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Regional Variations (4)

The Eye-Witness

BBC Home Service Welsh

The Eye-Witness

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Dudley Savage with cinema organ requests

BBC Home Service South and West

Make Yourself at Home
For listeners from India and Pakistan
Sawal Aur Jawab
Can I Help Yout
Ap Ki Pasand
Gramophone records and favourite music from India and Pakistan
Introduced by SALEEM SHAHED
Correspondence in English. or your own language, should be sent to Make Yourself at Home. or Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye. BBC. Broadcasting House. Birmingham, 15.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Saleem Shahed

Regional Variations (4)

Service. As Northern Ireland

BBC Home Service Welsh

' Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton Smith— 4

BBC Home Service Scottish

Service: as N. Ireland

BBC Home Service Midland

from St. Mary's Church, Windermere
Conducted by the Vicar.
THE REV. R. M. L. WESTROPP
Chants (New Cathedral Psalter):
Venite (276); Jubilate (169); Psalm 84 (192)
Lesson: St. Luke 10, vv. 17-27
Hymns (A. and M. Rev-): 0 worship the King (77: Tune, Was lebet); Thy kingdom come. 0 God (262: Tune, St. Cecilia); Fill thou my life (373: Tune, Richmond)
Organist and Choirmaster, T. W. Hurst

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. R. M. L. Westropp
Choirmaster:
T. W. Hurst

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting, and art. This week:
EDGAR ANSTEY, ROBERT HUGHES
RICHARD MAYNE , STEPHEN POTTER
In the chair, T. C. WORSLEY
†Produced by Philip French

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hughes
Unknown:
Richard Mayne
Unknown:
Stephen Potter
Unknown:
T. C. Worsley
Produced By:
Philip French

Sir Gavin de Beer
Fellow of the Royal Society remembers his childhood in Paris between 1903 and 1912 Sir Gavin, a well-known biologist, recent Director of the Natural History Museum and one-time Lieutenant - Colonel Grenadier Guards , gives his Who's Who recreation as wandering about.' Illustrations by permission of the Phonetique Nationale. Paris
Produced by Mick Rhodes
Shortened version: next Saturday,
10.10 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Colonel Grenadier Guards
Produced By:
Mick Rhodes

Regional Variations (2)

James Durrant. viola; Raymond O'Connell. piano: Telemann: Norman Fulton. Hummel

BBC Home Service Scottish

visits Oxfordshire
Members of the Wolvercote Horticultural Society, Oxford, put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Question-Master,
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Produced by Kenneth Ford

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Question-Master:
Alan Gemmell
Question-Master:
Franklin Engelmann
Produced By:
Kenneth Ford

Regional Variations (2)

The Critics

BBC Home Service North

Donald Wolfit in A Knight in the Theatre
A series of eight plays set in Edwardian London by Ernest Dudley
7: A Shadow of Doubt
Despitepackedhousesandalongrunning success, the Prince Consort Theatre is becoming an increasingly costly liability. A chance to sell at ahandsomeprofitisovershadowed by personal anxieties which take Sir Robert Mandeville on a sudden railway journey to the North.
Otherpartsplayedbymembersof theBBCDramaRepertoryCompany
†Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Wolfit
Unknown:
Ernest Dudley
Unknown:
Sir Robert Mandeville
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Sir Robert Mandeville:
Donald Wolfit
Lady Mandeville:
Lydia Sherwood
Wade:
Harold Kasket
Adams:
Nicel Anthony
Riley:
Ronald Herdman
Det -Insp Woodburn:
Duncan McIntyre
Verrall:
Norman Claridge
Starkey:
Charles Leno
Barrett:
Ralph Truman
Sir Harry Dacre:
Fhans Henderson
Mrs Bellows:
Gladys Spencer
Arthur:
Denis McCarthy
Bob Mandeville:
Earle Grey
Richard Mandeville:
Bernard Brown

Regional Variations (2)

