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18: Claudine a une bonne idée
Written by Emile Harven
A second-year audio-visual French course, for use with the illustrated pamphlet
10.45 RUSSIAN
6: Moscow
Written by Peter Norman and Natasha Norman
made in Moscow by courtesy of the State Committee for Radio and Television
11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT
Stage 1 by RACHEL PERCIVAL
Music selected and arranged by Vera Gray

Contributors

Written By:
Emile Harven
Written By:
Peter Norman
Written By:
Natasha Norman
Arranged By:
Vera Gray

A novel, Sibyl: or the Two Nations (1845). written by Disraeli in his twenties, describes the ignorance of the upper classes about the sources of their wealth and the terrible conditions of the workers in factory, mine, and farm. The broadcast recounts how later Disraeli became leader of the Tory
Party and extended the vote to include a large number of workers.
Written by Henry Marshall
History Work Units series

Contributors

Written By:
Henry Marshall

Sharing the Profit:
FIONA THORBURN visits a Glasgow engineering factory run on a co-operative basis to make money for under-developed areas at home and abroad tListen with Percy: a piece of coal creaking in the fire starts PERCY EDWARDS off on his memories
Alan Melville reflects
Silver Lining: LORD SOPER answering listeners' questions arising from his previous talks
Your Letters
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Thorburn
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Alan Melville
Introduced By:
Steve Race

BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, GILBERT VINTER
ROSEMARY BRETT DAVIES and MARIE COOPER (two pianos)
Introduced by BRIAN PERKINS

Contributors

Leader:
James Hutcheon
Conductor:
Gilbert Vinter
Conductor:
Rosemary Brett Davies
Conductor:
Marie Cooper
Introduced By:
Brian Perkins

Introduced by IAN KEMP
NORMA PROCTER (contralto)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by ALBERTO BOLET
Given before an invited audience at the Assembly Rooms, City Hall. Cardiff

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ian Kemp
Contralto:
Norma Procter
Conducted By:
Alberto Bolet

KENNETH ALLSOP introduces a selection of news about current books and talks to LESLIE THOMAS about his novel The Virgin Soldiers, a story about Army life in Malaya
WALTER ALLEN on other recent fiction
ANTHONY BURGESS on Russia
GERALD DURRELL on Bernhard Grzimek 's Wild Animal White Man
Produced by Joseph Hone

Contributors

Introduces:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
Leslie Thomas
Unknown:
Anthony Burgess
Unknown:
Gerald Durrell
Unknown:
Bernhard Grzimek
Produced By:
Joseph Hone

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More