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Children's Hour

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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For Children of Most Ages
Old John: 2: All One Family
The book by Mairin Cregan
Adapted as a serial story by Charles Witherspoon
Read by Cicely

5.10 For Older Children

The Vicar of Wakefield: 2: Fresh Mortifications
by Oliver Goldsmith Adapted for broadcasting in six episodes by Mary Cathcart Borer

Produced by Claire Chovil

5.50 Children's Hour Prayers
The Kind Samaritan: 4: The Samaritan Today
Four talks by H. Howard Williams

Contributors

Author (Old John):
Mairin Cregan
Adapted by (Old John):
Charles Witherspoon
Reader (Old John):
null Cicely
Author (The Vicar of Wakefield):
Oliver Goldsmith
Adapted by (The Vicar of Wakefield):
Mary Cathcart Borer
Producer (The Vicar of Wakefield):
Claire Chovil
Speaker (The Kind Samaritan):
H. Howard Williams
Dr Primrose:
Richard Goolden
Mrs Primrose:
Patience Collier
Their family:
Olivia: Mollie Maureen
Their family:
Sophia: Jean England
Their family:
Moses: Glyn Dearman
Squire Thornhill:
Leslie Heritage
Mr Burchell:
Hamilton Dyce
Lady Blarney:
Vivienne Chatterton
Miss Skeggs:
Phoebe Hodgson
Jenkinson:
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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