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2.0 NATURE STUDY. 'From My Island ' : another letter by F. Fraser Darling, from the Isle of Tanera
2.15 1 YSGOLION CYMRU (For Welsh schools). Hanes Cymru. 20-Cymru a'r Rhyfel Cartrefol : Yr Archesgob John Williams ; Cafalir a Phiwritan ; John Jones , Maesygar-' nedd : gan Frank Price Jones
2.35 SENIOR HISTORY II. The changing world. ' Growth without Plan ' : studying the results in an early nineteenth-century town, by Philippa Pearce

Contributors

Unknown:
F. Fraser
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Hanes Cymru.
Unknown:
John Williams
Unknown:
John Jones
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Philippa Pearce

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

Contributors

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

'War in the Pacific', by R. W. Robson Listeners who heard R. W. Robson's cabled review of the war in the South-West Pacific, broadcast a month ago, will remember that he is one of the men on the spot. As editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly he has-first-hand experience which makes his analysis of the attacks on Japan's outer defences well worth hearing.

Contributors

Unknown:
R. W. Robson

Scenes from Elmer Rice 's latest play ' A New Life ', produced earlier this season at the Royale Theatre, New York. Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Roy Lockwood. (Recorded by the BBC in New York)
The action takes place in the maternity ward of a skyscraper hospital overlooking the East River in New York
Elmer Rice , author of A New Life, is one of America's leading playwrights, and will be particularly remembered in this country for The Adding Machine (1923) and Street Scene (1929) — also perhaps for his book ' A Voyage to Puerilia' a brilliant satire on the world of Hollywood films.

Contributors

Unknown:
Elmer Rice
Produced By:
Roy Lockwood.
Unknown:
Elmer Rice
Narrator:
Roy Lockwood
Olive:
Ann Thomas
Edith:
Betty Field
Miss Kingsley:
Frederica Going
Mrs Cleghome:
Merle Maddern
Grover Charles:
Arthur Griffin
Mr Cleghorne:
Walter Greaza
Gus Jensen:
John Ireland
Robert Cleghorne:
George Lambert
Miss Woolley:
Shirley Gale

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