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BBC Home Service Scottish

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC Home Service Scottish

A weekly review of the agricultural scene
This week, the On Your Farm team takes the pulse of farming in Staffordshire
Arranged and introduced by ANTHONV PARKIN
Repealed: Wednesday, 12.25 p.m. m the Midland Home Service

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anthonv Parkin

Regional Variations (3)

From Our Own Correspondenl

BBC Home Service Scottish

Gardeners' Question Time

BBC Home Service North

Introduced by Roy HAY
Through the Magnifying Glass: FRED WHITSEY suggests ways of making small gardens seem bigger
Over the Gate: some keen gardeners in the Colchester area discuss their queries
Postbag: points from listeners' letters
Produced by John Greenslade

Contributors

Introduced By:
Roy Hay
Unknown:
Fred Whitsey
Produced By:
John Greenslade

Regional Variations (3)

Enquire Within: The Rev Donald Tytler

BBC Home Service Midland

As Midland

BBC Home Service South and West

Mountains and the Earth's Core by R. A. LYTTLETON , F.R.S.
University of Cambridge
If the earth began as a hot molten ball it is easy to see that mountains might be built by the skin rumpling as the interior cooled. But geologists are inclining to a cold start. How then came the mountains? Dr. Lyttleton discusses in terms of a new theory of the earth's core.

Contributors

Unknown:
R. A. Lyttleton

A course of twenty lessons in spoken Russian for near-beginners. Lesson 2
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES University of Sussex
Given by VAUGHAN JAMES
MARINA RYAN , VICTOR GREGORIY
Language consultant, Lyubov Volossevich
Produced by Richard Hooper
A booklet is available
Last Tuesday's broadcast (Study)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Unknown:
Marina Ryan
Unknown:
Lyubov Volossevich
Produced By:
Richard Hooper

Lesson 21: Au mariage
Introduced by KATIA ELLIS with the help of Louis Bloncourt
Written and produced by Elsie Ferguson
Language consultant, Paul Couster
†LastWednesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet and records are available

Contributors

Introduced By:
Katia Ellis
Unknown:
Louis Bloncourt
Produced By:
Elsie Ferguson
Unknown:
Paul Couster

The second of the main series of fifteen programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. examinations in English Language and Literature, planned in conjunction with a National Extension College correspondence course
Radio tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Scriptwriter, Emmeline Garnett
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Last Thursday's broadcast (Study)
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from the National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Emmeline Garnett
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

Wilfrid Hyde White and Richard Murdoch in The Butcher of Glensporran with Roy DOTRICE , JOHN LAURIE
NORMA RONALD , JOHN GRAHAM
Written by Johnnie Mortimer. Brian Cooke , and Edward Taylor
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
Broadcast on Sept. 12, 1965 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfrid Hyde White
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Roy Dotrice
Unknown:
John Laurie
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
John Graham
Written By:
Johnnie Mortimer.
Written By:
Brian Cooke
Written By:
Edward Taylor
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

Regional Variations (3)

Record requests for hospital patients

BBC Home Service Midland

Week In the North

BBC Home Service North

Bill Fraser, actor, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.
(Last Monday's broadcast)

Contributors

Castaway:
Bill Fraser
Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Producer:
Monica Chapman

Regional Variations (3)

Interviews and records before the match

BBC Home Service Welsh

As Welsh

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Lost Horizon
The world-famous novel about Shangri-La by James Hilton adapted in three parts by Malcolm Hulke and Paul Tabori
Part 2: Shangri-La
After the plane crash-landed, Conway and his companions found themselves in a lonn valley whose head was dominated by the loveliest mountain on earth: far away. and approaching them, were the figures of men.
Other parts: John Dearth and Henry Stamper
Pianist, WILFRID PARRY
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
James Hilton
Unknown:
Malcolm Hulke
Unknown:
Paul Tabori
Unknown:
John Dearth
Pianist:
Henry Stamper
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Conway:
Gabriel Woolf
Miss Brinklow:
Jill Balcon
Barnard:
Stephen Jack
Kallinson:
Gordon Gardner
Chang:
Carleton Hobbs
The High Lama:
Alan Wheatley

Regional Variations (4)

News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

' At the Luscombes

BBC Home Service South and West

Tain Scottish Dance Quartet

BBC Home Service Scottish

THE HARRY DAVIDSON ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIDNEY DAVEY with LAURIE LEE
Introduced by Rex PALMER M.C., CHARLES CRATHORN
Produced by Roger Eames
The dances: Over the Top; Lilac Waltz; Tango Sebastian; Wedgwood Blue Gavotte; Idaho Fox-trot; Fifth figure of the Lancers; Sherrie Saunter; Waltz Camay; Mayfair Quickstep
The songs When I leave the world behind; Don't dilly dally

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Davidson
Conducted By:
Sidney Davey
Unknown:
Laurie Lee
Introduced By:
Rex Palmer M.C.
Produced By:
Roger Eames
Unknown:
Tango Sebastian
Unknown:
Sherrie Saunter

VILEM TAUSKY conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with JEAN ALLISTER (soprano)
KENNETH MACDONALD (tenor) EILEEN BROSTER (piano) and THE GALA CHORUS directed by JOHN McCARTHY Introduced by PETER BARKER Produced by Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from Carmen (Bizetl, Samson and Delilah (Saint-Saens). and La Vida Breve (Fallal, and the Finale from Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.
Kenneth Macdonald broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Soprano:
Jean Allister
Tenor:
Kenneth MacDonald
Piano:
Eileen Broster
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Introduced By:
Peter Barker
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Kenneth MacDonald

Spring Meeting
A comedy by M. J. Farrell and John Perry adapted for radio by CYNTHIA PUGHE
Produced by MARTYN C WEBSTER

Contributors

Comedy By:
M. J. Farrell
Comedy By:
John Perry
Radio By:
Cynthia Pughe
Produced By:
Martyn C Webster
Joan Furze:
Mary Wylie
Baby Furze:
Patricia Gallimore
James:
Tommy Duggan
Bijou Furze:
Vivienne Chatterton
Michael Byrne:
Denys Hawthorne
Sir Richard Furze:
Walter Fitzgerald
Johnny Mahoney:
Allan McClelland
Tiny Fox-Collier:
Valerie Taylor
Tony Fox-Collier:
Frederick Treves

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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