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A programme that sets out to answer listeners' scientific and technological questions In the chair,
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Panel:
IAN CHEESEMAN
National Gas Turbine .Establishment
ALEX COMFORT
University College, London
ROBERT HARRIS
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
HARRY ROSENBERG
Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford
Arranged by Archie Clow
Broadcast on December 22. 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Arranged By:
Archie Clow

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Air Letter from Ibiza: sent by PRINCESS INDIRA.
Children and Growth:
Janet Grey talks to PROFESSOR J. M. TANNER about progress in helping abnormally short children to grow tA Dream Come True:
SHEILA STEWART found a way of escaping from the kitchen sink to the Caribbean
Turn to Teaching: SALLY HOLLO WAY finds out from students, teachers, and others about older women turning or returning to teaching
Our Recess Bed: MOLLY WEIR recalls the Glasgow tenement where she was brought up The Last Enemy by RICHARD HILLARY abridged by Elizabeth Brewer
Read by MARTIN JARVIS
First of five Instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Janet Grey
Unknown:
Professor J. M. Tanner
Unknown:
Sheila Stewart
Unknown:
Sally Hollo
Unknown:
Molly Weir
Abridged By:
Elizabeth Brewer
Read By:
Martin Jarvis

A Hurried Brilliance by Robert Clamp with Jane Wenham and Jon Rollason
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Clamp
Unknown:
Jane Wenham
Unknown:
Jon Rollason
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Helen Ison:
Jane Wenham
Edward Ison:
Jon Rollason
Colin Masters:
Alexander John
Miss Booth:
Beth Boyd
Professor Warburton:
Victor Lucas
Peter:
Brian Hewlett
Sally:
Elizabeth Yuill
Diana:
Delia Corrie
Dr Bolton:
Ronald Herdman

from
Ashbourne Parish Church, Derbyshire
Introit: Drop, drop, slow tears
Psalm 119, vv. 145-176
Lessons: 2 Kings 23, v. 36. to 24, v. 17; St. Luke 14, v. 25, to 15, v. 10
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
(Sumsion in A)
Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord
(Purcell)
Organist and Master of Choristers, C. Daly Atkinson

Contributors

Unknown:
C. Daly Atkinson

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Meccano Magazine:
LESLIE GARDINER pays tribute to a boyhood favourite closing down this month
Going to the Pictures: BETTY
BEST reviews some of the films you can see this month and talks to Hollywood director and producer HOWARD HAWKS
1 Breath of Fresh Air from the Ilkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist WALTER FLESHER
Problems Round the House: some legal reminders from LAURIE SAPPER
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Gardiner
Unknown:
Walter Flesher
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

Search in the North
A six-part serial play by Derek Walker
3: A Smell of Burning
'There's a hole in the sail, and a smell of burning round the edges. What can have done it? We never even unfurled it.'
Produced by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Play By:
Derek Walker
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Tim:
Roy Boutcher
Adam:
Richard Kane
Mrs Drever:
Joan Fitzpatrick
Ramsay:
James Crampsey
Holly:
Arthur Boland
Bergen:
Ian Dewar
Bob:
Douglas Murchie
Davie:
Alec Monteath

Bach
St. John Passion
Peter Pears (tenor) Evangelist
Thomas Hemsley (baritone) Christ
Rae Woodland (soprano) Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Duncan Robertson (tenor) Stafford Dean (bass)
The Ambrosian Singers
Continuo:
PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichord)
ALAN BROWN (chamber organ) ADAM SKEAPING
(viola da gamba)
KEITH HARVEY (cello)
English Chamber Orchestra Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by Benjamin Britten
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Part 1
See facing page

Contributors

Baritone:
Thomas Hemsley
Contralto:
Alfreda Hodgson
Tenor:
Duncan Robertson
Bass:
Stafford Dean
Harpsichord:
Philip Ledger
Harpsichord:
Alan Brown
Viola:
Adam Skeaping
Cello:
Keith Harvey
Leader:
Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten

BOURNEMOUTH WIND ENSEMBLE
Laurence Beers (flute) Roger Winfield (oboe)
Raymond Carpenter (clarinet) Eric Butt (bassoon) Nicholas Hill (horn)
The Bournemouth Wind Ensemble broadcast by permission of the Western Orchestral Society Ltd.

Contributors

Oboe:
Roger Winfield
Clarinet:
Raymond Carpenter
Bassoon:
Eric Butt
Horn:
Nicholas Hill

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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