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by Charles Dickens dramatised in eleven parts
Mrs. Sparsit and Mr. Bounderby have welcomed a bored gentleman from London who has lost no time in flattering and pumping Tom Gradgrind.
6: Sent to Coventry
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Tom Gradgrind.

including:
† The Stones of Time:
ROBERT GUNNELL tours the Ulster Folk Museum at Holywood, near Belfast, with the Director, GEORGE THOMPSON —visiting the mills and houses which have been brought to the site from all parts of Northern Ireland
† Alan Melville reflects
The Woman with the Telephone: SHIRLEY DEANE talks about a scandal in her Corsican village
Silver Lining. Self-discipline: the second of two talks on discipline by JEAN RICHARDSON
Your Letters
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Gunnell
Director:
George Thompson
Talks:
Shirley Deane
Unknown:
Jean Richardson
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Introduced by GERALDMcDoNALD
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
Given before an invited audience in the Civic Hall, Ellesmere Port
Next week: BBC Welsh Orchestra, conductor John Carewe ; introduced by Mansel Thomas

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Stead
Conducted By:
Bryden Thomson
Conductor:
John Carewe
Introduced By:
Mansel Thomas

Introduced by JOHN METCALF
ALAN WHICKER on Wilson Follett 's guide to Modern American Usage
VAL GIELGUD talks about his thriller Conduct of a Member, published yesterday
OSBERT LANCASTER considers James Gillray 's caricatures col- lected in Fashionable Contrasts
DAVID PIPER interviewed about j his war novel Trial by Battle, . reissued yesterday j
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Metcalf
Introduced By:
Alan Whicker
Unknown:
Wilson Follett
Talks:
Val Gielgud
Unknown:
James Gillray
Unknown:
David Piper
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

Sequence
Music by Beethoven and Schubert played by MARGARET NEVILLE (soprano)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
NONA LIDDELL (violin)
DAPHNE IBBOTT (piano)
Margaret Neville broadcasts by pertni-ion of Sadler's Wells Opera Co.

Contributors

Soprano:
Margaret Neville
Piano:
Paul Hamburger
Violin:
Nona Liddell
Piano:
Daphne Ibbott
Piano:
Margaret Neville

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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