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by Leslie Darbon in six parts with Tim Seely as Mike Braden and Elizabeth Proud as Jill Braden
What a start for a honeymoon! To find a dead man outside the place where you were staying-one who glowed in the dark like a luminous watch ....
2: A Call For Help
In which Mike and Jill find fantastic and frightening evidence that confirms their fears
Broadcast on November 12. 1965
Cast for the week: with Colin Campbell
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
Part 3: Tuesday, 10.30 a.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Darbon
Unknown:
Tim Seely
Unknown:
Mike Braden
Unknown:
Elizabeth Proud
Unknown:
Jill Braden
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron
Inspector Anderson:
Henry Stamper
Colonel Wright:
Michaei Kilgarriff
Major Felden:
Michael McClain
R S M Wheeler:
Hector Ross
Sergeant Woods:
Fraser Kerr
Barmaid:
Gudrun Ure
Private Maine:
Douglas Hankin
Corporal:
Douglas Hankin
Private Macklin:
Gordon Faith
Private Oswald:
Anthony Jackson
Lt Savegar:
Gordon Gardner
Signals Officer:
Brian Hewlett
Security Officer:
Arthur Lawrence
Superintendent:
Duncan McIntyre
Fulton:
Douglas Storm
Tom Dolan:
Bryden Murdoch
Beam Operators:
Henry Stamper
Beam Operators:
Hamlyn Benson
Beam Operators:
Preston Lockwood
Task Force Leader:
Anthony Hall
Flight Leader:
Peter Marinker

with Wilfred Pickles visits the historic town of Dorchester, Dorset with MABEL at ' the Table '
HARRY HUDSON at the piano
Produced by Stephen Williams
Broadcast on January 11 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Unknown:
Harry Hudson
Produced By:
Stephen Williams

Regional Variations (2)

Gaelic News

BBC Home Service Scottish

Six light-hearted investigations into the financial validity of pursuing certain full-time or part-time occupations and social activities.
6: His Worship the Mayor
LADY HOARE, wife of a former Lord Mayor of London. ALDERMAN JOHN ORWELL. ALDERMAN DILLWYN MILES, and PROFESSOR BRYAN KEITH-LUCAS talk to LEIGH CRUTCHLEY about the responsibilities and rewards of holding office as a mayor
Produced by George Angell

Contributors

Unknown:
John Orwell.
Unknown:
Alderman Dillwyn
Unknown:
Bryan Keith-Lucas
Produced By:
George Angell

Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
John Keir Cross
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Grenville:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Polly Mead:
Hilary Newcombe
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Clare Madison:
Noreen Richards
Roger Patillo:
Jeremy Mason
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Air Letter from Israel: sent by GABRIEL WOOLF.
Reading Your Letters am Four People:
JANICE ELLIOTT talks about her life as author, journalist, housewife. and mother
Flying Doctor Service: JOAN DUNCAN talks about a pilot scheme in Northern Nigeria.
Something to Play:
DONALD BURROWS considers simple piano music
Pig in the Middle written and read by DAVID TREE abridged by Nancy Harrison
Last instalment

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf.
Talks:
Janice Elliott
Talks:
Joan Duncan
Unknown:
Donald Burrows
Read By:
David Tree
Abridged By:
Nancy Harrison

Dorothy Tutin and Paul Daneman in The White Falcon
A radio adaptation by PEGGY WELLS of the stage play by NEILSON GATTEY and JORDAN LAWRENCE
Produced by JOHN POWELL
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy Tutin
Unknown:
Paul Daneman
Unknown:
Peggy Wells
Play By:
Neilson Gattey
Play By:
Jordan Lawrence
Produced By:
John Powell

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
Archaeology and All That:
GORDON SNELL talks to SIR MORTIMER WHEELER
Father's Word was Law:
DOROTHY BAILEY , in conversation with ROBERT GUNNELL , recalls life with Thomas Gibson Bowles, the Victorian individualist
Looking at Books:
DENNIS WHEATLEY and JAMES WELLARD discuss with JACK SINGLETON some of the problems of writing a historical novel
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Talks:
Gordon Snell
Unknown:
Mortimer Wheeler
Unknown:
Dorothy Bailey
Unknown:
Robert Gunnell
Unknown:
Thomas Gibson
Unknown:
Dennis Wheatley
Unknown:
James Wellard
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Introduced By:
Steve Race

The Tales of Beatrix Potter
1866-1943 arranged and told by DAVID DAVIS
8: The Tale of Pigling Bland
' Once upon a time there was an old pig called Aunt Pettitoes. She had eight of a family: four little girl pigs, called Cross-patch, Suck-suck. Yock-yock, and Spot; and tour little boy pigs, called Alexander. Pigling Bland. Chin-Chin. and Stumpy

Contributors

Unknown:
Beatrix Potter
Told By:
David Davis

Regional Variations (7)

News

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News Sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News. Stock Market Reports News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

Voice of the North: regional magazine

BBC Home Service North

News. Round-up

BBC Home Service South and West

News

BBC Home Service Midland

Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling-A news personality returns to a place of special memories-South-East cricket scoreboard-From the Local Press
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin

Regional Variations (5)

The Week Ahead: preview

BBC Home Service North

Scottish Dance Music: Ian Holmes and his Band

BBC Home Service Scottish

Science Survey

BBC Home Service South and West

Scottish Dance Music

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

The Stage Revolves
A round of entertainment provided by the finest orchestras, singers. and instrumentalists on records
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Roy Williamson

Regional Variations (2)

BBC Scottish Orchestra. conducted by Bryden Thomson; Henry Morrison, clarinet

BBC Home Service Scottish

Norbert Brainin (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Bernard Haitink
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1
Overture: Coriolan.....Beethoven
7.41* Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, for violin, viola, and orchestra (K.364).Mozart

Contributors

Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
Bernard Haitink
Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall

' When he came to the throne in 1901 he had nine years to reign, and, true to his nature, they were happy years ... '
DEREK PARKER introduces memories from the BBC Sound Archives of these happy Edwardian years
Broadcast on October 12. 1964

Contributors

Introduces:
Derek Parker

The Coot Generation
In the third of twelve talks about life in Europe today PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from Warsaw
In January 1945 the Russians entered Warsaw, and any Pole turning twenty-one this year has lived his entire life under Communism. Meeting these young people in the capital, Peter Duval Smith found them not restless under oppression but cynical and indifferent. They have -a word for themselves, zimny or ' cool.'
Last Wednesday's broadcast
Wed., 10.0 a.m.: Berlin

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Peter Duval

Regional Variations (2)

James Parr, baritone; Havelock Nelson, piano

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Schumann
Piano Quintet in E flat major
BARYLLI STRING QUARTET
Walter Barylli , Otto Strasser
Rudolf Strong , Emanuel Brabec with JOERG Demus (piano) on a gramophone record

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Barylli
Unknown:
Otto Strasser
Unknown:
Rudolf Strong
Unknown:
Emanuel Brabec
Piano:
Joerg Demus

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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