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A series of programmes reflecting some current opinions on aspects of child-care
Some Children ' At Risk
It is believed by many obstetricians and paediatricians that a small percentage of babies are born likely to develop handicapping conditions, due to certain difficulties at birth or maladies during pregnancy. What these conditions are. and what can be done about them. are discussed by: A PROFESSOR OF OBSTETRICS AND
GYNAECOLOGY
DR. MARY SHERIDAN
A CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN
MRS. JUNE JAY
Chairman, LESLIE SMITH
Produced by Barbara Crowther
Broadcast on December 30. 1965

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Mary Sheridan
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Produced By:
Barbara Crowther

from Scotland
JIM MACLEOD AND HIS BAND with PATRICIA MACMAHON (soprano) and HECTOR MACANDREW (violin) ALEX EDMONSTONE (piano)
Produced by Eoin S. Hamilton
Jim MacLeod and his Band are appearing at Dunblane Hotel Hydro. Perthshire

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim MacLeod
Soprano:
Patricia MacMahon
Violin:
Hector MacAndrew
Produced By:
Eoin S. Hamilton
Produced By:
Jim MacLeod

Introduced by Pamela Creighton

What Happened Afterwards:
Janina David talks to Wilfred De'Ath about her life since the escape from Nazi concentration camps, described in A Touch of Earth

A Victory over Myself: Jocelyne Goodman talks about the lessons she has learned in middle age

O-Levels at 58: Margaret Powell's account of taking the exams

Trick Cyclist Extraordinary:
Michell Raper remembers Coin Coin, a star of the Cote d'Azur

Special Occasion Clothes:
Phyllis Edwards talks to Doreen Forsyth about her work in a large dress hire department

Making Toys. Mobiles, and Soft Furnishings: practical books reviewed by Anne Wild

Marjorie Anderson and John Westbrook read "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens
Eighth of eighteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Talks:
Janina David
Talks:
Lyne Goodman
Unknown:
Margaret Powell
Unknown:
Michell Raper
Talks:
Phyllis Edwards
Unknown:
Doreen Forsyth
Reviewed By:
Anne Wild
Reviewed By:
Marjorie Anderson
Reviewed By:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Charles Dickens

Harriet Cohen talks about many people she has known including:
SIR HENRY Wood. LIONEL TERTIS
SIBELIUS, MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT TAMARA KARSAVINA , SIR ARNOLD BAX
.and recalls their voices, with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives, in a conversation with LESLIE PEROWNE

Contributors

Talks:
Harriet Cohen
Unknown:
Sir Henry Wood.
Unknown:
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Unknown:
Tamara Karsavina
Unknown:
Sir Arnold Bax
Unknown:
Leslie Perowne

† Return to Rathlin: Society has been transformed since the end of the war. Is everything changed? Everywhere? To seek an answer JOHN D. STEWART returns to Rathlin Island after twenty years
Sketches of Young Ladies: last of a series by SHEILA ST. CLAIR and CHARLES WITHERSPOON
* Life in an Irish Country Rectory: by Vivienne Atkinson. read by MARGARET D'ARCY
† Irish Songs sung by Eric HINDS < baritone)
Introduced by MAURICE O'CALLAGHAN from Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
John D. Stewart
Unknown:
Charles Witherspoon
Unknown:
Vivienne Atkinson.
Sung By:
Eric Hinds
Introduced By:
Maurice O'Callaghan

The Amateur Gentleman
A tale of Regency days by Jeffery Famol adapted in thirteen parts by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN with Brian Hewlett as Barnabas Barty and Anthony Jackson as The
Storyteller Barnabas went to see Ronald Barrymaine with an offer of help. But Mr. Chichester had arrived on the scene to stir up trouble.
6: Annersley Revisited
Viscount Devenham.HENRY STAMPER
Produced by JOHN POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeffery Famol
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Unknown:
Brian Hewlett
Unknown:
Barnabas Barty
Unknown:
Anthony Jackson
Unknown:
Storyteller Barnabas
Unknown:
Ronald Barrymaine
Produced By:
John Powell
Captain Slinesby:
John Dearth
Billy Button:
Michael Kilgarriff
Quinly:
Michael McClain
A woman debtor:
Anna Burden
Jaspar Gaunt:
Wilfred Bamage
A landlord:
Kevin McHugh
Jerry Tucker, the bo'sun:
Ronald Herdman
Cleone:
Eva Haddon
Sir Mortimer Carnaby:
Ronald Heroman

A New Kind of Laughing TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR
GRAEME GARDEN, DAVID HATCH Jo KENDALL and BILL OODIE
Scripts by Tim Brooke-Taylor
Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
Original songs by Bill Oddie supported by THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Produced by HUMPHREY BARCLAY
Broadcast on Dec. 6. 1965 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Songs By:
Bill Oddie
Produced By:
Humphrey Barclay

The Rt. Hon.
Harold Macmillan in conversation with CHARLES COLLINGWOOD
JOHN GRIST and NIGEL LAWSON
Introduced by IAN TRETHOWAN
A recording of the programme shown on BBC last night Produced for television by MARGARET DOUGLAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold MacMillan
Unknown:
Charles Collingwood
Unknown:
John Grist
Unknown:
Nigel Lawson
Introduced By:
Ian Trethowan
Television By:
Margaret Douglas

reads and introduces a selection of poems on Pilgrimage:
Man's Quest for Truth
Recorded at one of the Lunchtime Recitals to celebrate Westminster Abbey's 900th Year.
Compiled by Fr. Gerard Irvine
Produced by John Carroll and Hallam Tennyson

Contributors

Produced By:
John Carroll
Produced By:
Hallam Tennyson

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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