REMO 44 Voices from Woman's Hour by Various


Search the site here -



Picture of albums Voices from Woman's Hour (Various)

Please find the details I have recorded for this release.

Release pictures

Front cover
Picture of REMO 44 Voices from Woman's Hour by artist Various from the BBC records and Tapes library
Rear cover
Picture of REMO 44 Voices from Woman's Hour by artist Various from the BBC records and Tapes library

BBC records label code
BBC label

Label
BBC label


Release details

DetailValue
Catalogue numberREMO 44
TitleVoices from Woman's Hour
Artist(s)Various
Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label codeB
Item deleted?Yes
Released1969
Distributed / printed byBBC
Country of originUK UK flag
Media typePrimary
Media genreRadio
View all other tracks listed as Radio.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codesRE + 44 + 1 BBC
RE + 44 + 2 BBC
My rating*****
Guest rating*****

To vote, please select one of these buttons:
Number have1
What type of seller was used?Not recorded
Where can I buy this release?You may be able to purchase this release from the following websites (others are available!)
 Amazon
 Discogs
 Ebay
 EIL
 MusicStack
 Recordsale

All release pictures

Below is all the cover (front, back, middle and inserts if applicable) and label pictures I have for this release.
Front cover
Front cover of REMO 44
Back cover
Back cover of REMO 44
Label
Label Label

Tracks

Below is a list of tracks for this release.
Side & trackTrack and ArtistLength
A1Package deal [Margaret Powell]
A2Simple things [Naomi Jacob]
A3Twopence coloured [Minnie Pallisgter]
A4Naval tattoo [Commander W. Ibbett]
A5The shower [Anne Jones]
A6Letter to an unmarried mother [Unknown]
A7Beelzebuns [Ba Mason]
A8Poems - Read by Marjorie Anderson - Song, Walking away - from 'The gate' and other poems, Prayers from the ark [Christina Rossetti, Cecil Day Lewis, Carmen Bernos de Gasztold - translated by Rumer Godd]
B1Las Vegas [Nancy Spain]
B2Compensations of November [Janet Teissier du Cros]
B3Pig deal [Norma Huxtable]
B4Peace rose [Antonia Ridge]
B5A woman's handbag [Arthur Marshall]
B6Learning to accept failure [Maud Royden]
B7Oxalic acid and the boot polish [Ruth Drew]
B8Poems - Read by Marjorie Anderson - Sonnet from the Portuguese, Toys, Fear no more the heat of the sun [Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coventry Patmore, Shakespeare]
Total length of media 0:00.

Reviews

Below is my review for this release and the ratings.
A good entry, I will include a full review asap!
Ratings
My rating3
Guest ratingCurrent average value is 3.

To vote, please select one of these buttons:

Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts

When the idea that there should be a Woman's Hour disc was first put forward it was naturally welcomed by the producers of the programme, but with the qualifying questions: how? and what? Pastures of words, personalities, topics, stretching back over twenty-two years - how to distil all this into the two sides of a disc? The obvious answer was to ask the listeners. And the listeners responded with their choice of personalities - sometimes of actual scripts - culled from the whole life of Woman's Hour. Unfortunately in the case of some famous names from the past - Ruth Drew for example - almost nothing was found to be still in existence. But what was requested was ''anything in that well-loved voice'' and so we have obliged to the best of our resources. Top of the requests came Antonia Ridge and the sented here came high on the list. Because there is a limit to the capacity of a disc we have had to omit some who were much requested. As a rough and ready rule, those we have omitted purely for space reasons are those who can often be heard on the air of other programmes.

But here are those voices from the past - Naomi Jacob and Minnie Pallister with fragments of wise simplicity; Maud Royden with words of comfort; Nancy Spain with that essential and enchanting gaiety whose tragic extinction still leaves such a gap; Ruth Drew with household tips but much more than that - the rare warmth of voice and personality that turned all her broadcasts into occasions in fact, these five memory - cherished voices all represent broadcasting as an art springing direct from personality.

Here, too, is Commander Ibbett who, in his time, has spun so many naval yarns to the ladies ''if you know what I mean'', and here is the infectious gaiety of Margaret Powell, the more sophisticated humour of Ba Mason with her recipe for Beelzebuns, of Arthur Marshall analysing the contents of a woman's handbag and of Anne Jones and the tale of a bath fitment. Here, too, is the West Country farmer's wife. Norma Huxtable, considering the fruitful topic of pigs.

More serious is the anonymous and moving Letter to an Unmarried Mother, which made such an impression on listeners quite recently, and the warm, wise voice of Janet Teissier du Cros detailing the compensations of that unpopular month, November. And among all these contributions to Woman's Hour there is the anchoring voice of Marjorie Anderson reading some of the poems that she herself had chosen to broadcast over the past year, including one by the Poel Laureate and another by Coventry Patmore, both on aspects of childhood.

