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2.0 Travel Talks. Other people's jobs. 12: Oil for Buses: Work in the oil-fields of Texas and Oklahoma
2.15 Interval music
2.20 Intermediate French, by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Yvonne Oberlin: "Une scene de la Nativite"
2.40 Senior English: 1: Do you know - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson?: Douglas Allan introduces Conan Doyle's famous detective and his assistant.

Contributors

Writer (Intermediate French):
Jean-Jacques Oberlin
Writer (Intermediate French):
Yvonne Oberlin
Speaker (Senior English):
Douglas Allan

Gramophone records
Nymphs and Shepherds (Purcell) : Man-
Chester Children 's Choir, with the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty
French Nursery Rhymes: Prom'nons nous dans les bois ; La marchande de fleurs ; La bonne aventure ;La Mere Michel: Miles. Faroche, Zanzoni, Jallon, and chorus of children
Selection : The Immortal Hour (Bough-ion) : Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies , Arthur Cranmer , W. Johnstone-Douglas , Bruce Flegg , and the Queen's Theatre Chorus, with the Queen's Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Erne;t Irving
The Rio Grande, for chorus, orchestra, and solo piano (Lambert) : Halle Orchestra, with Sir Hamilton Harty (piano) and the St. Michael Singers, conducted by the composer

Contributors

Unknown:
Chester Children
Conducted By:
Sir Hamilton Harty
Unknown:
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Unknown:
Arthur Cranmer
Unknown:
W. Johnstone-Douglas
Unknown:
Bruce Flegg
Piano:
Sir Hamilton Harty

' The Box of Delights', by John Masefield , adapted as a serial by Robert Holland and John Keir Cross. Produced by John Keir Cross. Part 5—' The Spider's Web '

Contributors

Unknown:
John Masefield
Unknown:
Robert Holland
Unknown:
John Keir Cross.
Produced By:
John Keir Cross.
Kay Harker:
John Gilpin
Peter Jones:
Peter Mulins
Abner Brown:
Robert Frarquaharson
Cole Hawlings:
D.Hay Petrie
Chubby man:
Wilfred Babbage
Foxy man:
Gibb McLaughlin
Sylvia Pouncer:
Joan Young
The Head:
Arthur Bush
Narrator:
Norman Shelley

'Houses of the Future ': Anne Edwards describes what happened at a recent meeting where housewives talked and experts listened
' Per Ardua ad Astra' :
K. M. Norris takes stock of everyday life in an ordinary family
' Women's Wartime Problems ' :
Mary Ferguson discusses more problems sent to her by listeners

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Edwards
Unknown:
K. M. Norris
Unknown:
Mary Ferguson

in 'Just Sydney', with Betty Warren ; and Fred Yule , Bill Stephens , Vera Lennox , Philip Wade. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas. Script by Tommy Thompson. Produced by Francis Worsley.

Contributors

Unknown:
Betty Warren
Unknown:
Fred Yule
Unknown:
Bill Stephens
Unknown:
Vera Lennox
Unknown:
Philip Wade.
Unknown:
Mansel Thomas.
Script By:
Tommy Thompson.
Produced By:
Francis Worsley.

An attempt to show them as they were, as they have been imagined, and as they are. This programme includes the voices of people who live in Balham, Tooting, Dulwich, Wimbledon, Edgware, Hampstead Garden
Suburb, and some provincial suburbs. Music played by the BBC Revue Orchestra, under the direction of the composer, George Walter. Written
,and produced by Jenifer Wayne

Contributors

Unknown:
George Walter.
Produced By:
Jenifer Wayne

Lyrical programme by A. P. Her bert, with music by Alfred Reynolds , including the ' grand little opera', ' The Policeman's Serenade ' with the BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by the composer. Produced by Stephen Thomas

Contributors

Programme By:
A. P. Her
Music By:
Alfred Reynolds
Duced By:
Stephen Thomas
An Enquiring Female:
Billie Baker
A Policeman:
George Baker
A Housemaid:
Lorely Dyer
A Milkman:
James Topping
A Burglar:
Murray Davies

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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