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A series of four programmes chronicling the remarkable adventures of some audacious and resolute Victorian women who travelled to wild and remote corners of the world
3:The New Woman-the story of Fanny Bullock Workman
Narrator, LEONARD SACHS with Others taking part:
Hilda Schroder , Godfrey Kenton
Script by DOROTHY MIDDLETON
Produced by JOHN BLUNDEN
Ne.rt week : The Voyager—the story of Mary Kingsley

Contributors

Narrator:
Leonard Sachs
Unknown:
Hilda Schroder
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Script By:
Dorothy Middleton
Produced By:
John Blunden
Unknown:
Mary Kingsley
as Fanny Bullock Workman:
Gudrun Ure
as her husband:
Stephen Thorne
as Lillias Davidson:
Noel Hood

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Out of the News: involving a topic of interest
Coxes and Worcesters: MOLLIE LEE visits orchards in Kent and meets farmers and other workers in the apple industry
Look, Listen. Live: poems for
Siegfried Sassoon's eightieth birthday
A Sense of Community:
JOAN PYPER talks to DAVID ELDER about the work of the American Friends Service Committee among the overcrowded people of Hong Kong
Reading Your Letters
Domestic Disorders: a tale of woe from DIANA GRAVES
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read
Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Twelfth of eighteen Instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Mollie Lee
Talks:
Joan Pyper
Unknown:
Diana Graves
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Charles Dickens

THIS AFTERNOON
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
Anything to Declare?:
ANNE CATCHPOLE spends a day with a Customs Officer at Tilbury Docks
† Farthing Bundles:
MARIE HAMILTON remembers Clara Grant , who started a scheme in the East End of London to provide simple toys for poor children
† Armchair Gardener: some simple hints and tips from FRED LOADS
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
Marie Hamilton
Unknown:
Clara Grant
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

The Rover from the novel by Joseph Conrad adapted for radio in eight parts by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN with As the French Revolution ends. Master-Gunner Peyrol returns to his native France, meaning to retire after nearly fifty years at sea. Returning to the Hyeres peninsula where he was born. the old rover arrives at a farm, perched high on the cliff edge. and run by a certain Citizen Scevola Bron ...
2: The English Corvette
Produced by TREVOR HILL
From the North of England

Contributors

Novel By:
Joseph Conrad
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Unknown:
Master-Gunner Peyrol
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
as Master-Gunner Peyrol:
Victor Lucas
The Storyteller:
Geoffrey Banks
Scevola Bron:
Jack Woolgar
Catherine:
Edythe French
Lieutenant Real, a young French naval officer:
Ronald Harvi
Captain Vincent of the Amelia:
Norman Somers
Mr Bolt, his master-mate:
Graham Tennant

RAYMOND BAXTER REGINALD TURNILL and COLIN RIACH report on this week's 25th Society of British Aerospace Companies flying display and exhibition at the Royal Air craft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire
Introduced by ROBIN RICHARDS
Produced from the BBC mobile studio by Kenneth Pragnell

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Baxter
Unknown:
Reginald Turnill
Unknown:
Colin Riach
Introduced By:
Robin Richards
Unknown:
Kenneth Pragnell

The NewS
Background to the News
People in the News
Special T.U.C. edition followed by LISTENING POST
GILES PLAYFAIR introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome.

Contributors

Introduces:
Giles Playfair

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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