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FOR THE SCHOOLS

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1.50 Science and gardening
' Work to do now in the garden'
C. F. Lawrance
2.10 Interval music
2.15 Stories from world history by Rhoda Power
" ' Flying words '
John, the schoolboy whom listeners have met on several occasions, is interested in the Morse Code and meets someone who tells him about the American inventor Samuel Morse and the electric telegraph. He hears how Miss Ellsworth, a friend of Samuel Morse , chose for the first message, sent from Washington to Baltimore, the words ' What hath God wrought' from Numbers xxiii, 23.
. 2.35 Interval music
2.40 English for everyday use by Douglas R. Allan
Poetry programme: Some poems of action

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F. Lawrance
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Morse Code
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Samuel Morse
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Samuel Morse
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Douglas R. Allan

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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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