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Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by Martin Muncaster including a report on The Opening by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh of the VIII British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica

Contributors

Presenter:
Martin Muncaster

A series of five discussions on personal relationships and day-to-day problems
5: On Choosing a Career
Speakers:
MARJORIE DURWARD , a Lecturer in Education at Loughborough Training College
MARGARET GRAINGER , of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology ADRIAN BRIDGEWATER, Director. Careers Research and Advisory Centre, Cambridge
FIVE TEENAGERS
Chairman. LESLIE SMITH
Produced by Barbara Crowther

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Durward
Unknown:
Margaret Grainger
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Produced By:
Barbara Crowther

1865-1936
The first of three programmes of his poems
Introduced by BONAMY DOBRÉE
Read by Hugh Dickson , Penelope Lee and David Spenser
Broadcast on December 13. 1965

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bonamy Dobrée
Read By:
Hugh Dickson
Read By:
Penelope Lee
Read By:
David Spenser

from Scotland
LINDSAY Ross AND his BAND with RONALD MORRISON (baritone) HECTOR MACANDREW (violin) ALEX ADMONSTONE (piano)
Produced by Eoin S. Hamilton
Ronald Morrison broadcasts by permission of Scottish Opera

Contributors

Unknown:
Lindsay Ross
Baritone:
Ronald Morrison
Violin:
Hector MacAndrew
Produced By:
Eoin S. Hamilton
Produced By:
Ronald Morrison

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
ANNE ALLEN , STEPHEN BLACK and ELIZABETH CLEVERDON-SKELLON listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered
Produced by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Allen
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

from the Midlands
Introduced by JOAN HARPER
A House in the Country: talk by JEAN MARGARET PEACE
A Question of Taste:
JOAN HARPER visits the Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire
Living Treasures: JAMES FISHER discusses with ERIC ROBERTS the Shell Nature Lovers' Atlas, published last month
The World of the Narrow
Boat: CHARLES HADLOW , curator of the Waterways Museum. Stoke Bruerne. Northamptonshire, talks to SHEILA BAILEY
Rus in urbe: PHYLLIS BUSHILL-
MATTHEWS shows MARIGOLD LAWTON her seven-acre Birmingham garden within a mile of the City centre
Poland in the Cotswolds:
PETER DUDDRIDGE visits the Polish community near
Blockley PHYLLIDA LAW reads
The Fountain Overflows by REBECCA WEST
Seventh of thirteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Harper
Talk By:
Jean Margaret
Unknown:
Joan Harper
Unknown:
James Fisher
Unknown:
Eric Roberts
Unknown:
Charles Hadlow
Unknown:
Sheila Bailey
Unknown:
Peter Duddridge
Unknown:
Blockley Phyllida

including:
Herbs-and Not-so-simples: a curious collection of remedies and cures, concocted by MARGARET POTTER tThe Car Insurance Battle:
Hints and tips for the driver who is over sixty-five, from JOHN C. VANN .
Return to Sardinia: Where did Mama Gerolama live-was she still alive?: DESMOND COL LINS goes back to the island after twenty years
How Aunt Jane Entered Eter nity: by HELENA FRANCE
Manx Songs sung by ROYSTON CORLETT accompanied by EMILY CHRISTIAN Introduced by BARRY CHAMBERS from the North of England

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Unknown:
John C. Vann
Unknown:
Mama Gerolama
Unknown:
Desmond Col
Unknown:
Jane Entered Eter
Sung By:
Royston Corlett
Accompanied By:
Emily Christian
Introduced By:
Barry Chambers

The Amateur Gentleman
A tale of Regency days by Jeffery Farnol adapted for radio as a serial in thirteen parts by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN with and 2: The Lace Handkerchief
Barnabas meets a ' Young Buck' and learns about the beautiful lady he rescues in the wood.
Produced by JOHN POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeffery Farnol
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Produced By:
John Powell
Barnabas Barty:
Brian Hewlett
The Storyteller:
Anthony Jackson
John Chumly:
Basil Jones
Jerry Tucker:
Ronald Herdman
Viscount Devenham:
Henry Stamper
Clemency Dare:
Carol Marsh
Jack Truelove:
Wilfred Babbage
Milo:
Nigel Anthony

Alan Loveday (violin)
Frances Mason (violin)
BBC Chorus
London Philharmonic
Orchestra
Leader, Rodney Friend
Conducted by Malcolm Arnold
From the Royal Albert Hall , London

Overture: Ruy Bias - Mendelssohn
7.42* Motet: Veni, Creator Spiritus. for mixed choir and brass. Op. 130 - Rubbra commissioned by the BBC: first performance
7.54* Symphony No. 3, In F major - Brahms

Contributors

Violin:
Alan Loveday
Violin:
Frances Mason
Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conducted By:
Malcolm Arnold
Unknown:
Albert Hall

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 WILLIAM HARDCASTLE

Contributors

Unknown:
William Hardcastle

LOUISIANA RHYTHM KINGS
JACK TEAGARDEN
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
BESSIE SMITH
BENNY CARTER
ART TATUM
COLEMAN HAWKINS
BUDDY DE FRANCO and others on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Teagarden
Unknown:
Bessie Smith
Unknown:
Benny Carter
Unknown:
Art Tatum
Unknown:
Coleman Hawkins
Unknown:
Buddy de Franco

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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