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Now that their exploits in the border areas in Ireland during the war years have become folk lore their full story can be told -in words and song
The words are their own
The ballads written and sung by DAVID HAMMOND , BILL MEEK
TONY McAULEY accompanied by BARNEY McKENNA (banjo)
GEORGE GALWAY (flute)
Compiled and produced by MAURICE LEITCH
Broadcast on October 28. 1965. in the Northern Ireland Home Service

Contributors

Sung By:
David Hammond
Sung By:
Bill Meek
Unknown:
Tony McAuley
Accompanied By:
Barney McKenna

or The Memoirs of Mr. C. J. Yellowplush
Sometime Footman in Many Genteel Families by William Makepeace Thackeray arranged in nine parts by TERENCE TILLER
Read by FRANK DUNCAN and players for the week:
ANNA BURDEN, MARY WIMBUSH BRUCE BEEBY , PETER MARINKER ALAN HAINES , WILFRID CARTER
Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
1: Miss Shum's Husband
Broadcast on Sept. 6. 1965

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr. C. J. Yellowplush
Unknown:
William Makepeace
Unknown:
Terence Tiller
Read By:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Bruce Beeby
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Alan Haines
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall

Second hearings of the programme in which scientists and technologists answer listeners' questions
Panel
KEVIN CONNOLLY psychologist
HARRY ROSENBERG physicist
PETER SYKES chemist
GWYNNE VEVERS zoologist
In the chair,
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Arranged by Archie Clow
Broadcast on May 27

Contributors

Unknown:
Kevin Connolly
Unknown:
Harry Rosenberg
Unknown:
Peter Sykes
Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Arranged By:
Archie Clow

from Blackpool
Introduced by OLIVE SHAPLEY
Smith's-Eye View: KEITH SMITH looks at Blackpool
At Home: with VIOLET CARSON
Six Miles of Lights: HARRY CARPENTER , who organises the Illuminations, talks to BARBARA MACDONALD
Cutting Loose: ELSIE LEWIS tries something new
Summer Season: MRS. MILLS, who is at the ABC Theatre, talks to BARRY CHAMBERS
Blackpool Merry-go-Round
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read
Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Fifth of eighteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
Keith Smith
Unknown:
Violet Carson
Unknown:
Harry Carpenter
Unknown:
Barbara MacDonald
Unknown:
Elsie Lewis
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Charles Dickens

by Henryk Sienkiewicz translated by C. J. HOGARTH adapted for radio in ten parts by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN
While Marcus is enjoying a stolen meeting with Lygia, and Petronius is pleading their cause with Nero, news comes that Rome is on fire.
7: City of Fire
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Translated By:
C. J. Hogarth
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Produced By:
R. D. Smith

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
' Watch the dicky-bird ... ':
L. HUGH NEWMAN talks to STEPHEN DALTON about his life as a nature photographer
' Down by the Koo-la-Loo ':
ALEC TIBBLEs recalls Barclay Gammon , a music-hall artist of sixty years ago, and sings one of his songs
† Silver Lining: My Kind of Miracle: a talk by BETTE WHITE who found an unexpected answer to her prayers
Your Letters
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Talks:
L. Hugh Newman
Unknown:
Stephen Dalton
Unknown:
Barclay Gammon
Talk By:
Bette White
Introduced By:
Steve Race

What do the correspondents of Russian newspapers tell their readers about our way of life? What do they make of it themselves? And what sort of people are they?
OLGA FRANKLIN of the Daily Mail talks to
MELOR STURUA of lzvestia and BORIS GURNOV Of
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Produced by Patrick Harvey
Broadcast on June 24
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Olga Franklin
Unknown:
Boris Gurnov
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

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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