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Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by ERIC HOBBIS , ERNEST NEAL and RALPH WIGHTMAN
Question-Master, DEREK JONES
A shortened version of Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Hobbis
Unknown:
Ernest Neal
Question-Master:
Ralph Wightman
Question-Master:
Derek Jones

First Fall to O'Leary by Kenneth Clark with John Hollis and Allan McClelland
The old hands of a small wrestling circus try to teach a newcomer that sometimes it is better to lose than to win.
Cast in order of speaking: with Tim Seely
Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Clark
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Allan McClelland
Unknown:
Tim Seely
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Moses:
Peter Marinker
Kovalenko:
John Hollis
Sittingbear:
Henry Stamper
Sailor:
John Dearth
Duckett:
Donal Donnelly
Kelly:
Nigel Graham
Reporter:
Anthony Hall
Martha:
Cécile Chevreau
Jeanne-Julie:
Elizabeth Morgan
Policeman:
Michael Kilgarriff
Tip O'Leary:
Allan McClelland
M C:
Eric Anderson
Maisie:
Phyllis Montefiore

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
In and Out of Love:
ARTHUR JACOBS introduces another selection of the characters from the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan Steam-trawling as I Saw It:
FREDERICK GRIFFITHS describes how, at the age of seventeen, he went to sea as a trimmer
The Hastings Embroidery: detail
A Stitch in Time: ROSEMARY HART talks to MRS. HAMILTON KING and GROUP-CAPTAIN RALPH
WARD about the new Hastings Embroidery commissioned for the 900th anniversary celebration of the Battle of Hastings
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Introduces:
Arthur Jacobs
Unknown:
Sullivan Steam-Trawling
Unknown:
Frederick Griffiths
Talks:
Rosemary Hart
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Counterspy
A serial play by John Darran featuring Security Officers Greg Vaughan and James ' Rocky ' Mountain in their latest assignment.
During their investigations into the operations of the Dives organisation, Greg and Rocky find that their interest in Kango involves them in a ' pulverising ' situation!
4: Goodbye Sir Henry
Produced by EVELYN WILLIAMS

Contributors

Play By:
John Darran
Unknown:
Greg Vaughan
Produced By:
Evelyn Williams
Greg Vaughan:
John Darran
Rocky Mountain:
Dillwyn Owen
Colonel Spear:
Ivor Maddox
Building Foreman:
Ieuan Rhys Williams
Sir Henry Stross:
Peter Bowen-Jones
Lady Stross:
Jennifer Jacobs
PC Garland:
Donald Richards
Sergeant:
Hubert Rees
Worker:
Ray Handy

Prizewinners' Concert with the CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Felix Kok
Conductor, HUGO RIGNOLD
From the Town Hall, Birmingham
The final stage of the competition was held last night when, from the five finalists, the overall first and second prizewinners were chosen. In tonight's concert they each play a Mozart concerto.
The concert begins with See facing page

Contributors

Leader:
Felix Kok

Famous Cases of Sir Rufus Isaacs , K.C.
Chosen and presented at the microphone by Edgar Lustgarten
1: Hartopp v. Hartopp A Divorce Suit, 1902
In this celebrated case
Rufus Isaacs appeared for the party named in a cross-petition lodged by the respondent. The hearing lasted three weeks at a cost of thousands, and Isaacs's client was dismissed from the suit with costs.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Rufus Isaacs
Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten
Unknown:
Rufus Isaacs

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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