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1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Exploring our village : ' Sheep Shearing ', by Edith Macqueen
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE. Materials for the home: The House of the Future', by Joseph Lauwerys
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH: Poems about Trains ', programme arranged by Hilary Pym

Contributors

Unknown:
Edith MacQueen
Unknown:
Joseph Lauwerys
Arranged By:
Hilary Pym

Military March (Algerian Suite)
Havanaise. for violin and orchestra
Suite in D : Prelude—Sarabande—Gavotte
—Romance—Finale
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, for violin and orchestra played by the BBC Orchestra : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult. Alfredo Campoli (violin)

Contributors

Conductor:
Sir Adrian Boult.
Violin:
Alfredo Campoli

Opera by Puccini. Libretto by L. Illica and G. Giacosa , founded on the book by John L. Long and the play by David Belasco. English words by R. H. Elkin. "Adapted for broadcasting. Produced by Stanford RobinsonH. Lubbock and Mark H. Lubbock
(by arrangement with Sadler 's Wells)
6.45 Act 1 : The Garden of Butter
.fly's house near Nagasaki, Japan
7.35 Interval
7.45 Act 2 : Inside the house, three years later
Act 3 : The same, next morning
BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC
Theatre Orchestra : conductor, Stanford Robinson. Narration written and spoken by Dennis Arundell

Contributors

Unknown:
L. Illica
Unknown:
G. Giacosa
Book By:
John L. Long
Play By:
David Belasco.
Unknown:
R. H. Elkin.
Unknown:
Robinsonh. Lubbock
Unknown:
Mark H. Lubbock
Arrangement With:
Sadler
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson.
Spoken By:
Dennis Arundell
Madam Butterfly (Cho-cho-cho-San):
Joan Cross
Suzuki:
Edith Coates
The Bonze:
Roderick Lloyd
Lieutenant B Pinkerton:
Tom Burke
Sharpless:
Percy Heming
Goro:
Powell Lloyd
High Commissioner and PrinceYamadori.:
Herbert Thorpe
Kate Pinkerton:
Monica Warner

by W.W. Blair-Fish.
Part of the story of a Romano-British Cotswold home in the year A.D. 316.

The action takes place in the Villa Avillonia, the home of Artorius and his family

Contributors

Writer:
W.W. Blair-Fish
Producer:
Peter Creswell
Artorius:
Malcolm Graeme
Salvius:
Robert Holmes
Lucius Artorius:
William Fairchild
Marcus Artorius:
Hubert Gregg
Publius Artorius:
Peter Mullins
Rupilius:
Lewis Stringer
Stertor:
William Trent
Constantia:
Kathleen Boutall
Faustina:
Grizelda Hervey
Marcia:
Belle Chrystall

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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