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Regional Variations (4)

The Eye-Witness

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

The Eye-Witness

BBC Home Service Welsh

Dudley Savage. cinema organ: requests

BBC Home Service South and West

Make Yourself at Home
For listeners from India and Pakistan
Aiye Angrezi Sikhen
English by Radio
Produced by Viola Huggins
AD Ki Pasand on gramophone records
Introduced by MAHENDRA RAUL
Produced by David Gretton

Contributors

Produced By:
Viola Huggins
Introduced By:
Mahendra Raul
Produced By:
David Gretton

Regional Variations (5)

Service as Midland

BBC Home Service South and West

Northern Notebook

BBC Home Service Scottish

Service from Cheltenham Parish Church

BBC Home Service Midland

Service from Argyle Presbyterian Church, Swansea

BBC Home Service Welsh

for Palm Sunday from Shirley Methodist Church, Croydon
Conducted by the Minister, THE REV. Brian GALLIERS with the REV. EDWARD ROGERS , General Secretary of the Christian Citizenship Department of the Methodist Church
Reading: St. Luke 19, vv. 29-40
Anthem: Ride on in majesty (from
A Procession of Palms by Malcolm Williamson )
Hymns (M.H.B.): All glory, laud, and honour (84); Weep not for him who onward bears (175): Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates (89. verse 3 to end)
Organist and Choirmaster, NORMAN HUNWICK
Mr. Rogers's sermon, Politics of the Kingdom, together with the sermons of the five previous Sundays, will be published on April 21 in book form (paperback, sixty-four pages) by BBC Publications, 35 Marylebone High Street, London, W.I.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Brian Galliers
Unknown:
Rev. Edward Rogers
Unknown:
Malcolm Williamson
Choirmaster:
Norman Hunwick

Chairman, PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Broadcasting: IAIN HAMILTON
Book: CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE
Art: J. M. Richards
Film: DEREK PROUSE
Theatre: JOHN HOLMSTROM
Producer, Philip French
Repeated: Thursday, 3.30 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
J. M. Richards
Unknown:
John Holmstrom

A spontaneous discussion by Lord BOOTHBY, K.B.E.
SIR GERALD NABARRO
EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
RENÉE SHORT
Travelling Question-Master, FREDDY GRISEWOOD
Produced by Michael Bowen from the BBC Exhibition, Leicester
Last Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Gerald Nabarro
Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Regional Variations (2)

The Critics

BBC Home Service North

Norman Wooland
Marjorie Westbury and Peter Wyngarde in A Woman Killed with Kindness
A domestic tragedy of the year 1603 by Thomas Heywood adapted for radio by RAYMOND RAIKES with music by ANTHONY BERNARD
Characters:
Friends to Frankford:
Household servants to Frankford:
JULIAN BREAM (lute)
LONDON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Lionel Bentley
Conducted by the COMPOSER
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Broadcast on February 1. 1959

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Wooland
Unknown:
Marjorie Westbury
Unknown:
Peter Wyngarde
Unknown:
Thomas Heywood
Unknown:
Raymond Raikes
Music By:
Anthony Bernard
Unknown:
Julian Bream
Leader:
Lionel Bentley
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Prologue:
Clive Revill
Master John Frankford:
Norman Wooland
Mistress Ann Frankford, his wife:
Mahjorje Westbury
Sir Francis Acton, her brother:
James McKechnie
Master Wendoll:
Peter Wyngarde
Sir Charles Mountford:
Gabriel Woolf
Susan, sister to Sir Charles:
Mary Law
Master Shafton, friend to Sir Charles:
Malcolm Hayes
Nicholas:
Clive Revill
Jenkin:
James Thomason
Roger Brickbat:
Rolf Lefebvre
Jack Slime:
Jonathan Scott
Cecily Milkpail:
Joan Matheson
Jane Trubkin:
Eva Stuart
A Falconer:
Frank Windsor
A Sheriff:
Edcar Norfolk
A Prisoner Keeper:
Arthur Young

A view of the arts in the making
Introduced by DEREK HART
I'm Outrageous: KENNETH WIL LIAMS on comedy acting. He is now appearing in a new radio series of Round the Horne, and in Carry On, Cowboy at the Carlton Cinema, London
Village Marriage Customs: EDMUND RUBBRA and JOHN GARDNER , composer - pianists, talking to JOHN LANCHBRRY , conductor, about the Covent Garden revival of Stravinsky's ballet Les Noces
Just a Documentary Picture?: JEAN-LUCGODARD about his science-fiction film Alphaville
Production team: Helen Rapp
Jocelyn Ferguson , Udi Eichler

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Hart
Unknown:
Kenneth Wil
Unknown:
Edmund Rubbra
Unknown:
John Gardner
Unknown:
John Lanchbrry
Unknown:
Helen Rapp
Unknown:
Jocelyn Ferguson
Unknown:
Udi Eichler

Regional Variations (3)

Scottish Music Diary

BBC Home Service Scottish

Encore!: items from Good Morning. Wales!

