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Your questions answered by JAMES FISHER , MAXWELL KNIGHT and L. HUGH NEWMAN
Chairman,
DEREK MCCULLOCH (Uncle Mac)
Produced by John Sparks
Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast
Questions should be sent on a postcard to: Nature Parliament, BBC. Broadcasting House. Bristol, 8.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Fisher
Unknown:
Maxwell Knight
Unknown:
L. Hugh Newman
Unknown:
Derek McCulloch
Produced By:
John Sparks

Headlines for Henry by Harry Franklin
Cast in order of speaking: with Anthony Jackson
Produced by EILEEN CULLEN
Aubrey Woods is in Oliver!' at the New Theatre. London
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Jackson
Produced By:
Eileen Cullen
Produced By:
Aubrey Woods
Jim Biddulph:
Tim Seely
Editor:
Hector Ross
Tony Cartwright:
Allan McClelland
Ghost:
Aubrey Woods
Inspector Broome:
Michael Kilgarriff
Dame Mabel Kittering:
Dorothy Lane
Lady Petworth:
Miriam Margolyes

from Westminster Abbey

Introit: Great and marvellous are thy works (Thomas Tomkins)
Versicles and Responses (Kenneth Leighton)
Psalms 47, 48, 49
Lessons: Genesis 6, v. 6-22
Romans 3
Canticles (Leighton in G)
Anthem: Let all the world (Vaughan Williams)

Contributors

Organist and Master of the Choristers:
Douglas Guest
Sub-organist:
Simon Preston

from the BBC Week Exhibition in the McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
I belong to Glasgow: CLIFF HANLEY , novelist and journalist, talks about himself and his home town
After 'em, Scouts! EDMUND SULLEY remembers how Scouting began in Galashiels
Poetic Gems: written by William McGonagall and spoken by RUSSELL HUNTER
Many Questions: JANEY BUCHAN , MENZIES CAMPBELL , and MAGNUS MAGNUSSON answer questions of the day put by the studio audience
Community Singing: the studio audience led by BILL MCCUE (bass), accompanied by BERNARD SUMNER (piano)
Introduced by HOWARD LOCKHART

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Hanley
Written By:
William McGonagall
Spoken By:
Russell Hunter
Unknown:
Janey Buchan
Unknown:
Menzies Campbell
Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Bass:
Bill McCue
Piano:
Bernard Sumner
Introduced By:
Howard Lockhart

The Island of Sheep by John Buchan adapted as an eight-part serial by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN with Malcolm Hayes
4: ' Laverlaw '
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
Peter John:
Sheila Donald
Mary:
Pekoe Ainley
Lombard:
Leon Sinden
Geordie Hamilton:
Alex Allan
Haraldsen:
Ian Dewar
Miss Newbigging:
Clare Richards
Miss Barlock:
Gudrun Ure

Five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. The North
Round 4
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

Mozart
Quartet in D major (K 499) played by the Amici STRING QUARTET Lionel Bentley (violin) Colin Staveley (violin)
Christopher Wellington (viola) Peter Halling (cello)

Contributors

Violin:
Lionel Bentley
Violin:
Colin Staveley
Viola:
Christopher Wellington
Cello:
Peter Halling

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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