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CHILDREN'S HOUR

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' Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 'by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Adapted as a serial play in five parts by H. Oldfield Box
2—' Rebecca Runs Away '
-Production by Josephine Plummer
Rebecca has been sent to stay with her aunts at the Brick House in Riverboro. She did not want to leave home, but the idea was to help her mother, a widow with six other children besides Rebecca, and very little money for their education and upbringing. Aunt Jane is kind, but Rebecca has already had one or two clashes with Aunt Miranda , and . matters come to a head in today's instalment.
5.40 ' From my Travel Journal,' by Owen .Tweedy. 2— ' Lake Chad '

Contributors

Unknown:
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Unknown:
H. Oldfield Box
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Unknown:
Aunt Miranda
Rebecca Randall:
Molly Weir
Aunt Miranda:
Joan Young
Aunt Jane:
Natalie Lynn
Miss Dearborn:
Shelagh Fraser
Emma Jane:
Rosamund Barnes
Minnie:
Sylvia Davidson
Jeremiah Cobb:
MacDonald Parke
Narrator:
Josephine Dent

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