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A series of five discussions on personal relationships and day-to-day problems
2: Living for Kicks
Most teenagers lead reasonable lives: but when some get caught up in drug-taking or violence, how does this come about?
Speakers:
DAVID DOWNES , Lecturer in Social Administration at the London School of Economics
MICHAEL DUANE, formerly Head-master of Risinghill School, Islington. now a Principal Lecturer in Education at London Training Colleges
Chairman. LESLIE SMITH
Produced by Barbara Crowther
Next Friday: I can'discuss anything with parents

Contributors

Unknown:
David Downes
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Produced By:
Barbara Crowther

from the West of England
Songs and music in traditional style with PAT NELSON
RICHARD HARRIS and JOHN FORSEY DICK WITT
THE GREENSLEEVES BAND led by Dennis Darke and the dancers of Willand, Devon
Produced by Brian Patten

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Nelson
Unknown:
Richard Harris
Unknown:
John Forsey
Unknown:
Dick Witt
Unknown:
Dennis Darke
Produced By:
Brian Patten

We make decisions every day but sometimes we are brought to a halt by a problem so serious that any decision we make must change our lives
SONYA CALLINGHAM , C R. HEWITT , and JANET QUIGLEY listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered
Produced by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Sonya Callingham
Unknown:
R. Hewitt
Unknown:
Janet Quigley
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

from Scotland
Introduced by NANCY MITCHELL tScottish Guest:
SIR DUGALD BAIRD , lately Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Aberdeen. talks to ELSIE RUSSELL tThe Sunset of an Age:
ALEXANDER SCOTT on the novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon , whose trilogy A Scots Quair was written thirty years ago in exile and has just been republished
A Last Chance?: ALASTAIR DUNNETT visits the Highlands and Islands Development Board in Inverness to meet the men planning the economic regeneration of the Highlands
Madam Principal: ETHEL RENNIE explains to MATT SPICER her approach to the training of primary teachers at the new Craigie College of Education, Ayr
Ideas in the Air with MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
Anna Massey reads The Millstone by MARGARET DRABBLE
Seventh of nine instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nancy Mitchell
Unknown:
Sir Dugald Baird
Unknown:
Elsie Russell
Unknown:
Alexander Scott
Unknown:
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Unknown:
Alastair Dunnett
Unknown:
Ethel Rennie
Unknown:
Matt Spicer
Unknown:
Magnus Magnusson
Unknown:
Anna Massey
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
A Rose Without a Thorn:
When RUMMY WESTON took over a Suffolk country garden and found himself toiling to meet the needs of 1,700 modern rose bushes, he decided to plant the rose trees of yesteryear and leave them to fend for themselves
In Perspective: Local newspapers strike a fascinating balance between world-shattering events and parish-pump gossip. TONY CHURCH looks at the world behind the local headlines
Abandoned Chicks: MICHAEL Cox tells ERIC ROBERTS about two young moorhens he is hand-rearing
Introduced by DAVID STEVENS from the Midlands

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Cox
Unknown:
Eric Roberts
Introduced By:
David Stevens

by Arthur Swinson
The fifth of a series of six programmes written with the cooperation of H.M. Customs and Excise to illustrate some of the work carried out to detect and circumvent the activities of those who wish to break the law to their own financial advantage.
A Swiss businessman is used unwittingly as an agent of a highly organised watch-smuggling organisation.
Principal characters:
Other parts: Nigel Clayton and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Swinson
Unknown:
Nigel Clayton
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
John Carbrook:
Victor Lucas
Jim Evans:
Noel Howlett
Schmidt:
Tim Seely
Mr Kinglake:
Preston Lockwood
Duggan:
Patrick Barr
Delfour:
Wolfe Morris
Caldwell:
Ronald Baddiley

A New Kind of Laughing with Tim BROOKE-TAYLOR
GRAEME GARDEN , DAVID HATCH
Jo KENDALL and BILL ODDIE
Scripts by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey Clive James , Bill Oddie Peter Vincent and David McKellar
Original songs by Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor supported by THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Produced by HUMPHREY BARCLAY
Broadcast on Nov. 22. 1965 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
John Esmonde
Unknown:
Bob Larbey
Unknown:
Clive James
Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Unknown:
Peter Vincent
Unknown:
David McKellar
Songs By:
Bill Oddie
Songs By:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Produced By:
Humphrey Barclay

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by DONALD McLACHLAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald McLachlan

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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