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Your questions about wildlife and the countryside answered by L. HUGH NEWMAN , CHARLES COLES and DAVID MCCLINTOCK
Question-Master, DEREK JONES
Produced by JOHN SPARKS from the South and West
Send your questions on a postcard to: Country Parliament. BBC. Bristol. 8
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
L. Hugh Newman
Unknown:
Charles Coles
Question-Master:
David McClintock
Question-Master:
Derek Jones
Produced By:
John Sparks

A programme that sets out to answer listeners' scientific and technological questions
In the chair,
Professor G. P. WELLS
Panel:
JOHN CARRUTHERS : business scientist
JOHN CARTHY : ecologist
GEOFFREY PARDOE : engineer
BRIAN PIPPARD: physicist
Arranged by David Paterson
Broadcast on June 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Unknown:
John Carruthers
Unknown:
John Carthy
Unknown:
Geoffrey Pardoe
Unknown:
Brian Pippard:
Arranged By:
David Paterson

ROGER SNOWDON introduces the first of two programmes tracing the history of the great playhouse in London's Haymarket through two-and-a-half centuries
The Gentlemen: DENYS BLAKELOCK RONALD HERDMAN ,ARTHUR LAWRENCE VICTOR PLATT , AUSTIN TREVOR
The Ladies:
URSULA HANRAY, NOEL HOOD
Written and produced by Roger Snowdon
Broadcast on July 2 followed by an interlude

Contributors

Introduces:
Roger Snowdon
Unknown:
Denys Blakelock
Unknown:
Ronald Herdman
Unknown:
Arthur Lawrence
Unknown:
Victor Platt
Produced By:
Roger Snowdon

Yield of Bees by Frederick Benedict with Rosalind Shanks and John Westbrook
The scene is a village in the French Pyrenees. The time, 1957. An Englishman who fought with the Resistance has returned as a teacher. But the war still casts its shadows....
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Benedict
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Produced By:
Martin Esslin
Bernard Summers:
John Westbrook
Mariette:
Anna Burden
Monique:
Rosalind Shanks
Lefort:
Duncan McIntyre
Grillon:
Arthur Lawrence
Pernette:
Elizabeth Proud
Joseph Martinez:
Trader Faulkner
Madame Meylan:
Janet Burnell
Pedro Fontes:
Anthony Jackson

from Norwich Cathedral
Responses (Ayleward)
Psalms 32. 33, 34
Lessons: Isaiah 40, vv. 1-11
St. John 10, vv. 1-21
Office Hymn: Before the ending of the day (A. and M. Rev. 16)
Canticles (Statham in E minor)
Anthem: 0 pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Howells)
Organist. BRIAN RUNNETT
Assistant Organist, Bernard Burrell

Contributors

Organist:
Bernard Burrell

A magazine of interest to all with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Flowers All the Way: DAME
GLADYS COOPER and EVELYN Laye reminisce with Gordon Gow about the start of their careers and bring them up to date with the play in which they are both appearing. Let's All Go Down the Strand
Snakes Alive!:
MAJOR A. R. FINLAYSON describes an incident in a dak bungalow on the road from Calcutta to Delhi
A Storm in a Beer Glass: BILL
TAYLOR recalls leaving home in Sheffield at fifteen to work in a Southport hotel
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Gladys Cooper
Unknown:
Evelyn Laye
Unknown:
Gordon Gow
Unknown:
Major A. R. Finlayson
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Brahms
Quartet in C minor, Op. 60 played by the SCOTTISH PIANO QUARTET Louis Carus (violin)
James Durrant (viola) Joan Dickson (cello)
Wight Henderson (piano)
Broadcast on January 29 In the Scottish Home Service

Contributors

Viola:
James Durrant
Cello:
Joan Dickson
Piano:
Wight Henderson

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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