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BBC Home Service
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Social Work in Action
A series of twenty programmes on the nature and trends of social work in Britain
4: Welfare and the Community A look at the services provided by a County Welfare Department in the fields of community and residential care, and some of the links between the work of its officers and that of social workers in other fields.
Contributors include D. A. SCHOFIELD
County Welfare Officer for West Sussex
Introduced by DAVID HOBMAN
Produced by Dennis Simmons Social Work in Action is intended to be of special interest to those thinking of entering or returning to social work.

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Hobman
Produced By:
Dennis Simmons
Source: Radio Times
BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

During the past week sixteen countries in Europe, including Britain, have been raising funds to help a million men, women, and children made homeless by recent political changes in Asia and Africa
This programme tells what has been happening in the campaign and the work now in progress all over the world which it is to help. Starvation has to be prevented. health restored, and safeguarded, and then, the biggest task of all, the refugees have to be provided with new homes and means of a permanent livelihood —all this for a million people.
Narrator, DUNCAN CARSE
Produced by DAVID WOODWARD

Contributors

Narrator:
Duncan Carse
Produced By:
David Woodward
Source: Radio Times
BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
The Campbells are Coming:
MAY C. JENKINS wonders if her efforts to replan her home for the benefit of visitors are really necessary
Power from the North:
JOHN MACKAY tells how the inspiration to compose the above pipe tune for a ceremony at Dounreay came as he was tending his sheep on the Sutherland hills
A Pennyworth o' Toughers:
CHRISTINA BROWN looks back at seventy-five years of village life in Eaglesham, near Glasgow tTurning Back the Clocks: a look at how the time change is made in the BBC's External Service, which broadcasts to the world in English and forty languages for some ninety-five hours each day
An Hour in Time Saves....:
ERNEST MARWICK feels the effect of fifty years of daylight saving in Orkney, and also talks with ROBERT THOMPSON , a retired lamplighter from St. Margaret's Hope
Introduced by HOWARD LOCKHART from Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
John MacKay
Unknown:
Christina Brown
Unknown:
Robert Thompson
Introduced By:
Howard Lockhart
Source: Radio Times
BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Bandaberry by Laurence Meynell adapted by NAN MACDONALD
1: The Importance of having
Red Hair
Produced by TREVOR HILL
Broadcast on November 29. 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Meynell
Adapted By:
Nan MacDonald
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
David Walker:
Geoffrey Matthews
The Philosophical Tramp:
Geoffrey Banks
Carl Lipscombe:
Heron Carvic
Sigmund Herst:
Graham Tennant
The Innkeeper:
Tom Harrison
Source: Radio Times
BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

The News
Background to the News
People in the News

followed by News-Stand
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by Walter Taplin

Contributors

Presenter (News-Stand):
Walter Taplin
Source: Radio Times

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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