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West of England Edition
Introduced by Rosemary Colley and including:
' A Farmer's Wife Talks about her Job': James Thorburn takes a recording car and calls on Margaret Court who lives on a dairy farm near Frome in Somerset
(Continued in next column)
' Seaside Home': Dim Pares talks about the magnetic qualities of relations who live by the sea
' The Great Grizzler': a Victorian story told by Gordon Roberts of a Cornish miner's first visit to a piano concert
' Our Village Library': a talk by Noel Chanter about a branch of the Devon County Library on the edge of Dartmoor
' The Studio Clock': Keith Hamilton Price remembers his first broadcast
' Fighting Back': Marjorie Ebrill describes how her husband and she had to reorganise their lives when he became incapacitated with a form of rheumatoid arthritis
' Mrs. Mullett and the Amazon': a story by Margaret Butcher read by Raymond Scarvell

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rosemary Colley
Unknown:
James Thorburn
Told By:
Gordon Roberts
Talk By:
Noel Chanter
Unknown:
Marjorie Ebrill
Story By:
Margaret Butcher
Read By:
Raymond Scarvell

Commonwealth artists entertain
Patricia Baird , John Cazabon Bob Freeman , John Hauxvell
BBC Revue Orchestra (Leader, David Paget )
Introduced by Aidan MacDermol
Produced by David Miller

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Baird
Unknown:
John Cazabon
Unknown:
Bob Freeman
Leader:
David Paget
Introduced By:
Aidan MacDermol
Produced By:
David Miller

Invites you to another sound picture of the Younger Generation on its own ground
3—‘ Meet Us in St. Andrews '
Young students in this Scottish university show John Burns , cub reporter from Bradford, where they live, how they work, and what they do in their spare time
Compiled and produced by Tony Gibson and Jack Gillespie
Next month:
Meet us in a Welsh mining district

Contributors

Unknown:
John Burns
Produced By:
Tony Gibson
Produced By:
Jack Gillespie

A radio serial based on the novels by C. S. Forester and adapted by Philo Higley
[Starring] Michael Redgrave

Contributors

Author:
C. S. Forester
Adapted by:
Philo Higley
Music:
composed and conducted by Sidney Torch
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Commodore Sir Horatio Hornblower:
Michael Redgrave
Captain Bush:
Alexander Gauge
Brown:
Jack Fraser
Sorge:
Leonard Sachs
Lieut Vickery:
Kenneth Fortescue
Lieut Mound:
David Enders
[Actor]:
Lyndon Brook
[Actor]:
Stanley Groome

Introduced by Richard Murdoch
Kenneth Home and Sam Costa with Lana Morris
Novelty Corner
Introducing Forces to the Forces and Sirdani, the Gulli-Gulli Man
Carole Carr sings songs of the Servicemen's choice
Guest Comedian: Benny Hill
Show Time
Excerpts and stars from current British films
Solo Pianist: Iris Loveridge
The Peter Knight Singers
The Augmented Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Stanley Black
Script by Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont and Frank Hooper

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Murdoch
Introduced By:
Kenneth Home
Introduced By:
Sam Costa
Unknown:
Lana Morris
Unknown:
Gulli-Gulli Man
Unknown:
Carole Carr
Unknown:
Benny Hill
Pianist:
Iris Loveridge
Conducted By:
Stanley Black
Script By:
Bob Monkhouse
Script By:
Denis Goodwin
Produced By:
Leslie Bridgmont
Produced By:
Frank Hooper

A tribute to composers whose melodies in the past twenty-five years have enriched the world of musical comedy and operetta
Written by Gale Pedrick
Introduced by ' The First-Nighter'
Illustrated by scenes and music
Chapter 2
The music of Thomas Dunhill
Noel Coward
Walter Leigh Jack Waller and Joseph Tunbridge
(Continued in next column) with Billie Baker
Lucille Graham
Jan van der Gucht
Ian Wallace
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Produced by Michael North

Contributors

Written By:
Gale Pedrick
Unknown:
Thomas Dunhill
Unknown:
Noel Coward
Unknown:
Walter Leigh
Unknown:
Jack Waller
Unknown:
Joseph Tunbridge
Unknown:
Billie Baker
Unknown:
Lucille Graham
Unknown:
Jan van Der Gucht
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Leader:
John Sharpe
Conductor:
Gilbert Vinter
Produced By:
Michael North

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