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11.0 Music for Every Day (Ages 9-15)
'Music as Movement - Pulsation'
Ronald Biggs

11.20 Interlude

11.25 English for Under-Nines (Ages 7-9)
Ten-minute tales by Rhoda Power
Aesop's Fables No. 1 - 'The Goatherd and the Goats'

11.35 Interlude

11.40 Senior Geography (Ages 11-15)
Russia and her neighbours
'All the Russias'
E.G.R. Taylor, Professor of Geography in the University of London

Contributors

Speaker (Music for Every Day):
Ronald Biggs
Storyteller (English for Under-Nines):
Rhoda Power
Speaker (Senior Geography):
E.G.R. Taylor

2.0 Nature Study (Ages 9-12)
Round the Countryside: 'Seagulls' - Eric Parker

2.15 Interlude

2.20 Physical Training (Ages 9-12) (for use in classrooms)
Edith Dowling

2.35 Interlude

2.40 British History (Ages 11-15)
'Britain Finds Herself', planned by Edith Macqueen
'Ourselves in 1617' - by E. Boog Watson

Contributors

Speaker (Nature Study):
Eric Parker
Presenter (Physical Training):
Edith Dowling
Planned by (British History:
Britain Finds Herself): Edith MacQueen
Writer (British History:
Ourselves in 1617): E. Boog Watson

A concert from the Town Hall
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Two public symphony concerts are to be given at the Town Hall,' Cheltenham, today: the first this afternoon, the second at 8 o'clock this evening. These are the first public concerts that the BBC Symphony
Orchestra has given .outside Bristol since the war. Further plans for public appearances in the West Country include concerts in the Central Hall, Newport, on January 17 and in the Pavilion, Bath, on January 24.

Contributors

Conductor:
Sir Adrian Boult

An excerpt.
Presented by Francis Laidler from the Theatre Royal, Leeds

Contributors

Presenter:
Francis Laidler
Jack:
Renee Foster
Dame Durden:
Norman Evans
Simple Simon:
Jack Barty
Princess Twinkle:
Doree Gabelle
Mitzi:
Marion Gerth
Demon Grimm:
Arthur G. Rees
Fairy Gleam:
Marie De Laine
Giant Blunderbore:
J. Murray Stewart
Constance, Dame Durden's Cow:
Shanks Brothers
Demon Grimm's Assistants:
Geddes Brothers
Performers:
Twelve Sherman Fisher Girls
Performers:
Kirby's Flying Ballet
Perofrmers:
Francis Laidler's Little Sunbeams

'The Cow on the Roof'
A tale from Denbighshire retold by Anne Scammell, and read by Arthur Phillips

5.10 'When the Welsh Dragon had Toothache'
(An Adventure in Dreamland) by Vaughan Thomas
Hear how David cured the poor Dragon of a nasty pain

Contributors

Adapted by (The Cow on the Roof):
Anne Scammell
Reader (The Cow on the Roof):
Arthur Phillips
Writer (When the Welsh Dragon had Toothache):
Vaughan Thomas

Tate Gilder (violin); Leo Collins (clarinet); John Howells (trombone)
At the piano, Charles Groves
In this programme listeners will again hear members of the BBC Theatre Orchestra in a series of solos played on their individual instruments. Tate Gilder is leader of the orchestra, Leo Collins principal clarinet, John Howells bass trombone. Charles Groves trains the Theatre Chorus, plays the piano, arranges, and conducts.

Contributors

Violin:
Tate Gilder
Clarinet:
Leo Collins
Trombone:
John Howells
Piano:
Charles Groves

A broadcasting version of the cartoon film, produced and directed by Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, based on Jonathan Swift's immortal tale
(By permission of Paramount Pictures)
Characters:
Gulliver
King Little of Lilliput
King Bombo of Blefescu
Prince David, King Bombo's son
Princess Glory, King Little's daughter
Gabby, Town Crier of Lilliput
The Augmented Variety Orchestra and Chorus

Contributors

Producer/Director (film):
Max Fleischer
Producer/Director (film):
Dave Fleischer
Orchestrations:
Wally Wallond
Musicians/Singers:
The Augmented Variety Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor:
Charles Shadwell
Radio Script/Producer/Compere:
John Watt

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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