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Sheep in Rabbits' Clothing
You can now export sheep to Australia as fertilised eggs carried in the bodies of living rabbits. L. E. Rowson , M.R.c.v.s., discusses with Archie Clow some of the implications for the farmer of such applications of research in reproductive physiology

Contributors

Unknown:
L. E. Rowson
Unknown:
Archie Clow

A series of four programmes
3; What Makes a Composerf
A discusssion between RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT and DERYCK COOKE on the nature of the composer's art as they see it and as described in the recorded views of some well-known contemporary composers, including Stravinsky, Britten, Cop-land, and Tippett.
Produced by Denys Gueroult Broadcast on March 21. 1966. In the BBC World Service

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Rodney Bennett
Unknown:
Deryck Cooke
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

Français
Fifteen magazine-type programmes, including French songs and readings from the Penguin book of French Short Stories and The Penauin Bonk of French Nineteenth-Century Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of French.
Programme 14
Baudelaire: Harmonie du soir Les bottes de sept lieues-14 Que c'est Iriste Venise
J iii )a mémoire qui flanche
Speakers, PAULETTE PRENEY
Louis BLONCOURT , PAUL COUSTER
Script by Odile Castro and Winifred Saunders
Produced by Elsie Ferguson Last Thursday's broadcast (Study)

Contributors

Unknown:
Penauin Bonk
Unknown:
Iriste Venise
Unknown:
Paulette Preney
Unknown:
Louis Bloncourt
Unknown:
Paul Couster
Script By:
Odile Castro
Script By:
Winifred Saunders
Produced By:
Elsie Ferguson

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
To Drink or to Drive?
The implications of the new Regulations
The Sentence of the Court
A discussion on the penalties imposed on motorists in Magistrates Courts together with stop press items and topical news. and the latest Road Traffic Conditions in Britain
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

Written by BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN starring Kenneth Horne with KENNETH WILLIAMS , HUGH PADDICK BETTY MARSDEN. BILL PERTWEE
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR EDWIN BRADEN and THE HORNBLOWERS
Announcer, Douglas Smith
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
+ Broadcast on March 26 (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
Barry Took
Written By:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden.
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

The Stowaway by Lynne Reid Banks with Jo Manning Wilson and Nigel Anthony
When Mary opened the door of stateroom A 209 she changed two people's lives.
Produced by BETTY DAVIES Broadcast on October 21. 1964

Contributors

Unknown:
Lynne Reid Banks
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
When Mary
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Frankie:
Edward Bishop
Mary:
Jo Manning Wilson
Mrs Roberts:
Gladys Spencer
Chuck:
William Buck
Roger:
Nigel Anthony
Captain:
Emc Anderson
Mulhare:
Wilfrid Carter
Sailor:
Frederick Treves
Mr Boswell:
William Fox

MARCUS DODS conducts the BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader. Reginald Stead in a programme of music for all the family with RAE WOODLAND (soprano) JACK BRYMER (saxophone and clarinet) Introduced by Tom NAISBY
Produced by David Richardson and Gareth Walters
The programme includes Rusalka's Invocation to the Moon (Dvorak), Scaramouche (Milhaud), and The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas)
Given before an invited audience in King George's Hall, Blackburn. Tickets may be obtained by application to the Hall.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Reginald Stead
Soprano:
Jack Brymer
Introduced By:
Tom Naisby
Produced By:
David Richardson
Produced By:
Gareth Walters

Repertory in Britain
Scarborough
Theatre in the Round Company in Eden End by J. B. Priestley
1 This isn't your home. It stopped being your home when you ran away from it, years ago. And it's my home. more than ever, because I've stuck to it and helped to keep it going. We'd made a life here without you, and now you have to come charging back into it. upsetting everyone.'
Under the artistic direction of RODNEY WOOD Produced for radio by ALFRED BRADLEY

Contributors

Author:
J. B. Priestley
Director:
Rodney Wood
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Wilfred Kirby:
Robert Powell
Sarah:
Marion Dawson
Lilian Kirby:
Pamela Craig
Dr Kirby:
Geoffrey Banks
Stella Kirby:
Heather Stoney
Geoffrey Farrant:
Douglas Fielding
Charles Appleby:
Bob Grant

BRIAN REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with BARONESS WOOTTON OF
ABINGER DR. PATRICK NUTTGENS
Director of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York
PAUL JENNINGS author and humorist

Contributors

Unknown:
Abinger Dr.
Unknown:
Patrick Nuttgens
Unknown:
Paul Jennings

Domenico Scarlatti
Essercizi per clavicembalo
Nos. 1-10 played by MALCOLM FRAGER (piano) Scarlatti wrote more than 550 keyboard works of which the first thirty were published under the above title in 1738. The first of five programmes of Scarlatti sonatas

Contributors

Unknown:
Domenico Scarlatti
Piano:
Malcolm Frager

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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