Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 272,887 playable programmes from the BBC

The Sea Watchers
TONY SOPER talks to JOHN PARSLOW on the coast near St. Ives, Cornwall: DAVID CABOT at Malin Head, Eire; JIM PARRACK on St. Mary's Island, Northumberland: and BRYAN SAGE in H.M.S. Vidal off the coast of Scotland
Also taking part: BILL BOURNE TONY VINE, MARY MEE
† Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Talks:
Tony Soper
Unknown:
John Parslow
Unknown:
David Cabot
Unknown:
Jim Parrack
Unknown:
Bill Bourne

Six Countries in One
In the seventh of twelve talks about life in Europe today
PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia today is having its troubles, but the wonder is that the country exists at all as a unity, made up as it is of six distinct nationalities. In a crowded week Peter Duval Smith has visited them all.

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith

by Richard Huggett
A series of five plays based on unexpected moments in the lives of ordinary people

Behind the glaring publicity of the boxing arena lies the human story of a retired champion.

Contributors

Writer:
Richard Huggett
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Johnny Seago, ex-middleweight boxing champion:
Gordon Jackson
Maggie, his wife:
Mollie Weir
Mike Harding:
Tim Seely
Other parts:
Jonathan Scott
Other parts:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

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 Rupert Davies as The Storyteller
11: The Lost Map Those taking part:
DAVID NETTHEIM , JOHN GABRIEL FREDERICK TREVES , ALEX SCOTT
EDWARD DE SOUZA , BRUCE BEEBY DAVID GRAHAM. ISABEL RENNIE
Produced by CHARLES MAXWELL
Broadcast on June 26 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Collier
Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Rupert Davies
Unknown:
David Nettheim
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Unknown:
Frederick Treves
Unknown:
Alex Scott
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
Bruce Beeby
Unknown:
David Graham.
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell

Regional Variations (3)

Records introduced by Frank Elmes

BBC Home Service South and West

Gaelic News

BBC Home Service Scottish

On October 4, Basutoland will become the independent nation of Lesotho.
ERROLL DE BURGH WILMOT , who farmed in the territory in the 1930s, describes the land and its people whom he knew well and loved

Contributors

Unknown:
Erroll de Burgh Wilmot

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Air Letter from Australia: sent by IDA JENKINS
† Writers' Workshop: OLIVE
SHAPLEY reports from the Writers' Summer School at Swanwick
... with the permission of the Japanese guards: RUTH PRYCE remembers her wedding in a prison camp
The Urbanites are on their way: a point of view from NORMAN L GOODLAND
Town Back Gardens:
JOAN BAKEWELL visits Brigid Brophy 's London garden and discusses the remaking of small back gardens with a designer
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read
Bleak House by DICKENS
Sixteenth of eighteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Ruth Pryce
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Unknown:
Brigid Brophy
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Westbrook

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.
2: Ballad for a Soldier
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
Betty Davies
David Shelley:
Barry Justice
Vic:
Basil Jones
Gerda:
Hilda Schroder
Cope:
Michael Kilgarriff
Genine Byam:
Gudrun Ure
Jonathan Shelley:
Hector Ross
Harold Horsfield:
Peter Claughton
Ackroyd:
Harold Kasket
Haynes:
Anthony Jackson
Stella:
Lavender Sansom

from St. George's
Parish Church, Belfast
Psalms 73 and 74 Lessons (R.S.V.): Zechariah 4
St. John 6, vv. 41-71
Faithful Cross (A. and M. Rev. 97)
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
(Wood in (' minor)
Anthem: This sanctuary of my soul (Wood)
Organist and Choirmaster, EDWIN LEIGHTON

Contributors

Choirmaster:
Edwin Leighton

including:
Hits of the Eighties: KEN SYKORA recalls some of the tunes that were popular in the 1880s
Time on your hands:
JILL MARCHANT. Leisure Adviser for the National Old People's Welfare Council, talks to RoseMARY HART about a new leaflet giving details of hobbies and interests which can be taken up in retirement
Price Fighter: ALAN McGREGOR talks about Gottlieb Duttweiler , who in 1925 sold cut-price goods in the streets and began a shopping revolution that has swept Switzerland
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Marchant.
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Talks:
Alan McGregor
Unknown:
Gottlieb Duttweiler
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

The Regent
Arnold Bennett 's sequel to The Card dramatised as an eight-part serial by OLIVIA MANNING with Graham Armitage as Denry Machin
The Card has procured the lease of the site for a theatre in Piccadilly Circus and now sets about building it. after he has bought the rest of the option from Rose Euclid. He meets her cousin, the attractive Elsie April, and gets invited to a fashionable production.
7:Dealing with Elsie
Other parts: Charles Butler
Alan Devereux , Barrie Fletcher Stephen Hancock , Jack Butcher
Produced by GUY VAESEN in the BBC's Birmingham studios

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Unknown:
Olivia Manning
Unknown:
Graham Armitage
Unknown:
Denry MacHin
Unknown:
Charles Butler
Unknown:
Alan Devereux
Unknown:
Barrie Fletcher
Unknown:
Stephen Hancock
Unknown:
Jack Butcher
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
Ralph Alloyd:
Arnold Peters
Marrier:
Tim Seely
Wrissell:
George Woolley
Lady Woldo:
Janet Whiteside
Elsie April:
Sheila Hammond
Carlo Trent:
Norman Cockin
Mrs Machin:
Joan Anstey
Nellie:
Valerie Kirkbright
Robert:
Barry Chawner
Maisie:
Ysanne Churchman
Ralph:
Esma Wilson
Miss Lindop:
Linda Polan
Rose Euclid:
Marigold Sharman

Regional Variations (7)

Voice of the North: regional magazine

BBC Home Service North

Round-Up

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News. Round-Up

BBC Home Service South and West

News Sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News

BBC Home Service Midland

News, Stock Market Reports,News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling-South East Sport-Football: with the non-Leaguers—MICHAEL BROOKE 'ooks at listeners' letters in Postscript
Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Brooke

1866-1943
The Story of the Dream
Written for radio by MOLLIE HARDWICK with Mary Wimbush as Helen Beatrix Potter
Narrator. DERYCK GUYLER with the voice of LESLIE LINDER , author of The Journal of Beatrix Potter and ELLA ATKINSON , RONALD HARVI EDYTHE FRENCH
Produced by TREVOR HILL from the North of England
Broadcast on July 8

Contributors

Unknown:
Mollie Hardwick
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Helen Beatrix Potter
Unknown:
Narrator. Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Leslie Linder
Unknown:
Beatrix Potter
Unknown:
Ella Atkinson
Unknown:
Ronald Harvi
Unknown:
Edythe French
Produced By:
Trevor Hill

Regional Variations (2)

Association Football. European Cup: Linfield v. Aris Bonnevoie (report)

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

A group of four talks
2: The Indian Ocean by ALASTAIR BUCHAN
The Director of the Institute ot Strategic Studies analyses Britain's strategic problems in the Indian Ocean and questions the way they are being met.
Thursday: The Habit of Empire

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair Buchan

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.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More