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CHILDREN'S HOUR

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David tells ' Woolly Bears ' a new series of Bear stories by Elizabeth Gorell
5-' Disgusterating 'followed by ' The Just So Stories' by Rudyard Kipling arranged for broadcasting by Maurice Brown
8−' The Crab that played with the Sea '
Production by Josephine Plummer
' Before the High and Far-off Times, 0 my Bes-t Beloved, came the Time of the Very Beginnings; and that was in the days when the Eldest Magician was gettting Th:ngs ready. First the got the Earth ready; tihen he got the Sea ready; and then die laid aM the Animals that they could com* ou< and play.'
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Contributors

Stories By:
Elizabeth Gorell
Stories By:
Rudyard Kipling
Broadcasting By:
Maurice Brown
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Crab:
Leslie French
Eldest Magician:
Howard Rose
Man:
Preston Lockwood
Daughter:
Pat Garwood
Fisherman:
Noel Dryden
Various Animals:
Stephen Jack
The Storyteller:
Lionel Gamlin

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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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