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in Johnny's Jaunt-U.S.A.
Six programmes in which he recalls his adventures and impressions of a visit to North America last October
6: St. Louis; Nashville, Tennessee; and Cherokee, North Carolina
Series produced by Brian Patten from the South and West
Broadcast in March

Contributors

Produced By:
Brian Patten

Channel Crossing
ROBERT STANNAGE and HAROLD ROGERS were passengers on the maiden voyage of the new channel ferry the m.v. Dragon. During the crossing from Southampton to Le Havre they described the new ship and looked back at the history of the English Channel
Produced by Harold Rogers

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Stannage
Unknown:
Harold Rogers
Produced By:
Harold Rogers

C. GORDON GLOVER introduces, with quotations from the Newgate Calendar, the unhappy story of Jenny Diver , who though she lived her own life was also immortalised in John Gay 's The Beggar's Opera
Reader. JOHN JUSTIN
Produced by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Introduces:
Gordon Glover
Unknown:
Jenny Diver
Unknown:
John Gay
Reader:
John Justin
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised as a seven-part serial
2: The Stiff-legged Parson and his Flock
Broadcast on March 23. 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oecimus Saxon:
Patrick Troughton
Keuben Lockarby:
David Jackson
Micah Clarke:
Brian Jackson
Sir Jacob Clancing:
Hedley Goodall
Old Woman:
June Barrie
Dame Hobson:
Hope Meredith
Sir Gervase Jerome:
Hubert Rees
'oshua Pettigrue:
Joim Smith
Cornet of Horse:
Geoffrey Matthews

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Air Letter from Ottawa: sent by PAMELA LEE MACRAE
I say, you chaps: the creator of Billy Bunter is remembered by his niece UNA
HAMILTON Psychedelic ?: JANE PROBYN visits a discotheque in Soho
Saved by an iguana: IAN HARRIS tells of building a bridge and the consequences
Mother came Home: IRA
MICHELL-ETHERINGTON describes caring for her mother after a stroke
ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY reads Two Flamboyant Fathers by NICOLETIE DEVAS
Third of eight instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Pamela Lee MacRae
Unknown:
Billy Bunter
Unknown:
Hamilton Psychedelic
Unknown:
Jane Probyn
Unknown:
Ian Harris
Unknown:
Rosalie Crutchley

A series of legal problems devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Introduced by JOHN SNAGGE with a qualified legal opinion from F. W. BENEY , q.c. and comments from a panel of everyday people Undercurrents
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Sunday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
John P. Wynn
Introduced By:
John Snagge
Unknown:
F. W. Beney
Produced By:
Trafford Whitelock
Dr Loughton:
Donald Bisset
Mrs Webster:
Joan Sanderson
Pamela:
Patricia Leventon
Norman Harding:
Hamlyn Benson
Sergeant:
Alexander John
Mr Treborne:
Jeffrey Segal

Two programmes about the place of disabled people in our society by WENDY COOPER
1: Them and Us
The book Stigma published last autunm revealed how bitterly many of the disabled feel about the attitude of the able towards them, and their exclusion from the body of society.
How do able people feel, if at all, about the disabled. and how is their feeling returned?
Produced by Richard Keen
Broadcast on June li
Next Friday: Part of Us followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Wendy Cooper
Produced By:
Richard Keen

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
A very desirable Antique: ARTHUR NEGUS talks to Pamela Howe
Please Miss!: memories of Somerset village schools from ENID WILLIAMS
Come to the Fair: with VIVIAN OGILVIE
Introduced by RALPH WIGHTMAN
Produced by Pamela Howe from the South and West

Contributors

Unknown:
Pamela Howe
Unknown:
Vivian Ogilvie
Introduced By:
Ralph Wightman
Produced By:
Pamela Howe

Peggy Ashcroft reads
Persuasion by Jane Austen abridged by EILEEN CAPEL in seven parts
After visiting Lyme, where she caught a glimpse of her father's nephew and estranged heir. Anne Elliot is to visit her father and sister in Bath.
PART 5
Broadcast In March 1865 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroft
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Abridged By:
Eileen Capel
Unknown:
Anne Elliot

Victoria Postnikova (piano)
Halle Orchestra
Leader. Martin Milner
Conductor,
Sir John Barbirolli from the Royal Albert Hall. London
Part 1
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 8
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto 1
DVORAK Symphony no 7

Symphony No. 8 - Vaughan Williams
8.5* Piano Concerto No. 1, in B flat minor - Tchaikovsky

Contributors

Leader:
Martin Milner
Conductor:
Sir John Barbirolli
Unknown:
Albert Hall.

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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