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Your questions answered by L. HUGH NEWMAN , ERIC ENNION and GWYNNE VEVERS
Chairman,
DEREK MCCULLOCH (Uncle Mac)
Produced by John Sparks
Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast
Questions should he sent on a post-card to: Nature Parliament, BBC, Broadcasting House. Bristol 8.

Contributors

Unknown:
L. Hugh Newman
Unknown:
Derek McCulloch
Produced By:
John Sparks

Starting Point
A play for radio by John Hyman
Jim Butler has been driven too hard both at home and at school. The resulting nervous strain even makes itself felt during the inter-schools cross-country race.
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by David H. GODFREY followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hyman
Unknown:
Jim Butler
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Mr Soames, the Headmaster:
Patrick Barr
Chad Roper:
Keith Varnier
Jim Butler:
Brian Hewlett
Mr Farrow:
Bruce Beeby
Junior boy:
Louis Sheldon-Williams
Senior boys:
Nigel Anthony
Senior boys:
Anthony Hall
Mary Butler:
Mary Wimbush
Paul Inder:
Nigel Havers
Tony Dixon:
Paul Waller
William Butler:
Wilfrid Carter
Harry Varley:
John Baddeley
Sheila Davis.:
Patricia Gallimore
Sports Announcer.:
James Taylor

from Winchester Cathedral
Responses (Thomas Morley ) Psalms 114 and 115 Lessons: Exodus 33; 1 Timothy
3
Canticles (Herbert Howells :
Worcester Setting)
Anthem: The Lamentation
(Edward Bairstow )
Organist and Master of the Music, ALWYN SURPLICE
Sub-organist, Graham Matthews

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Morley
Unknown:
Herbert Howells
Organist:
Edward Bairstow
Unknown:
Graham Matthews

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Fourteenth Mr. Race:
STEVE RACE climbs the family tree
† Kings and Courtiers:
ARTHUR JACOBS introduces excerpts from the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Introduces:
Arthur Jacobs
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Micah Clarke by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised as a seven-part serial by JOHN Hale with Patrick Troughton and Brian Jackson
The pursuit by the bloodhounds leads to a strange encounter on Salisbury Plain: later, a meeting with a man of fashion and a first clash with the soldiers of King James.
2: The Stiff-legged Parson and his Flock
Produced by BRANDON ACTON-BOND in the BBC's Bristol studios

Contributors

Unknown:
Micah Clarke
Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
John Hale
Unknown:
Patrick Troughton
Unknown:
Brian Jackson
Decimus Saxon:
Patrick Troughton
Reuben Lockarby:
David Jackson
Micah Clarke:
Brian Jackson
Sir Jacob Clancing:
Hedley Goodall
Old Woman:
June Barrie
Dame Hobson:
Hope Meredith
Sir Gervase Jerome:
Hubert Rees
Joshua Pettigrue:
John Smith
A Cornet of Horse:
Geoffrey Matthews

London v. Northern Ireland
Round 5
London:
SIR DENIS BROGAN , CEDRIC CLIFFE
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
Northern Ireland:
JAMES BOYCE , RONALD Green
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY
Tuesday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
James Boyce
Unknown:
Ronald Green

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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