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Pelicans to Pigeons
What were the ' garden ' birds of the few inhabitants of this country
2.000 years ago?
JAMES FISHER makes a journey from Glastonbury in Somerset and meets W. B. YAPP in the Wyre Forest, Eric Simms , in Dollis Hill, Middlesex. and RICHARD FITTER in Trafalgar Square, London
Produced by John Sparks
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
W. B. Yapp
Unknown:
Eric Simms
Produced By:
John Sparks

The second of three programmes in which RAY JENKINS suggests ways of acting scenes from Shakespeare plays. These scenes deal with situations that exist in our lives too.
2: 1 Go My Own Way introducing Act 1 Scene 1 from King Lear
† Books. Plays. Poems series

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Jenkins

A new play for radio by Joan O'Connor
with Jo Manning Wilson, Nigel Graham, David March and Walter Fitzgerald
'What is to become of us, Igor? How will this love of ours end? In four months' time I shall be Amritzov s wife. What miracle can save us? '
The action takes place in and around a provincial town in Old Russia.
Cast: with Anna Burden
John Dearth , Anthony Jackson
Pianist. PAUL Hamburger
Produced by JOHN POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Unknown:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
Walter Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Anna Burden
Unknown:
John Dearth
Pianist:
Anthony Jackson
Produced By:
John Powell
Prince Konstantin Amritzov:
Walter Fitzgerald
Princess Anastasia Amritzov his sister:
Valerie Taylor
Boris Krutilin, a property owner:
David March
Aniuta Krutilin, his daughter:
Jo Manning Wilson
Nana, Aniuta's nurse:
Ella Milne
Igor Koltchev, Krutilin's clerk:
Nigel Graham
Vassily Koltchev, Igor's father,an engineer:
Eric Anderson
Lidka, Koltchev's servant:
Eva Haddon
an engineer:
Eric Anderson
an engineer:
Douglas Hankin
Grisha Moyshin, a carpenter:
Michael Kilgarriff

from Bristol Cathedral
Responses (Bristol L'se) Psalm 119. vv. 145-176
Lessons: Zephaniah 3
1 Corinthians 12, vv. 1-27
Canticles (William Child in G)
Anthem: 0 how amiable are thy dwellings (John Gardner )
Organist and Master of the Choristers, CLIFFORD HARKER
Assistant organist, Michael Dyer

Contributors

Organist:
John Gardner
Unknown:
Clifford Harker
Organist:
Michael Dyer

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Mendelssohn Slept Here:
COLIN GIBSON , with the help of records, recalls Mendelssohn's visits to Britain
What Price Modern Art?:
BRYAN ROBERTSON , Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. talks about the value of new paintings
Charlie Douser : a memory of a village fireman, by MOLLIE HARRIS
Lights of Other Days:
GEORGE MALTMAN recalls boyhood entertainments in Auchterarder
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Gibson
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson
Unknown:
Charlie Douser
Unknown:
Mollie Harris
Unknown:
George Maltman
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
2: The Haraldscn Vendetta
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

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
Sandy:
Felix Felton
Mary:
Pekoe Ainley
Peter John:
Sheila Donald
Old Troth:
John Lancaster
Albinus:
Paul KermacK
Lombard:
Leon Sinden
Pienaar:
Harry Walker
Old Haraldsen:
Paul KermacK
Haraldsen:
Ian Dewar

London v. The North: Round 2
London:
MICHAEL AYRTON
SIR DENIS BROGAN
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
The North:
DENNIS CHAPMAN , BILL GRUNDY
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY
Tuesday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ayrton
Unknown:
Sir Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Dennis Chapman
Unknown:
Bill Grundy

Last year KENNETH MATTHEWS went back to Greece to retrace a very unusual journey he made some eighteen years ago In the autumn of 1948. as a prisoner of the Greek communist guerrillas, he had trudged across the breadth of the Peloponnese peninsula living mostly on walnuts-Tonight he talks about his sentimental return journey to southern Greece.

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Matthews

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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