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11.0 RHYTHM AND MELODY. John Horton : ' Two Sounds to a Beat-Writing Quavers'. '. Song : Bobby Shaftoe
11.20 GEOGRAPHY. India : 'Irrigation Colonies in the Punjab', by Captain F. McDermott and S. M. L. Bean
11.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES : Poems about giants and fairies, followed by a dramatisation of ' The Two Giants', a story taken from ' Peter Simple '

Contributors

Unknown:
John Horton
Song:
Bobby Shaftoe
Unknown:
Captain F. McDermott
Unknown:
Peter Simple

2.0 NATURE STUDY. 'At the Old Castle': Scott Kennedy and Tom visit the old Castle where barn-owls nest and rear their young

2.15 Interval music

2.20 i YSGOLION CYMRU. (For Welsh schools.) 'Y Pentref'. Cyfres i blant dros naw mlwydd oed. 5: 'Ysgol y Pentref', gan Hywel D. Roberts. Mae Ifan Owen yn chwilio tipyn o hanes yr ysgol yn y ganrif ddiwethaf. Fe fydd yn sylwi hefyd ar yr ysgol heddiw a rhai eeffeithiau'r rhyfel

2.40 SENIOR HISTORY. The United States of America: 'What Railways Have Meant in the U.S.A.'. Settling a continent. The trade routes of a continental 'empire', by Jonquil Antony

Contributors

Unknown:
Scott Kennedy
Unknown:
Hywel D. Roberts.
Unknown:
Mae Ifan Owen
Unknown:
Jonquil Antony

' Little Women ' by Louisa M. Alcott. Adapted by Catherine Buckle. Part 2-' Neighbours '. Produced by Nan Macdonald

Contributors

Unknown:
Louisa M. Alcott.
Adapted By:
Catherine Buckle.
Produced By:
Nan MacDonald
Meg:
Curigwen Lewis
Jo Peggy Ryalls:
Mildred Dyson
Amy:
Marjorie Jones
Marmee:
Sybil Arundale
Hannah:
Mary Eastwood
Laurie:
Robert Rietty
Mr Laurence:
Ronald Simpson
Katy Brown:
Geraldine Keyzey
Mary Singleton:
Olive Dehn
Jenny Snow:
Doris Gambell
Mr Davies:
Ronald Simpson
Narrator:
Wilfred Pickles

[Starring] Mabel Constanduros
with John Rorke, Phyllis Morris, Dorothy Summers, Bill Stephens, Vera Lennox, and Fred Yule. The Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Rorke
Unknown:
Phyllis Morris
Unknown:
Dorothy Summers
Unknown:
Bill Stephens
Unknown:
Vera Lennox
Unknown:
Fred Yule
Musicians:
The Dance Orchestra
Conductor:
Billy Ternent
Script:
Mabel Constanduros
Producer:
Eric Fawcett

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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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