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The Emancipation of Eddie Burling by Jean McConnell with Lynn Redgrave and Bernard Cribbins
When a housewife can make more money with her writing than her husband can earn at his job, isn'it best if she becomes the bread-winner and lie puts on the apron ...?
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER
Lynn Redgrave is a National Theatre player

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean McConnell
Unknown:
Lynn Redgrave
Unknown:
Bernard Cribbins
Produced By:
David A. Turner
Produced By:
Lynn Redgrave
Pam Burling:
Lynn Redgrave
George Imison:
Geoffrey Matthews
Eddie Burling:
Bernard Cribbins
Sheila:
Beth Boyd
Mrs Burling:
Valerie Taylor
Howard Viccars:
Preston Lockwood
John:
Michael Kilgarriff
Gatha:
Patricia Gallimore
Mrs Oakes:
Anna Burden

from Jesus College, Cambridge

Responses (Byrd)
Psalms 22 and 23
Lessons: Deuteronomy 30
Acts 17, vv. 16-34
Canticles (Byrd, Second Service)
Anthem: Christ rising (Byrd)

Contributors

Organist and Master of the Choristers:
David Butterworth
Assistant Organist:
Rowland Cotterill

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
That Sounds Familiar: KENNETH
ALWYN places some more well-known tunes in their original ballet setting
A Trip Across My Mantelpiece:
H. O. EMERSON takes a holiday among his souvenirs
Pensioner on a Bummel:
ELSIE DIXON takes a leaf out of Jerome K. Jerome 's book, but goes it alone
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
H. O. Emerson
Unknown:
Elsie Dixon
Unknown:
Jerome K. Jerome
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Counterspy
A new serial play by John Darran featuring Security Officers Greg Vaughan and James ' Rocky ' Mountain in their latest assignment.
1 : Hot Spot
Produced by EVELYN WILLIAMS
See facing page

Contributors

Play By:
John Darran
Unknown:
Greg Vaughan
Produced By:
Evelyn Williams
Greg Vaughan:
John Darran
' Rocky ' Mountain:
Dillwyn Owen
Franz:
David Lawton
Colonel Spear:
Ivor Maddox
Jane:
Gwenyth Petty
Philip Taylor:
John Morris
Maxim:
Ray Handy
Chief Porter:
Bill Meilen
Chambermaid:
Annest Wiliam

A three-part enquiry into the origins of the war in Vietnam. its course, and consequences for the world
Introduced by RODERICK MAC FARQUHAR with material specially recorded in Saigon. Paris, London, and Washington
2: Partition and Conflict
Vietnam divided, the arrival of the Americans, and the rise of the Viet-Cong
Thurs.: Vietnam and the World

Contributors

Introduced By:
Roderick Mac Farquhar

A varied sequence of music
This week by Beethoven,
Schubert, Liszt, and Verdi MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
JANICE WILLIAMS (piano) OROMONTE STRING TRIO
Second broadcast
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Unknown:
Verdi Margaret
Piano:
Janice Williams
Unknown:
James Lockhart

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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