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SINGING together, by Herbert Wiseman
Wi' a hundred pipers (Scots song)
Listen to my tale of woe (Nonsense song)

11.20 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS, by Ann Driver

11.40 THE PRACTICE AND SCIENCE OF GARDENING. ' Brassicas,' by Alan Peacock.

12 noon BIBLE TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. The World of the New Testament: 'The New Faith and its First Preaching,' by the Rev. Professor C. H. Dodd

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Wise
Unknown:
Ann Driver
Unknown:
Alan Pea
Unknown:
Professor C. H. Dodd

STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' The Boy from Brittany,' by Julia Goodey : how Bertrand du Guesclin, an ugly. ill-mannered boy despised by his parents, became a famous knight
2.30 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES. ' The Symphony Orchestra.' 2. — 'How sounds are produced from strings and pipes illustrated talk by Charles Hooper
2.50 MUSIC OUT OF school, by Roger Fiske

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Goodey
Talk By:
Charles Hooper
Unknown:
Roger Fiske

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

' The Adventures of Tim Rabbit ,' by Alison Uttley , told by Derek McCulloch (' Mac '). No. 2 —' Tim Rabbit's Sneeze '
' Music at Random': Helen Henscher begins a new series of talks about music and musicians. Her subject today is Mendelssohn
5.45 'A Great Year for Butterflies': L. Hugh Newman tells of the wonderful and rare butterflies seen in this country during the year

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Rabbit
Unknown:
Alison Uttley
Told By:
Derek McCulloch
Unknown:
L. Hugh Newman

3—' Trouble at Work.' Speakers, a medical psychologist; Lord Forrester and Wilfred Brown
(managing directors of large works). In the chair, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe , M.P. for West Derby
Tonight a medical psychologist accuses employers of having, neglected the human factor in industry and produces evidence of the sort of changes in working conditions which psychologists have recommended for years and which it took a war to bring about. Lord Forrester and Wilfred Brown put the case for the employers. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe examines each witness and sums up

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfred Brown
Unknown:
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
Unknown:
Wilfred Brown
Unknown:
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe

A weekly musical, lyrical, and topical half-hour, by B. C. Hilliam ('Flotsam'), who, with Ivor Dennis at a second piano, presides over the following 'Follies':
Beryl Orde , Clapham and Dwyer, Helen Clare , Charmian Innes , and Trefor Jones. Produced by Tom Ronald.
(Charmian Innes broadcasts by permission of the Windmill Theatre)

Contributors

Unknown:
B. C. Hilliam
Unknown:
Ivor Dennis
Unknown:
Beryl Orde
Unknown:
Helen Clare
Unknown:
Charmian Innes
Unknown:
Trefor Jones.
Produced By:
Tom Ronald.
Unknown:
Charmian Innes

by Nicolai Gogol. Adapted by Joan Littlewood from the translation by Constance Garnett

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicolai Gogol.
Adapted By:
Joan Littlewood
Unknown:
Constance Garnett
Akaky Akakyevitch:
Walter Hudd
Ghost:
Arthur Ridley
First clerk:
Frank Partington
Second clerk:
Williams Lloyd
Third clerk:
John Murphy
Fourth clerk:
Charles Maunsell
Maria Ivanovna:
Ellis Powell
Petrovitch *:
James Dale
Young Lady:
Freda Falconer
Person of Consequence:
Victor Fairley
Official:
William Trent
Flunkey:
George Owen

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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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