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The Eye-Witness

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

The Eye-Witness

BBC Home Service Welsh

Dudley Savage. cinema organ: requests

BBC Home Service South and West

Make Yourself at Home
For listeners from India and Pakistan
Aiye Ansrezi Sikhen
English by Radio
Produced by Viola Huggins
Ap Ki Pasand on gramophone records
Introduced by SALEEM SHABED
Produced by David Gretton

Contributors

Produced By:
Viola Huggins
Unknown:
Ki Pasand
Introduced By:
Saleem Shabed
Produced By:
David Gretton

RICHARD REES (baritone)
ST. DEINIOL SINGERS
GWYNEDD SINGERS
BETHESDA LADIES CHOIR
LLITHFAEN AND DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY
PENRHYN MALE VOICE CHOIR accompanied by MENNA LEYSHON , WILLIAM BACON and FFRANCON THOMAS
Introduced by DIC HUGHES
Arranged and conducted by JAMES WILLIAMS

Contributors

Accompanied By:
Menna Leyshon
Accompanied By:
William Bacon
Accompanied By:
Ffrancon Thomas
Introduced By:
Dic Hughes
Conducted By:
James Williams

Regional Variations (2)

Readings from ' I Old Mortality ' by Sir Walter Scott—1

BBC Home Service Scottish

from Trinity Methodist Church, Wolverhampton
Conducted by the Secretary of the Conference, THE REV. ERIC W. BAKER
Preacher,
The President of the Conference, THE REV. DOUGLAS W. THOMPSON
Venite; Psalm 143
Lessons: Isaiah 43, vv. 1-13
2 Corinthians 3, vv. 1-11
Te Deum
Hymns (M.H.B.): Meet and right it is to sing (17); Pray, without ceasing pray (541); God's trumpet wakes the slumbering world (401); 0 God, my God, my all thou art (471)
Organist, H. H. Turner

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Eric W. Baker
Unknown:
Rev. Douglas W. Thompson
Organist:
H. H. Turner

Chairman, WALTER ALLEN
Film: H. A. L. CRAIG
Theatre: J. W. LAMBERT
Broadcasting: JACQUES BRUNIUS Book: KARL MILLER
Art: DAVID PIPER
Producer, Carl Wildman

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Allen
Unknown:
H. A. L. Craig
Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Jacques Brunius
Unknown:
Karl Miller
Unknown:
David Piper
Unknown:
Carl Wildman

My experience as a statutory woman on innumerable government committees was an ideal preparation for Any Questions? because I acquired in the course of the years a superficial knowledge of a large number of unrelated subjects.
Baroness Stocks remembers the people she has met in more than a hundred appearances as a member of the Any Questions? team and recalls experiences, both grave and gay, in conversation with FREDDY GRISEWOOD
Produced by John Blunden

Contributors

Produced By:
John Blunden

Regional Variations (2)

Inverurie Academy Choir, conductor Graham R. Wiseman

BBC Home Service Scottish

Introduced by FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Gardening enthusiasts from
Middlesbrough put questions to FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Recorded on June 25 in the Little
Theatre. Middlesbrough, as part of the city's BBC Week

Contributors

Introduced By:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell

Regional Variations (2)

The Critics

BBC Home Service North

Arthur Young in Blood on the Coral Sea
A play for radio by Bruce Stewart
The Tekelau was a small steamer engaged in the nefarious trade of ' blackbirding ' among the Pacific islands when she foundered. Ordinary Seaman Pine survived, and one or two others ...
Other parts played by LEIGH CRUTCHLEY
Produced by FREDERICK BRADNUM
Broadcast on January 22. 1959

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Stewart
Played By:
Leigh Crutchley
Produced By:
Frederick Bradnum
William Pine:
Arthur Young
Father Brady:
Brian O'Higgins
Green:
Jerold Wells
Dr Grayson:
Godfrey Kenton
Bergen:
Olaf Pooley
Coroner:
Frank Windsor
Alice:
Joan Matheson
Native woman:
Pearl Prescod

A series of six programmes in which well-known men and women of the theatre talk to ROGER SNOWDON about their professional and personal lives 1: John Neville who explains why he forsook a star career to direct the Nottingham Playhouse
Produced by George Angell

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Snowdon
Produced By:
George Angell

A magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Seeing by Sound: a report on new electronic aids
How a Talking Book is Made: ANGELA PAIN goes behind the scenes
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKBALL
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Scott Blackball
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

Regional Variations (2)

