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Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
John Keir Cross
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Carol Grenville:
Anne Cullen
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
John Tregorran:
Phillp Morant
Joan Burton:
Esma Wilson
Nigel Burton:
Bryan Kendrick
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Valerie Trentham:
Jenny Lee
The Vicar:
Max Brimmell
Betty Barratt:
Brenda Dunrich
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Mead:
Hilary Newcombe
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Harvey Grenville:
Ronald Baddiley
Mr Robertson:
Fred Yule

Poor Nan's babw. Nursed on spleen. How could she be
Great England's Queent
The Young Elizabeth by Jennette and Francis Letton adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Ann Firbank and Eileen Atkins
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Saturday's broadcast I

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Letton
Unknown:
Peggy Wells
Unknown:
Ann Firbank
Unknown:
Eileen Atkins
Produced By:
R. D. Smith

Sunday in the Basque Country:
JAMES MCNEISH describes a visit to Ustarrtz, a village in the French Pyrenees Redskins and Palefaces:
BILL TAYLOR reflects on how the silent films influenced his boyhood games in the streets of Sheffield
Argument: conversation on an issue of the day
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
James McNeish
Unknown:
French Pyrenees Redskins
Unknown:
Bill Taylor
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

The Rose and The Ring
A fireside pantomime by W. M. Thackeray adapted as a dramatised reading in three parts by BARBARA SLEIGH
After the rose passed from Prince Bulbo to Angelica she wasn'quite so keen to marry the now plain-looking prince, but her father would have no shilly-shallying, so they were married! And poor Rosalba (in love with Giglio, who was now contracted to the Countess Gruffanuff), having refused Hogginarmo's proposal, was cast into a dungeon.3: What happened in the end
Other parts played by Brigit Paul and Wilfred Babbage
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
W. M. Thackeray
Played By:
Brigit Paul
Played By:
Wilfred Babbage
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Storyteller:
David Davis
Fairy Biackstick:
Grizelda Hervey
, Prince Giglio:
Peter Marinker
Princess Rosalba:
Ann Totten
Countess Gruffanuff:
Valerie Taylor
Hedzoff:
Geoffrey Matthews
King Padella:
Anthony Jackson

A new and revised production of the radio biography in six parts written by Leslie Baily
Part 6: Yeomen, Gondoliers and the Carpet
Other parts played by: MARJORIE WESTBURY , PETER PRATT ELLA MILNE , and HUMPHREY MORTON
The Narrator, HUGH BURDEN
Excerpts from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas taken from long-playing gramophone records
Produced by VERNON HARRIS
Peter Pratt is appearing tn
I A Month in the Country ' at the Cambridge Theatre. London

Contributors

Written By:
Leslie Baily
Played By:
Marjorie Westbury
Played By:
Peter Pratt
Played By:
Ella Milne
Played By:
Humphrey Morton
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
Produced By:
Peter Pratt
W S Gilbert:
Clive Morton
Arthur Sullivan:
Richard Hurndall
Richard D'Oyly Carte:
Alan Wheatley

by Gwyn Thomas adapted by HERBERT DAVIES with Donald Houston ,
MaryWimbush Bill Ingram , Aubrey Richards
Alderman Virley Vaughan has been nominated parliamentary candidate for Belmont. His course seems set fair for Westminster ...
The action takes place in the public bar of the Gladstone Arms and in the private lounge of the Belmont Rugby Clubhouse overlooking the ground. Two days elapse between Act 1 and Act 2: three months between Act 2 and Act 3.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by HERBERT DAVIES
Douglas Blackwell broadcasts by arrangement with Bernard Delfont

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwyn Thomas
Adapted By:
Herbert Davies
Unknown:
Donald Houston
Unknown:
Marywimbush Bill Ingram
Unknown:
Aubrey Richards
Unknown:
Alderman Virley Vaughan
Produced By:
Herbert Davies
Produced By:
Douglas Blackwell
Arrangement With:
Bernard Delfont
Phil Gould:
Ray Smith
Ron Jarvis:
Aubrey Richards
Major:
Eynon Evans
Sam Smedley:
Douglas Blackwell
Alcwyn Molloy:
Bill Ingram
Tessie Taylor:
Emily Davies
Dr Jo:
Norman Wynne
Alderman Vaughan:
Donald Houston
Violet Vaughan:
Mary Wimbush
Simon Hamberley:
Ieuan Rhys Williams
Eric Marsh:
John Dillon

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GILES PLAYFAIR introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome.

Contributors

Introduces:
Giles Playfair

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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