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11.0 Music and Movement for Infants: Quickly and Slowly
Ann Driver

11.20 Interval music

11.25 Scottish Heritage: The Hebrides at Work
by Hector Maciver

11.45 Talks for Sixth Forms: Equipping Ourselves to Understand a Great Play
by Desmond MacCarthy

Contributors

Presenter (Music and Movement for Infants):
Ann Driver
Speaker (Scottish Heritage):
Hector MacIver
Speaker (Talks for Sixth Forms):
Desmond MacCarthy

2.0 Travel Talks: Russia: Breaking up the Ice
From material supplied by Peter Smollett

2.15 Interval music

2.20 Useful Citizens: Rowland Hill - Penny Post
Series of imaginary interviews with F.H. Grisewood.

2.40 Orchestral Concert Series: The Russians and their Music
Illustrated talk by Ronald Biggs

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Smollett
Unknown:
F. H. Grisewood.
Talk By:
Ronald Biggs

[Starring] Tommy Handley
with Jack Train
and Horace Percival, Sydney Keith, Clarence Wright, Fred Yule, Dorothy Summers, Kay Cavendish, Paula Green, Dino Galvani.
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell.

Contributors

Comedian:
Tommy Handley
[Actor]:
Jack Train
[Actor]:
Horace Percival
[Actor]:
Sydney Keith
[Actor]:
Clarence Wright
[Actor]:
Fred Yule
[Actress]:
Dorothy Summers
[Actress]:
Kay Cavendish
[Actress]:
Paula Green
[Actor]:
Dino Galvani
Musicians:
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor:
Charles Shadwell
Script:
Ted Kavanagh
Producer:
Francis Worsley

Variety department experimental hour (in fifteen minutes). No. 1 - 'Crewe Sonata': a piece about a railway station.
Produced by Henry Reed.
Script by Aubrey Danvers-Walker.
Radio score by Henry Reed.
Chorus and augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, under the direction of Charles Shadwell.
(Special BBC recording)
(See the article on page 3)

Contributors

Producer/Radio Score:
Henry Reed
Script:
Aubrey Danvers -Walker
Musical Director:
Charles Shadwell

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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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