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A strike in 1900 by the employees of a Welsh railway company led in Edwardian times to a great lesal strunule in which trade unions won privileges they still enjoy today. In this programme the facts of the original dispute are discussed between an employer and a trade unionist.
Written by Peter Hoar History Work Units series

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Written By:
Peter Hoar

by Daphne du Maurier adapted for broadcasting in five parts by Jonquil Antony
with Patricia Gallimare, Walter Fitzgerald and Patrick Troughton
Jamaica Inn stands today, hospitable and kindly, on the road between Bodmin and Launceston. But this story surmises what might have happened there in 1815...
(Sunday's broadcast)

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Author:
Daphne du Maurier
Adapted for broadcasting by:
Jonquil Antony
[Actress]:
Patricia Gallimare
[Actor]:
Walter Fitzgerald
[Actor]:
Patrick Troughton
Producer:
Norman Wright

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
Home on the Light:
TREVOR HILL visits the Walney Island Lighthouse and talks to the keeper BERT WHEELER and his two assistants, his wife ELLA and sister-in-law
PEGGY Alan Melville reflects
Silver Lining: THE
REV. DR. LESLIE WEATHERHEAD reads selections from his book The Christian Agnostic
Your Letters
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

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Unknown:
Trevor Hill
Unknown:
Bert Wheeler
Unknown:
Peggy Alan Melville
Unknown:
Rev. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

PETER DUVAL SMITH introduces a selection of news about current books and talks to GARY SOBERS , the West Indies cricket captain, about his autobiography Cricket Crusader
Gerald HANLEY with some per; sonal memories of Ernest Hemingway and comment on the Penguin re-issue of five 01 his books
ALAN Brien on Lillian Boss 's Reporting, seven essays from the New Yorker including IIeC portrait of Hemingway VERNON SCANNELL on recent fiction
Produced by Joseph Hone

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Introduces:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Gary Sobers
Unknown:
Gerald Hanley
Unknown:
Ernest Hemingway
Unknown:
Alan Brien
Unknown:
Lillian Boss
Unknown:
Hemingway Vernon Scannell
Produced By:
Joseph Hone

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

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

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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