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Walter Fitzgerald as Matthew G Lewis - in The Diary of a Slave Owner from Journal of a West India Proprietor 1817-1818 by the late Matthew Gregory Lewis , Esq., M.P.
Introduced by HENRY STAMPER
Broadcast in July 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Matthew G Lewis
Unknown:
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Introduced By:
Henry Stamper

A programme that sets out to answer listeners' scientific and technological questions
In the chair.
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Panel:
T. E. ALLIBONE , physicist
D. W. DEWHIRST , astronomer
T. F. GASKELL , geologist
H. G. VEVERS , zoologist '
Arranged by David Paterson i Broadcast on January.12

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Unknown:
T. E. Allibone
Unknown:
D. W. Dewhirst
Unknown:
T. F. Gaskell
Unknown:
H. G. Vevers
Arranged By:
David Paterson

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Glass Houses: A. G. HARDY talks to Mary Redcliffe about windows in modern buildings Reading Your Letters
My child won'eat it:
ANNE SAUNDERS questions the baby-books' advice on diet, and a nutritionist comments f All singing and dancing:
JANET DREAN recalls her wedding day in Brittany tThe Danger of Equality:
GEOFFREY GORER -talks to Margaret Stewart
The Maltese Cat by RUDYARD KIPLING
Read by RICHARD LEECH
First of two readings

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
A. G. Hardy
Unknown:
Mary Redcliffe
Unknown:
Anne Saunders
Unknown:
Janet Drean
Unknown:
Margaret Stewart
Read By:
Richard Leech

It Never Rained in Them Days by Norman Smithson
When Tom dies just before he Is due to retire, his widow drifts back over her life with him. Her clearest memories are of the small things—particularly their holidays in a small northern seaside town.
Narrator, HENRY LIVINGS
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
Broadcast on May 10, 1964 (Third)

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Smithson
Unknown:
When Tom
Produced By:
Alfred Bradley
Tom:
Robert Wallace
His widow:
Violet Carson
Mrs Jackson:
Marion Dawson
John's wife:
Juliet Cooke
Old man:
Harry Markham
Billy Gull:
Bert Gaunt
Comedian:
Bert Gaunt

from Exeter Cathedral sung by the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral,
Los Angeles, California
Introit: Look down, 0 Lord (Byrdi
Responses (Frank K. Owen )
Psalms 13, 14
Lessons: Jeremiah 32, vv. 26-44;
St. Luke 18, v. 31. to 19, v. 10
Canticles (Harold Friedell in F)
Anthem: Behold now, praise the Lord (Everett Titcomb)
Organist and Choirmaster, FRANK K. Owen

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank K. Owen
Unknown:
Harold Friedell
Choirmaster:
Frank K. Owen

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Writer and the Song:
Ken Sykora talks to TOMMY CONNOR about some of his hit songs, including ' The Biggest Aspidistra' and ' It's my mother's birthday today'
The Man with the Pipe:
Stanley Baldwin was born 100 years ago tomorrow. THE RT. HON. GEOFFREY Lloyd M.P. , sometime his private secretary, talks to Jack Singleton about the man he knew
Gippy tummy?:
DR. JOHN EARLE gives some advice on stomach upsets

Contributors

Talks:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Tommy Connor
Unknown:
Stanley Baldwin
Unknown:
Geoffrey Lloyd M.P.
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Dr. John Earle

Search in the North
A six-part serial play by Derek Walker
4: By Sea and Air
'It is just a routine report. An R.A.F. helicopter is flying over from the islands-that is all. An everyday occurrence, no concern of ours.'
Produced by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Play By:
Derek Walker
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Adam:
Richard Kane
Tim:
Roy Boutcher
Bergen:
Ian Dewar
Holly:
Artur Boland
Bob:
Douglas Murchie
Davie:
Alec Monteath
Drever:
Roddy MacMillan
Miss Eames:
Marjorie Dalziel

Sybil Thorndike with Walter Fitzgerald
Ian McKellen , Clive Morton
Michael Spice , Alan Wheatley Cast in order of speaking:
JOHN Foulds 's music composed for the 1924 production conducted by ALAN PAUL
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Broadcast on May 27
Ian MCKellen is in ' The Promise at the Fortune Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Sybil Thorndike
Unknown:
Walter Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Ian McKellen
Unknown:
Clive Morton
Unknown:
Michael Spice
Unknown:
Alan Wheatley
Unknown:
John Foulds
Conducted By:
Alan Paul
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Unknown:
Ian McKellen
Robert de Baudricourt:
Clive Morton
Steward:
Duncan McIntyre
Joan:
Sybil Thorndike
De Poulengey:
Frank Henderson
Dauphin:
Ian McKellen
Bluebeard:
Peter Bartlett
La Tremouille:
Geoffrey Wincott
Archbishop:
Walter Fitzgerald
La Hire:
John Justin
Duchess:
Betty Hardy
Page at Court:
Terry Raven
Dunois:
Michael Spice
The Inquisitor:
Alan Wheatley
Cauchon:
Frank Henderson
Canon d'Estivet:
John Justin
Ladvenu:
Nigel Clayton
Canon de Courcelles:
Duncan McIntyre
The Executioner:
Geoffrey Wincott
Chaplain:
Walter Fitzgerald

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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