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Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

Selection, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Churchill
Serenade of a Clown - Frederic Curzon
March of the Toys (Babes in Toyland) - Herbert
Dreamy Afternoon - Iris Taylor
Tic-Tac Polka - Johann Strauss
To a Wild Rose (woodland Sketches) - MacDowell
Will o' the Wisp (Woodland Sketches) - MacDowell
At an Old Trysting-Place (Woodland Sketches) - MacDowell
From Uncle Remus (Woodland Sketches) - MacDowell
Alice Blue (Three Shades of Blue) - Ferde Grofe
Nocturne - Griselle
Sheep and Goat - Guion
Stairway to the Stars - Malneck and Signorelli
Dance of the Comedians - Smetana, arr. Arthur Wood

Contributors

Musicians:
The BBC Salon Orchestra
Conductor:
Leslie Bridgewater

A mid-morning Variety mixture with the following ingredients:
Michael North and Davy Burnaby , Sam Costa , Margaret Eaves
At the two pianos: Ivor Dennis and Wally Wallond , presented by Douglas Lawrence

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael North
Unknown:
Davy Burnaby
Unknown:
Sam Costa
Pianos:
Ivor Dennis
Pianos:
Wally Wallond
Presented By:
Douglas Lawrence

11.0 Music for Every Day with Ronald Biggs
(Director of the Rural Music Schools Council)
(Junior and Senior 9-15)
11.20 Interlude
11.25 English for Under-Nines:
Action Stories and Poems
11.35 Interlude
11.40 Senior Geography: The Geography of the War
' The Baltic'
A. G. Ogilvie , Professor of Geography, University of Edinburgh

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Biggs
Unknown:
A. G. Ogilvie

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Harry Gordon , Laird of Inversnecky in a recorded programme of incidents and personalities in his career as a comedian with the recorded voices of Harry Gordon himself, Jack Holden (his feed), Alice Stephenson (his pianist), Violet Davidson (his predecessor at the Beach Pavilion, Aberdeen), and many of the famous guest artists who have appeared with Harry at the Beach Pavilion
Devised by Arthur Black. Produced by Alan Melville

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Gordon
Unknown:
Harry Gordon
Unknown:
Jack Holden
Unknown:
Alice Stephenson
Pianist:
Violet Davidson
Unknown:
Arthur Black.
Produced By:
Alan Melville

(from the novel by A.E.W. Mason)
A dramatic chronicle for broadcasting in twelve parts, written and produced by Peter Creswell Part 6 - ' The First Feather Reappears
Cast and ' r white fathers as a token of cowardice, disappears to Egypt to make good. In previous instalments listeners heard how his friend Colonel Durrance encountered him out there in disguise and how Durrance himself, blinded by sunstroke, wrote to Ethne, at one time Harry's fiancee. This brings the story to the outset of this week's instalment.

Contributors

Novel By:
A. E.W. Mason
Produced By:
Peter Creswell
Captain Calder:
Ivan Samson
Colonel Durrance:
Carleton Hobbs
Mrs Adair:
Barbara Couper
Ethne Eustace:
Mary O'Farrell
Captain Willoughby:
Philip Cunningham
Lieutenant Sutch, R N (Retired) who tells the story:
Cecil Trouncer

The Lecture Comes to Life
The students take notes. ABC-how to begin the study of their subject. But as they listen they overhear the voice of Tom Moore himself and seem to be taking part in scenes from his life
Written and produced by Stephen Potter

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Moore
Produced By:
Stephen Potter
With John Rorke:
Tom Moore

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

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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