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A poetry programme including:
' Stormy' by William Carlos Williams: an excerpt from ' The Meadow Mouse' by Theodore Roethke : and poems by James Kirkup. John Milton. Christopher Middleton , Cherryl Gibson , and James Reeves.
Stories and Rhymes series

Contributors

Unknown:
William Carlos
Unknown:
Theodore Roethke
Unknown:
James Kirkup.
Unknown:
John Milton.
Unknown:
Christopher Middleton
Unknown:
Cherryl Gibson
Unknown:
James Reeves.

Social Work in Action
A series of twenty programmes on the nature and trends of social work in Britain
13: Community Organisationwith Miss E. R. LITTLEJOHN
Secretary, Standing Conference of Councils of Social Service
K. M. REINOLD
Secretary, National Federation of Community Associations
L. E. WHITE
Liaison Officer to Harlow Development Corporation
Introduced by David Hobman
Produced by Dennis Simmons
' Social Work in Action' Is intended to be of special interest to those thinking of entering or returning to social work

Contributors

Unknown:
Miss E. R. Littlejohn
Unknown:
K. M. Reinold
Introduced By:
David Hobman
Produced By:
Dennis Simmons

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
The Great Comic Nose Competition: JOAN POMFRET reports on an event in Bolton in which ' Artificial Noses are Strictly Prohibited'
From Rags to Riches?:
PHILIP LIDDELL and BRIAN Ash rummage around Sheffield and report on the state of the rag-and-bone business
Those Married Ladies' Concerts: recollections of a 1930s vogue, by HAZEL M. WHEELER. Reader, DAPHNE Oxenford
Introduced by BARRY CHAMBERS from the North of England

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Pomfret
Unknown:
Philip Liddell
Unknown:
Brian Ash
Reader:
Hazel M. Wheeler.
Introduced By:
Barry Chambers

Tales of the Supernatural by Rudyard Kipling dramatised for radio by A. R. RAWLINSON
8: They
' thought I could just make out the tread of small, cautious feet stealing across the dead leaves. So I rang the car bell. But the feet fled ...'
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
A. R. Rawlinson
Produced By:
David Davis
R K:
Lockwood West
Florence:
Betty Hardy
Madden:
Humphrey Morton
Mrs Madehurst:
Ella Milne
Doctor:
Frank Henderson
Mrs Wassell:
Joan Duan

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news. the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by WALTER TAPLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Taplin

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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