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FOR UNDER-SEVENSLet's join in-the last story in a series about rats and mice: 'A House for a Mouse'*
11.20 WHEN WE STARTED WORK. No. 7-' Earning and Spending ' : some young people discuss the problems with an adult
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. Some modern techniques of social investigation : 5 — ' How much milk do we drink? ' by R. S G. Rutherford

TRAVEL TALKS. Round the Mediterranean : ' Rugs and Carpets': rearing sheep and goats on the Turkish plateau, by Mrs. Berin Kent
2.20 INTERMEDIATE French, by Jean-Jacques and Yvonne Oberlin. Programme varié; Jeux, concours, et scenettes. Toujours la politesse '
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I. Dramatic reading: Scenes from ' The Cloister and the Hearth, by Charles Reade , adapted by Lettice Cooper Part 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Reade
Adapted By:
Lettice Cooper

'Hereward the Wake': episodes based on Charles Kingsley's book, and dramatised by Rosalie Williams. Viking songs set to music by Norman Fulton. Produced by Nan Macdonald. Episode 3—' A Wake! A Wake! '

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Kingsley
Dramatised By:
Rosalie Williams.
Unknown:
Norman Fulton.
Producer:
Nan MacDonald
Hereward:
Marius Goring
Torfrida:
Patricia Jessel
Martin Lightfoot:
Wilfred Pickles
Countess Gvda:
Joan Littlewood
Winter:
Norman Shelley
Azer:
Ellis Chesney
Old Surturbrand:
Fred Fairclough
Pery:
David Markham
Lady Godiva:
Grizelda Hervey
Abbot Brand:
Norman Shelley
Prior Herluin:
Fred Fairclough
Narrator:
Julian Somers

A woman doctor discusses the .sad situation of the unwanted man; Elsie Jacob replies to Elizabeth Dunn 's recent talk on what women read; Adrian Thomas gives the first in a series of talks on I'd Like To Have Known Her,' and Marian Cutler replies to some more questions put to her by the wives of Service men

Contributors

Unknown:
Elsie Jacob
Unknown:
Elizabeth Dunn
Unknown:
Adrian Thomas
Unknown:
Marian Cutler

with two star problems provided by Fay Compton (by permission of Linnit and Dunfee, Ltd.), with Peter Brough , ventriloquist, and his dummy ' Archie Andrews four sound problems, two musical problems played by the Dance Orchestra of No. 1 Balloon Centre (' The Skyrockets '), directed by' Corporal Paul Fenoulhet (by permission of the Air Officer Commanding). Introduced by Ronald Waldman and produced by Audrey Cameron in aid of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund.
The result of the Contest broadcast on October 13 is published on page 5

Contributors

Provided By:
Fay Compton
Unknown:
Peter Brough
Unknown:
Archie Andrews
Unknown:
Paul Fenoulhet
Duced By:
Ronald Waldman
Duced By:
Audrey Cameron

With the original music by Georges Bizet, newly translated from the French of Alphonse Daudet and adapted for broadcasting by Edward Sackville-West. BBC Orchestra and BBC Theatre Chorus, conducted by Clarence Raybould.

Contributors

Composer:
Georges Bizet
Translator:
Alphonse Daudet
Adapted for broadcasting by:
Edward Sackville-West
Producer:
Peter Creswell
Musicians:
BBC Orchestra
Singers:
BBC Theatre Chorus
Conductor:
Clarence Raybould
Narrator:
David Peel
Francet Mamaï:
Malcolm Graeme
Balthazar:
Abraham Sofaer
Little John:
A Plowden
Rose Mamaï:
Gladys Young
Vivette Renaud:
Molly Rankin
Frederi:
Lewis Stringer
Mitiflo:
Anthony Eustrel
Farm-hand:
Ernest Sefton
Mme Renaud:
Betty Hardy

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