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CHILDREN'S HOUR

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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For Older Children
' Women of Courage '
A new series of programmes by Howard Jones
2-Mary Kingsley
Production by Josephine Plummer
(A new production of the play broadcast in 1951 under the title' Umbrella in Africa ')
Mary Kingsley was the niece of Charles Kingsley-the author of 'The Water
Babies ' and ' Westward Ho! '. Her great interests were exploration and science, but when she started out on her first trip into unknown tropical Africa she had had no experience of exploring whatever.

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Jones
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Mary Kingsley:
Gladys Young
Monsieur Forget:
Deryck Guyler
Madame- Forget:
Janet Bruce
Kefalla:
Roger Snowdon
Kiva:
Norman Shelley
Chief of the Egaja:
Peter Claughton
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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