guitar, PEGGY SEEGER
Produced by MAURICE BROWN
Originally broadcast in the Third
Programme

Contributors

Singers:
Alasdair Clayre
Singers:
Sandra Kerr
Singers:
John Faulkner
Singers:
Jim O'Connor
Guitar:
Peggy Seeger
Produced By:
Maurice Brown

tWinter Oaks: PATRICK DOBBS provides his own Yule logs
Calennig and the Marl Lwyd:
Welsh New Year's Eve customs past and present, by MARION GRIFFITH WILLIAMS
Wyn Calvin : a Happy New
Year
Men of Harlech: PERCEVAL
GRAVES, brother of the poet Robert Graves , tells CARYS RICHARDS about their Merioneth childhood
Should I tell?: BRENDA LITTLE poses a problem, and THE REV. MORGAN MAINWARING suggests an answer
Introduced by PHILIP PHILLIPS
From Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Dobbs
Unknown:
Marion Griffith Williams
Unknown:
Wyn Calvin
Unknown:
Robert Graves
Unknown:
Morgan Mainwaring
Introduced By:
Philip Phillips

Oak. Ash, and Thorn
The Puck of Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON
3: The Knights of the Joyous Venture
As before, Oak, Ash, and Thorn leaves have removed from Dan and Una all memory of their recent meeting with Puck and Sir Richard Dalyngridge. On a blazing hot day they decide to set out on a voyage of exploration up the mill stream in their miniature dinghy ...
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Stories By:
Rudyard Kipling
Dramatised By:
A. R. Rawlinson
Unknown:
Richard Dalyngridge.
Produced By:
David Davis
Dan:
Jo Manning Wilson
Hobden:
Peter Claughton
Una:
Sian Davies
Puck:
Geoffrey Wincott
Sir Richard Dalyngridge:
Preston Lockwood
de Aquila:
John Bentley
Hugh:
Denis Goacher
Witta:
Basil Jones
Thorkild:
Peter Claughton

A radio competition for bands
Round
From the North:
MARKHAM MAIN COLLIERY BAND Conductor. HAYDN GRIFFITHS
From Wales:
YSTALYFERA PuBLIC BAND
Conductor, LEWIS WILLIAMS
The Judges:
Captain Rodney Bashford and Harry Mortimer
Introduced by TOM NAISBY

Contributors

Conductor:
Haydn Griffiths
Conductor:
Lewis Williams
Unknown:
Captain Rodney Bashford
Unknown:
Harry Mortimer
Introduced By:
Tom Naisby

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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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