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FOR under-sevens: Let's join In-an old favourite—' Some Adventures of Tom Thumb '
11.20 DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ... how pencils are made?: William Holt visits a pencil factory and interviews some workers.
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH forms. Mathematics and life. &-. Mathematics as a Whole' by W. W. Sawyer. Mathematical Lecturer, Leicester Technical College

Contributors

Unknown:
W. W. Sawyer.

Travel Talks: Off the beaten track
'Trek. Kerels. Trek!' by Marjorie Juta. How a writer followed in the footsteps of the Boers who made the Great Trek from Cape Colony

2.20 Intermediate French
by Jean-Jacques Oberlin: 'Ma premiere soiree a l'Opera'

2.40 Senior English: I. Serial: 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens , adapted by Morna Stuart. Part I

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Juta
Unknown:
Jean-Jacques Oberlin
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Adapted By:
Morna Stuart

' Beau Brocade ': the story of a Derbyshire highwayman, by Baroness Orczy. Adapted by Joan Littlewood. Produced by Nan Macdonald. Part 4: 'At the Royal George '

Contributors

Unknown:
Beau Brocade
Adapted By:
Joan Littlewood.
Produced By:
Nan MacDonald.
Beau Brocade:
Alec Elliott
Philip Gascoyne, Earl of Stretton:
David Close-Thomas
Ladv Patience Gascoyne:
Lucille Lisle
Betty, her maid:
Rosalie Williams
Sir Humphrey Challoner:
Carl Bernard
John Stich:
Frank Crosland
Mistress Stich:
Joan Littlewood
Jock Miggs:
Sam Auktand
Mr Inch:
Fred Fairclough
Master Mittachip:
Herbert Smith
Sergeant:
John Broadbent
Squire West:
Norman Partriege
H R H the Duke of Cumberland:
J. Hubert Leslie

Diana Wong describes some of her experiences in lecturing in this country on life in China; Christine Tavlor , Chairman of the Women's Traffic Club of Great Britain, discusses the present position of women in transport; Mary Ferguson deals with more problems sent to her by women war-workers

Contributors

Unknown:
Diana Wong
Unknown:
Christine Tavlor
Unknown:
Mary Ferguson

Radio portrait of a nineteenth-century worthy, Dr. Thomas Bowdler, expurgator of ' The
Family Shakespeare.' Written and produced by Peter Watts The actors: Dorothy Green Molly Rankin ,
Jane Barrett , Bryan Powley , Sebastian Cabot
with members of the BBC Repertory Company

Contributors

Produced By:
Peter Watts
Unknown:
Dorothy Green
Unknown:
Molly Rankin
Unknown:
Jane Barrett
Unknown:
Bryan Powley
Unknown:
Sebastian Cabot
Thomas Bowdler, F R S , F S A:
Dennis Arundell
John Bowdler:
Cyril Gardiner
Rev Thomas Stuart Bowdler:
Gerald Cooper
An announcer:
Graham Doody
A producer:
Valentine Dvall
The intruder:
Philip Wade

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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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