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For Children of All Ages
' Green Sailors and Fair Winds' by Gilbert Hackforth-Jonea
2—' Stranger than Fiction '
Production by Josephine Plummer
' Last week I told you how we crossed the Channel in a full gale, in order to get a young man back to England in time to rejoin his regiment before his leave expired. Well, it was a very rough trip and we were all pretty shaken up by the motion. So we weren't at all sorry to lie in harbour alongside the quay in Poole, while the gale blew itself out. There were quite a number of yachts sheltering there. Rag Doll was berthed alongside one called Cape Horn. She was an ancient and rather dirty converted fishing-boat, whose owner was a weather-beaten old man whom we soon got to know.' (Mary Green)
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Rev. Colin Marr

Contributors

Unknown:
Gilbert Hackforth-Jonea
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Unknown:
Rev. Colin Marr
Uncle George:
Norman Shelley
Mark:
Harold Reese
Mary:
Rosamond Barnes
Binnie:
Susan Condy
Ben:
Glyn Dearman
Captain Eaglehawk:
Cyril Shaps

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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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