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11.0 Music Making with Sir Walford Davies
11.20 Interlude
11.25 Games with Words for Juniors
During this period each week the children will take part in a series of games designed to stimulate interest in the use of words. Last week they were told the first half of an original story and were then left to finish it themselves. Today they will be told the whole story and will be able to compare their own endings with it.
11.40 Interlude
11.45 Senior Geography:
' Geography of the War'
A. G. Ogilvie , Professor of Geography, University of Edinburgh

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Walford Davies
Unknown:
A. G. Ogilvie

2.0 Nature Study:
Round the Countryside: A Country Walk'
Eric Parker
2.15 Interlude
2.20 Physical Training for use in Classrooms
Edith Dowling
2.40 Interlude
2.45 British History:
Britain in the Making. ' England after the Conquest'
A dramatic interlude by Ida K. Summerhayes

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Parker
Unknown:
Edith Dowling
Unknown:
Ida K. Summerhayes

or ' Classics of the Barrel-Organ'
Explained away by Vernon Harris , and sung by John Rorke , Margaret Eaves , Esther Coleman , Dudley Rolph , and the Serenaders
Presented by Francis Worsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Vernon Harris
Sung By:
John Rorke
Sung By:
Margaret Eaves
Sung By:
Esther Coleman
Sung By:
Dudley Rolph
Presented By:
Francis Worsley

' Roads of England'
A play by L. du Garde Peach No. 1—' Before the Romans came'
L. du Garde Peach's Children's Hour plays all arose out of a postscript: ' How would you like a play about the Golden Fleece ? '. It resulted in Arthurian Legends, Fables of Æsop, Nordic Sagas, ' Tower of London ', Waterways of England ', and ' Roads of England ', one of the very best of his series, which is being revived today.
In the opening play you will sit beside the path that climbs over the shoulder of the Wiltshire Downs, the first home of civilised man in this country ; and, sitting there, you will hear what might have taken place 2,000 years ago, when wolves were common all over England, and roads were only tracks and bridle paths. These paths were not metalled like those made by the Romans, but this did not matter very much because heavy carts were unknown.
The type of men who used these roads you will hear in these broadcasts, and such is the genius of L . du Garde Peach that it will all seem real.

Contributors

Play By:
L. du Garde Peach
Unknown:
L du Garde Peach

sung and played by Anne Ziegler , Heddle Nash , John Stevens and the BBC Theatre Orchestra (leader, Tate Gilder ), conducted by Reginald Burston With a descriptive commentary, written by C. A. Lejeune , spoken byCathleen Cordell
The programme arranged by Mark H. Lubbock

Contributors

Played By:
Anne Ziegler
Played By:
Heddle Nash
Played By:
John Stevens
Leader:
Tate Gilder
Conducted By:
Reginald Burston
Written By:
C. A. Lejeune
Spoken By:
Cathleen Cordell
Arranged By:
Mark H. Lubbock

with Evelyn Laye
Webster Booth , Sidney Burchall , and C. Denier Warren
The BBC Variety Orchestra (leader, Frank Cantell ), conducted by Charles Shadwell , and the BBC Revue Chorus
Compere, John Watt

Contributors

Soprano:
Evelyn Laye
Tenor:
Webster Booth
Baritone:
Sidney Burchall
Actor:
C. Denier Warren
Orchestral Leader:
Frank Cantell
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell
Compere:
John Watt

(from the novel by A. E. W. Mason )
A dramatic chronicle for broadcasting in twelve parts
Written and produced by Peter Creswell
Part 2-' Three Feathers are sent
Cast and

Contributors

Novel By:
A. E. W. Mason
Produced By:
Peter Creswell
Harry Feversham:
Harold Scott
Ethne Eustace:
Mary O'Farrell
Lieutenant Willoughby:
Philip Cunningham
Captain Trench:
Laidman Brown
Lieutenant Durrance:
Carleton Hobbs
Dermod Eustace:
Fred O'Donovan
Lieutenant Sutch, R.N. (Retired), who tells the story:
Cecil Trouncer

Alf Perkins says ' It's a bit of all right'
The cast includes
Maurice Denham , Betty Huntley-Wright , Horace Percival , Doris Hare ,
Sidney Burchall , Jack Train , and Dick Francis
The Male Voice Quartet and Orchestra
Presented by Bill MacLurg

Contributors

Unknown:
Alf Perkins
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Unknown:
Horace Percival
Unknown:
Doris Hare
Unknown:
Sidney Burchall
Unknown:
Jack Train
Unknown:
Dick Francis
Presented By:
Bill MacLurg

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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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