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We make decisions every day but sometimes we are brought to a halt by a problem so serious that any decision we make must change our lives
C. R. HEWITT and ELIZABETH CLEVERDON-SKELLON listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered
Produced by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
C. R. Hewitt
Unknown:
Elizabeth Cleverdon-Skellon
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

Deep in the heart of the Brazilian jungle lies Cripori. two days on foot and six weeks by canoe away from its nearest neighbour. But the very reason for the existence of the town is gold, and by this, its 600 inhabitants live. panning it from the nearby streams.
Ϯ MIKE ANDREWS , who recently visited Cripori, talks about this town where it is possible to step back into the atmosphere of California at the end of the nineteenth century

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Andrews

Britain is almost alone in the world in lacking a State Lottery, if-as the authorities claim-Premium Bonds are not a lottery. This programme sets out to discover whether we would gain or lose by joining the majority of countries, from Rhodesia to Russia. in which lottery income is an important part of public finance.
LESLIE SMITH talks to DR. ALEX RUBNER
NORMAN ST. JOHN-STEVAS, M.P. THE REV GORDON MOODY L. J. LUDOVICI and SIR CYRIL OSBORNE. M
Produced by Neil Hepburn

Contributors

Talks:
Leslie Smith
Unknown:
Dr. Alex Rubner
Unknown:
Norman St.
Unknown:
Sir Cyril Osborne.
Produced By:
Neil Hepburn

The story of an English-woman's work in the East
MILDRED DIBDEN went to Hong Kong in 1931 and discovered that hundreds of Chinese children were being abandoned by their parents
Recorded, and compiled by TED THOMAS
Produced by Alan Burgess
+ Broadcast on October 9

Contributors

Produced By:
Alan Burgess

including:
Guest star: Hugh Lloyd of Hugh and I talks to
GWENYTH PETTY
Child's-eye View: GAENOR THOMAS finds out what children are thinking this week
Music-making then and now: PERCEVAL GRAVES and MEIRION WILLIAMS discuss amateur music
Introduced by HARRY SOAN from Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwenyth Petty
Unknown:
Gaenor Thomas
Unknown:
Meirion Williams
Introduced By:
Harry Soan

Tales of the Supernatural by Rudyard Kipling dramatised for radio by A. R. RAWLINSON
4: My Own True Ghost Story
' There are many kinds of Dakbungalows ... Government-built ones with brick walls. converted buildings such as a second-hand palace, and ramshackle buildings of rotten brick and the filth of ages on the walls and windows. Such was Katmal when I arrived there on a wet and windy evening ...'
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
A. R. Rawlinson
Produced By:
David Davis
R K:
Lockwood West
' Myself ':
Harold Innocent
Kadir:
Preston Lockwood
Khansamah:
Patrick Westwood

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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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