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A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Forever Amber:
ROSEMARY HART talks to SIDNEY CHARATON. a Bond Street dealer, about the origin and history of amber
Alan Melville reflects
Silver Lining: ' Wax to receive and marble to retain.' Some recollections of childhood by RUTH GUNSTONE
Your Letters
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Talks:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Sidney Charaton.
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

Introduced by STUART Hoob
This week:
ERIC NEWBY on his journey Slowly Down the Ganges, published yesterday
KENNETH WILLIAMS reads some of The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin
JOHN HALE talks about The Consul of Florence, David Tutaev 's study of the German who saved many lives and treasures during the occupation of the city
VERNON SeANNELL on new novels
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Stuart Hoob
Unknown:
Eric Newby
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Mulla Nasrudin
Talks:
John Hale
Unknown:
David Tutaev
Unknown:
Vernon Seannell
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

on SLUMS IN BRITAIN
There are more than half a million dwellings in Britain officially classified as ' unfit for human habitation.' Can a million more sub-standard dwellings be saved from rotting into slums?
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Production team: Alan Burgess and Keith Hindell

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edgar Lustgarten
Unknown:
Alan Burgess
Unknown:
Keith Hindell

Sequence:
MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
PORTIA ENSEMBLE
Mary Murdoch (oboe) Rosemary Wells (oboe) Thea King (clarinet)
Daphne Down (clarinet) Deirdre Dundas-Grant
(bassoon)
Wendy Robinson (bassoon) Valerie Smith (horn)
Rosamund Howard (horn)
Third broadcast of the songs: second broadcast of the wind music
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Piano:
James Lockhart
Oboe:
Mary Murdoch
Oboe:
Rosemary Wells
Bassoon:
Deirdre Dundas-Grant
Bassoon:
Wendy Robinson
Horn:
Valerie Smith
Horn:
Rosamund Howard
Unknown:
James Lockhart

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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