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FOR THE SCHOOLS

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

TIME AND TUNE
Songs to sing and music to listen to Introduced by Kay Foster
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN
Mesopotamia II: a visit to a Sumerian school (3000 B.C.) and to a Babylonian law count in the time of Hammurabi (c. 1750 B.C.)
Script by Rhoda Power
11.40 LIGHT OPERA IN ENGLAND
2: Roger Fiske talks about 'The Beggar's Opera' and its fellow ballad operas

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Introduced By:
Kay Foster
Script By:
Rhoda Power
Talks:
Roger Fiske
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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