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The second of three programmes examining some aspects of the changing world during the last sixty-five years
Introduced by Derek Parker with comment by Lt.-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks and including the voices of F.M. Viscount Montgomery, K.G., Admiral Sir William Goodenough, Father Lassalle, Sir Ronald Storrs, Flt. Lt. Richard Hillary, Grp.
Capt. Leonard Cheshire, V.C.
Compiled by Derek Parker
Produced by John Powell
(Extended version of the broadcast on February 13)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Sir Brian Horrocks
Unknown:
Admiral Sir William Goodenough
Unknown:
Father Lassalle
Unknown:
Sir Ronald Storrs
Unknown:
Lt. Richard Hillary
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Produced By:
John Powell

From Russia with Love starring
SEAN CONNERY , DANIELA BIANCHI PEDRO ARMENDARIZ
BERNARD LEE , ROBERT SHAW
Introduced by GORDON Gow adapted by Roy Bradford
Produced by Tony Luke
Broadcast on Oct. 22. 1965 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
Daniela Bianchi
Unknown:
Pedro Armendariz
Unknown:
Bernard Lee
Introduced By:
Gordon Gow
Adapted By:
Roy Bradford
Produced By:
Tony Luke

Chairman, LIONEL HALE
Book: CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE
Art: J. M. RICHARDS
Film: DEREK PROUSE
Theatre: JOHN HOLMSTROM
Broadcasting: IAIN HAMILTON
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
J. M. Richards
Unknown:
John Holmstrom
Unknown:
Iain Hamilton

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Surgery among the Sampans:
PATRICIA PENN meets doctors and patients on a floating clinic in Hong Kong harbour
Armchair Gardener: some simple hints and tips from FRED LOADS
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard † adapted as a serial reading in eight parts by BRIAN MILLER
1: The Legend of < Solomon's Mines
Allan Quatermain here begins the tale of the most fantastic adventure that happened to him in forty years as a hunter in Africa.
Produced by BRIAN MILLER
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Miller
Unknown:
Allan Quatermain
Produced By:
Brian Miller
Allan Quatermain:
Colin Douglas
Sir Henry Curtis:
Trevor Danby
Captain John Good:
Bill Meilen
Umbopa:
Bill Meilen

A portrait in words and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams †
Written by MICHAEL KENNEDY PETER WALKER (baritone)
VINCENT BILLINGTON (piano)
LIVERPOOL CITY POLICE BAND Director of Music, CHARLES MARRIOTT
The Choir and Boys of CHETHAMS HOSPITAL SCHOOL ' Conductor and organist, JOHN GITTINS
Recorded in Manchester Cathedral by permission of the Dean and Canons
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD
Narrator, DAVID MAHLOWE
Other parts spoken by Marah Stohl and Geoffrey Banks *
Produced by WILLIAM RELTON and STANLEY WILLIAMSON
See facing page

Contributors

Written By:
Michael Kennedy
Baritone:
Peter Walker
Piano:
Vincent Billington
Organist:
John Gittins
Leader:
Reginald Stead
Narrator:
Maurice Handford
Spoken By:
Marah Stohl
Produced By:
William Relton

Answers to listeners' questions about science and technology Panel:
ROBERT CAHN
University of Sussex
DAVID DEWHIRST
University of Cambridge
PETER HASKELL
Anti-Locust Research Centre
PALMER NEWBOULD
University College, London
In the chair,
Professor G. P. WELLS
Arranged by Archie Clow

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Arranged By:
Archie Clow

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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