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Pawley's Peepholes
A radio opera based on a story by John Wyndham
Music by David Lord
Libretto by Eric Allen
A small town of today is invaded by tourists from 2067
WILLIAM APPLEBY teaches the music
Produced by Jcnyth Worsley

Contributors

Story By:
John Wyndham
Music By:
David Lord
Unknown:
Eric Allen
Unknown:
William Appleby
Produced By:
Jcnyth Worsley

by Arnold Bennett
PART 2: ' ' Hilda Lessways '
Edwin and Hilda meet again after eleven years. She has arrived to see her young son, George Edwin , taken ill while staying with the Orgreaves. She explains that she is not a married woman-George Cannon was a bigamist. Edwin is the only person she has ever cared for.
6: Hilda's Start in Life
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Unknown:
Hilda Lessways
Unknown:
George Edwin

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Carnaby Street: JOHN Tusa takes a walk down the trendiest street in town and meets some of the shopkeepers and customers
Peel's Progress: each week
JOHN PEEL talks about people and places he has come across as he walks from Land's End to John o' Groats. (3) The Borderlands of Wales
† ' The Ring of Truth
CANON J B. PHILLIPS answers some more of the questions raised in his series of conversations with Ronald Allison
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Unknown:
Canon J B. Phillips
Unknown:
Ronald Allison
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Great Sporting Events
A series about famous characters and occasions in the world of sport
Selected by Derek Parker
4:First Four Minutes
An account of the training and events which led to Roger Bannister 's breaking of the mile record from First Four Minutes by ROGER BANNISTER
Read by DAVID SPENSER

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Roger Bannister
Unknown:
Roger Bannister
Read By:
David Spenser

Introduced by KENNETH ALLSOP
JOHN COLEMAN on new fiction
RICHARD FINDLATER reviewing 'Neath the Mask, the story of the popular late nineteenth-century theatres run by John M. East , told by his grandson; and interviewing GILES PLAYFAlR about the early nineteenth-century boy-actor, ' Betty,' The Prodigy
FRANCES DONALDSON talks about her neighbour, EVELYN WAUGH
HENRY WILLIAMSON on The Sea Years of Joseph Conrad by Jerry Allen
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kenneth Allsop
Introduced By:
John Coleman
Unknown:
Richard Findlater
Unknown:
John M. East
Unknown:
Giles Playfalr
Talks:
Frances Donaldson
Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh
Unknown:
Henry Williamson
Unknown:
Joseph Conrad
Unknown:
Jerry Allen
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

A series of five programmes in which well-known Canadians talk about aspects of contemporary Canada or Canadian life.
2:One Nation or Two?
Perhaps one of the most intractable problems in Canada today is that of the relations between its English- and French-speaking citizens. Recent developments in Canada have altered the terms of the problem without solving it.
The issue is considered by GEORGE FERGUSON , Editor-in-Chief of the Montreal Star, in conversation with ROBERT MCKENZIE

Contributors

Unknown:
George Ferguson
Unknown:
Robert McKenzie

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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