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11.0 SCOTTISH HERITAGE : 'Braid Scots': how much of the ' guid Scots tongue ' do you know ?
11.20 'HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT-the people who work in food factories ? ', by Eric Hiller
11.40, TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. Some Colonial questions : ' Raising the Standard of Living', by C. Daryll Forde, Professor of Geography and Anthropology, University of Wales, and Member of Nuffield Colonial Survey

Contributors

Talks:
Eric Hiller
Unknown:
C. Daryll

2.0 TRAVEL TALK. From Australia and New Zealand across to South America. New Zealand : ' On a hill farm in South Island', by H. P. Donald
2.15 Interval music
2.20 I YSGOLION CYMRU (For Welsh schools). ' Stori, Rhigwm, a Chan ' : 4-Stori gan Jennie Thomas
2.40 SENIOR English I. English for everyday use. Book talk by Honor Wyatt : ' The Splendid Spur', by Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch

Contributors

Unknown:
H. P. Donald
Unknown:
Jennie Thomas
Unknown:
Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch

Black-faced minstrel show, devised and produced by Harry S. Pepper. Cast includes Scott and Whaley, Ike Hatch , C. Denier Warren , Fred Yule , and Eddie Peter Whaley. Kentucky Minstrel Banjo Team : Dick Pepper , Edward Fairs , and Bernard Sheaff. BBC Variety Orchestra and Male Voice Chorus, conducted" by Leslie Woodgate. Book written and remembered by C. Denier Warren. Music arranged by Doris Arnold. (BBC recording)

Contributors

Produced By:
Harry S. Pepper.
Unknown:
Ike Hatch
Unknown:
C. Denier Warren
Unknown:
Fred Yule
Unknown:
Dick Pepper
Unknown:
Edward Fairs
Unknown:
Bernard Sheaff.
Conducted By:
Leslie Woodgate.
Unknown:
C. Denier Warren.
Arranged By:
Doris Arnold.

Fantastic comedy, written for broadcasting by H. R. Jeans : Produced by Peter Creswell

Contributors

Unknown:
H. R. Jeans
Produced By:
Peter Creswell
Martha, the sheep:
Lydia Sherwood
Earl of Batteringham:
Anthony Shaw
Countess of Batteringham:
Sybil Arundale
Joe a crook:
Malcolm Graeme
Ed, his accomplice:
Alan Blair
J. Chudley Greene, Ministry of Food:
Official Robert Holmes
Evie, his wife:
Grizelda Hervey
A housekeeper:
Ethel Lodge

Portraits from the Prologue to Chaucer's ' Canterbury Tales ', set to music by Sir George Dyson. A section of the Huddersfield Choral Society. Isobel Baillie (soprano), Jan van der Gucht (tenor), Roy Henderson (baritone). BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by the composer, on the occasion of his 60th birthday

Contributors

Music By:
Sir George Dyson.
Tenor:
Jan van Der Gucht
Tenor:
Roy Henderson

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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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