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Children's Hour

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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5.00 For Younger Listeners
'The Boy with the Green Thumb'
A series of six stories written by Barbara Euphan Todd and told by Eve
5: 'The Red-hot Poker'

5.15 For Older Children
Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley in 'The Three Students'
The fifth of six Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The action of the play is set in a great English University town in the year 1895.

Contributors

Stories By:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised By:
Felix Felton
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes:
Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson:
Norman Shelley
Hilton Soames, tutor at St Luke's College:
Felix Felton
Bannister, a college servant:
James Thomason
Gilchrist:
Gordon Gardner
McLaren:
Alan Reid
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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