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CHILDREN'S HOUR

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

For Older Children
' The Missing Art Books' in which two young library assistants are involved in a mystery
Written for broadcasting by Bertha Lonsdale
Production by Trevor Hill
5.30 For Children of Most Ages
Nan Macdonald visits
Pestalozzi in Britain the international children's village at Sedlescombe in Sussex which is nearing its first birthday With the recorded voices of some of the boys and girls of eight different nationalities who are settling down together as its first family
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Contributors

Production By:
Trevor Hill
Unknown:
Nan MacDonald
Mr Golbourne, Chief Librarian of Benswick:
Francis Winfield
Miss Whakitt Deputy Librarian:
Sybil Holroyd
Malcolm Scott, a library assistant:
George Layton
Nancy Marshall, the junior assistant:
Sian Davies
Mrs Fennely:
Violet Carson
Mr Stringer:
Tom Harrison
Mrs Benshaw:
Doris Gambell
The Strange Man:
Barrie Hesketh
Source: Radio Times

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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