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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
4:The Voyager-the story of Mary Kingsley
Narrator, LEONARD SACHS with JOAN MATHESON as Mary Kingsley and WILFRID CARTER as Canon Kingsley
Script by DOROTHY MIDDLETON
Produced by JOHN BLUNDEN

Contributors

Narrator:
Leonard Sachs
Unknown:
Joan Matheson
Unknown:
Mary Kingsley
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter
Script By:
Dorothy Middleton
Produced By:
John Blunden

Regional Variations (2)

Trem: people and events

BBC Home Service Welsh

Jimmy Clitheroe in Too Many Sisters with PETER SINCLAIR , PATRICIA BURKE
DANNY Ross , DIANA DAY
BRIAN TRUEMAN
Written by James Casey and Frank Roscoe
Produced by JAMES CASEY
Broadcast on February 6 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Clitheroe
Unknown:
Peter Sinclair
Unknown:
Patricia Burke
Unknown:
Danny Ross
Unknown:
Diana Day
Unknown:
Brian Trueman
Written By:
James Casey
Written By:
Frank Roscoe
Produced By:
James Casey

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Out of the News: involving a topic of interest
Two Under the Indian Sun ':
JON and RUMER GODDEN talk to MARJORIE ANDERSON about their childhood in India
Reading Your Letters
1 When I'm too old to fend for myself: ALICE COLLIS describes the home she has chosen
Showpiece: a monthly glance at the world of entertainment
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Seventeenth of eighteen Instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Introduced By:
Rumer Godden
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Alice Collis
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Charles Dickens

Robin and the Seven Hoods starring
FRANK SINATRA , DEAN MARTIN
SAMMY DAVIS Jr. , BING CROSBY
Introduced and adapted by GORDON GOW
Produced by Tony Luke
Recording: broadcast on Sept. 9 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Sinatra
Unknown:
Dean Martin
Unknown:
Sammy Davis Jr.
Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Adapted By:
Gordon Gow
Produced By:
Tony Luke

Chairman, J. W. LAMBERT
Film: ROBERT ROBINSON
Theatre: MILTON SHULMAN
Broadcasting: ERIC RHODE
Book: ALAN BRIEN
Art: DAVID SYLVESTER
Producer. Philip French
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Milton Shulman
Unknown:
Philip French

Regional Variations (2)

Gaelic Service

BBC Home Service Scottish

Midland Region's popular panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair. JACK LONGLAND
Recorded before an invited audience at the BBC Exhibition. Leicester: first broadcast on Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including
Ivy discovered: After fifty-seven years a school diary is returned to its owner through a chance broadcast in Home This Afternoon. A recording of the meeting between HARRY HARDMAN and MRS. IVY L. HINE wish I'd been ...:
BASIL BOOTHROYD on the fascination of other people's careers. 10: A lawyer
Cordon Rouge: with GEORGE VILLIERS in the kitchen
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Hardman
Unknown:
Mrs. Ivy L. Hine
Unknown:
Basil Boothroyd
Unknown:
George Villiers
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

The Rover
The novel by Joseph Conrad adapted for radio by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN with Victor Lucas as Master-Gunner Peyrol
After knocking about the seas for nearly fifty years Master-Gunner Peyrol has taken an attic room in Citizen Scevola's farmhouse on the Hyeres peninsula. Eight years nave passed since the Revolution and the Toulon massacres: Napoleon has been made Consul for life and a gentler climate prevails. The old rover has recently met a young French naval officer. Lieutenant Réal.
3: The Missing Man
Produced by TREVOR HILL
From the North of England

Contributors

Novel By:
Joseph Conrad
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Susan Ashman
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Unknown:
Master-Gunner Peyrol
Unknown:
Master-Gunner Peyrol
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
The Storyteller:
Geoffrey Banks
Lieutenant RSal:
Ronald Harvi
Scevola Bron:
Jack Woolgar
Catherine:
Edythe French
Michel:
Joe Holmes
The Hunchback:
Harry Markham

Regional Variations (7)

News. Sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News. Round-up

BBC Home Service South and West

Round-up

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News. Slock Market Reports News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

News

BBC Home Service Midland

Voice of the North: regional magazine

BBC Home Service North

Latest regional news-The stories behind the headlines-Name in the News-Scotland Yard Calling-South-East Sport -Preview
Produced by the South East news unit

Regional Variations (4)

Regional Traffic Report

BBC Home Service North

Golf: as 12.55 p.m.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Ulster Garden

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS
Leader. Reginald Leopold
Conducted by NEIL FEILING with STEVE BENBOW (songs with guitar)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Conducted By:
Neil Feiling
Unknown:
Steve Benbow
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson

Part 2
Review of current affairs 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

A group of four talks
3: The Habit of Empire
† by MAURICE ZINKIN
Maurice Zinkin questions whether the present arrangements between Britain and Commonwealth countries-particularly Australia-with commitments East of Suez are satisfactory.
Friday: Big Brother's Keeperr

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Zinkin
Unknown:
Maurice Zinkin

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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