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fob UNDER-SEVENS: Let's join in—a very simple story: ' The Copy Kitten,' by Helen and Alt Evers, adapted for broadcasting by Miriam Langaon
11.20 ' DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ... ? ' First of a series of eleven broadcasts in which William Holt and some factory-workers describe how some of the things in everyday use are made, and the importance of every worker in the chain of production. This week, ' Bicycle Tyres.'
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. Mathematics and Life. 1-' How Mathematicians Think,' by W. W. Sawyer , Mathematical Lecturer, Leicester Technical College.

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Miriam Langaon
Unknown:
William Holt
Unknown:
W. W. Sawyer

Travel Talks: Off the Beaten Track: Across Canada
by Julia Goodey: how a girl bought a horse and rode alone from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic

2.20 Intermediate French
by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Andree Duranton: Concours; Connaissances generales.

2.40 Senior English: I: 'Do you know - Huckleberry Finn?'
Programme by Douglas Allan, introducing the character by Mark Twain

Contributors

Speaker (Travel Talks):
Julia Goodey
Presenter (Intermediate French):
Jean-Jacques Oberlin
Presenter (Intermediate French):
Andree Duranton
Writer (Senior English):
Douglas Allan

Introduced by Peter Madden , with Gladys Hay. Arthur Tolcher (at the piano, Charles Biggars ), Delia Ware (at the piano. Alan Paul ), and Eddie Reindeer. BBC Revue Orchestra. Produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Madden
Unknown:
Gladys Hay.
Unknown:
Arthur Tolcher
Piano:
Charles Biggars
Piano:
Delia Ware
Piano:
Alan Paul
Piano:
Eddie Reindeer.
Conducted By:
Ernest Longstaffe.

' Mystery at Brookchurch Tunnel,' by Mary Harris. Produced by Eileen Molony. Part 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Harris.
Produced By:
Eileen Molony.
Billy Dadge:
David Osborne
Mrs ' Dadge:
Vivienne Chatterton
Mr Dadge:
J Hubert Leslie
Grandpa Dadge:
Eric Uugg
John Shaw:
Howard Marion Crawford
Dai Jones:
David Harris
Tich Higgings:
Charles E Stidwill
Buffer Gray:
Philip Wade

with Claude Hulbert and Enid Trevor ; 'Clive Richardson and Tony Lowry —' Four Hands in Harmony'; sound problem; two musical problems provided by a section of the British Army Radio Orchestra under the direction of R.S.M. George Melachrino
Introduced by Ronald Waldman and produced by Audrey Cameron in aid of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund.-. (Result of Contest of March 26 on page 3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Claude Hulbert
Unknown:
Enid Trevor
Unknown:
Clive Richardson
Unknown:
Tony Lowry
Introduced By:
Ronald Waldman
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Writer:
Nesta Pain
Producer:
Nesta Pain
Layman:
Alan Wheatley
David Bruce:
John Laurie
Mrs Bruce:
Molly Rankin
Woman of Today:
Dorothy Smith
Entomologist 1:
Laidman Browne
Entomologist 2:
Roger Snowdon
Laywoman:
Grizelda Hervey
Irishman:
Charles Maunsell
Sir Alexander Fleming:
Frank Partington
Advertiser:
Ellinore Stuart
Protozoologist:
Carleton Hobbs
Dr Spurway:
Muriel Davidson

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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