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CHILDREN'S HOUR

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

For Children of Most Ages
Sunday At Five
' And the Third Day
He Rose Again
A programme of songs and hymns for Easter introduced by David and sung by the Orpington Junior Singers
Conducted by Sheila Mossman
At the organ. Charles Smart
6.20 For Older Children
' The Trumpet-Major *
A tale of Wessex by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised in six episodes by John Keir Cross
6— ' How the Trumpet-Major marched into the night '
Other parts played by Clive Batchelor
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sheila Mossman
Unknown:
Charles Smart
Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Played By:
Clive Batchelor
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
John Loveday, the Trumpet-Major:
John Drake
Bob, his brother:
John Bennett
Anne Garland:
Angela Brooking
Festus Derriman:
Hugh David
Old Squire Derriman:
George Holloway
Miller Loveday:
Basil Jones
Mrs Garland, later Mrs Loveday:
Ruby Luscombe
Sergeant Stannard, solo singer:
Bernard Fishwick
The Storyteller:
Harold Reese
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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