Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 278,105 playable programmes from the BBC

including
Guest of the Week:
Cecil Woodham Smith
' Some Compensations of CaJamity ’ : Margaret McCook considers this quotation from Emerson as it applies to her own life
Reading Your Letters: the latest selection from the Woman's Hour mailbag
Have You Any Time to Spare Some more suggestions from Rose Buckner and others for earning a little extra money at home
Serial:
' Persuasion,' by Jane Austen
Abridged by Nan Macdonald
Read by Richard Hurndall
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
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Contributors

Unknown:
Cecil Woodham Smith
Unknown:
Margaret McCook
Unknown:
Rose Buckner
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Abridged By:
Nan MacDonald
Read By:
Richard Hurndall
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

A programme on thingj to read and see presented mainly by under-twenties
Introduced by Norma Ellis
Christopher Cotton on ' Space Travel' by Kenneth W. Gatland and Anthony M. Kunesch , and ' The Golden Apples of the Sun ' by Ray Bradbury
Shirley Williamson on some of the London Christmas shows: 'Where the Rainbow Ends ' at the Stoll Theaitre; 'Peter Pan ' at the Scala Theatre; and 'The Sleeping Beauty ' at the Streatham Hill Theaitre
A short story by Jenifer Adams read and discussed
Guest, Frank Tllsley

Contributors

Introduced By:
Norma Ellis
Introduced By:
Christopher Cotton
Unknown:
Kenneth W. Gatland
Unknown:
Anthony M. Kunesch
Unknown:
Ray Bradbury
Unknown:
Shirley Williamson
Unknown:
Peter Pan
Story By:
Jenifer Adams
Unknown:
Frank Tllsley

A journey through Britain with a recording machine.
Leslie Baily visits a modern nylon stocking factory at Sutton in Ashfield and meets H. Hibbert, Jack Hepworth, Horace Parnell, and Iris Derbyshire. He calls up from the past the Rev. William Lee, inventor of the stocking frame, and his wife; some Luddite rioters; and Lord Byron, speaking in the House of Lords.
Parts played by: Peter Hoar, Betty Hardy, Peter DuCrow, Stanley Mackenzie,
Charles Mason
With a postscript by John Traynor, a National Trust agent in Sherwood Forest
(BBC recording)

Contributors

Presenter:
Leslie Baily
Interviewee:
H. Hibbert
Interviewee:
Jack Hepworth
Interviewee:
Horace Parnell
Interviewee:
Iris Derbyshire
[Actor]:
Peter Hoar
[Actor]:
Betty Hardy
[Actor]:
Peter DuCrow
[Actor]:
Stanley MacKenzie
[Actor]:
Charles Mason
Speaker:
John Traynor
Producer:
Jack Singleton

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More