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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 Over the Side .
Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Broadcast on Sept. 10 (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
John P. Wynn
Introduced By:
John Snagge
Unknown:
F. W. Beney
Produced By:
Trafford Whitelock
Charles Whitmark:
Kevin Brennan
O'Brien:
John Baddeley
Captain:
Russell Napier
Ship's Doctor:
Henderson Tate
Miles:
Redmond Phillips

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Oldham Rep: PHYLLIS BENNETT. a founder-member, talks to Brian Cullingford about this successful theatre venture from the early days
Oysters, Ailments, and Potato Pie: VERNON NOBLE recollects the troubles and triumphs of his Yorkshire grandmother
Our Stately Semi: with a family home dating from 1908. KATHLEEN BINNS feels she is as much a curator as a householder
A Meal to Remember: in the middle of the Malay Peninsula ALICE BERRY-HART dined off savoury duck while reading pages of the Manchester Guardian pasted to the bamboo walls
Family Refrain: a return visit from THE WOODS
Introduced by BARRY CHAMBERS from the North

Contributors

Unknown:
Phyllis Bennett.
Unknown:
Brian Cullingford
Unknown:
Kathleen Binns
Introduced By:
Barry Chambers

The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl translated by F. H. Lyon and abridged by NAN MACDONALD
A series of ten readings by GARY WATSON
4: The Sea Around Us
Produced by Bennett Maxwell from the South and West

Contributors

Unknown:
Thor Heyerdahl
Translated By:
F. H. Lyon
Abridged By:
Nan MacDonald
Unknown:
Gary Watson
Produced By:
Bennett Maxwell

James Farrar an R.A.F. navigator and a youngwriterof great promise. was killed in the summer of 1944 TOM SALMON introduces readings of Farrar's verse and prose writings, and some comments by those who knew and admired him
Written by DAVID HEYCOCK
Produced by Michael Bowen from the South and West

Contributors

Unknown:
James Farrar
Written By:
David Heycock
Produced By:
Michael Bowen
Had he lived, what books James Farrar would have written!:
Henry Williamson

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 DOUGLAS BROWN

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Brown

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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