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Introductory music
Prayers
All people that on earth do dwell (A. and M. 166, omitting v. 5; S.P. 443, omitting v. 5; C.H. 229: Tune, Old Hundredth)
Interlude
Prayers: The Prayer for God's Presence; the Lord's Prayer
Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go (A. and M. 8, omitting v. 2; S.P. 39, omitting v. 2; C.H. 651, omitting v. 2: Tune, Angel's Song)
Blessing
Closing music

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR INFANTS. Ann Driver : ' Gradual Changes of Speed'
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN. 'Smiths provide new tools by Rhoda Power : the Bronze Age; metal workers of the Ancient East (3500 B.C.)
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH, by Jean-Jacques 'Oberlin. 'Jeanne, ]a bonne Lorraine'. (Repetition de l'émission du 6 octobre, 1942)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhoda Power

2.0 THE MUSIC SHOP, devised by John Horton. ' Looking at the Score'
2.20 PHYSICAL TRAINING (for use in classrooms), by Audrey Nicol
2.35 SENIOR ENGLISH II. Good writing. Book talk by Lettice Cooper ? ' Silas Marner ', by George Eliot

Contributors

Unknown:
John Horton.
Unknown:
Audrey Nicol
Talk By:
Lettice Cooper
Talk By:
Silas Marner
Unknown:
George Eliot

from New College, Oxford
Versicles and Responses Psalm 61
First Lesson : Deuteronomy 10, w. 12-22 Magnificat (Farrant in A minor)
Second Lesson : Acts 10, w. 1-16 Nunc dimittis (Farrant in A minor) Creed and Collects
The Lord is my shepherd (Stanford) Prayers
The Lord my pasture shall prepare (E.H.
491)
Organist, H. K. Andrews

Contributors

Organist:
H. K. Andrews

re-opens (under the auspices of C.E.M.A.) as the first State Theatre in the United Kingdom
6.30 Laurence Housman talks about the old Theatre from 1766 to 1942, and about the future plans of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts
6.37 Lance Sieveking makes a brief running commentary from a box
6.41 The Jacques String Orchestra
(conductor, Reginald Jacques) plays a specially arranged overture of eighteenth-century airs
6.46 Dame Sybil Thomdike, D.B.E., before the curtain, speaks Herbert Farjeon's Prologue composed for the occasion
6.50 Curtain up: 'She Stoops to Conquer', by Oliver Goldsmith. Presented by the Old Vic Company, produced by Dorothy Green Cast includes Sybil Thorndike as Mrs. Hardcastle, and O.B. Clarence as Mr. Hardcastle, supported by Stanford Holme, Thea Holme, Kay Bannerman, and others

Contributors

Talks:
Laurence Housman
Unknown:
Lance Sieveking
Conductor:
Reginald Jacques
Unknown:
Dame Sybil Thomdike
Unknown:
Herbert Farjeon
Unknown:
Oliver Goldsmith.
Unknown:
Vic Com
Produced By:
Dorothy Green
Unknown:
Sybil Thorndike
Unknown:
B. Clarence
Unknown:
Thea Holme
Unknown:
Kay Bannerman

War-time fairy story with lots of morals, written by Henrik Ege ; music by Henry Reed. Episode 4-' Picnic Papers '. Frederick Burtwell as Mr. Cropper, Billie Sinclair as Mrs. Cropper, Wynne Ajello as Conscience, Eliot Makeham as 'The Man Next Door'. The Still Small Voices' : the Bachelor Girls. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Henry Reed

Contributors

Written By:
Henrik Ege
Music By:
Henry Reed.
Unknown:
Frederick Burtwell
Unknown:
Billie Sinclair
Unknown:
Wynne Ajello
Unknown:
Eliot Makeham
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell.
Produced By:
Henry Reed

with spontaneous answers to ' Any Questions ? '. In residence, Dr. C. E. M. Joad , Dr. Julian S. Huxley , Professor Gilbert Murray , Guest, Lord Provost Darling. Question-Master, Donald McCulloygh. Producer, Howard Thomas.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. C. E. M. Joad
Unknown:
Dr. Julian S. Huxley
Unknown:
Professor Gilbert Murray
Unknown:
Lord Provost Darling.
Question Master:
Donald McCulloygh.
Unknown:
Howard Thomas.

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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