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Hymns of your choosing sung by school choirs from all over the country
Introduced by RONALD ALLISON
1 Morning Song ' welcomes requests for favourite hymns, but cannot promise to respond to them all. Write to: [address removed].

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ronald Allison

A spontaneous discussion by LADY VIOLET BONHAM CARTER (Baroness Asquith)
LoRD BOOTHBY
LORD ROBENS
THE Rt. Hon.
CHRISTOPHER SOAMES
Travelling Question-Master, FREDDY GRISEWOOD
Produced by Michael Bowen from Mile Oak Community Centre, Portslade, Sussex
Last Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lady Violet Bonham
Unknown:
Christopher Soames
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

A series of seven programmes reporting on excavations taking place in Britain this summer
6:Medieval Towns
MAURICE BARLEY introduces reports from Hereford, Kind's Lynn, and Winchester He discusses the problems of organising the excavating of medieval towns in the middle of the development of the modern town.
Series introduced by JOHN KING
Series adviser, Barry Cunliffe
Producer, Roger Laughton

Contributors

Introduced By:
John King
Unknown:
Barry Cunliffe
Unknown:
Roger Laughton

Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES
ATHLETICS
Gt. Britain v. Sweden (men)
Reports by HAROLD ABRAHAMS from Stockholm
† Broadcast by arrangement with Swedish Radio
YACHTING
Little America's Cup
KEN SYKORA reports from Thorpe Bay Yacht Club, Essex, on the International Catamaran Trophv in which America is challenging the holder, Gt. Britain

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacob de Vries
Unknown:
Harold Abrahams

A series of programmes about non-conformers who by precept and example helped to change the society in which they lived Guardian of the Poor
An account of George Lansbury (1859-1940) and ' Poplarism '
Written and narrated by C. R. Hewitt
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

Contributors

Unknown:
George Lansbury
Unknown:
C. R. Hewitt
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
George Lansbury:
David March
Charles Sumner:
Hector Ross
Henry Stesser:
Preston Lockwood
Lord Chief Justice:
Hamlyn Benson
Mr Disturnal, K C:
Henry Stamper
The Rev Fenwick Kitto:
Noel Howlett

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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