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1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Exploring our village. _' At the Women's Institute', by Edith Mac queen : women's work now and in the past, at home, in the fields, in factories
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE : 'Michael Faraday and the First Dynamo', by Dorothy M. Turner
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. Mowtan, the Tartar, and the Princess ' : Chinese programme arranged by Rhoda Power

Contributors

Unknown:
Edith Mac
Unknown:
Michael Faraday
Unknown:
Dorothy M. Turner
Arranged By:
Rhoda Power

5.20 Concert for children by the BBC Scottish Orchestra (conductor, Ian Whyte ), and Janette Sclanders (soprano). Programme includes Children's Games (Bizet) and Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream : Mendelssohn)
5.50 ' Letters in the Sand', by K Laurens Sargent
No. 1— 'Aleph the Ox'

Contributors

Conductor:
Ian Whyte
Conductor:
Janette Sclanders
Unknown:
Laurens Sargent

First instalment of a serial-reading from R. L. Stevenson ' 's story, read by Felix Aylmer
The survivors from the brig ' Flying Scud wrecked on Midway Island, arrive one day in San Francisco. Loudon Dodd, going to buy the wreck at an auction-as he thinks-for a song, is run up to 50,000 dollars by Bellairs, a shady lawyer. (But who is behind Bellairs ?) To deepen the mystery, the survivors of the ' Flying Scud ' quit San Francisco after the auction -in a hurry. Dodd sets off in the schooner Norah Creina ' to investigate the wreck and, after a stormy voyage, reaches Midway Island. The wreck of the ' Flying
Scud ' is still there. But what will he find on her ? '

Contributors

Unknown:
R. L. Stevenson
Read By:
Felix Aylmer

Arthur Copley (baritone) ; Richard Adeney (flute) ; Leon Goossens (oboe) ; Jean Pougnet (violin) ; Harriet Cohen (piano). London Philharmonic Orchestra (leader, Jean Pougnet ), conducted by Sir Henry Wood . From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Contributors

Baritone:
Richard Adeney
Flute:
Leon Goossens
Oboe:
Jean Pougnet
Piano:
Harriet Cohen
Leader:
Jean Pougnet
Conducted By:
Sir Henry Wood

Black-faced minstrel show, devised and produced by Harry S. Pepper. Cast includes Scott and Whaley, Ike Hatch, C. Denier Warren, Fred Yule, the 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.

Contributors

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

Play for Midsummer Eve by Olga Katzin, with a foreword by Geoffrey Whitworth.

Contributors

Writer:
Olga Katzin
Foreword:
Geoffrey Whitworth
Producer:
Barbara Burnham
Puck:
Leslie French
Lieutenant Lysander:
Peter Copley
Helena, a WAAF Officer:
Lucille Lisle
Quince, a munition worker:
Philip Wade
Flute, a munition worker:
Sydney Tafler
Postwoman:
Grizelda Hervey
Sailor:
Edgar Norfolk

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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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