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Your questions about wildlife and the countryside answered by ERIC HOBBIS , MAURICE BURTON and ALAN WRANGLES
Question-Master, VINCENT WAITE
Produced by John Sparks
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Hobbis
Unknown:
Maurice Burton
Question-Master:
Vincent Waite
Produced By:
John Sparks

Spike Milligan as The Hon. Robert Curzon in The Manuscript Collector from Visits to Monasteries in the Levant by THE HON. ROBERT CURZON JUNIOR
Introduced by WALTER FITZGERALD
Series edited by David Thomson
Broadcast on August 16, 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
Robert Curzon
Unknown:
Robert Curzon
Introduced By:
Walter Fitzgerald
Edited By:
David Thomson

A programme that sets out to answer listeners' scientific and technological questions In the chair,
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Panel:
BRIAN Foss : psychologist
GERALD KERKUT : zoologist
John MASON : meteorologist PALMER NEWBOULD : ecologist
Arranged by Mick Rhodes
Broadcast on February 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Unknown:
Brian Foss
Unknown:
Gerald Kerkut
Unknown:
John Mason
Unknown:
Palmer Newbould
Arranged By:
Mick Rhodes

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
What sort of Peace?: JUNE ROSE reports from Israel
Where do we go from here?: NORMAN TOZER investigates a complaint about a solid fuel central heating installation
Anxious Moments: CHRISTINE BROWN describes attempts to calm her child's fears
An old mill by the stream:
PETER TEALE , who lives in a Devonshire water mill which he has renovated himself, talks to Bob Forbes
+ stream of visitors:
GAYNOR BARTAGNON on the disadvantages of a flat in Paris
Two Flamboyant Fathers by NICOLETTE DEVAS abridged by Ba Mason
Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY
First of eight instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Christine Brown
Unknown:
Peter Teale
Unknown:
Bob Forbes
Unknown:
Gaynor Bartagnon
Unknown:
Nicolette Devas
Abridged By:
Ba Mason
Read By:
Rosalie Crutchley

by Alan Plater
With Bernard Cribbins

Albert Chipchase hears somebody pull the chain in the lavatory. Nothing unusual about that, except that his wife is attending her evening class in Elementary Archaeology and he is in the house alone.

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Plater
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Narrator:
Geoffrey Banks
Edna Chipchase:
Catherine Naish
Albert Chipchase:
Bernard Cribbins
Hodges:
Harold Innocent
Mrs Sprake:
Juliet Cooke
Svenson:
Geoffrey Wheeler
The Rev Jack Vincent:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Spilsby:
James Beck
Secretary:
Stephanie Turner

from York Minster
Responses (Smith of Durham) Psalms 47. 48. 49
Lessons: Wisdom 3, vv. 1-9
2 Corinthians 12
Canticles (Murrill in E)
Anthem: Blow ye the trumpet in Zion (Francis Jackson ) sung by a choir drawn from churches and schools affiliated to the ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC
Choirmaster, M. J. R. How
Organist, PETER MOORSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Jackson
Choirmaster:
M. J. R. How
Organist:
Peter Moorse

including:
The Look of an Opera:
FRANK HAUSER , best known as a producer in the theatre, talks to Gordon Gow about his excursions into opera, and plays a few records
Weekly made—weekly paid:
HARRY BASTICK tells Robert Gunnell about his early days in the furniture trade in the East End of London
Seed Saving: some simple hints from FRED LOADS
'Preparing to be a beautiful lady': NÖEL CHANTER relates some bath-tub memories
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Hauser
Unknown:
Gordon Gow
Unknown:
Harry Bastick
Unknown:
Robert Gunnell
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Search in the North
A six-part serial play by Derek Walker
5: Won'you come in?
' Well, here we are. All of a sudden it feels lonely-nothing but fields and cliffs. I'll ring the bell, shall I? '
Produced by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Play By:
Derek Walker
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Tim:
Roy Boutcher
Adam:
Richard Kane
Holly:
Arthur Boland
Walter:
Victor Carin
Ramsay:
James Crampsey
Davie:
Alec Monteath
Bob:
Douglas Murchie
Drever:
Roddy MacMillan

Part 2
PIERRE Fournier (cello)
RAIMUND HERINCX (baritone) BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
ALEXANDRA CHOIR
Conductor, Charles Proctor GOLDSMITHS' CHORAL UNION
Conductor, Frederick Haggis HARROW CHORAL SOCIETY Hon. Conductor,
Clarice Brooksbank LONDON PHILHARMONIC Choir
Conductor, Frederic Jackson
ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD

Contributors

Cello:
Pierre Fournier
Baritone:
Raimund Herincx
Conductor:
Charles Proctor
Conductor:
Frederick Haggis Harrow
Conductor:
Clarice Brooksbank
Conductor:
Frederic Jackson
Conducted By:
John Pritchard

A series of three talks
3: Plea for a Plan
CLIVE BARKER has worked with both Joan Littlewood and Arnold Wesker. He is now a lecturer in the Drama Department of Birmingham University.
He deplores what he calls the negative policy of the Arts Council ' and suggests we consider the whole question of subsidy for the arts in terms of social need.

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Barker
Unknown:
Joan Littlewood
Unknown:
Arnold Wesker.

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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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