Gaelic Service from The High Church. Stornoway

BBC Home Service Scottish

More Questions about Wills answered by the Secretary of the Principal Probate Registry Problems at 18-plus. 2: CATHERINE AVENT , Careers Advisory Officer to the Inner London Education Authority, on ' Degrees with a difference '
Pitfalls in Housing Agreements: some warnings from RUPERT TOWHSHEN BROSE
†Introduced by Robin HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Avent
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

News of the weekend sporting events
Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES Cycling: Tour de France
J. B. WADLEY, Editor of Sporting Cyclist, reports from the finish in Pare des Princes, Paris
Broadcast by arrangement with French Broadcastíng Service
Athletics: The Europa Cup Semi-Finals (Men)
NORMAN CUDDEFORD and HAROLD ABHAHAMS report from Duisburg
Broadcast by arrangement with West German Radio
Royal International Horse Show
Preview by RAYMOND BROOKS. WARD
Cricket: Kent v. Hampshire CORBET WOODALL from Maidstone

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacob de Vries
Unknown:
Norman Cuddeford
Unknown:
Harold Abhahams
Unknown:
Raymond Brooks.

Regional Variations (2)

Appeal: Voluntary Service Overseas

BBC Home Service Scottish

St. Martin of Tours House by Sir Alec Guinness

Please send donations, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, to Sir Alec Guinness, [address removed]

St. Martin of Tours House is run by members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. It cares for some forty men who are homeless and destitute, social misfits, discharged prisoners, and others who need individual help to restore them to a more purposeful life.

Contributors

Speaker:
Sir Alec Guinness

Regional Variations (2)

Service from Grange ParishChurch,Edinburgh

BBC Home Service Scottish

The Cambridge Hymnal was published in the spring of this year in response to teathers' conccrn about material in use in morning assembly in schools.
A selection from the new book. with suggestions which might well be ' fun ' to do, is presented by DONALD LEGGAT , with the choir and members of the school orchestra, Campbell College, Belfast

Contributors

Presented By:
Donald Leggat

Regional Variations (2)

Ar Etch Cam: listeners' requests in music. poetry, and pro*

BBC Home Service Welsh

by W. M. Thackeray
A serial in twelve parts freely adapted by AUDREY LUCAS with Annabel Maule
Becky Sharp has been visiting her schoolfriend Amelia Sedley. Joseph. Amelia 's brother, was greatly attracted to Becky and the two girls were sure that he would pro-rose. However, Beckys hopes of a successful marriage were dashed.
PART 2
Other parts: John Hollis , Dorothy Holmes-Gore , Malcolm Hayes
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Broadcast on May 31. 1959
Repeated: Tuesday, 3.0 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
W. M. Thackeray
Adapted By:
Audrey Lucas
Unknown:
Annabel Maule
Unknown:
Becky Sharp
Unknown:
Amelia Sedley.
Unknown:
Joseph. Amelia
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
The StoryteHer:
Simon Lack
Rebecca Sharp:
Annable Maule
Amelia Sedley:
Beryl Calder
Sir Pitt Crawley:
George Merritt
Lady Crawley:
Sheila Grant
Pitt Crawley:
John Bennett
Rose Crawtey:
Usula Hirst
Violet Crawley:
Rita Staines
The Rev Bute Crawley:
Geoffrey Wincott
Mrs Bute Crawley:
Vlvienne Chatterton
Rawdon Crawley:
Ronald Baddlley
Miss Matilda Crawley:
Sylvia Coleridge
Miss Briggs:
Joan Matheson
Mrs Firkin:
Kathleen Helme
Mrs Blenkinsop:
Catherine Salkeld

Written and compiled by LESLIE BAILY
See top of page with James McKechnie , Gordon Davfes Eva Stuart , Dudley Rolph and Peter Wilde
Music by PAUL WHITEMAN'S BAND and other orchestras of the period
The pages turned by FREDDY GRISEWOOD
Produced by VERNON HARRIS
Broadcast on October 2. 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Baily
Unknown:
James McKechnie
Unknown:
Gordon Davfes
Unknown:
Eva Stuart
Unknown:
Dudley Rolph
Unknown:
Peter Wilde
Turned By:
Freddy Grisewood
Produced By:
Vernon Harris

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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