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11.0 'RHYTHM AND MELODY', by Percy Young , D.Mus. Sounds that last two beats, and a tone-picture
11.20 GEOGRAPHY: New developments in the British Empire. 3-Canada : ' Pioneering by Air in the far North of Canada '
11.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES. ' The Tapestry Room', by Mrs. Molesworth : simple talk about this book, with dramatised scenes arranged by Honor Wyatt

Contributors

Unknown:
Percy Young
Arranged By:
Honor Wyatt

Settings of Elizabethan poems, sung by the BBC Chorus, conducted by G. Thalben-Ball
Lyrics from Elizabethan Song-Books : Follow your saint ; Love is a sickness ; Turn all thy thoughts to eyes ; Whether men do laugh or weep ; The sea hath many a thousand sands ; Tell me, 0 love ; Come, pretty wag and sing ; At her fair hands ; Patillis ; 0 love, they wrong thee .much

Contributors

Conducted By:
G. Thalben-Ball

2.0 NATURE STUDY. From my Island ',by F. Fraser Darling : letter from the Island of Tanera in Western Scotland
2.15 i YSGOLION CYMRU. (For Welsh schools). ' Hanes Cymru '. Cyfres i blant tua 12 oed. 3-'Y Rhufeiniaid, eto ', gan A. H. Williams. Caerleon a Chaerwent ; bywyd y milwr a bywyd y dinesydd Rhufeinig ; ffyrdd, caerau; iaith
2.35 SENIOR HISTORY II. The changing world. ' A Working Community ' : a visit to a medieval village, by Silvia Goodall

Contributors

Unknown:
F. Fraser Darling
Unknown:
A. H. Williams. Caerleon
Unknown:
Silvia Goodall

Monthly series presenting outstanding personalities and memorable incidents from the life of Wales. This edition includes Parry Jones ; great occasions from the life of Ben Davies , the famous Welsh tenor; penillion singing, and ' A Welsh Cameo', by J. 0. Francis. The Light Welsh Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Arwel Hughes. Programme introduced by Arthur Phillips. Produced by Nan Davies and Mai Jones '

Contributors

Unknown:
Parry Jones
Unknown:
Ben Davies
Conducted By:
Arwel Hughes.
Duced By:
Arthur Phillips.
Produced By:
Nan Davies
Unknown:
Mai Jones

with Horace Percival , Fred Yule , Dorothy Summers , Sydney Keith , Dino Galvani , Bill Stephens , Bryan Herbert , Jean Capra , and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Ted Kavanagh. Produced by Francis Worsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Horace Percival
Unknown:
Fred Yule
Unknown:
Dorothy Summers
Unknown:
Sydney Keith
Unknown:
Dino Galvani
Unknown:
Bill Stephens
Unknown:
Bryan Herbert
Unknown:
Jean Capra
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell.
Script By:
Ted Kavanagh.
Produced By:
Francis Worsley

Weekly half-hour of mystery and suspense, written by John Dickson Carr and produced by Val Gielgud and Martyn C. Webster.
No. 5: Ronald Squire and Belle Chrystall in...
(by permission of H M Tennent Ltd).

Contributors

Writter:
John Dickson Carr
Producer:
Val Gielgud
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Hawkstone:
Ronald Squire
Patricia Phillips:
Belle Chrystall
Mrs Roberts:
Courtney Hope
Big Louie Miller:
Leslie Bradley
Slats Kelly:
Tommy Duggan
Announcer:
Preston Lockwood
Police Sergeant:
Bryan Herbert

Programme on the lyrical poems of Li-Po, the great Chinese poet of the T'ang Dynasty. The songs are sung by Elsie Suddaby to settings by. Reginald Redman , who conducts a chamber orchestra drawn from the BBC Northern Orchestra. The poems are spoken by Alan Wheatley and Carleton Hobbs. Produced by Douglas Cleverdon

Contributors

Sung By:
Elsie Suddaby
Unknown:
Reginald Redman
Spoken By:
Alan Wheatley
Spoken By:
Carleton Hobbs.
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon

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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