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Margery Hurst
Managing Director of The Brook Street Bureau talks about her career to LESLIE SMITH
In 1945 Margery Hurst started a secretarial agency with herself as the only secretary on the books. Today her aKency has fifty branches in this country as well as offices in the U.S.A. and Australia.
Broadcast on February 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Margery Hurst
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Unknown:
Margery Hurst

Chairman, LIONEL HALE
Theatre: RONALD BRYDEN
Broadcasting: STEPHEN POTTER
Book: JOHN GROSS
Art: J. M. RICHARDS
Film: DILYS POWELL
Producer, Carl wildman
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Ronald Bryden
Unknown:
Stephen Potter
Unknown:
J. M. Richards
Unknown:
Dilys Powell

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to HAMMOND INNES
Ϯ wish I'd been....
BASIL BOOTHROYD on the fascination of other people's careers. 1: A doctor
Cordon Rouge: with GEORGE VILLIERS in the kitchen
Your letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Talks:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Basil Boothroyd
Unknown:
George Villiers
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard adapted as a serial reading in eight parts by Brian Miller In their newly discovered paradise beyond the mountains Allan Quatermain and his friends Hnd themselves surrounded by hostile Kukuama natives whose motto is ' Death to all Strangers.'
PART 4: Twala the King
Produced by BRIAN MILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Rider Haggard
Unknown:
Brian Miller
Unknown:
Allan Quatermain
Produced By:
Brian Miller
Allan Quatermain:
Colin Douglas
Sir Henry curtis:
Trevor Danby
Twala:
Trevor Danby
Infadoos:
Trevor Danby
Captain John Good:
Bill Meilen
Umbopa:
Bill Meilen
Gagool:
Bill Meilen

A three-part enquiry into the origins of the war in Vietnam, its course, and consequences for the world
Introduced by RODERICK MACFARQUHAR with material specially recorded in Saigon. Paris, London, and Washington
3: Vietnam and the World
Vietnam between East and West: the prize and the prospects.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Roderick MacFarquhar

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Ϯ LESLIE SMITH introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome

Contributors

Introduces:
Leslie Smith

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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