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What Makes a Film Director?
John Trevelyan, Secretary of the British Board of Film Censors, discusses with Karel Reisz and Rod Steiger some recorded views on what it is that constitutes the art of a film director by Robert Bresson, Carl Foreman, Sidney Fury, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, Jean Renoir

Contributors

Presenter:
John Trevelyan
Guest:
Karel Reisz
Guest:
Rod Steiger
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

A series of programmes on the structure and organisation of education in England 17: Architecture and Environment with PROFESSOR RALPH G. HOPKINSON Haden-Pilkington Professor of Environmental Design and Engineering, University College, London
DAVID MEDD, O.B.E.
Principal Architect, Department of Education and Science
RONALD ROBSON-SMITH
Assistant Schools Architect,
Inner London Education Authority
MISS NORA GODDARD Infants' Inspectorate.
Inner London Education Authority
MISS E. MOORHOUSE. O.B.E. Senior Adviser for Primary Schools. Oxfordshire'
Introduced by STUART MACLURE
Produced by Dennis Simmons
A Second Start is intended to be of special interest to those thinking of entering or returning to teaching

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Ralph G. Hopkinson
Unknown:
David Medd
Unknown:
Miss E. Moorhouse.
Introduced By:
Stuart MacLure
Produced By:
Dennis Simmons

A portrait of Westminster Abbey in honour of its
900th anniversary drawn from the writings of LAWRENCE TANNER CANON WESTLAKE DEAN STANLEY and observers of the Abbey scene throughout its history
Compiled by MARTIN CHISHOLM Music adviser, Raymond Angell with Hugh Burden , Arthur Bush
Peter Claughton , Garard Green
Carleton Hobos, Desmond Llewelyn Alec Mango , Keith Pyott
Daphne Rogers , Norman Shelley Lewis Stringer , Raf de la Torre
Produced by MAURICE BROWN
Broadcast on December 30. 1965

Contributors

Unknown:
Lawrence Tanner
Unknown:
Martin Chisholm
Unknown:
Raymond Angell
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Unknown:
Arthur Bush
Unknown:
Peter Claughton
Unknown:
Desmond Llewelyn
Unknown:
Alec Mango
Unknown:
Keith Pyott
Unknown:
Daphne Rogers
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Lewis Stringer
Produced By:
Maurice Brown

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Tea with Henry James :
IAN SHIELL remembers having tea as a boy with the famous novelist who died fifty years ago this week
Sunday Morning in My Village:
JAMES BERRY looks back to the Jamaica of his boyhood
' You Could Write a Poem ':
ELSIE CAMPBELL , who since she read an article with that title thirty years ago has had 500 poems published, talks about her pastime
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry James
Unknown:
Ian Shiell
Unknown:
Elsie Campbell
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Poor Relations
A radio serial in eight parts by Eric Maschwitz dramatised from the novel by Compton Mackenzie
PART 2: A Month in the Country
Cast in order of speaking:
John Touchwood. RICHARD HURNDALL
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Maschwitz
Novel By:
Compton MacKenzie
Unknown:
John Touchwood.
Unknown:
Richard Hurndall
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Harold:
Howard Knight
Hilda Curtis:
Joan Matheson
Laurence Armitage:
Victor Lucas
Emily:
Elizabeth Proud
Edith Armitage:
Anna Burden
Mrs Worfolk:
Eva Stuart
Doris Hamilton:
Margaret Ward
Shipping Clerk:
Anthony Jackson
Hugh Touchwood:
Michael Spice
Eleanor Touchwood:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Bertram:
Nicholas Charles
Viola:
Beryl Calder

A radio competition for bands
Round 2: Programme 2
From the Midlands:
RUSHDEN TEMPERANCE BAND Conductor, E. W. DENTON
From the North:
CAMMELL LAIRD WORKS BAND Conductor, JAMES SCOTT
The Judges:
Captain Rodney Bashford Harry Mortimer
Introduced by Tom NAISBY

Contributors

Conductor:
E. W. Denton
Conductor:
James Scott
Unknown:
Captain Rodney Bashford
Unknown:
Harry Mortimer
Introduced By:
Tom Naisby

St. John Passion
Ann Dowdall (soprano)
Maureen Lehane (contralto)
Peter Pears (tenor)
Robert Tear (tenor)
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Thomas Hemsley (bass)
Hampstead Choral Society
Martindale Sidwell Choir
CONTINUO:
ROY JESSON (organ)
BARBARA HILL (harpsichord) CHARLES TUNNELL (cello)
Philomusica of London Leader, Carl Pini Conducted by Martindale Sidwell
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
See facing page

Contributors

Contralto:
Maureen Lehane
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Bass:
Thomas Hemsley
Unknown:
Roy Jesson
Harpsichord:
Barbara Hill
Cello:
Charles Tunnell
Leader:
Carl Pini
Conducted By:
Martindale Sidwell

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street, are analysed by DOUGLAS BROWN

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Brown

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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