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with David Kossoff and Joan Sims
Carole Allen, Alan Curtis, Kim Grant, David Graham, Barry Cryer
Written by David Cumming
Produced by BILL WORSLEY
Broadcast of Feb. 16 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Kossoff
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
Alan Curtis
Unknown:
Kim Grant.
Unknown:
David Graham
Performer:
Barry Cryer
Written By:
David Cumming
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

by Kenneth Grahame arranged for broadcasting in eight instalments by May Jenkin
3: The Wild Wood
' We river-bankers, we hardly ever come here by ourselves. If we have to come, we come in couples at least: then we're generally all right.'
Broadcast In Story Time on October 11. 1965

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame

An appreciation of the man and his work
Introduced by FRANCIS WATSON with the help of reminiscences and critical comments collected from friends and fellow-writers
Reader, JOHN MOFFATT
Broadcast in the BBC World Service on March 14

Contributors

Introduced By:
Francis Watson
Reader:
John Moffatt

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Out of the News: involving a topic of interest
Garden Visit: ELIZABETH BERESFORD and Jim MIDDLETON at the National Trust garden at Ascott House, Wing, near Leighton Buzzard
Reading Your Letters
Widows' Pensions: ELIZABETH MITCHELL talks about the different categories and allowances
Merry-go-Round: reporting events on the lighter side
PHYLLIDA LAW reads The Fountain Overflows by REBECCA WEST
Eleventh of thirteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Jim Middleton
Talks:
Elizabeth Mitchell

Chairman. WALTER ALLEN
Film: ROBERT ROBINSON
Theatre: Richard FINDLATER
Broadcasting: ANNE ALLEN
Book: J. G. WEIGHTMAN
Art: EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
Producer, Carl Wildman
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Richard Findlater
Unknown:
Anne Allen
Unknown:
J. G. Weightman
Unknown:
Edward Lucie-Smith
Unknown:
Carl Wildman

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
English Without Tears: PERCY SHEPPARD discovers a phrase-book for Germans visiting England sixty years ago
Armchair Gardener: some simple hints and tips from FRED LOADS
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race

Moon Eyes by Josephine Poole adapted and produced as a serial reading in four parts by BRIAN MILLER
Worried both by the message scrawled on the statue, and by the occasional appearance of a large black dog with pale eyes, Kate is now afraid of being alone at Hurst Camber and longs for her father to return. But presently she has company, for Miss Rhoda Cantrip has arrived.
2: Miss Rhoda Cantrip
Reader, MARGARET WOLFIT

Contributors

Unknown:
Josephine Poole
Unknown:
Brian Miller
Unknown:
Miss Rhoda Cantrip
Reader:
Margaret Wolfit

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
†WALTER TAPLIN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter Taplin

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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