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by Jerome K. Jerome adapted as a dramatised reading in four parts by MOLLIE HARDWICK 4: The end o/ a perfect Bummel 1 J' ERIC ANDERSON Harris and the rest JOHN GRAHAM
Produced by GUY VAESEN in the BBC Midland studios
Broadcast on March 10. 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerome K. Jerome
Unknown:
Mollie Hardwick
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen

An account of the Security business in this country compiled by KENNETH CLARKE from the recorded statements of . those who manage the organisations and the uniformed men who work for them
Narrator, DENYS HAWTHORNE
Produced by Maurice Brown

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Clarke
Narrator:
Denys Hawthorne
Produced By:
Maurice Brown

People learn to speak through hearing and imitation. Can a profoundly deaf child, helped by modern technical aids. be taught to communicate? What are the limitations? What are the prospects for such a child?
An enquiry by ANGELA PAIN
Produced by Robert Gunnell

Contributors

Produced By:
Robert Gunnell

In this week's edition the critics discuss the arts in 1966 Chairman. PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Fiction and Poetry: ERIC RHODE
Non-Fiction: KENNETH ALLSOP Art: BRYAN ROBERTSON
Theatre: RONALD BRYDEN
Film: DILYS POWELL
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Unknown:
Eric Rhode
Unknown:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
Bryan Robertson
Unknown:
Ronald Bryden
Unknown:
Dilys Powell

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to GERAINT EVANS
How to Annoy Me: BASIL
BOOTHROYD with some down-to-earth hints. 3: The taxi-driver
† The Confirmation: as a girl of seventeen, LADY VIOLETTA INGLEBY-MACKENZIE attended a confirmation-with a difference -by Cardinal Mercier at Malines
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Talks:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Geraint Evans
Introduced By:
Steve Race

The novel by R. M. Ballantyne adapted as a dramatised reading in eight episodes by HOWARD JONES with Ronald Harvi as Ralph Rover , the Narrator
1: We Are Shipwrecked
Produced by TREVOR HILL from the North of England
See facing page

Contributors

Novel By:
R. M. Ballantyne
Unknown:
Howard Jones
Unknown:
Ronald Harvi
Unknown:
Ralph Rover
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
Jack Martin:
Struan Rodger
Peterkin Gay:
Peter Landon
Captain of the Arrow:
Neil Freeman

Written and narrated by Stephen Grenfell
Professor Gerhard Domagh 's discovery in Germany in 1935 of Prontosil chronicles one of the ureat moments in the history of medicine. Prontosil was the first of the sulpha drugs — the sulphonamides which themselves were the first of the ' wonder drugs ' to have brought under control so many of the most serious diseases afflicting mankind.
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Grenfell
Unknown:
Professor Gerhard Domagh
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GILBERT PHELPS introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome

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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