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The Real Greece
In the sixth of twelve talks about life in Europe today PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from Athens
Returning to the Greek islands where lie once lived. Peter Duval Smith found the place infested by tourists and trippers. He had to travel to remoter parts to discover the real Greece he knew twenty years ago.
Repeated next Monday. 10.45 p.m.
Next talk in this series: Next Wednesday, 10 a.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Peter Duval

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 10: Wild Justice
Produced by CHARLES MAXWELL
Broadcast on June 19 (.Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Collier
Unknown:
Robert Barr
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell
as The Storyteller:
Rupert Davies
Marcel Girard:
David Nettheim
Eugene Meslin:
John Gabriel
Jacques Moulines:
Edward de Souza
Colonel Touny:
Frederick Treves
Fernand Arsène:
John Cazabon
Dany:
Anna Gilchrist

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Bachelors Gay?: Some reflections on the unmarried male
Our offending female figures were camouflaged: EDITH MIDGLEY 'S memory of working in a Bank in 1915 + Tallulah: Hollywood star
TALLULAH BANKHEAD talks to JOHN KOBAL
International Council of Women: ANNE CHEETHAM reports from a recent conference in Tehran
The Park Entertainers: ANNE GREGG talks to children and performers
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Eleventh of eighteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Edith Midgley
Talks:
Tallulah Bankhead
Unknown:
Anne Cheetham
Talks:
Anne Gregg
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Charles Dickens

Mosaic of Loving
A trilogy by Stephen Grenfell
There is a pattern in a man's loving just as there is a pattern in his hatreds, his failures, his achievements.....
1: Sonnet of Childhood
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
Betty Davies
David Shelley:
Barry Justice
Gerda:
Hilda Schroder
Jonathan Shelley:
Hector Ross
Margaret Shelley:
Molly Rankin
Zena Shelley:
Carol Marsh
Fritz, Gerda's father:
Henry Stamper
Marta, her mother:
Betty Huntley-Wricht
Barclay:
Michael Kilgarriff
Johnnie:
Wilfren Barbage

from
Leicester Cathedral
Responses (Byrd)
Psalm 37
Lessons: Zechariah 2
St. John 4. vv. 1-26
Canticles (Howells, New College
Service)
Anthem: Give us the wings of faith
(Bullock)
Organist and Master of the Music. George Gray
Assistant. Sidney Rudge

Contributors

Unknown:
Sidney Rudge

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
' Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory': David FRANKLIN brings back some of the voices you have loved in the past. 2-Heddle Nash
Clubs for the Elderly: OLIVE
SHAP'.EY talks to ENIRLY WHITE about the report on her work as an activities adviser
† Coalie Bill: as a young man
ROBIN SMYTH went for a job at a coal wharf where he met Bill and Daisy
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Robin Smyth
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

The Regent
Arnold Bennett 's sequel to The Card dramatised as an eight-part serial by OLIVIA MANNING with Finding that a church is to be built on the site of his proposed new theatre, the Card visits Lady Woldo, an ex-actress widow who owns the land. She signs a promise to return to the theatre. Her solicitors grant the lease in return for the promise.
6: Corner Stone
Produced by GUY VAESEN in the BBC's Birmingham studios

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Unknown:
Olivia Manning
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
as Denry Machin:
Graham Armitage
Marrier:
Tim Seely
Servant:
Alan Devereux
Sir John Pilgrim:
John Hollis
Givington:
Barrie Fletcher
Carlo Trent:
Norman Cockin
Hotel waiter:
Stephen Hancock
Elsie April:
Sheila Hammond
Ralph Alloyd:
Arnold Peters
Bootmaker:
Jack Butcher
Voice:
Charles Butler

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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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