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Regional Variations (4)

The Eye-Witness

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

The Eye-Witness

BBC Home Service Welsh

Dudley Savage: cinema organ requests

BBC Home Service South and West

Make Yourself at Home
For listeners from India and Pakistan
Sawal Aur Jawab
Con I Help Your
Ap Ki Pasand
Gramophone records and favourite music from India and Pakistan
Introduced by SALEEM SHAHED
Produced by David Gretton
Correspondence in English. or your own language, should be sent to Make Yourself at Home. or Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye. BBC. Broadcasting House. Birmingham 15

Contributors

Introduced By:
Saleem Shahed
Produced By:
David Gretton

Regional Variations (2)

Letter to Scotland from Canada

BBC Home Service Scottish

Contributors

Written By:
Edward J. Mason
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Aunt Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Grenville:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Jack Woolley:
Piiilip Garston-Jones
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Roger Patillo:
Jeremy Mason
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Ronnie Beddoes:
Harry Littlewood
Paul Johnson:
Leslie Dunn
Len Thomas:
Arnold Peters

Regional Variations (5)

Service from Sketty Methodist Church, Swansea

BBC Home Service Welsh

University Notebook

BBC Home Service Scottish

Service: as West

BBC Home Service Midland

People's Mass from the Church of the Holy Family, Plymouth

BBC Home Service South and West

from the Moravian Church, Gracehill, Co. Antrim
Conducted by the Minister, THE Rev. BEN MUNCASTER
Hymns (Moravian Hymn Book):
Arise, my soul, adore thy Maker (732): Jesus makes my heart rejoice (656); Holy spotless lamb of God (498); Rest of the weary (281)
Lessons: Isaiah 55. vv. 6-13. and 56. vv. 1-8; St. Matthew 11, vv. 1-15, and 25-35 Organist, Hilda Groves

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Ben Muncaster
Organist:
Hilda Groves

Regional Variations (3)

Welsh Service from Pwllheli

BBC Home Service Welsh

Record requests for the sick and housebound

BBC Home Service North

GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Extended version of last Friday's broadcast

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Ellison

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting, and art
This week:
A. ALVAREZ
JANET ADAM SMITH
JULIAN MITCHELL
EDWIN MULLINS
In the chair, IAIN HAMILTON
Produced by Philip French
Repeated: Thursday, 3.30 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
A. Alvarez
Unknown:
Janet Adam Smith
Unknown:
Julian Mitchell
Unknown:
Edwin Mullins
Unknown:
Iain Hamilton
Produced By:
Philip French

Regional Variations (2)

The Critics

BBC Home Service North

Trees Die on their Feet by Alejandro Casona
Translated and adapted by GEORGE LEESON with Beryl Calder , Simon Lack Olga Undo , Norman Claridge
Do means justify ends? When an old lady's happiness is at stake, there is no question.
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Broadcast on August 8. 1964
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Alejandro Casona
Adapted By:
George Leeson
Unknown:
Beryl Calder
Unknown:
Simon Lack
Unknown:
Olga Undo
Unknown:
Norman Claridge
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Helena:
Polly Murch
Professor:
Earle Grey
Isabel:
Beryl Calder
Director:
Simon Lack
Balboa:
Norman Claridge
Hunter:
Gordon Faith
Genoveva:
Kathleen Helme
Felisa:
Patiticia Leventon
Grandmother:
Olga Lindo
The Other:
Edward Kelsey

DEREK HART reports and introduces people currently concerned with drama, film, opera, ballet, music, painting, sculpture, and other arts in the making, including
The Beginning of an Art Centre: RICHARD DEMARCO on opening a Gallery in Edinburgh Transposing ' The Group ': SIDNEY LUMET and SIDNEY BUCHMAN on filming Mary McCarthy 's novel
Russian Storm at the Old Vic: BEATRIX LEHMANN , DORIS LESSING , and JOHN STRIDE on a new production of Ostrovsky's The Storm at the National Theatre
Production team.
Helen Rapp , Paul Stephenson
Postponed from October 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Hart
Unknown:
Richard Demarco
Unknown:
Sidney Lumet
Unknown:
Sidney Buchman
Unknown:
Mary McCarthy
Unknown:
Beatrix Lehmann
Unknown:
Doris Lessing
Unknown:
Helen Rapp
Unknown:
Paul Stephenson

