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CHILDREN'S HOUR

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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' Hunt Royal' by David Scott Daniell
4 — ' Gone away! '
Produced by Graham Gauld
5.40 Talking Time
4-' Wayfaring on a Penny-Farthing ' Talk by Alfred Absell
Read by David
The penny-farthing, the first bicycle was so called because the front wheel was big like a penny and the rear wheel small like a farthing. Mr. Abseil describes how in 1884 he went on a bicycle tour on his penny-farthing.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Scott Daniell
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Talk By:
Alfred Absell
Read By:
David
King Charles II:
Andrew Faulds
The Queen:
Molly Spencer
The Duke of Buckingham:
Jack May
Samuel Pepys:
Charles Leno
Lord Wilmot:
John Arnatt
Colonel Lane:
Philip Cunningham
Captain Linbury:
Charles E Stidwill
Maria Linbury:
Gwen Berryman
French landlord:
F R Buckley
Hostler:
Geoffrey Lewis
Captain Tettenshall:
Will Kings
Hamnet the Smith:
Lewis Gedge
Seaman:
Arnold Peters
Source: Radio Times

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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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