Nature Scrapbook

BBC Home Service Scottish

BRUCE CAMPBELL presents the latest developments in the field of wildlife including:
Fulmars Galore!: JAMES FISHER reports on his latest census of the rapidly expanding population of this sea bird
Seven Kinds of Bats in the Loft!: BOB STEBBINGS of the Nature Conservancy meets Bruce Campbell at Furzbrook
News from the Zoos: CAROLINE JARVIS of the Zoological Society of London gives up-to-date information from the zoo world
Wildlife Recordings: excerpts from the latest discs, introduced by Bruce Campbell Produced by John Sparks

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Campbell
Duced By:
Bruce Campbell
Produced By:
John Sparks

Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES
MOTOR RACING
The French Grand Prix
Commentary on the race by ROBIN RICHARDS from Rheims
CYCLING
Tour de France
J. B. WADLEY, Editor of Sporting Cyclist, reports at the end of the twelth day's stage from Revel
Broadcast by arrangement with French Radio
SOCCER
Denmark v. England
BRIAN MOORE reports from Copenhagen
Broadcast by arrangement with Danish State Radio
GOLF
Teacher Senior Matchplay Final
DAI REES v FRED HAAS
(G.B.) V. (U.S.A.) The Nine Nations Golf
Tournament in aid of the Roosevelt Memorial Polio Fund TOM SCOTT reports on both of these events being played today at Dalmahoy Golf Club

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacob de Vries
Unknown:
Robin Richards

Regional Variations (6)

Appeal: All Saints Church. Burton Dasset

BBC Home Service Midland

Appeal: Somerset Diocesan Mission to the Deaf

BBC Home Service South and West

Appeal: Glasgow Council on Alcoholism

BBC Home Service Scottish

Appeal: Cwmgors Old Age Pensioners' Association

BBC Home Service Welsh

Appeal: Family Welfare Association of Manchester and Salford

BBC Home Service North

Appeal on behalf of Westminster Homes Ltd. by CLIFF RICHARD
Contributions, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to: [address removed].
For twenty years Westminster Homes Ltd. have concentrated on providing reasonably priced accommodation for elderly people where they can enjoy their own possessions. Funds are sought now for completion of twelve new flatlets for retired professional people of limited income.

Regional Variations (2)

Cywain: topical magazine with music

BBC Home Service Welsh

by Daphne du Maurier adapted for broadcasting in five parts by JONQUIL ANTONY with Patricia Gallimore
Walter Fitzgerald and Patrick Troughton
Mary Yellan has driven to the Horse Fair with Jem Merlyn-a happy, carefree day for both; but after moving off into the jostling crowds to fetch the pony and trap for their return journey, Jem fails to return ...
PART 4: The Night of Terror with Anthony Hall , Harold Kasket
Preston Lockwood , Kevin McHugb
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Repeated; Tuesday, 3.0 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonquil Antony
Unknown:
Patricia Gallimore
Unknown:
Walter Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Patrick Troughton
Unknown:
Mary Yellan
Unknown:
Jem Merlyn-A
Unknown:
Anthony Hall
Unknown:
Harold Kasket
Unknown:
Preston Lockwood
Unknown:
Kevin McHugb
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Mary Yellan:
Patricia Gallimore
Francis Davey:
John Bryning
Driver:
Wilfred Babbage
Jem Merlyn:
Patrick Troughton
Joss Merlyn:
Walter Fitzgerald
Harry the Pedlar:
John Dearth
Aunt Patience:
Molly Rankin
Hannah:
Hilda Schroder

1888-1965
A portrait of Lord Morrison of Lambeth assembled from the recollections of EARL ATTLEE, SIR HUGH CASSON
SIR ISAAC HAYWARD , LORD HENDERSON
ERIC JACKSON , PEGGY JAY
LORD LATHAM, W. E. LOWETH
MARY MANDELSON
Lord Morrison's daughter
LADY MORRISON
SIR FREDERIC OSBORN. LADY OSBORN
. G. RANDALL
BARONESS SWANBOROUGH Chairman of the W.V.S.
EDITH RICHARDS
Lord Morrison's sister
Ri. HON. EMANUEL SHINWELL , M.P.
RT. HON. GEORGE STRAUSS , M.P.
LORD TAYLOR
Introduced by RT. HON.
PATRICK GORDON WALKER, M.P .
Produced by Richard Keen
Postponed from March 6
The illustration is from a cartoon by Low

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Hugh Casson
Unknown:
Sir Isaac Hayward
Unknown:
Eric Jackson
Unknown:
Peggy Jay
Unknown:
W. E. Loweth
Unknown:
Mary Mandelson
Unknown:
G. Randall
Unknown:
Edith Richards
Unknown:
Emanuel Shinwell
Unknown:
Rt. Hon. George Strauss
Unknown:
Patrick Gordon Walker, M.P
Produced By:
Richard Keen

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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