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A programme that sets out to answer listeners' scientific and technological questions
In the chair.
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Panel:
Richard Andrew : biologist
Christopher Evans : psychologist
Peter Sykes : chemist
Samuel Tolansky : physicist
Arranged by David Paterson
Broadcast on March 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Unknown:
Richard Andrew
Unknown:
Christopher Evans
Unknown:
Peter Sykes
Unknown:
Samuel Tolansky
Arranged By:
David Paterson

Introduced by MAR.IORIE ANDERSON
Gardener after one's own heart: Ba MASON talks about Lanning Roper 's The Sunday Times Gardening Book
Sins of Omission: confessed or complained of by ZENA SKINNER , CHARLES CRICHTON , ANNE JONES. ARTHUR MARSHALL , and others
All over in five minutes flat:
JOCELYN HAY went to a share-holders' meeting
Answer and Comment
' Victory ' Preserved: COMMANDER IBBETT had lunch on Nelson's flagship
A Girl's Best Friend?: ELIZA BETH HANDS cannot come to terms with her sewing machine
ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY reads Two Flamboyant Fathers by NICOLETTE DEVAS
Sixth of eight instalments

Contributors

Unknown:
Iorie Anderson
Unknown:
Lanning Roper
Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Unknown:
Charles Crichton
Unknown:
Anne Jones.
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Jocelyn Hay
Unknown:
Eliza Beth
Unknown:
Rosalie Crutchley

You've Got to Do
Something
A comedy by Lee Torrance with Christopher Bidmead
Telling of a solicitor's clerk, his cuest for higher things, and the adventures that befell him by the way.
Produced by ROBERT CUSHMAN followed by an interlude

Contributors

Comedy By:
Lee Torrance
Unknown:
Christopher Bidmead
Produced By:
Robert Cushman
Stanley:
Christopher Bidmead
Jean:
Penelope Lee
Beckworth:
Denys Blakelock
Miss Jensen:
Barbara Mitchell
Uncle Bill:
Harold Kasket
Employers.:
Duncan McIntyre
Employers:
Margaret Robertson
Employers:
Wilfred Babbage
Employers:
Carol Marsh
Careers Guiders Incorporated:
John Justin
Careers Guiders Incorporated:
Denis McCarthy
Careers Guiders Incorporated:
Geoffrey Wincott
Careers Guiders Incorporated:
Miriam Margolyes
Careers Guiders Incorporated:
Anthony Jackson

from Quarr Abbey Ryde, Isle of Wight
Introduced by the Celebrant, THE ABBOT OF QUARR
The Rt. Rev. Dom Aelred Sillem
Choirmaster,
Dom Aldhelm Dean
Organist, Brother Peter Brady

Contributors

Choirmaster:
Rev. Dom Aelred Sillem
Unknown:
Peter Brady

including:
My Life with Music:
DEREK OLDHAM talks to Anne Catch pole about his long career as a singer
My Gran: SARAH PEARCE continues the story of a remarkable woman
Do you get bitten? DR. JOHN EARLE has some advice on bites and stings
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Talks:
Derek Oldham
Unknown:
Anne Catch
Unknown:
Sarah Pearce
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Search in the North
A six-part serial play by Derek Walker
6: The Yellow Circuit
' For you and your little brother. I am sorry ... It is too had for you. who were not really concerned, but you must go-with the rest of us.'
Produced by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Play By:
Derek Walker
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Adam:
Richard Kane
Tim:
Roy Boutcher
Walter:
Victor Carin
Bergen:
Ian Dewar
Bob:
Douglas Murchie
Davie:
Alec Monteath
Miss Eames:
Marjorie Dalziel
Holly:
Arthur Boland

The story of Louis Napoleon son of Napoleon III and great-nephew of Napoleon I; killed in action serving with the British army in the Zulu War
Script by JONQUIL ANTONY
Produced by David Woodward

Contributors

Unknown:
Louis Napoleon
Unknown:
Napoleon Iii
Script By:
Jonquil Antony
Produced By:
David Woodward

The Rt. Hon.
Emanuel Shinwell , C.H., M.P. in conversation with KENNETH HARRIS
Recording of the programme shown on BBC-1 on June 1: produced for television by Jeremy Murray-Brown followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Emanuel Shinwell
Unknown:
Kenneth Harris
Television By:
Jeremy Murray-Brown

A series of five talks from people who are working now on the innovations of the 1980s
3: Man, your habits need watching by H. S. WOLFF
National Institute for Medical Research
In the 1980s we may all go around with SAMIs-Socially Acceptable Monitoring Instruments-clipped to our underwear. This would help the doctor to see if we are being overstressed or just enable us to say: I've had enough for today. I'm chucking it.'

Contributors

Unknown:
H. S. Wolff

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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