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11.0 LET'S JOIN IN - a dramatisation of Diana Ross's popular tale "The Little Red Engine".

11.20 WHEN WE STARTED WORK: 1: 'Thinking it Over': young workers describe their experiences on starting work, and Mr. Brand, Assistant Education Officer for Bristol, gives some advice on the subject.

11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. Pictures of Society in Novels: I - In England, by Raymond Mortimer

Contributors

Author ("Let's Join In"):
Diana Ross
Speaker ("Talks for Sixth Forms"):
Raymond Mortimer

2.0 Travel Talks: Round the Mediterranean: Nile Water
by Fl./Lt. Lyle Blair

2.15 Interval music

2.20 Intermediate French
by Jean-Jacques and Yvonne Oberlin: Programme varie

2.40 Senior English 1
Book programme, by Penelope Knox: 'Living among Cannibals' by Tom Harrison: a real life adventure

Contributors

Unknown:
Lyle Blair
Unknown:
Yvonne Oberlin
Unknown:
Penelope Knox
Unknown:
Tom Harrison

Marion Cutler talks to Servicemen's wives about some of their problems ;
'Minnie Pallister gives another talk in her- ' I Would Like to Tell You About' series ; Squadron Leader Charles Gardner describes service in the East — what it is really like ; and Mrs. Howard Marshall talks about some of the training schemes for women who are preparing to do relief work in Europe

Contributors

Talks:
Marion Cutler

Featuring the favourite radio, screen, and stage singer Bing Crosby in a specially recorded problem. As usual, there will be five sound problems and two musical ones. played by Jack Payne's Orchestra, conducted by Stanley Andrews. Introduced by Ronald Waldman, and produced by Audrey Cameron in aid of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund.

Contributors

Played By:
Jack Payne
Conducted By:
Stanley Andrews
Introduced By:
Ronald Waldman
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron

An impression of the life of British prisoners of war in a German prison-camp, compiled and produced by Douglas Cleverdon, with a commentary by Lieut. Raymond Philp, R.N.V.R. Music composed in captivity by Bernard Harris, and played by a dance band of repatriated prisoners and ex-Servicemen and a description of their prison life by men who were recently repatriated. (Recorded repeat of programme broadcast on July 5)

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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