The producers of Woman's Hour hope that his disc will complement the new edition of the Woman's Hour Book of all those who want a record of the programme more permanent that its myriad spoken words.
MOLLIE LEE
Editor, Woman's Hour, since July 1964, Mollie Lee was born and brought up in rural Kent. Educated by King's College, London and the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London. Married to Asher Lee, O. B. E., Head of BBC External Broadcasting Audience Research. They have one daughter.

Margaret Powell. Left school at 13 and at he age of 15 became a kitchen maid. Stayed in service for eleven years and has written two books about it, ''Below Stairs'' and ''Climbing the Stairs''. Has three grown up children and lives in Brighton.

Naomi Jacob. Was a prolific author of novels and autobiographical works. Her hobbies were cooking - she wrote about that, too - and Italian opera. She was also an actress and a lecturer. Spent her latter years at her house on Lake Garda in Italy. She died in 1964, aged 80.

Minnie Pallister. Daughter of a Methodist minister. Went to the University of Wales. Became a teacher then turned to social problems and was a frequent speaker for the I. L. P. Great supporter of the Peace Pledge Union. Always cheerful and amusing, untidy and kind. She died in March 1960, aged 75.

William Ibbett. Commander Ibbett joined the Royal Navy as an Ordinary Seamen in 1906 and retired after 30 years' service. Started broadcasting his yarns in 1950. Lives in Sussex.

Anne Jones. A Liverpudlian. Graduated to Woman's Hour via teaching, music, journalism and broadcasting in other programmes. ''The editor and producers of Woman's Hour were the first people I'd ever met who accepted that a woman could be fairly amusing without having a red nose and a joke tie that squirted water.''

''Anon''. This speaker is a housewife in her thirties who was a teacher before she married. She has four children, three of whom are adopted.

Ba Mason. Was trained as an artist (but probably not trained as a cook). She is married to a Chartered Accountant and has three sons.

Nancy Spain. Novelist, journalist and popular broadcaster. At the age of 17 joined the staff of the BBC but later became famous in programmes such as ''Twenty Questions'', ''My Word'' and the TV ''Juke Box Jury''. She was killed in an air crash in 1964 at the age of 46.

Janet Teissier du Cros. Born in Aberdeen, a daughter of Sir Herbert Grierson, Rector of Edinburgh University. Although she studied the piano, she confesses to having no profession apart from housewife. She has published one book ''Divided Loyalties'' and is writing another. Is married to a Frenchman, has four children and lives in Paris.

Norma Huxtable. Lives in the heart of Exmoor with her farmer - husband - boss and Minnie - the - Pig on a 92 - acre farm with a large old farmhouse complete with cider cellar. Loves animals and people. hates sewing and knitting. Ambition - to have more and more pigs.

Antonia Ridge. Of Dutch - British - French background. has read her own books as serials on Woman's Hour. Has two grown - up children.

Arthur Marshall. After Cambridge, taught French and German at a large public school. Famous as a writer, reader and collector of schoolgirl stories. Broadcaster since 1930. Author and impersonator of Nurse Dugdale in wartime radio series.

Maud Royden. Daughter of an industrial baronet from Liverpool. Lectured in English Literature and then became involved in the Woman's Movement. In 1917 became a preacher at the City Temple. Eventually had her own place of worship, the Guildhouse. A Doctor of Divinity. Died in 1956, aged 80.

Ruth Drew. Did jobs in Fleet Street and ran a successful secretarial bureau called Oxex. Realised that making life easier and pleasanter in the home was her metier. Wrote ''The Happy Housewife''. She died in 1960, aged 52

Marjorie Anderson. Has been with Woman's Hour since 1951. She was once an actress but most of her professional life has been as a broadcaster, first with the old Forces Programme and later as an announcer on the Third. She is in private life Mrs Anthony Sykes, a widow with a son, Jermey.

Further information

BBC Radio Enterprises Ltd and BBC Enterprises Ltd, predecessors of BBC Worldwide / BBC Worldwide Ltd., the BBC's commercial arm. Formed 1968 and 1979 respectively, they were a subsidiary wholly owned by the BBC and merged into BBC Worldwide in 1995. In that time, there were companies set up within or structured brands as part of the company to deal with separate parts of the business, e.g. BBC Records for recorded audio. Sometimes written as BBC Enterprise Ltd.

The items shown here are from the "main" BBC Records and Tapes library covering a wide secletion of genres from themes, comedy dramas and others, depending on which format you have selected.

Statistics

Here are some statistics about this page.
This page was last updated on 08-01-2023 at 22:24:17 UK local time.

This record has been seen 778 times since 20th May, 2017.

Other releases you might be interested in

Below are some other releases which are related to REMO 44 Voices from Woman's Hour based on its genre.