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Prayer
Alleluia, sing to Jesus (Tune,
Hyfrydol)
Interlude: Wonder, Part I
0 praise ye the Lord! (Tune
Laudate Dominum: BBC Supplement)
Interlude: Wonder, Part 2
Blessing
Prayers with response (4)
Last Wednesday's broadcast
Repeated: Friday, 9.5 a.m.

The Mechanical by Shirley Jenkins
When you're young, you think some people have everything ... at first ..
Other parts played by Ronald Herdman and members of the cast
† Produced by JOHN GIBSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Shirley Jenkins
Played By:
Ronald Herdman
Produced By:
John Gibson
Philip Vernon Body:
Anthony Hall
Mrs Body:
Joan Matheson
Marina Body:
Polly Murch
Leading Seaman Henry Body:
John Dearth
Geraldine:
Sian Davies
Edward Lawrence:
Allan McClelland
Emma Lawrence:
Barbara Mitchell
Sophie:
Elizabeth Proud
Mrs Alexandec:
Hllda Schroder

from Peterborough Cathedral
Introit: Justorum animae
(Stanford)
Preces and Responses (Tallis)
Psalms 12. 13, and 14 Lessons: Proverbs 4, v. 20, to 5, v. 14: James.4, vv. 2-40
Canticles (Byrd)
Anthem: In Pace (Blitheman)
Master of the Music, Stanley Vann
Assistant, Barry Ferguson

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Vann
Unknown:
Barry Ferguson

' Mrs. Ticky-Tacky MALVINA
REYNOLDS, composer of the song Little Boxes, talks to KEN SYKORA about her new popularity after half a century of writing songs
' Don'have anything to do with it, Flots ': B. C. HILLIAM recalls forty years of broadcasting
' Elizabeth Palmer worked this piece at Mrs. Peartree's, aged nine years': LADY VIOLETTA INGLEBY-MACKENZIE talks about her collection of samplers
Date with a Doctor
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
B. C. Hilliam
Unknown:
Elizabeth Palmer
Introduced By:
Steve Race

The King's General by Daphne du Maurier
Dramatised for radio in eight episodes by REX RIENITS with Mary Wimbush
Laurence Payne
In the counter-attack against the Roundhead forces invading Cornwall, Sir Richard Grenvile , one of the King's Generals in the West, has been seriously wounded. Honor Harris-once betrothed to him— decides to go to him at once.
6: Arrest
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by BRIAN MILLER from the West of England

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Laurence Payne
Unknown:
Sir Richard Grenvile
Produced By:
Brian Miller
Honor Harris:
Mary Wimbush
Jack Grenvile:
Nigel Graham
Matty:
Ruby Luscombe
Sir Richard Grenvile:
Laurence Payne
Jonathan Rashleigh:
Peter Claughton
Mary Rashlemh:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Alice Courtney:
Elizabeth Boxer
Colonel Roscarrock:
Alan Dudley
Robin Harris:
Bill Meilen
Prince Charles:
Michael Spice

A series of two-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. The West: Round 2
London:
BARRY CARMAN. CEDRIC CLIFFE
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
The West:
VIVIAN OGILVIE , VINCENT WAITE
Quiz-Master. Roy PLOMLET
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Carman.
Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Vivian Ogilvie
Unknown:
Vincent Waite
Unknown:
Roy Plomlet
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

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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