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Hymns of your choosing sung by school choirs from all over the country f Introduced by RONALD ALLISON
" Morning Song' welcomes requests for favourite hymns. but cannot promise to respond to them all. Write to: [address removed],

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ronald Allison

Chairman. J. W. LAMBERT
Art: ROBERT HUGHES
Film: ROBERT ROBINSON
Theatre: MILTON SHULMAN
Broadcasting: ERIC RHODE
Book: DAVID SYLVESTER
Producer. Philip French
Repeated: Thursday, 3.30 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Robert Hughes
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Milton Shulman

as recalled by Rene Cutforth
The ' time of any life is usually held to be the period when events conspire to give it its fullest expression.
René Cutforth takes a different view. and his contribution to this series concerns itself with his boyhood in Derbyshire in the early 1920s.
Repeated: Friday, 3.0 p.m.

Contributors

Recalled By:
Rene Cutforth

A series of seven programmes reporting on excavations taking place in Britain this summer 4:Roman Military North
For more than 300 years there were Roman miJitary activities in the north of Britain. JOHN GILLAM , ANTHONY BIRLEY , and GEORGE JOBEY discuss their excavations at Corbridge, Mary-port, and Burnswark
Series introduced by JOHN KING
Series adviser, Barry Cunliffe
Producer, Roger Laughton

Contributors

Unknown:
John Gillam
Unknown:
Anthony Birley
Unknown:
George Jobey
Introduced By:
John King
Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe
Unknown:
Roger Laughton

Cave Animals
Deep in the earth are caverns where the light of day never penetrates. Yet in this strange mineral world many animals live, some only temporarily, but others as permanent residents. How do they manage to survive without light? What do they feed on? Dick SADDLIER talks to
MICHAEL BLACKMORE Nature Conservancy
HUMPHRY GREENWOOD British Museum
GEOFFREY JEFFERSON University of Wales
Produced by John Sparks
Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 a.m.

Contributors

Talks:
Dick Saddlier
Unknown:
Michael Blackmore
Produced By:
John Sparks

Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES
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MOTOR RACING
Italian Grand Prix
A commentary by ROBIN RICHARD on the finish of the race: from Monza
Broadcast by arrangement with Italian Radio
CYCLING
World Championships
JOHN BURNS reports on some of this afternoon's track finals: from the Velodrome, Frankfurt
Broadcast by arrangement with Frankfurt Radio
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ATHLETICS
VIII European Athletics Championships
Reports and commentaries by HAROLD ABRAHAMS and NORMAN CUDDEFORD : from Budapest
Broadcast by arrangement with Hungarian Radio

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacob de Vries
Commentary By:
Robin Richard
Unknown:
John Burns
Unknown:
Harold Abrahams
Unknown:
Norman Cuddeford

A programme which throws new light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats who wrote many of his later poems at the home of Edith Shackleton Heald at Steyning in Sussex
Script and narration by BERNARD PRICE
Poems read by CYRIL CUSACK
Producer, Bill Coysh
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
William Butler Yeats
Read By:
Cyril Cusack
Unknown:
Bill Coysh

Bruckner
Quintet in F major played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) with Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Broadcast on June 19 (Music)

Contributors

Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Cello:
Martin Lovett
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz

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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