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A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
From Your Valentine: URSUI.A
BLOOM talks to Jack Singleton about some old valentines in her family
Ϯ Rhapsody among the Ruins:
MAJOR A. R, FINLAYSON recalls playing the organ in a small village on the Western Front in 1915 Growing Pains: 2-JOHN DAVIES. a primary school headmaster in Liverpool, talks to Peter Firth about his boys and girls
Breath of Fresh Air: from the Ilkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist WALTER FLESHER
Drop Us a Line: your news. views, and memories
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Peter Firth
Unknown:
Walter Flesher
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

Introduced by Kenneth Allsop.
This week:
Compton Mackenzie talks about My Life and Times from 1923 to 1930. Octave Six of his autobiography was published last week, in which he claims to be Britain's first disc jockey.
Reyner Banham reviews Pop Art by Lucy R. Lippard
Stuart Hood reviews The Real Enemy, Pierre d'Harcourt's account of his experience in the French Resistance and in Buchenwald
Francis Hope on new fiction
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kenneth Alisop
Talks:
Compton Mackenzie
Unknown:
Reyner Banham
Unknown:
Lucy R. Lippard
Unknown:
Stuart Hood
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

on DRUG ADDICTION
Recent figures have revealed that drug addiction, with its tragic, terrible dangers, is reaching epidemic proportion-especially among the young. The Government has announced new preventative measures to combat this social evil.
Focus examines the situation in the light of these revelations.
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edgar Lustgarten
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

A sequence of music by two English composers
Ϯ SHEILA AMIT (soprano)
DAVID WILLISON (piano)
THEA KING (clarinet)
AMICI STRING QUARTET Lionel Bentley (violin) Michael Jones (violin)
Christopher Wellington (viola) Peter Hailing (cello)

Contributors

Piano:
David Willison
Violin:
Lionel Bentley
Violin:
Michael Jones
Viola:
Christopher Wellington

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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