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2.0 TRAVEL TALKS : THE FAR EAST ' Bowler Hat and Parasol' : John Pilcher
2.15 Interval music
2.20 WHEN WE LEAVE SCHOOL: by Winifred Holmes. ' What are we going to do ? ' The leavers' class begins by finding out the views of their parents about jobs
2.40 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES ' The Orchestra and the Conductor', by Reginald Jacques. Illustrated talk, reintroducing the orchestra and showing some aspects, of the con- ductor's work. Illustrations from Mendelssohn's Overture, The Hebrides

Contributors

Unknown:
John Pilcher
Unknown:
Winifred Holmes.
Unknown:
Reginald Jacques.

Play by Henrik Ege , with lyrics by James Dyrenforth , and music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith . Produced by Ronald Waldman
BBC Revue Chorus and the Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent. (' Hocus-Bogus ' was first broadcast on January 23, 1940)

Contributors

Play By:
Henrik Ege
Unknown:
James Dyrenforth
Music By:
Kenneth Leslie-Smith
Produced By:
Ronald Waldman
Conducted By:
Billy Ternent.
Edmund Corduroy Villiers, alias ' James Clifford' alias ' Jimmy the Gent:
Dick Francis
Dr Jack Clifford:
Billy Milton
Mrs Felicity Bagshaw-Downes:
Doris Nichols
Marjorie Claire:
Sylvia Marriott
Major Houldsworth, Governor of Parkmoor Prison:
Ewart Scott
Monsieur Maurice Salamon, proprietor of the Kursaal, the Grand Hotel-des-Thermes and practically everything else at Courmontles-Bains (late Bad Hofburg):
Jacques Brown
Monsieur Beaumont:
C Denier Warren

Talk by H. C. Ferraby
This is the second in the series that it setting out to introduce some of those books which have had profound effects upon the story of mankind. In 1890 young American naval officer wrote the book, ' Influence of Sea Power upon History ', which is the subject of this even- ing's broadcast. It certainly has had no little say in the shaping of history-after reading it the Kaiser created the German Navy and all the tactics of blockade used in the present war are the practical demonstration of Mahan's thesis.

Contributors

Talk By:
H. C. Ferraby

A modern parable, by Gilbert F. Cunningham. Produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall

Contributors

Unknown:
Gilbert F. Cunningham.
Produced By:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
The Rev Ephraim MacLeod:
James Crampsey
Members of the Church Restoration Sub-Committee : Alexander Forsyth, Session Clerk:
James Gibson
Arnold Renton, Bank Manager:
E J P MacE
Nicholas Granby, Financier:
Douglas Robin
Mrs Kilpatrick:
Meg Buchanan
Mrs McCulIoch:
Helen Gill
Miss Nairn:
Madeleine Christie
Miss Callendar:
Jeantaylor Smith

in ' It's That Man Again', with Jack Train ; and Horace Percival , Sydney Keith , Clarence Wright , Fred Yule , Dorothy Summers , Kay Cavendish , Paula Green , and Dino. Galvani. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Ted Kavanagh. Produced by Francis Worsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Train
Unknown:
Horace Percival
Unknown:
Sydney Keith
Unknown:
Clarence Wright
Unknown:
Fred Yule
Unknown:
Dorothy Summers
Unknown:
Kay Cavendish
Unknown:
Paula Green
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell.
Script By:
Ted Kavanagh.
Produced By:
Francis Worsley

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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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