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The failure of the Spaniards to invade England in 1588 was a memorable deliverance, but it was not the result of a bin naval victory. This programme explains the manoeuvres of two evenly matched fleets tested by fickle winds.
Written by Cameron Miller History Work Units series

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Written By:
Cameron Miller

by Susan Ferrier adapted for broadcasting in thirteen parts by JONQUIL ANTONY
Colonel Delmour has declared his feelings for Gertrude, but Miss Pratt imagines she favours Lyndsay. A small request by Gertrude for help for her cousin Anne's lover. William Leslie , is the cause of a scene between Lord Rossville and Gertrude in which she tells him she win never marry Robert Delmour.
5: Disinherited
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Ferrier
Unknown:
William Leslie
Unknown:
Robert Delmour.
Produced By:
David Davis

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Knack and Know-How: Angela Pain discovers what conditions change in ladies' fashions
Alan Melville reflects
Silver Lining: 'Over Thirty Years of Doing the Lambeth Walk': a talk by The Rev. Thomas Tiplady
Your Letters
Introduced by Ken Sykora
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Tiplady
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Leader, James Hutcheon
Conducted by CEDRIC DUMONT with ROSEMARY BRETT DAVIES and MARIE COOPER (two pianos)
Introduced by BRIAN PERKINS

Contributors

Leader:
James Hutcheon
Conducted By:
Cedric Dumont
Unknown:
Rosemary Brett Davies
Unknown:
Marie Cooper
Introduced By:
Brian Perkins

Introduced by IAN KEMP
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA
Led by Leonard Friedmann
Conductor, JAMES LOUGHRAN
Given before an invited audience in Studio One, Glasgow. Tickets may be obtained on application to [address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ian Kemp
Conductor:
Leonard Friedmann
Conductor:
James Loughran

KENNETH ALLSOP introduces a selection of news about current books and talks to James CAMERON about his book Witness, reflections on his visit -the first by a Western reporter-to North Vietnam
CHARLES OSBORNE on recent fiction
ALAN BRIEN on TYRONE GUTHRIE 'S essays In Various Directions
MICHAEL FRAYN on Art Buchwald and Patrick Campbell
Produced by Joseph Hone

Contributors

Introduces:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
James Cameron
Unknown:
Charles Osborne
Unknown:
Alan Brien
Unknown:
Tyrone Guthrie
Unknown:
Michael Frayn
Produced By:
Joseph Hone

Problems and realities of today
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Production team: Alan Burgess Francis Dillon , Keith Hindell

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edgar Lustgarten
Unknown:
Alan Burgess
Unknown:
Francis Dillon
Unknown:
Keith Hindell

2: The Smugglers' Express
In the second of five talks
PETER DUVAL SMITH takes a meat plane to the town of La Paz in Bolivia, and from there, in the Smugglers' Express, to Corumba in Brazil
Broadcast on Sept. 14. 1965
Thursday: Brazil—The New People

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
La Paz

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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