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A. P. Thompson
A. P. Thompson is well known as a broadcaster on small-holding problems, and today he will come to the microphone with practical advice to that ' farmer of the town', the backyard produce-grower and poultry-keeper. He is editor of The Feathered World and an expert on the problems, aims, and difficulties of the small poultry-keeper.

Contributors

Unknown:
A. P. Thompson
Unknown:
A. P. Thompson

' Children in Billets'
A. L. Lloyd and Stephen Potter
In this programme, largely recorded, will be heard for the first time the voices of the town children speaking from their new homes in the country Their new homes may seem to them unexpectedly large or curiously small: but all are agreed that the playground is the biggest they have ever seen.

Contributors

Unknown:
L. Lloyd
Unknown:
Stephen Potter

Where are the Giants ?
' British Sportsmen Join Up'
Captain W. R. G. Smith
How can the sportsman help in the war? It has been quickly realised that co-operation between various branches of sport and the Army is extremely desirable, and that in physical training in particular the sportsman can give enormous help to the soldier. The organisation behind the idea is proceeding apace, and all over the country prominent cricketers, boxers, golfers, footballers, tennis-players, and others are playing their part in National Service.
Captain W. R. G. Smith is a well-known journalist, and has given a great many broadcasts on sporting topics. He has always been closely interested in sport, and he is coming to the microphone this evening to give some idea of what is going on between the Army camps and the sports organisations, and to describe what various famous sporting personalities are doing, and what they have joined.

Contributors

Unknown:
Captain W. R. G. Smith
Unknown:
Captain W. R. G. Smith

Licensee, Ernest Longstaffe
The management has much pleasure in announcing the following stupendous galaxy of star talent
Nosmo King (Iceland's antidote for the deep depression) and Hubert
Norman Long (a song, a smile, and a piano)
Caryll and Mundy (at it again)
John Rorke (the raucous racketeer of rousing rhythm)
Elsie and Doris Waters (radio's ' Gert and Daisy')
Chairman, Vernon Watson
The Variety Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Longstaffe
You will always hear something good at the Palace of Varieties

Contributors

Unknown:
Ernest Longstaffe
Unknown:
Norman Long
Unknown:
John Rorke
Unknown:
Doris Waters
Unknown:
Vernon Watson
Conducted By:
Ernest Longstaffe

with Arthur Askey
Richard Murdoch your old chum
Syd Walker in a new feature, ' Syd Sees It Through'
' What Might Have Happened'
Pat Taylor
Jack Hylton and his Band
Produced by Harry S. Pepper and Gordon Crier

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Syd Walker
Unknown:
Pat Taylor
Unknown:
Jack Hylton
Produced By:
Harry S. Pepper
Produced By:
Gordon Crier

Adapted by Laurence Gilliam from the story by H. G. Wells
Cast Other parts played by Bryan Powley , Barbara Couper , Charles Mason

Contributors

Adapted By:
Laurence Gilliam
Story By:
H. G. Wells
Played By:
Bryan Powley
Played By:
Barbara Couper
Played By:
Charles Mason
Mr Coombes:
Philip Wade
Mrs Coombes:
Audrey Cameron
Clarence:
Harold Scott
Jennie:
Cathleen Cordell
Tom:
J B Rowe
Narrator:
Carleton Hobbs

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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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