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Salmo the Leaper
Why is salmon fishing so little understood; what is the incredible life-history of the salmon, and with what animals do these fish come into contact?
HUGH FALKUS unravels the story
Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Falkus

JOHN Huw DAVIES introduces a circus from Czechoslovakia and work begins on this term's operetta
Songs:
On the road; The Big Top
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
Music Workshop series

Contributors

Introduces:
John Huw Davies
Produced By:
William Murphy

The first of three programmes in which RAY JENKINS suggests ways of acting scenes from Shakespeare plays. The scenes deal with situations that exist in our lives too.
1: A Quarrel introduces the ' quarrel 'scene, Act 4 Scene 2, from Julius Caesar
Books. Plays, Poems series

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Jenkins
Unknown:
Julius Caesar

Anthony Hall as Dando Price
Jessie Evans as Megan Price in A Smell of Lavender
A play for radio by Gerry Jones with MICHAEL MCCLAIN as Narrator and Henry Stamper , Joan Matheson
Douglas Hankin , Michael Kilgarriif and Peter Marinker
1 Dando Price ... I charge you to give an explanation to the people who loved and trusted you, and whose love and trust you destroyed.'
Produced by JOHN POWELL i

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Hall
Unknown:
Jessie Evans
Unknown:
Gerry Jones
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Unknown:
Henry Stamper
Unknown:
Joan Matheson
Unknown:
Douglas Hankin
Unknown:
Michael Kilgarriif
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Produced By:
John Powell

from Bristol Cathedral
Responses (Bristol Use)
Psalms: 98, 99, 100, 101
Lessons: Micah 4, vv. 1-7
1 Corinthians 3
Canticles (Alcock m A)
Anthem: O Lord, the maker of all thing (William Mundy )
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Clifford Harker
Assistant organist, Michael Dyer

Contributors

Organist and Master of the Choristers:
Clifford Harker
Assistant Organist:
Michael Dyer

Wasn'All Right on the Night--6: DAVID FRANKLIN recalls some more operas whose first nights turned into fiascos
Marriage Guidance with a Difference: PAT HICKIE visits the London headquarters of International Social Service and talks to KATHLEEN LUCE about their Foreign Marriage Advisory Service
Our Road: Today it provides homes for West Indians, but at the time remembered by BERYL IRVING the houses were full of families who had been in India
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Pat Hickie
Unknown:
Kathleen Luce
Unknown:
Beryl Irving
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

The Island of Sheep by John Buchan adapted as an eight-part serial by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN with Malcolm Hayes
1: The Tablet of Jade
Produced by STEWART CONN in the BBC's Glasgow studios
Felix Felton and Malcolm Hayes broadcast by permission of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company. Edinburgh
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Produced By:
Stewart Conn
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Richard Hannay:
Malcolm Hayes
Lombard:
Leon Sinden
Mary:
Pekoe Ainley
Archie Roylance:
Michael O'Halloran
Peter John:
Sheila Donald
Mrs Pottinger:
Gudrun Ure
Mr Smith:
Ian Dewar
Sandy:
Felix Felton

Five-round contests between London and the Regions London v. The North
Round 1
London:
MICHAEL AYRTON
SIR DENIS BROGAN
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
The North:
DENNIS CHAPMAN , BILL GRUNDY Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Tuesday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ayrton
Unknown:
Sir Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Dennis Chapman
Unknown:
Bill Grundy
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

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.

Appears in

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