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Topical magazine programme. Mrs. Lilian Meyrick , recently awarded the title of ' Miss Munition ' in a competition to discover Cardiff's most meritorious woman factory-worker, is joined in this programme by four South Wales workers who describe their jobs : a postman, a piano tuner, an office-cleaner, and a policeman

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs. Lilian Meyrick

1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Exploring our village. ' Homeless ', by Edith Macqueen : foreign refugees come to Stanwellstead ; how emigrants of the past-Flemings and Huguenots — contributed to English life
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE. Reproduction and growth ' : ' The Young Mammal is Born by Richard Palmer
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. 'Goblin Market', by Christina Rossetti : the story of the poem linked by suitable extracts

Contributors

Unknown:
Edith MacQueen
Unknown:
Richard Palmer
Unknown:
Christina Rossetti

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

5.20 ' Farmer Wigglesworth and the Fairies' : Lancashire story by Dora Broome , told by Mary Eastwood
Songs at the piano, by Violet Carson
' Dick Whittington Without A
Cat' : story of a Yorkshire lad who became Lord Mayor of London, by Bertha Lonsdale , told by Wilfred
5.55 Children's Hour prayers

Contributors

Story By:
Dora Broome
Told By:
Mary Eastwood
Unknown:
Violet Carson
Unknown:
Dick Whittington
Unknown:
Bertha Lonsdale

Gerald Jackson (flute). Sidonie Goossens (harp). BBC Symphony Orchestra : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
7.18 Overture, Leonora, No. 3...Beethoven
7.34 Concerto for flute and harp....Mozart
8.1 app. Interval
8.47 Symphony No. 4, in E minor... Brahmt
During the interval Henry Havergal talks about the use composers have made of the passacaglia, with special reference to the last movement of Brahms's Fourth Symphony

Contributors

Flute:
Gerald Jackson
Flute:
Sidonie Goossens
Conductor:
Sir Adrian Boult
Talks:
Henry Havergal

Excerpt from ' Flare Path ', by Terence Rattigan , Anthony Asquith 's production now running at the Apollo Theatre, London, with Adrianne Allen , Martin Walker , Phyllis Morris , Leslie Dwyer , George Cole , Gerard Hinze , Emrys Jones , Leueen MacGrath , Kathleen Harrison , and Ivan Samson. Presented by Mary Allen and broadcast by arrangement with H. M. Tennent , Ltd.

Contributors

Unknown:
Terence Rattigan
Unknown:
Anthony Asquith
Unknown:
Adrianne Allen
Unknown:
Martin Walker
Unknown:
Phyllis Morris
Unknown:
Leslie Dwyer
Unknown:
George Cole
Unknown:
Gerard Hinze
Unknown:
Emrys Jones
Unknown:
Leueen MacGrath
Unknown:
Kathleen Harrison
Unknown:
Ivan Samson.
Presented By:
Mary Allen
Arrangement With:
H. M. Tennent

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