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Second hearings of the programme in which scientists and technologists answer listeners' questions
Panel
A. COMFORT
University College, London
A HUNTER
Royal Greenwich Observatory
J.R. NAPIER
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine
P. J. NEWBOULD
University College, London
In the chair.
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Arranged by Archie Clow
Broadcast on June 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Arranged By:
Archie Clow

Introduced by PAMELA CRFIGHTON .tA A Conductor's Life Begins at
Sixty: STANFORD ROBINSON talks to MARJORIE ANDERSON
I was a Dental Guinea-pig:
MARGARET CATHCART found cut-price treatment at a College of Dentistry in the United States
At Home in a Plastic House:
PAMELA STAFFORD tells PAMELA COLEMAN what it is like
Reading your Letters
Talk of Books and Writers: JOHN MORRIS on The Jewel in the Crown, Paul Scott 's novel about India; AUDREY ERSKINE LINDOP on her new novel I Start Counting; and BA MASON with a personal choice
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read
Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Tenth of eighteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Crfighton
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Margaret Cathcart
Unknown:
John Morris
Unknown:
Paul Scott
Unknown:
Audrey Erskine
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
8: The Christians to the Lions!
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:
Turning Points: John ELLISON talks to IVOR NEWTON
A Breath of Fresh Air: from the Ilkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist WALTER FLESHER
† Silver Lining: Enjoying the Bible-its people: first of three talks by THE REV. HAROLD MOULTON of the Translation Department of the British and Foreign Bible Society
Your Letters
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Talks:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Walter Flesher
Unknown:
Rev. Harold Moulton
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

Chaliapin, in opera, is an exception. He stands alone on the heights. CONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY
A portrait in words and music of the great opera singer
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin with contributions from:
ODA SLOBODSKAYA
LADY ABERCONWAY
SYDNEY CHENEY , ARNOLD HASKELL
GERALD MOORE , ALEC RPBERTSON
DESMOND SHAWE-TAYLOR
Compiled and introduced by DEREK PARKER
Produced by Robert Gunnell
1 Broadcast on July 6

Contributors

Unknown:
Constantin Stanislavsky
Singer:
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin
Unknown:
Lady Aberconway
Unknown:
Sydney Cheney
Unknown:
Arnold Haskell
Unknown:
Gerald Moore
Unknown:
Alec Rpbertson
Unknown:
Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Introduced By:
Derek Parker
Produced By:
Robert Gunnell

A discussion on the punishment of offenders
The first of three programmes in which people from different backgrounds are given details of some recent court cases and asked to decide what sentences they would have passed on the offenders. Afterwards they hear what the actual sentences were.
Taking part this week:
THE Rev. AUSTEN WILLIAMS
Vicar of St. Martin- in- the- Fields
VICTOR MEEK former Inspector in the Metropolitan Police
Dr. HOWARD JONES
Head of the Department of Sociology. University of Keel* and JESSIE MATTHEWS
Introduced by Tony PARKER
+ Produced by Paul Stephenson

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Meek
Unknown:
Jessie Matthews
Introduced By:
Tony Parker
Produced By:
Paul Stephenson

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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