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11.0 SCOTTISH HERITAGE. 'The Forests of Scotland ! : an account of the Caledonian Forest of early centuries ; of the rash destruction of . woodland ; of modern efforts to recreate forests
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS: experts discuss important happenings in the world today
11.40 MUSIC AND THE DANCE, devised by John Horton in collaboration with Ronald Cunliffe : Rataplan '

Contributors

Unknown:
John Horton
Unknown:
Ronald Cunliffe

on gramophone records
Galop (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) :
Orchestre Raymonde
Tu n'es pas beau tu n'es pas riche
(La Perichole) : Maggie Teyte (soprano)
Selection : La Fille du Tambour-Major :
Grand Symphony Orchestra
Shepherd's Song (Helen) : Heddle Nash
(tenor)
Selection, Bluebeard : Symphony Orchestra Ma Mere aux Vignes n'envoyait (Mme
Favart) x Marcelle Denya (soprano)
Selection : La Vie Parisienne : Rendezvous
Orchestra

Contributors

Unknown:
Orchestre Raymonde
Tenor:
Heddle Nash
Soprano:
Marcelle Denya

1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Finding out about Dylsford: ' Adopting a Farm', by Honor Wyatt : Dylsford explorers pay a visit to a local farm
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE. Great discoveries : ' Dr. Wells and the Dew ', by R. K. Robertson
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. The Magic Shop ' : dramatisation of the short story by H. G. Wells

Contributors

Unknown:
R. K. Robertson
Story By:
H. G. Wells

Miscellaneous programme of music by Bach and Handel, on gramophone records
Motet for double choir : Sing ye to the Lord (Bach): Cercle Jean Sebastian Bach de Seneve
Moses and the Children of Israel : But .as for this people (Israel in Egypt : Handel) : Leeds Festival Choir, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Kyrie and Sanctus (Mass in B minor :
Bach) : Philharmonic Choir and London Symphony Orchestra, conducted. by Albert Coates

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Albert Coates

5.20 ' Submarine Alone' : serial adventure story by Gilbert Hackforth -Jones, told by Ivan Samson (by permission of H. M. Tennent, Ltd.). Part I — ' Kidney Island '
Victor Harding , in a short recital of songs by Michael Mulliner
5.55 Children's Hour prayers

Contributors

Story By:
Gilbert Hackforth
Told By:
Ivan Samson
Unknown:
Victor Harding
Songs By:
Michael Mulliner

War-time fairy story with lots of morals written by Henrik Ege ; music by Henry Reed. "Make Do and Mend '. Frederick Burtwell as Mr. Cropper, Billie Sinclair as Mrs. Cropper ; Wynne Ajello as Conscience, Eliot Makeham , as ' The Man Next Door', the Bachelor Girls, and the 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.

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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