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Scottish HERITAGE. 'Allan Ramsay , Wig-maker and Poet ': his boyhood in eighteenth-century Edinburgh, by Mary Baird Aitken.
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS, discussed by experts
11.40 ADVENTURES IN music, by John Horton. ' Queer People': music suggested by fairy-story characters

Contributors

Unknown:
Allan Ramsay
Unknown:
Mary Baird Aitken.
Music By:
John Horton.

FOR RURAL SCHOOLS. 'Hill Farm': sheep-fearing in the Welsh hills. Script by T. Hughes Jones
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE. Science and transport. 'The Iron Road': the story of the railway, by Egon Larsen
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. ' Tales from the Ural Mountains.' selected from the book by Pavel Bazhov , and arranged for broadcasting by Sam Langdon. 2—' The Fire Fairy '

Contributors

Script By:
T. Hughes Jones
Unknown:
Egon Larsen
Book By:
Pavel Bazhov
Broadcasting By:
Sam Langdon.

his programme of stars, personalities, songs and music. Featuring this week Cyril Ritchard , Doris Hare , Sally Rogers , Tara Barry , and James Etherington , with Vie Oliver and his Concert Orchestra. Script by Ray Sonin. Produced by Henry Reed.

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Ritchard
Unknown:
Doris Hare
Unknown:
Sally Rogers
Unknown:
Tara Barry
Unknown:
James Etherington
Unknown:
Vie Oliver
Script By:
Ray Sonin.
Produced By:
Henry Reed.

The story of X-Rays from their discovery by Rontgen fifty years ago up to the present day. Scientific advice by Professor J. A. Crowther and Ralph Phillips , F.R.C.S. Written and produced by Nesta Pain

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor J. A. Crowther
Unknown:
Ralph Phillips
Produced By:
Nesta Pain
Narrator:
Preston Lockwood
Industrialist:
Roger Snowdon
Radiologist:
Ivan Brandt-
Police Officer:
Richard Williams
Mrs Evans:
Muriel George
Radiotherapist:
Ralph Truman
Rontgen:
Abraham Sofaer
Early Radiologist:
David King-Wood
Mrs Craddock:
Grizelda Hervey

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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