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Religious Education
How does a child develop an idea of God? Is it necessary that it should do so? What upbringing?
These points are discussed by SISTER MARTINA, MRS. JOY STONE THE REV. ROY LEE
The REV. ROBERT WALTON
Chairman. LESLIE SMITH
Produced by Barbara Crowther

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. Roy Lee
Unknown:
Rev. Robert Walton
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Produced By:
Barbara Crowther

Sound biographies tracing the lives and careers of the 1 greats ' of the film world as chosen by listeners
2: Marlene Dietrich
Illustrated by excerpts from her important motion pictures
Compiled and introduced by PETER MATTHEWS
Produced by John Dyas

Contributors

Unknown:
Marlene Dietrich
Introduced By:
Peter Matthews
Produced By:
John Dyas

Seven readings from the Journals of distinguished visitors
4: Chiang Yee
The Silent Traveller in London
' Londoners have all kinds of worries as we Chinese have, but it seems to me that they have one extra worry of which we have not dreamed—the worry of happiness.'
Reader, FRANK HENDERSON
Broadcast on December 13. 1966

Contributors

Reader:
Frank Henderson

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Out of the News: involving a topic of interest
Everything has to be so simple: JOCELYN HAY talks about caravan cookery
Responsible for Ourselves:
ERIC Williams , author of The Wooden Horse, and SYBIL his wife talk to Nigel Murphy about their attitude to life and their work
Send for the Relatives:
MARGARET McKINLAY considers this familiar call in the light of her own experience of lonely people
In the Bahamas: impressions and interviews recorded there by JOAN PYPER
Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric NEWBY abridged by Stuart Hood Read by TENNIEL EVANS
Ftrst of nine instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Jocelyn Hay
Unknown:
Eric Williams
Unknown:
Nigel Murphy
Unknown:
Margaret McKinlay
Unknown:
Joan Pyper
Unknown:
Eric Newby
Abridged By:
Stuart Hood
Read By:
Tenniel Evans

For 450 years English courts have required juries to come to unanimous verdicts in criminal cases. Now Parliament has decreed that verdicts may be reached by a majority of ten to two.
Is this change really a reform and will it leave individual liberty sufficiently protected?
Narrated by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Keith Hindell
Broadcast in the series Focus on October 25. 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten
Produced By:
Keith Hindell

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
+ At Your Invitation:
JOHNNY MORRIS , chosen by listeners to be their guest on the programme this month, answers questions put to him by Jack Singleton
* The Laugh's On Me: MACDONALD
HASTINGS recalls amusing moments from his overflowing life. 4-How I was mistaken for a secret agent
Salad Days: GEORGE VILLIERS answers listeners' queries and offers some advice about buying and preparing salads
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Morris
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
George Villiers
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Gulliver's Travels
The world-famous story by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) read in six parts by Max Adrian
1: A Voyage to Lilliput
Lemuel Gulliver on a voyage to the South Seas is cast away on a strange island. A very strange island ...
Adapted and produced by DAVID A. TURNER from Northern Ireland
Drawing by Juliet Pannett

Contributors

Story By:
Jonathan Swift
Unknown:
Max Adrian
Produced By:
David A. Turner
Unknown:
Juliet Pannett
with The Publisher:
Robert McLernon

A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd
With Teddy Johnson
(Teddy Johnson is in "The Queen's Show" at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool; Jimmy Logan in "The Kathy Kirbv Show" at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool; Kalman Glass in "Wedding Fever" at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool)

Contributors

Writer:
Edward Boyd
Producer:
Eddie Fraser
Steve Gardiner:
Teddy Johnson
Mrs McGirn:
Helen Norman
Stella:
Isobel Gardner
Albert:
Paul Young
Railway porter:
Eric Wightman
Miss Wylie:
Marjorie Dalziel
Constable Mackenzie:
John Young
Sergeant:
Kalman Glass
Det-Insp Gordon:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
A tramp:
Douglas Murchie
Delia Dewar:
Effie Morrison
Wilfred Morton:
Leonard Maguire
Jimmy Morton:
Jimmy Logan

Part 1: The Political Scene
What have been the effects of recent events in the Middle East and the Far East on Britain's position East of Suez. and what would be the results of a British withdrawal within the next few years?
Tonight's programme, the first of two. surveys these questions from the point of view of policy at home. in the Commonwealth, and in the U.S.A.
Introduced by LEONARD BEATON
Produced by David Woodward

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leonard Beaton
Produced By:
David Woodward

tells of his
Love of Five Continents tin excerpts from three conversations with LEIGH CRUTCHLEY
Programme 2 In his visits to Greece. Turkey. Italy, Russia. Switzerland, Spain. Britain. Albania, South America.
Cuba. Mexico, and the U.S.A., Peter Ustinov contemplates the countries as he found them and comes out with some unexpected opinions and observations.

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ustinov

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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