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Seven readings from the Journals of distinguished visitors
7: Nirad Chaudhuri
A Passage to England
' Englishmen are not unaware of their habit of tacitness, which they call understatement. They are even proud of it, and overdo it at times.'
Reader, PRESTON LOCKWOOD
Series edited by Marvin Kane
Produced by Ronald Mason
Broadcast on January 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Nirad Chaudhuri
Edited By:
Marvin Kane
Produced By:
Ronald Mason

When the Bough Breaks by Michael Toft
' One of these days. Boy, you'll finish up in a nut-house. You're just scared, all the time. Scared of losinK your job and scared that you're going to be stuck there for ever. Life's just one big lousy scare.'
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Toft
Produced By:
Alfred Bradley
Margaret:
Juliet Cooke
Stan:
Brian Peck
Mr Sloan:
Roger Rowland
Ernest:
Colin Edwynn
Mr John:
Wilfred Harrison
Waitress:
Pamela Dellar
Mavis:
Sian Davies

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
On being taken for a ride: DENIS MORRIS 'S encounter with a tourist guide in Corfu
Reading Your Letters
Depression, the commonest mental illness: a mother's experience. followed by a psychiatrist's comments
Anyone can do it!: ANNE JONES has been thinking of writing an autobiography
Places to Visit:
MICHAEL HARDWICK at Penshurst Place, ancestral home of Sir Philip Sidney
TENNIEL EVANS reads
Slowly Down the Ganges by ERIC NEWBY
Fourth of nine tnstalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Denis Morris
Unknown:
Anne Jones
Unknown:
Michael Hardwick
Unknown:
Sir Philip Sidney
Unknown:
Tenniel Evans

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including
' You untidy so and so! ': This is National Anti-Litter week. GORDON SNEI.I. looks into the problem of keeping Britain tidy
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. 10-Beyond the Highlands
1 The Singing Farmer:
MICHAEL SEDGWICK talks about his experiences on the farm and on the stage
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Sedgwick
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

Introduced bv
ROBERT GITTINGS
This week:
JAMES CAMERON talks about his recently published autobiography Point of Departure
NAOMI LEWIS reviews Winifred Gérin's new Bronte study Charlotte Bronte, the Evolution of Genius
VERNON SCANNELL discusses some recent crime fiction
DELIA JENNER talks about her experiences in China in the light of her book Letters from Peking
Produced by John Laird

Contributors

Talks:
James Cameron
Unknown:
Naomi Lewis
Unknown:
Vernon Scannell
Talks:
Delia Jenner
Produced By:
John Laird

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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