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Friday evening's broadcast

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Prudence Forrest:
Mary Dalley
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Mabel Larkin:
Kay Hudson
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Harold Gadsby:
Arnold Peters
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Doughy Hood:
Arnold Ridley

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Tyne and Tide: the story of the great days of rowing on the River Tyne as told by YVONNE ADAMSON
Meet me at my club: VERNON
NOBLE describes how this one-time exclusive male preserve is accepting the challenge of modern times
Cure by Correspondence: according to MARJORIE WILKIN SON the Victorian periodical Family Doctor gave voluble advice on many medical matters
Talking About Books: OLIVE
SHAPLEY suggests some new ones which you may care to read
Family Refrain: Songs by the boys of the SALESIAN MISSIONARY COLLEGE, Pott Shrigley , Cheshire
Choirmaster.
FR. ROBERT Coupe , S.D.B.
Introduced by BARRY CHAMBERS from the North of England

Contributors

Told By:
Yvonne Adamson
Unknown:
Marjorie Wilkin
Unknown:
Pott Shrigley
Unknown:
Robert Coupe
Introduced By:
Barry Chambers

My Friend Mr. Leakey
Three stories from the book by J. B. S. Haldane
2: A Day in the Life of a Magician
' Mr. Leakey pointed his magic umbrella at himself. He and the umbrella disappeared, except for the very tip of the umbrella which went along the street in a series of hops like a bird....'
†Told by HOWARD LOCKHART with GEORGE CORMACK as Mr. Leakey
Other voices by Arthur Boland
Produced by Stewart Conn

Contributors

Book By:
J. B. S. Haldane
Told By:
Howard Lockhart
Unknown:
George CormacK
Voices By:
Arthur Boland
Produced By:
Stewart Conn

The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
Translated by R. FARQUHARSON SHARP adapted and produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX with David March , Haydn Jones Walter Fitzgerald , Sheila Grant and Cherie Lunghi as Hedvig
' If you take away make-believe from the average man, you take away his happiness.'
The action takes place in the homes of Haakon Werle and Hjalmar Ekdal in a provincial Norwegian town in 1884. Broadcast on Sept. 27. 1965
See facing page followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Henrik Ibsen
Translated By:
R. Farquharson
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Unknown:
David March
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Walter Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Unknown:
Cherie Lunghi
Unknown:
Haakon Werle
Unknown:
Hjalmar Ekdal
,Haakon Werle, a business man:
Hector Ross
Gregers Werle, his son:
Haydn Jones
Hjalmar Ekdal, a photographer:
David March
Mrs Sorby, housekeeper to Mr Werle:
Molly Rankin
Gina Ekdal, Hjalmar's wife:
Sheila Grant
Hedvig, his daughter:
Cherie Lunghi
Old Ekdal, his father:
Eric Anderson
Relling, a doctor:
Walter Fitzgerald
Molvik, an ex-theological student:
Michael McClain

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER JAMES introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
For very late letters you can ring (01) 580-4468. extension 3030. and dictate your message.

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter James

Variations concertantes
Mendelssohn DEREK SIMPSON (cello) FIONA CAMERON (piano)
11.26* Serenade in G major
Reger KARL BOBZIEN (flute)
RUDOLF KOECKERT (violin) OSKAR RIEDL (cello) gramophone records

Contributors

Cello:
Mendelssohn Derek Simpson
Piano:
Fiona Cameron
Flute:
Reger Karl Bobzien
Violin:
Rudolf Koeckert
Cello:
Oskar Riedl

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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