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1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Finding' out about Dylsford. ' Beet Harvest', by Honor Wyatt : the explorers see the sugar-beet lifted ; they find out what happens to it and learn about the sugar that comes from abroad
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL science; Great discoveries : ' The First Balloonists ', by Joseph Lauwerys
2.35 Interval music'
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. Three Welsh folk tales : ' The Llanfabon Changeling ' ; ' The 'Devil's Bridge ' ;
' Goronwy Tudor and the Witches of Llandonna '

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Lauwerys
Unknown:
Goronwy Tudor

5.20 ' Submarine Alone ' : serial adventure story by Gilbert Hackforth -Jones, told by Ivan Samson (by permission of H. M. Tennent, Ltd.). Part 4—' The Melting Pot'
' He Sang to a Small Guitar ' : nonsense programme by Elton Hayes
5.50 'Letters in the Sand', by Laurens Sargent. No. 10-' Taw '

Contributors

Story By:
Gilbert Hackforth
Told By:
Ivan Samson
Programme By:
Elton Hayes
Unknown:
Laurens Sargent.

Opera by Charles Gounod. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre. English version by H.B. Farnie. Produced by Stanford Robinson and Mark H Lubbock Narration written and spoken by Dennis Arundell
(by permission of the Sadler's Wells Opera Co.)
BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre Orchestra; conductor, Stanford Robinson

Contributors

Composer:
Charles Gounod.
Libretto:
Jules Barbier
Libretto:
Michel Carre.
English version:
H.B. Farnie
Producer/Conductor:
Stanford Robinson
Producer:
Mark H Lubbock
Narration written and spoken by:
Dennis Arundell
Singers:
BBC Theatre Chorus
Musicians:
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Duke of Verona:
Stanley Pope
Capulet, a nobleman of Verona:
Anlon Young
Juliet, his daughter:
Elena Danieli
Gertrude, her nurse:
Gladys Ripley
Tybalt, nephew to Capulet:
Francis Russell
Gregory, a Capulet retainer:
Owen Brannigan
Friar Lawrence:
Ronald Stear
Romeo, a Montague:
Heddle Nash
Mercutio, his friend:
Tom Williams
Stephano, his page:
Nora Gruhn

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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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