BBC Home Service Welsh

What's going on in Unit Trusts?: PETER WILSHER
Information for the Disabled: ROBIN HOLMES asks URSULA PAYNE , the Information Officer, about the work of this new service
Other People's Money - 3: PAMELA DEEDES on ending a Trust
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
Next edition: April 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Holmes
Unknown:
Ursula Payne
Unknown:
Pamela Deedes
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

Regional Variations (3)

Fireside Sunday School

BBC Home Service Scottish

Welsh hymn-singing

BBC Home Service Welsh

Spring Round-Up
BRUCECAMPBELL talks to
C. DOUGLAS DEANE in Belfast
DICK BAGNALL-OAKELEY in Norwich and GEORGE WATERSTON in Cambridge about the ' topical developments in the wildlife scene in Ireland, East Anglia, and Scotland respectively
Produced by John Sparks
Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 a.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Deane
Unknown:
George Waterston
Produced By:
John Sparks

Regional Variations (2)

Service from the Baptist Church. St. Andrews

BBC Home Service Scottish

An act of worship for the first day of Holy Week based on the words of Scripture and the Prayers of Life of Michael Quoist
Readers,
GEORGE HAGAN , PENELOPE LEE and JOHN WOOD
Compiled and produced by HUBERT HOSKINS

Contributors

Readers:
George Hagan
Readers:
Penelope Lee
Readers:
John Wood
Produced By:
Hubert Hoskins

Regional Variations (6)

Appeal: The Home of Comfort for Invalids. Southsea

BBC Home Service South and West

Appeals. (434 m.) Albion House Boys' Club, Liverpool. (261 m.) St. John Ambulance Brigade (Northumberland)

BBC Home Service North

Appeal: Bloomfield Eventide Home. Swansea

BBC Home Service Welsh

Appeal: Linn Moor Home for Children, at Culter

BBC Home Service Scottish

Appeal: The Churches' Youth Welfare Council

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Appeal on behalf of the South Bank Housing Society by DONALD SWANN
Contributions, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Society provides homes for families whose size or other circumstances put them outside the scope of normal housing programmes Many would otherwise be faced with an indefinite stay in Council Reception Centres, or with separation from their children. The Society also does all it can to assist where families are in personal difficulties. Funds are needed for the purchase of additional accommodation.

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Swann

Regional Variations (2)

Wedi Oedfa: words and music

BBC Home Service Welsh

by Susan Ferrier adapted for broadcasting in thirteen parts by JONQUIL ANTONY Lord Rossville has decided to allow Gertrude to return to the Castle, but does not disclose whether he still considers her his heir. One morning she and Lyndsay seek shelter from the rain in a fishing hut. Gertrude enters first, and is confronted by Lewiston.
7: Death of an Earl
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Ferrier
Unknown:
Jonquil Antony
Produced By:
David Davis
Lewiston:
Henry Stamper
Gertrude:
Kika Markham
Edward Lyndsay:
Gabriel Woolf
Mrs St Clair:
Nicolette Bernard
Lord ROSSEVILLE:
Anthony Jackson
Lady Betty:
Gladys Spencer
James:
Humphrey Morton
Robert Delmour:
Patrick Barr
Masham:
Ella Milne
Adam Ramsay:
Henry Stamper
Miss Pratt:
Molly Weir

Three programmes based on incidents in the lives of the poets
Byron, Shelley, and Keats
Written and adapted from contemporary sources by DEREK PARKER
2: Stimmer in Switzerland
The Continental journey of Shelley and his family in the summer of 1816 with Tim Seely as Shelley Eva Haddon as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
NIGEL GRAHAM as Dr. Polidori
JOHN JUSTIN as Lord Byron and STEPHEN JACK as William Godwin
Produced by JOHN POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Tim Seely
Unknown:
Eva Haddon
Unknown:
Nigel Graham
Unknown:
John Justin
Unknown:
Stephen Jack
Produced By:
John Powell

Hosanna in the highestl
Zechariah 9, v. 9
Psalm 24 (Broadcast psalter)
Reading from Christian Faith and Practice m the experience of the Society of Friends
Lift up your hearts, ye mighty gates (BBC H.B. 34)
Reading from Christian Faith and Practice m the experience of the Society of Friends
0 Lamb of God all-holy (BBC H.B.
530)

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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