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Taking the Waters, Playing the Tables
In the fifth of twelve talks about life in Europe today
PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from Baden-Baden
At Baden-Baden Queen Victoria took the waters and Dostoevsky lost his shirt at the Casino. Fol
. lowing in their steps a hundred years later, Peter Duval Smith found the glamour of the famous spa wearing a little thin.
Repeated next Monday, 10.45 p.m. Next Wednesday at 10.0 a.m.: Hungary

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith

The true story of the Atlantic Wall in Normandy and the plot to destroy it adapted in eleven parts from Richard COLLIER 'S book Ten Thousand Eyes by ROBERT BARR with 9: The Lost Leaders
Produced by CHARLES MAXWELL
Broadcast on June 5 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Collier
Unknown:
Robert Barr
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell
The Storyteller:
Rupert Davies
Marcel Girard:
David Nettheim
Eugene Meslin:
John Gabriel
René Duchez:
Frederick Treves
Odette Duchez:
Elizabeth Morgan
Dr Sustendal:
Barry Letts
Fernand Arsène:
John Cazabon
Pierre Harivel:
Jonathan Scott
Hermut Bernard:
John Gabriel

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
The Unplanned Holiday: CHARLES CRICHTON 'S account of his last-minute arrangements
Bats' Blood and Dream Books: WILLA PETSCHEK talks about Voodoo in New York
Reading Your Letters
What can we have now?: HONOR WYATT with some ideas for end-of-the-holiday cookery
Vintage Car Rally, Indian
Style: MARK TULLY reports from Delhi
MARJORIE ANDERSON and John WESTBROOK read Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Sixth of eighteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Charles Crichton
Unknown:
Mark Tully
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Charles Dickens

Mug's Game by Robert Storey
You've just oot to make it. Cliff.
Nobody cares how-they'll never know anyway. Get some wool on your back, love. You can took after the widows and orphans later.'
Other parts played by Ronald Harvi. Roy Minton
Catherine Naish , Barbara Mullaney Joanna Tope. Barbara Greenhalgh
Produced by ALAN AYCKBOURN

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Storey
Played By:
Ronald Harvi.
Played By:
Roy Minton
Unknown:
Catherine Naish
Unknown:
Barbara Mullaney
Unknown:
Joanna Tope.
Unknown:
Barbara Greenhalgh
Produced By:
Alan Ayckbourn
Cliff:
Geoffrey Hinsliff
Fay:
Elizabeth Bell
Tony:
Bernard Gallagher
Bert:
Bert Palmer
Stannaway:
Ralph Hallett
Dillicroft:
David Mahlowe

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Master Piece: Colin GIBSON talks about and illustrates one of Schubert's major works, the ' Unfinished ' Symphony
Travels with a Bicycle: FRED
ABLETHORPE talks to MICHAEL GILLIAM about his cycling holiday in the Cevennes following in the tracks of Robert Louis Stevenson and Modestine
† Off the Beat: Memories of an ex-London bobby by WILLIAM A. JOHNSON
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Talks:
Colin Gibson
Unknown:
Michael Gilliam
Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
William A. Johnson
Introduced By:
Steve Race

The Regent
Arnold Bennett 's sequel to The Card dramatised as an eight-part serial by OLIVIA MANNING
The Card, now on friendly terms with the great actress Rose Euclid and the famous American actor Seven Sachs. Koes to inspect the site for. his new theatre-and finds a church is to be built on it'
5: Lord Woldo and Lady Woldo with Stephen Hancock
Produced by Guy VAESEN in the BBC's Birmingham studios

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Unknown:
Olivia Manning
Unknown:
Rose Euclid
Unknown:
Seven Sachs.
Unknown:
Stephen Hancock
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
Denry Machin:
Graham Armitage
Vulto:
Alan Devereux
Slosson:
Arnold Peters
Wrissell:
George Woolley
Club porter:
Barrie Fletcher
Old club porter:
Jack Butcher
Lady Woldo:
Janet Whiteside
Marrier:
Tim Seely

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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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