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Introduced by PETER WHEELER featuring this week
Sailors' Forum
The panel:
ROSEMARY MUDIE , JACK HOLT
Russell ANSTEY, JAMES BYFORD
Chairman, BARRY BUCKNELL
Recorded at
Hayling Island Sailing Club Produced by Tony Preston from the North

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Wheeler
Unknown:
Rosemary Mudie
Unknown:
Jack Holt
Unknown:
James Byford
Produced By:
Tony Preston

Miriam Karlin, actress, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.
(Repeated: Saturday, 1.40 p.m.)
(Miriam Karlin is in "Fiddler on the Roof" at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Miriam Karlin
Producer:
Monica Chapman

Friday evening's broadcast

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Anthony William Daniel Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Sid Perks:
Alan Deveraux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Paul Johnson:
Leslie Dunn
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Peggy Barratt:
Brenda Dunrich
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway

from the North of England
Introduced by OLIVE Shapley
' The Beloved Little Admiral ':
Peter Wheeler talks to VIVIAN Stuart about her biography of Admiral Keppel
Living Toys: is it too easy to buy a stray dog? AUDREY KAYE investigates
What do you do in the holidays?: MURIEL HUGHES is a school secretary
Rule of Thumb: MICHAEL MEECH looks at hitch-hiking
Charm: considered by KATE Kindsay , PATRICK RYAN , and ELLEN HOLMES
The Brushwood Boy by Rudyard KIPLING abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by CHARLES HODGSON
First of two readings

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Talks:
Peter Wheeler
Unknown:
Vivian Stuart
Unknown:
Audrey Kaye
Unknown:
Muriel Hughes
Unknown:
Michael Meech
Unknown:
Kate Kindsay
Unknown:
Patrick Ryan
Unknown:
Ellen Holmes
Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Abridged By:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Charles Hodgson

from Scotland
Introduced by HOWARD Lockhart
Five Brothers: in the centenary year of Federation. ISOBEL RAE tells of her granduncles who emigrated to Canada to join the first citizens of the New World
Highland Pilot: BASIL WISHART looks at a new book, Air Road to the Isles by Captain E. E. Fresson , a pioneer of air service in the Highlands and Islands Bonnet, Belt, and Sword: music by THE Corries from a recent recording
Our Guest: EVE Boswell, singing star. talks about her career in show business
Orkney Chair: a traditional islands craft which is meeting the demand of modern furniture collectors

Contributors

Introduced By:
Howard Lockhart
Unknown:
Isobel Rae
Unknown:
Captain E. E. Fresson

Uncle Remus or Mr. Fox, Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Terrapin by Joel Chandler Harris 1848-1908
A series of six readings by EDRIC CONNOR
2: Mr. Fox is victimised again Mr. Fox is outdone by Mr. Buzzard
Miss Cow tails a victim to Mr.
Rabbit Mr. Terrapin appears on the scene

Contributors

Unknown:
Joel Chandler Harris

Jimmy Clitheroe in Get Me to the Shop on Time with PETER Sinclair , PATRICIA BURKE DANNY Ross. DIANA DAY DERYCK Guyler
Written by James Casey and Frank Roscoe
Produced by JAMES CASEY
Broadcast on January 15

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Clitheroe
Unknown:
Peter Sinclair
Unknown:
Patricia Burke
Unknown:
Danny Ross.
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Written By:
James Casey
Written By:
Frank Roscoe
Produced By:
James Casey

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Walter TAPLIN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome.
For very late letters you can ring 01-580-4468, extension 3030. and dictate your message.

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter Taplin

A series of three talks
1: Giving It
HUGH Jenkins , m.p., was a fun-time official of Equity, the Actors' Union, before he became an M.P.
In this talk he examines the way money for the Arts is distributed, compares it with his tindings on a recent trip to other European countries, and concludes that much remains to be done. both at national and local government levels.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Jenkins

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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