Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,803 playable programmes from the BBC

including:
Minnie Pallister talking
The Maternal Instinct: A complaint by Henry Smith
A Man's Working Day-3: This week David Jenkin, an architect, describes a typical day. (BBC recording)
Love in its narrowest sense: A brief exchange of views between Marghanita Laski and Pamela Frankau.
Serial: 'The Half-Crown House' by Helen Ashton
Abridged by Barbara Henderson
Read by Mary Hignett 11—' Lady Hornbeam '
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson

Contributors

Unknown:
Minnie Pallister
Unknown:
Henry Smith
Unknown:
Helen Ashton
Abridged By:
Barbara Henderson
Read By:
Mary Hignett
Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

by Marghanita Laski
Dramatised for radio by Mary Hope Allen
Characters in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Production by Mary Hope Allen

Contributors

Unknown:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
Mary Hope Allen
Production By:
Mary Hope Allen
Hilary Wainwright:
Stephen Murray
Mrs Wainwright, his mother:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Pierre Verdler:
Olaf Pooley
Madame Quilleboeuf:
Vivienne Chatterton
Madame le Blanc:
Betty Hardy
Sister Therese:
Gladys Spencer
Mother Superior:
Gladys Young
Monsieur Mercatel:
Jeffrey Segal
Jean:
Sulwen Morgan
Madame Mercatel:
Marjorie Mars
Nelly:
Olive Gregg

Cyril Stapleton directs The BBC Show Band starring Alfred Marks
The Stargazers, Harold Smart
Bert Weedon , Dennis Wilson
The Show Band Singers and Janie Marden
Script by Dick Vosburgh and Brad Ashton
Production by John Browell

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Stapleton
Unknown:
Harold Smart
Unknown:
Bert Weedon
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Unknown:
Janie Marden
Script By:
Dick Vosburgh
Script By:
Brad Ashton
Production By:
John Browell

A general knowledge contest in which listeners from all over the British Isles compete for the title "Brain of Britain".

T.I. Ellis (Aberystwyth)
Cynric Mytton-Davies (Castle Caereinion)
Clive Jones (Wrexham)
Wyn Griffith (Dolgelley)
The programme includes:
"What Do You Want to Know?" featuring "The Professor" who answers interesting questions sent in by listeners.
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann

(BBC recording)
(To be repeated on Wednesday at 1.30 (Home))

Contributors

Contestant:
T.I. Ellis
Contestant:
Cynric Mytton-Davies
Contestant:
Clive Jones
Contestant:
Wyn Griffith
Chairman:
Franklin Engelmann
Writer:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
Joan Clark

Greetings from young members of Her Majesty's Forces, including National Servicemen, Regulars, and the Women's Services, to their parents at home. Together they challenge the BBC Gramophone Library to produce their choice in record time
Introduced by Alan Dixon Produced by Michael Bell
The programme this week comes from the R.A.F. Fighter Command Station at Leuchars in Fifeshire, Scotland

Contributors

Introduced By:
Alan Dixon
Produced By:
Michael Bell

Light Programme

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