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Bathing Week
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe and including:

'What Job for Your Daughter?'
Irene Hilton, Secretary of the Women's Employment Federation, gives the first of a series of talks on careers for girls. Today she talks about 'safe' jobs with a pension at the end

'That Was Spring,' by a doctor

'This Job of being a Widow': Janet Lamb discusses difficulties and responsibilities facing the woman who has to be both mother and father to her children

'Meeting Point': a newsletter, compiled by Janet Dunbar, concerning the activities of women's organisations in the British Isles

Serial: 'Cluny Brown' by Margery Sharp. Abridged by Arthur Calder-Marshall. Read by Diana Maddox

and asides on bathing by Gordon Cruickshank

Contributors

Presenter:
Jean Metcalfe
Speaker:
Irene Hilton
Speaker:
Janet Lamb
Speaker:
Janet Dunbar
Author (Cluny Brown):
Margery Sharp
Abridged by (Cluny Brown):
Arthur Calder-Marshall
Reader (Cluny Brown):
Diana Maddox
Speaker:
Gordon Cruickshank

A musical drama of the west
[Starring] Paul Carpenter, Charles Irwin and Macdonald Parke
(Fourth series)
Music by the Four Ramblers, Freddie Phillips, and the Sons of the Saddle led by Jack Fallon
(BBC recording)

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Charles Chilton
Musicians:
The Four Ramblers
Musician:
Freddie Phillips
Musicians:
The Sons of the Saddle
Leader (The Sons of the Saddle):
Jack Fallon
J.C. Macdonald, a rancher:
Macdonald Parke
Mary, his niece:
Carole Carr
Jeff Arnold, a Texas Ranger:
Paul Carpenter
Luke, an old cowhand:
Charles Irwin
Bob, a singing cowhand:
Bob Mallin
[Actor]:
Alan Keith
[Actor]:
Guy Kingsley Poynter

Stephen Williams introduces Come to the Opera

Extracts from Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville"
Maureen Springer (soprano), Bruna Maclean (mezzo-soprano), Murray Dickie (tenor), Alfred Orda (baritone), Owen Brannigan (bass), Ian Wallace (bass)
BBC Opera Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe)
with a section of the Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Trained by Douglas Robinson)
Conductor, Stanford Robinson

(Murray Dickie, Owen Brannigan broadcast by permission of Glyndebourne Opera)

Contributors

Soprano:
Maureen Springer
Mezzo-Soprano:
Bruna Maclean
Tenor:
Murray Dickie
Baritone:
Alfred Orda
Bass:
Owen Brannigan
Bass:
Ian Wallace
Musicians:
BBC Opera Orchestra
Leader:
John Sharpe
Singers:
A section of the Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Trainer:
Douglas Robinson
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson

Jack Gardner, Heavyweight Champion of Great Britain, the British Empire, and Europe
v.
Cesar Brion, U.S.A.
From the White City Stadium
Commentary by Raymond Glendenning on the ten-round contest with inter-round summaries by W. Barrington Dalby

Contributors

Commentator:
Raymond Glendenning
Commentator:
W. Barrington Dalby

Light Programme

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