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Children's Hour

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For Listeners of All Ages
More Yarns of a Shellback
Douglas V. Duff comes to the studio to spin another series of yarns about the odd and exciting things that happen at sea
6 - 'Ships that Vanish Without a Trace'
'Biggles' by Captain W. E. Johns
Six stories from 'Biggles' Chinese Puzzle' and 'Biggles of the Interpol'
Adapted for radio by Bertha Lonsdale
6-'Biggles and the Man who Came by Night'
Production by Herbert Smith
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the.Rev. William Purcell

Contributors

Unknown:
Captain W. E. Johns
Production By:
Herbert Smith
Unknown:
Rev. William Purcell
Storyteller:
Norman Richley
Biggies:
Jack Watson
Algy:
Barrie Hesketh
Ginger:
Norman Somers
Bertie:
Philip Waddilove
Marcel Brissac:
Leonard Williams
Detective-Inspector Gaskin:
Graham Tennant
Colonel Linder:
Geoffrey Banks
Simpson the Colonel's gamekeeper:
Trevor Hill

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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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