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Freddie Laker talks to SONYA CALLINGHAM
Freddie Laker was eleven years old when he said that he meant to be a millionaire. It was not until he left the wartime Air Transport Auxiliary and bought a handful of radio spares that he set out on a career in the world of flying which led him first to the managing-directorship of British United Airways and then to resignation from it. How and why did he do what he did? And what does he make of life now?
Broadcast on March 11

Contributors

Unknown:
Sonya Callingham
Unknown:
Freddie Laker

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Eye on the Clock: JOHN BURNS fills in the background to the Tour of Britain Cycle Race which begins on Saturday
Those Early Radio Days:
MAURICE Williams describes the excitement of building his own receiving and transmitting sets in Austria and England during the 1920s
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
John Burns
Unknown:
Maurice Williams
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard adapted as a serial reading in eight parts by Brian Miller The great battle now ended. iKnosi is declared kinK. But the search for the diamonds goes on, and Quatermain and his friends are lured into the cave by Gagool.
PART 7: The Place of Death
Produced by BRIAN MILLER

Contributors

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

To promote a woman to bear superiority ... is repugnant to nature, contrary to God, and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice. JOHN KNOX
SAM POLLOCK has talked with seven women who have either made their mark in spheres once thought the exclusive preserve of men or who are concerned with winning a square deal for women in business and the professions
They are:
MRS. KAY BAXTER
THE RT. HON.
BARBARA CASTLE, M.P.
DR. MARY ESSLEMONT , C.B.E.
MISS HILDA HARDING
LADY LITTLEWOOD
DAME MARGERY PERHAM
THE RT. HON.
DAME PATRICIA HORNSBY-SMITH
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Repeated: June 3, 4 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Knox
Unknown:
Sam Pollock
Unknown:
Mary Esslemont
Unknown:
Miss Hilda Harding
Unknown:
Dame Margery Perham

by Lawrie Wyman ' with Derek Francis and Frank Thornton
Announcer, RONALD FLETCHER
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Tuesday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lawrie Wyman
Unknown:
Derek Francis
Unknown:
Frank Thornton
Announcer:
Ronald Fletcher
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston
H.E. Sir Jeremy Crighton-Buller, K C M G , British Ambassador to Tratvia:
Derek Francis
Henry Pettigrew, First Secretary. British Embassy:
Frank Thornton
Lady Daphne Crighton-Buller:
Charlotte Mitchell
H M King Hildebrande III of Tratvia:
Francis de Wolff
The Hon Clive Frogmore:
Derek Nimmo
H.E. Fey Yong Too, ChineseAmbassador to Tratvia:
David Fallon
H.E. Sergei Ivanoff, Russian Ambassador to Tratvia:
Michael Spice

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† 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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