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for UNDER-SEVENS. Let's join in' This Duck and that Duck,' adapted by Miriam Langdon from the story by Herbert McKay
11.20 IF YOU WERE A CHILD IN CENTRAL AFRICA. George Janson-Smith talks about the life of a Zande boy in the Sudan-an Anglo-Egyptian condominium
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. ' Little Man, What Now? ' by Hans Fallada , discussed by Frank Swinnerton

Contributors

Adapted By:
Miriam Langdon
Story By:
Herbert McKay
Talks:
George Janson-Smith
Unknown:
Hans Fallada
Unknown:
Frank Swinnerton

TRAVEL TALKS. The British Empire: ' Coconuts and Cloves ': