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A series of programmes on the careers available to school leavers with 0- and "A-level qualifications and the different forms of training open to them.
Work Overseas
Introduced by MICHAEL SMEE Produced by Peggy Bacon
Broadcast on Nov. 26. 1065 (Study)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Smee
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

A series of twenty-four programmes for adults taking the G.C.E. O-level examinations in English Language and Literature, planned in association with the National Extension College correspondence course.
Programme 2
Radio tutor, David Grugeon
Scriptwriter, Emmeline Garnett
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Broadcast on Sept. 17.1965 (Study)
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from The National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road. Cambridge

Contributors

Unknown:
David Grugeon
Unknown:
Emmeline Garnett
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

Written by BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN starring
Kenneth Horne with Kenneth Williams , HUGH Paddick
Betty MARSDEN , BILL PERTWEE
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
EDWIN BRADEN and THE HORNBLOWERS
Announcer, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Broadcast on May 8 (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
Barry Took
Written By:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Fraser Hayes Four
Unknown:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

Where the Pumpkins Blow by Tim Aspinall with Mary O'Farrell and George Hagan
Mrs. Merriman is an aged widow living alone in her country cottage. The time comes when she must depend on someone else. and when that other person appears, in the shape of Mr. Hayward, it would seem that her troubles are at an end.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by John TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Aspinall
Unknown:
Mary O'Farrell
Unknown:
George Hagan
Produced By:
John Tydeman
Doctor:
Leroy Lingwood
Mrs Merriman:
Mary O'Farrell
Ida:
Eva Stuart
Mr Hayward:
George Hagan
Harry:
Antony Viccars

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
What Are You Doing Here?: CORDON SNELL finds out from people at large in London
Working for the Gentry: KATIE GENT describes life as a kitchen-maid on a grouse shoot
British Girls in Moscow: LESLEY ANN JONES and BETTY SAWYER , who work in the Soviet Union, exchange impressions
A Resident's Viewpoint: MALCOLM HAZELL , who lives in Paignton, views the visitors who come to his part of the West Country
Adventure in Iceland: JUNE ROSE, with recordings made as she crossed the biggest glacier in Europe

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Cordon Snell
Unknown:
Katie Gent
Unknown:
Lesley Ann Jones
Unknown:
Betty Sawyer
Unknown:
Malcolm Hazell

by Bernard Shaw
with Dilys Laye
'I hate to see dead people walking about: it is unnatural. And our respectable middle-class people are all as dead as mutton.'
IN THE PLAY:
The action takes place in 1911

(Dilys Laye is in 'Say Who You Are' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Preface:
Allan McClillans
Cecil Savoyard:
Ronald Herdman
Count O'Dowda:
Michael Kilgarriff
Mr Gilbey (Rob):
Hector Ross
Mrs Gilbey (Maria):
Betty Huntley-Wright
Juggins, the Butler:
Geoffrey Matthews
Miss Delaney (Darling Dora):
Dilys Lays
Mrs Knox (Amelia):
Betty Hardy
Mr Knox (Jo):
Timothy West
Margaret Knox:
Patricia Leventon
Lieutenant Duvallet:
Allan McClelland
Bobby Gilbey:
Ernest Myers
Narrator:
Preston Lockwood

An informal get-together with NAN FLEMING-WILLIAMS and DENNY SMITH
THE WATERSONS OF HULL
CYRIL TAWNEY
ISABEL SUTHERLAND
Your hosts are Robin HALL and JlMMIE MACGREGOR
Produced by Maude Hamill in collaboration with Peter Kennedy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society

Contributors

Unknown:
Denny Smith
Unknown:
Cyril Tawney
Unknown:
Isabel Sutherland
Unknown:
Robin Hall
Produced By:
Maude Hamill
Unknown:
Peter Kennedy

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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