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Regional Variations (2)

Gaelic News

BBC Home Service Scottish

The first of two rounds in a contest between
London and Northern Ireland
London:
Michael AYRTON
SIR DENIS BROGAN
Quiz-Master, LIONEL Hale
Northern Ireland:
C E. B BRETT , RONALD GREEN
Quiz-Master, ROY PLOMLEY
Last Wednesday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ayrton
Unknown:
Sir Denis Brogan
Unknown:
E. B Brett
Unknown:
Roy Plomley

Regional Variations (3)

Canu'n Lion choral music

BBC Home Service Welsh

The Highland Country Bandi

BBC Home Service Scottish

A series of sound biographies tracing the lives and careers of the elite of the film world
4: Marlon Brando
Illustrated by excerpts from his important motion pictures Compiled and introduced by PETER MATTHEWS
Produced by John Dyas

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Matthews
Produced By:
John Dyas

Regional Variations (2)

Schools: Scotland in the Modern World

BBC Home Service Scottish

It was not until the second half oi Queen Victoria's reign that the State undertook a major part in education This programme reconstructs conditions before and after this great change.
Written by Margaret Wood
History Work Units series

Contributors

Written By:
Margaret Wood

by Charles Dickens dramatised fur radio in eleven parts by MOLLIE HARDWICK with Gladys Spencer , Peter Claug hton and Anthony Jacobs as Dickens
8: The Last Step of the Staircase
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Mollie Hardwick
Unknown:
Gladys Spencer
Unknown:
Peter Claug
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs

A magazine of interest to all with older listeners speciall; in mind, including:
At Your Invitation: Roy Plomley , chosen by listeners to b-their guest on the programme this month, answers their ques tions put to him by KEN SYKORA
Hear Ye:
PROFESSOR A. C GIMSON introduces and reads versions of the Bible from be fore Chaucer to King James I
† Alan Melville reflects
Your Letters
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Introduces:
Professor A. C Gimson
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Regional Variations (3)

January Bairns: records. and poems by Robert Burns

BBC Home Service Scottish

Diruelwch Y Chware Gam: serial play-3

BBC Home Service Welsh

Ju-ju in my Life
A series of four readings from the book by JAMES H. NEAL adapted for radio by Neville Teller
Read by Eric ANDERSON
3: Magic Proves Useful
Produced by David Thomson

Contributors

Book By:
James H. Neal
Read By:
Eric Anderson
Produced By:
David Thomson

Regional Variations (7)

(434 m.) From the North: news and topics. (261 m.) Voice of the North

BBC Home Service North

News. News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

News

BBC Home Service Midland

Round-Up

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News Round-Up

BBC Home Service South and West

News

BBC Home Service Scottish

Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Tonight's Name in the News —Scotland Yard Calling-Personal Column with DAVID GEARY -South-East Sport
Introduced by BOB HOLNESS
Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Unknown:
David Geary
Introduced By:
Bob Holness

Regional Variations (3)

Foster Mothers: some of the work of the Belfast Corporation Welfare Department described by Ann Ruthven

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Y Maes Chwarae

BBC Home Service Welsh

with JUNE WHITFIELD , WALLAS EATON and ROBERTSON HARE
Script by Charles Hart and Peter Bishop
Produced by BILL WORSLEY
1 Broadcast on Aug. 14. 1986 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
June Whitfield
Unknown:
Wallas Eaton
Unknown:
Robertson Hare
Script By:
Charles Hart
Unknown:
Peter Bishop
Produced By:
Bill Worsley

Introduced by REGINALD BARRETT-AYRES
BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra Led by Esmé Haynes
Conductor, JAMES LOUGHRAN
Given before an invited audience in Studio One. Glasgow

Concertante for violin. cello, oboe. bassoon, and orchestra violin, TOM ROWLETTE cello. John MCINULTY oboe. VALERIE TAYLOR bassoon, BARRY Morris - Haydn
Ballet music: Petrushka piano. JULIAN DAWSON - Stravinsky

Contributors

Introduced By:
Reginald Barrett-Ayres
Conductor:
Esmé Haynes
Conductor:
James Loughran

Introduced by KENNETH ALLSOP
This week:
MARGOT NAYLOR on The Merchant Bankers by Joseph Wechsberg , published last week BRYAN ROBERTSON talks about The Art Stealers by Milton Esterow
GORONWY REES considers the Collected Poems of Louis Mac-Neice VERNON SCANNELL on new novels
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
Margot Naylor
Unknown:
Joseph Wechsberg
Talks:
Bryan Robertson
Unknown:
Milton Esterow
Unknown:
Goronwy Rees
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

Regional Variations (3)

Alexander Kelly, piano: Debussy. Faure\\ Schumann

BBC Home Service Scottish

Coinisiwn: Jamaica

BBC Home Service Welsh

A new musical quiz devised by Edward J Mason and Tony Shryane
DAVID FRANKLIN and FRANK MUIR challenge
IAN WALLACE and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, STEVE RACE with GRAHAM DALLEY at the mellotron
Recorded before an invited audience at the Kensington and Chelsea Central Library, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Graham Dalley

A man commits an offence and is sent to prison. But what happens to his wife and children in his absence? Why should they also be penalised financially and emotionally? Does this disaster have a permanent and damaging effect on their lives?
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edgar Lustgarten
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

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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