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from the South and West
Introduced by Peggy Archer

Did Mrs. Pankhurst Win?: Dame Joan Vickers, M.P. for Devonport and Chairman of the Status of Women Committee, talks to Angela Rippon about equality of the sexes

Music-Hall by the Sea: Clarkson Rose, who has revived in Teignmouth the traditional seaside concert party, discusses the changing pattern of show business

Carved in Stone: Dame Barbara Hepworth, the sculptor, talks about her life and work in Cornwall

Anyone for Tennis?: one of Britain's top tennis coaches, Arthur Roberts, talks to Robert Forbes about the job of finding the tennis stars of tomorrow from the children of today

Martin Jarvis reads The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary
Third of five instalments
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Contributors

Introduced By:
Peggy Archer
Unknown:
Dame Joan Vickers
Unknown:
Angela Rippon
Talks:
Arthur Roberts
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Richard Hillary

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
The Black Chair of Birkenhead: THE Rev. WILLIAM MORRIS tells the story of the shepherd poet Hedd Wyn killed at Pilkcm Ridge fifty years ago this weekend
Even Humpty Dumpty called it provoking: DOROTHY HOWARD ROWLANDS on losing her hair
The Valley of Animals: ELMA WILLIAMS tells Tom Evans about her unusual farm
Don'Quote ' Macbeth ': JON HOLLIDAY recalls some theatrical taboos
Introduced by Harry Soan from Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. William Morris
Unknown:
Hedd Wyn
Unknown:
Dorothy Howard
Unknown:
Tom Evans
Unknown:
Jon Holliday
Introduced By:
Harry Soan

Peggy Ashcroft reads
Persuasion by Jane Austen abridged by Eileen Capel in seven parts
Because of debts Anne Elliot 's father has let his estate. Kellynch Hall , to Admiral and Mrs. Croft. Mrs. Croft Is the sister of Captain Frederick Wentworth to whom Anne was secretly engaged for a time. rearly eight years ago. Suddenly Captain Wentworth returns from the sea and comes to stay with his sister. He and Anne meet again.
PART 3
Broadcast in March 1965 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroft
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Abridged By:
Eileen Capel
Unknown:
Anne Elliot
Unknown:
Kellynch Hall
Unknown:
Frederick Wentworth

Yvonne Minton (contralto) Ronald Dowd (tenor)
Forbes Robinson (bass)
Schola Polyphonica
, DirectorHenry Washington
Alexandra Choir
Conductor, Charles Proctor Croydon Philharmonic Society
Musical Director, Myers Foggin Harrow Choral Society Hon. Conductor,
Clarice Brooksbank
Royal Choral Society
Wembley Philharmonic Society
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1: Palestrina
Missa Assumpta est Maria conducted by Henry Washington
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Contributors

Contralto:
Yvonne Minton
Tenor:
Ronald Dowd
Bass:
Forbes Robinson
Director:
Henry Washington
Conductor:
Charles Proctor
Conductor:
Rae Jenkins
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Conducted By:
Henry Washington

Stories that have stuck in the memory of RENE MACCOI.I., Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Daily Express
3: How Bevin Got the Message
The message was—or turned out to Le—the Marshall Plan. The methods used to launch it in the U.S.A. were cautious to say the least-involving a small town in Mississippi, an honorary degree at Harvard, and Malcolm Muggeridge.

The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by Brian CONNELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Connell

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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