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Five on a Catamaran
Last year the Rehu Moana , a forty- fool catamaran, sailed out of Newport, Rhode Island, to circumnavigate the world. Aboard were DAVID Lewis , a London doctor, his wife, their two young children, and later PriscillaCairns, a young school-teacher who joined the crew at Valparaiso in Chile
In Auckland. the half-way stage in their journey, they talked to Mike Matthews about their adventures.
Introduced by GEORGE. VILLIERS
Produced by John Blunden made In collaboration with the NZBC
Broadcast on July 31

Contributors

Unknown:
Rehu Moana
Unknown:
David Lewis
Unknown:
Mike Matthews
Produced By:
John Blunden

Readings from the author's works selected and arranged for broadcasting by HOWARD Jones
3: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Read by DAVID HEAI.Y
A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood
Read by EDDIEMATTHEWS
Broadcast on March 8

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Howard Jones
Read By:
David Heai.Y

for the Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury from the Convent of Notre Dame, Ashdown Park , Forest Row, Sussex
Celebrant, FR. GERALD COATES
Readings: Hebrews 5. vv. 1-6;
St John 10, vv. 11-16
Hymns (' Praise the Lord '): 0 God, we Rive ourselves to thee (15); See us. Lord, about thine altar (26) Glory to thee. Lord God (29)
Choirmistress,
Sister Marian Gerard , S.N.D.
Organist, FR. DEREK ROCHFORD
The action of the Mass described by FR. JOHN STAPLETON

Contributors

Unknown:
Ashdown Park
Unknown:
Fr. Gerald Coates
Unknown:
Marian Gerard
Organist:
Derek Rochford
Unknown:
John Stapleton

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specialty in mind, including:
It's impossible not to be thrilled by Edgar Wallace ': Jack SINGLETON talks to Edgar Wallace 's daughter Penelope about her father's life and works
Bowlers and Bloomers: on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Macintosh , GILBERT PHELPS talks about calling clothes after people
+ Cordon Rouge: with GEORGE VILLIERSin the kitchen
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Wallace
Talks:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Edgar Wallace
Unknown:
Charles MacIntosh
Unknown:
George Villiersin
Introduced By:
Steve Race

A dramatised reading by Olive Shapley from the award-winning book by Anne Holm translated from the Danish by L. W. Kingsland with David, twelve years old, who has spent all his life in a concentration camp, is making his way home to Denmark.

From the North of England

Contributors

Author:
Anne Holm
Translated by:
L.W. Kingsland
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Reader:
Olive Shapey
David:
Edward McMurray
The Narrator:
Neil Freeman
The Farmer:
Tom Harrison
His wife:
Norma Wilson
The Swiss Gentleman:
Ben Kingsley

Doctors and scientists attempting to understand the many-sided nature of this mysterious disorder describe their work and possible future research
Narrator. HUGH BURDEN
Written and produced by EILEEN CAPEL.

Contributors

Produced By:
Eileen Capel.

1 Sir FREDERIC OSBORN
Since 1912. when he left his native London to take part in creating the first Garden City at Letchworth, Sir Frederic has been associated with the movement for New Towns He looks back on changing attitudes to town planning.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Frederic Osborn

from the University of Kent at Canterbury
Answers to listeners' scientific and technological questions
In the chair,
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Panel;
Roy CHISHOLM
Applied Mathematics
ROGER JENNISON
Physical Electronics
GRAHAM MARTIN Chemistry
Gerald Rickayzen
Theoretical Physics
Arranged by Mick Rhodes
If you have a question on science or technology that you would like to put to the panel. send it on a postcard to Who Knows?. BBC. Broadcasting House. London, W.I.

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Unknown:
Roy Chisholm
Arranged By:
Mick Rhodes

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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