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Let's Join In: The Sixpence that Rolled Away
by Louis MacNeice.
Specially adapted for broadcasting.

2.20 Adventures in Music: Hansel and Gretel
The first of two illustrated talks by Gladys Whitred on the opera by Humperdinck.

2.40 Modern History: How India won her Independence

Contributors

Writer (Let's Join In):
Louis MacNeice
Speaker (Adventures in Music):
Gladys Whitred
Script (Modern History):
Maurice Whitbread
Source: Radio Times

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About BBC Home Service

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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