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CHILDREN'S HOUR

on BBC Home Service Basic

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' The Chinese Primrose *
A play by Edward Boyd
Judy Wilson , aged 14...Lesley Fraser Jill Cooper , her friend, 48 hours older
Eileen McCallum
Sir Henry Cooper , Jill's grandfather
Leonard Maguire
Dr. Wilson, Judy's father
Douglas Robin
Mrs. Dunne, his housekeeper
Miriam Owens
Constable Crowley. .. James Sutherland Tom Simpkin , a chauffeur
David Webster
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden
5.30 Sierra Summer by George Hummer
A Sierra is ' a long jagged mountain chain ' and Mr. Hummer speaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, on the far West Coast of the United States. He spent a summer there as a boy, at an altitude of over six thousand feet to cure himself of hay fever.....
followed by Children's Hour
Music in Miniature

Contributors

Play By:
Edward Boyd
Play By:
Judy Wilson
Unknown:
Lesley Fraser
Unknown:
Jill Cooper
Unknown:
Eileen McCallum
Unknown:
Sir Henry Cooper
Unknown:
Leonard Maguire
Unknown:
Douglas Robin
Unknown:
Miriam Owens
Unknown:
Constable Crowley.
Unknown:
James Sutherland
Unknown:
Tom Simpkin
Unknown:
David Webster
Produced By:
Kathleen Garscadden
Unknown:
George Hummer

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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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