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11.0 Physical training (for use in halls) (Ages 9-12) by Edith Dowling
11.20 Interlude
11.25 Junior English (Ages 9-12)
Games with words, arranged by Douglas R. Allan
11.40 Talks for fifth forms
(Ages 15 and over)
' Science and the community '
Planned by J. A. Lauwerys
' Colour from coal tar-W.
H. Perkin '
J. A. Lauwerys

Contributors

Unknown:
Edith Dowling
Talks:
Douglas R. Allan
Unknown:
J. A. Lauwerys
Unknown:
H. Perkin
Unknown:
J. A. Lauwerys

2.6 For rural schools:
The food of Britain:
' Cake and pudding-The cereals ' by John R. Allan
2.20 For under-sevens
' Let's join in! ' with Ann Driver and Jean Sutcliffe
2.35 Senior English (Ages 11-15)
Good writing:
Dramatic reading from ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ', Act 4, Sc. I

Contributors

Unknown:
John R. Allan
Unknown:
Ann Driver
Unknown:
Jean Sutcliffe

Conducted by Ian Whyte
Ian Whyte, who is still in his thirties, is one of the most distinguished musicians in Glasgow and one of the finest conductors in Britain. His alert, expressive, and vigorous' personality gives his interpretative work a freshness and vitality that are distinctive. As a composer he has accomplished a great deal of fine work in almost every branch of composition, and in transcribing and arranging Scottish traditional music, of which he has done an enormous amount, he has shown himself to be a sensitive and brilliant re-creative musician.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Ian Whyte

' The recording van visits Wiltshire' Here is another interesting programme based on a visit to Wiltshire of the van in search of amateur music-making. Recorded music brought back from Wiltshire, some of which you will hear this evening, covered a variety of styles, ranging from groups of recorders to a performance of a Beethoven symphony and works for chorus and orchestra, all of which were played by amateurs.
In one village there was an orchestra of over forty players, the personnel of which included the village blacksmith and a woman double-bass player.

Maggie Teyte is among the first of our singers, whether in opera or light opera. She has excelled as Melisande and Madam Butterfly, and equally as Lady Mary Carlyle in the musical version of "Monsieur Beaucaire".
After two years at the Royal College of Music, she studied singing in Paris under Jean de Reszke.
Two years later she made her debut at a Sunday night concert at Monte Carlo with Paderewski, and at the age of eighteen she made her name as Melisande at the Opera-Comique in Paris.

Contributors

Soprano:
Maggie Teyte

Reopened under the management of Dicky Hassett with Arthur Chesney , Frederick Burtwell ,
Vera Lynn , Dick Francis , and the Phoney Islanders, directed by Bill Ternent
The show written by Ted Kavanagh
Produced by Francis Worsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Dicky Hassett
Unknown:
Arthur Chesney
Unknown:
Frederick Burtwell
Unknown:
Vera Lynn
Unknown:
Dick Francis
Directed By:
Bill Ternent
Written By:
Ted Kavanagh
Produced By:
Francis Worsley

A comedy with music from the original play ' Nothing but the Truth'
Lyrics by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee. Music by Jack Waller and Joseph Tunbridge. Radio adaptation by Martyn C. Webster
Cast
Narrator, Geoffrey Wincott
The Revue Chorus, the BBC Variety Orchestra, leader Frank Cantell , conductor Charles Shadwell
Production by Martyn C. Webster
At long last the BBC has secured the broadcasting rights of this famous stage comedy.
A wager that involves speaking nothing but the truth for twenty-four hours might seem fairly easy to win, but when not even ' white ' lies are permitted, the task begins to be formidable. This is, however, the undertaking that confronts the hero of this uproarious series of episodes, and the difficulty of it may be well imagined when it is explained that this hero is junior partner in a firm of land agents who want to sell a property on the top of a crumbling sea cliff.

Contributors

Unknown:
R. P. Weston
Unknown:
Bert Lee.
Music By:
Jack Waller
Music By:
Joseph Tunbridge.
Unknown:
Martyn C. Webster
Narrator:
Geoffrey Wincott
Leader:
Frank Cantell
Production By:
Martyn C. Webster
Dick Dennison:
Ewart Scott
Mr Maclean:
Lester Mudditt
James Ralston:
Stuart Vinden
Mr Josiah Parkin:
Ernest Butcher
Bobby Bennett:
Dudley Rolph
Polly:
Diana Morrison
Helen:
Betty Astell
Mrs Ralston:
Dorothy Summers
Gwen Ralston:
Marjorie Westbury
Ethel Clark:
Valerie Larg

by G. R. Rainier
A highly imaginative play for broadcasting intended to show that ' careless talk may give away vital secrets'
Characters you will hear are: German Intelligence Officers; Admiral von Reitberg, Captain Crawford, R.N., various Naval Intelligence Officers, Air - Marshal Stewart , Flight - Lieutenant Peter Medhurst , Flying-Officer Carbrooke, enemy agents, workmen, chorus girls, and Cabinet ministers played by members of the BBC
Repertory Company
Production by Peter Creswell
Here is a play to drive home the significance of careless talk and its dangers to a country at war. All too innocent are the men and women in public-house and railway train, and at dinner table, who, in this dramatic object lesson, let fall the vital scraps of information that may be overheard and correlated by the enemy.
The occasion in question in this play is that of the trials of a new German battleship that are the signal for the putting into operation of a British bomber aeroplane of entirely new design. The pilot, the rear gunner, and a man in the aircraft factory are all guilty,of careless talk, the result of which is all too clearly shown in the climax of this play.

Contributors

Unknown:
G. R. Rainier
Unknown:
Marshal Stewart
Unknown:
Lieutenant Peter Medhurst
Production By:
Peter Creswell

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