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SINGING TOGETHER, by Herbert Wiseman -
Bonnie Dundee (Scots song), The Skye Boat Song (Scots song), Three Crows (student song)
11.20 SCIENCE AND GARDENING: 'Some Indoor Experiments on Soil.' by Alan Peacock
11.40 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS, by Ann Driver: 10 - 'Carols for Christmas
12 noon BIBLE TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. Understanding the Old Testament: 'Prophets of the Return.' by Professor H.H. Rowley

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Wiseman
Unknown:
Bonnie Dundee
Unknown:
Alan Peacock
Unknown:
Ann Driver
Unknown:
H. H. Rowley

for RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland), by George Scott Moncrieff. ' How it's done: the lines are down '
2.5 WORLD HISTORY FOR JUNIORS. Great stories from the past. ' The Wanderings of Odysseus': No. 3-' After the Shipwreck.' by Silvia Goodall. How the maiden Nausicaa took Odysseus to the court of her father Alcinous
2.30 ORCHESTRAL concert SERIES, 'The Strings.' Illustrated talk by Reginald Jacques
2.50 MUSIC BROADCAST FOR OLDER PUPILS. ' The Swan of Tuonela.' by Sibelius. (Gramophone records)

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott Moncrieff.
Unknown:
Silvia Goodall.
Talk By:
Reginald Jacques

The speakers give their own answers to this question, and go on to examine the possibilities of finding the necessary information. Where can the prdinary citizen get the facts? What must he himself do if his political judgment is to be sound? These questions are discussed by E. F. M. Durbin Maurice Webb. F. C. Hooper "and others

Contributors

Unknown:
E. F. M. Durbin Maurice Webb.
Unknown:
F. C. Hooper

with Roma Milne; 'The Memoirs of Andre d'Amell' - weekly detective problem featuring Keneth Kent and Linden Travers, written by Francis Durbridge; 'With a Star and a Song'; Harry Hemsley; Richard Murdoch in 'Puzzle Corner'; Mr. Gillie Potter; 'May We Introduce...? ' (by arrangement with Leonard Urry): interviewer, Ronald Waldman. The Singing Commeres, the Revue Chorus, and BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper

Contributors

Unknown:
Roma Milne
Unknown:
Keneth Kent
Unknown:
Linden Travers
Written By:
Francis Durbridge
Unknown:
Harry Hemsley
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Mr. Gillie Potter
Unknown:
Leonard Urry
Unknown:
Ronald Waldman.
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell
Produced By:
Harry S. Pepper

[Starring] Basil Sydney
A dramatic chronicle telling of the invasion of England by the Norman Duke William, and of the tragic end of Harold, last of the Saxon Kings, as recorded in the famous tapestry. Written by Moma Stuart, and produced by Josephine Plummer.

Contributors

Written By:
Moma Stuart
Producer:
Josephine Plummer
Music chosen and arranged by:
Alec Robertson
William of Normandy:
Basil Sydney
Harold, Earl of Wessex:
Alan Wheatley
Odo, Bishop of Bayeux:
Leslie Perrins
The Monk:
Philip Wade
Leofwin:
John Chandos
Edward the Confessor:
Harcourt Williams
Guy of Ponthleu:
Leo Genn
Eustace of Boulogne:
Edgar Norfolk
Robert of Mortain:
Charles Maunsell
English servant:
Ralph de Rohan
Stigand of Canterbury:
Arthur Bush
Queen Edith:
Doris Lytton

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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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