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Three programmes based on incidents in the lives of the poets
Byron, Shelley, and Keats
Written and adapted from contemporary sources by DEREK PARKER
1: Deadly and Quick
The romance between Lord Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb with and Produced by JOHN POWELL
Revised version of the broadcast on March 27
Wednesday:
Summer in Switzerland

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Lady Caroline Lamb
Produced By:
John Powell
as Lord Byron:
John Justin
as Lady Caroline Lamb:
Jane Wenham
Samuel Rogers:
Anthony Hall
The Examiner:
Hector Ross
Bellingham:
Patrick Barr
The Sheriff:
Noel Howlett
Robert Charles Dallas:
Anthony Hall
Lady Bessborough:
Noel Hood
Lady Melbourne:
Joan Matheson
Harriet Leveson Gower:
Patricia Gallimore

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Gone Fishing: PETER COLBOURNE meets some of the freshwater enthusiasts in the Midlands
Alan Melville reflects
Silver Lining. God at Work in Us: a talk on identification by The REV. BRYN REES
Your Letters
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Colbourne
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

played for you this evening by the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, GILBERT VINTER with THE JOHNNY PATRICK QUARTET
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN

Contributors

Leader:
James Hutcheon
Conductor:
Gilbert Vinter
Unknown:
Johnny Patrick
Introduced By:
Bryan Martin

PETER DUVAL SMITH introduces a selection of news about current books and talks to HENRY BLYTH about his recreation of a great Victorian scandal, The Pocket
Venus JAMES CAMERON on Lord Moran's Churchill diaries
ARTHUR CALDER MARSHALL on recent fiction
ANTHONY SMITH , himself a balloonist, on L. T. C. Holt 's new history of ballooning, The Aeronauts
Produced by Joseph Hone

Contributors

Introduces:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Henry Blyth
Unknown:
Venus James Cameron
Unknown:
Arthur Calder Marshall
Unknown:
Anthony Smith
Unknown:
L. T. C. Holt
Produced By:
Joseph Hone

Problems and realities of today
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Production team: Alan Burgess Francis Dillon , Keith Hindetl

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edgar Lustgarten
Unknown:
Alan Burgess
Unknown:
Francis Dillon
Unknown:
Keith Hindetl

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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