A magazine of special interest to blind listeners
Are We Cruel to Guide Dogs?: a discussion between trainers and owners
A Gruelling Experience: recalled by MABEL GREEN
Introduced by DAVID SCOTT BLACKBALL
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Recalled By:
Mabel Green
Introduced By:
David Scott
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

Regional Variations (7)

Appeal: The Shankill Road Mission

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Appeal: The Ockenden Venture Home. Barmouth

BBC Home Service Welsh

Appeal: The Royal Blind Asylum and School. Edinburgh

BBC Home Service Scottish

Appeal: Edith Cavell Restoration Fund for Swardeston Parish Church. Norfolk

BBC Home Service Midland

Appeals. (434 m.) Salford Catholic Children's Rescue Society. (261 m.) Cumberland Council of Social Service Holiday for the Disabled Fund

BBC Home Service North

Appeal: Bristol Old People's Welfare Incorporated

BBC Home Service South and West

Appeal on behalf of St. Giles' Centre, Camberwell by ANDREW CRUICKSHANK
Contributions, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Since 1961 St. Giles' Centre, in the Crypt of Camberwell Parish Church, has offered immediate friendship and help to all who come with difficult social and emotional problems. Appeals for assistance are increasing daily and funds are urgently needed towards the cost of extending these facilities.

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Cruickshank

Regional Variations (2)

Annual Service of the Glasgow Churches Men's Movement from Glasgow Cathedral

BBC Home Service Scottish

An act of worship for All Saints' Tide from Chichester Cathedral
The Beatitudes and the Christian life
Blest are the pure in heart (E.H.
370)
Revelation 7, vv. 9-12
The Beatitudes (Rubbra)
St. Matthew 5, vv. 1-3
Reading from ' The Chronicles of Little Gidding ' (A. L. Mavcock )
0 quam gloriosum (Victoria)
St. Matthew 5, vv. 2 and 8 Reading from ' Autobiography of a Saint' (St. Theresa of Lisieux)
He that shall endure (Mendelssohn)
St. Matthew 5. vv. 2 and 10 Reading from Letters and Papers from Prison' (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Glorious in heaven are the souls of all saints (Whitlock)
St. Matthew 5, vv. 2 and 6 But my neighbour is my treasure
(Ruth Pitter)
St. Matthew 5. vv. 2, 11. and 12 Reading from ' The Pilgrim's
Progress ' (Bunuan)
For all the saints (E.H. 641)
Collect for All Saints' Day
Readers,
JOHN GLEN , PENELOPE LEE and the ARCHDEACON OF CHICHESTER
Conductor. JOHN BIRCH
Organist, RICHARD SEAL

Contributors

Unknown:
L. Mavcock
Readers:
John Glen
Readers:
Penelope Lee

Regional Variations (2)

Siarad yn Bersonol: discussion

BBC Home Service Welsh

by Ouida adapted for broadcasting in ten parts by DOMINIC ROCHE
7: Correze accepts an Invitation Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts: Alan Dudley
Arthur Lawrence , Tim Seely
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Repeated: Tuesday, 3.0 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Dudley
Unknown:
Arthur Lawrence
Unknown:
Tim Seely
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Lord Jura (Jack):
Douglas Hankin
Princess Nelaguine:
Anna Burden
Vere:
Patricia Gallimore
Lady Dolly Vanderdecken:
Gudrun Ure
Marquis de Corrèze:
Andrew Sachs
Prince Sergius Zouroff:
David March
Duchesse Jeanne de Sonnaz:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Anatole:
Peter Bartlett

The Captain of our salvation
A reading from ' Christian
Faith and Practice' by William Penn
Conquering Kings their titles take (A. and M. 175)
Isaiah 61, vv. 1-3, 10, 11
St. Luke 4, vv. 14-22
To Christ, the Prince of Peace
(BBC H.B. 94)
Hebrews 2, vv. 8-10

Handel
Trio-Sonata in G minor (GHS
Op. 2 No. 7)
11.16' Trio-Sonata in E major
(GHS Op. 5 No. 3)
11.30' Trio-Sonata in B flat major (GHS Op. 2 No. 4) played by the GOLDSBROUGH ENSEMBLE
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin) Nona Liddell (violin) Terence Weil (cello) Arnold Goldsbrough
(harpsichord)
Second broadcast

Contributors

Violin:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Violin:
Nona Liddell
Cello:
Terence Weil

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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