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11.0 RHYTHM AND MELODY : Sounds two and three beats long, and their symbols
11.20 GEOGRAPHY. China. "The Great Northern Plain ' : efforts to control the Hwang-ho—' China's Sorrow' ; risks which the peasantry have to face
11.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES : Revival of a ' Ten Minutes Tale ' by Rhoda Power , told by John Glyn -Jones, followed by some short poems

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhoda Power
Told By:
John Glyn

2.0 NATURE STUDY. Frost and Snow ', by A. J. Mee : how frost forms and when to expect it ; when and why it snows
2.15 Interval music
2.20 i YSGOLION CYMRU (For Welsh schools). ' Y Pentref': cyfres i blant dros naw mlwydd oed. 2—' Y Ffordd Fawr' : Y dyrpeg cynnwrf yn y ddeunawfed ganrif. Effaith y ffordd fawr a'r modur ar fywyd, pentref
2.40 SENIOR HISTORY. 'Canada governs herself : Lord Elgin puts self-government into practice', by Elsie Park Gowan , adapted by Helen Duncan

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Mee
Unknown:
Elsie Park Gowan
Adapted By:
Helen Duncan

' The Scarlet Pimpernel ', adapted as a serial play from Baroness Orczy's famous book by Barbara Sleigh. Part 1-' The Accredited Agent', with Alan Wheatley as Sir Percy Blakeney , Heron Carvic as Chauvelin,' and Cherry Cottrell as Marguerite Blakeney

Contributors

Book By:
Barbara Sleigh.
Unknown:
Alan Wheatley
Unknown:
Sir Percy Blakeney
Unknown:
Heron Carvic
Unknown:
Cherry Cottrell
Unknown:
Marguerite Blakeney

Radio version of the Twentieth-Century Fox picture starring Victor Mature , Betty Grable , and John Payne. Adapted and produced by Vernon Harris
Augmented Dance Orchestra, directed by Billy Ternent

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Mature
Unknown:
Betty Grable
Unknown:
John Payne.
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
Directed By:
Billy Ternent
Slap:
Peter Madden
Bruce McKay:
Sydney Keith
Tommy Lundy:
Tommy Duggan
Pat Lambert:
Paula Green
Flo La Verne:
Pat Rignold
Bill Smith ,:
Alan Keith

Christians meet to answer listeners' questions. Recorded programme, in which questions sent in by listeners are discussed by the Rev. F. A. Cockin , Canon of St. Paul's : Professor R. D. Whitehorn of Westminster College, Cambridge; Father
Agnellus Andrew , a Roman Catholic Franciscan Friar ; and Mary Trevelyan : under the chairmanship of Professor Victor Murray of University College, Hull

Contributors

Unknown:
Rev. F. A. Cockin
Unknown:
R. D. Whitehorn
Unknown:
Agnellus Andrew
Unknown:
Mary Trevelyan
Unknown:
Professor Victor Murray

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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