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MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR INFANTS, by Ann Driver
11.20 senior HISTORY I. Britain and her neighbours. ' The Men of Massachusetts begin the Fight' (1775), by Sam Langdon : Paul Revere rides from Boston to Lexington to summon the men ef Massachusetts to take up arms against the British
11.40 1WRTH-FORM FEATURES. ' Benvenuto Cellini ': broadcast about the great Florentine metal-worker and sculptor, based on his memoirs

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Driver
Unknown:
Sam Langdon
Unknown:
Paul Revere
Unknown:
Benvenuto Cellini

I YSGOLION CYMRU (For Welsh schools). Rhigwm a ChAn: cyfres gan Huldah Bassett. 'i blant tua 7 oed. 6-' Caneuon am Anifeiliaid '
2.10 HOW THINGS BEGAN. The First Corn Bins,' by Rhoda Power : how men of the New Stone Age began to cultivate and store corn ; the ' BBC Observer from the Past ' visits a neolithic village in Egypt. (BBC recording)
2.35 SENIOR ENGLISH 11. Book programme, bv Desmond Hawkins : The Ship.' by C. S. Forester. Part 2— ' The Crew in Action '

Contributors

Unknown:
Huldah Bassett.
Unknown:
Rhoda Power
Unknown:
Desmond Hawkins
Unknown:
C. S. Forester.

from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Antiphon: Drop, drop, slow tears (Gibbons)
Versicles and Responses (Byrd)
Psalm 148
First Lesson: Genesis 45, vv. 1-8
Magnificat (Byrd, Third Service)
Second Lesson: Philippians 2, vv. 1-11
Nunc dimittis (Byrd, Third Service)
Creed and Collects
Call to remembrance (Farrant)
Prayers

Contributors

Organist:
Harold Darke

Why do the shipping interests want to run air services? How can they promise to do so without subsidy? What will be done to make flying possible for the ordinary person? These topics are discussed by John Booth , Chairman of a holding group of five shipping companies, and Capt. A. G. Lamplugh , Chairman of the Independent Committee on Civil Aviation

Contributors

Unknown:
John Booth
Unknown:
A. G. Lamplugh

with Polly Ward and Gene Gerrard
Cast includes Dorothy Gordon , Philip Cunningham , and the Doré Trio. BBC Revue Chorus and the augmented Dance Orchestra, conducted by Stanley Black
Featuring ' Unswinging the Jazz Classics'; Wives of Famous Men'; ' New Songs for Old'; Going County. Choral arrangements and direction by Max Saunders. Script by Polly Ward. Gene Gerrard , and Henrik Ege. Produced by Eric Fawcett

Contributors

Unknown:
Polly Ward
Unknown:
Gene Gerrard
Unknown:
Dorothy Gordon
Unknown:
Philip Cunningham
Unknown:
Max Saunders.
Script By:
Polly Ward.
Script By:
Gene Gerrard
Script By:
Henrik Ege.
Produced By:
Eric Fawcett

BBC Theatre Orchestra, with Henry Wendon (tenor) Joan and Valerie Trimble (two pianos), and the BBC Theatre Chorus. Conductor, Stanford Robinson. (Recording of the broadcast on August 22; 1944)
Programme includes the waltz A Thousand and One Nights,' by 'Johann Strauss , and a selection from ' Gypsy Love,' by Franz Lehar

Contributors

Tenor:
Henry Wendon
Tenor:
Valerie Trimble
Unknown:
Stanford Robinson.
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Unknown:
Franz Lehar

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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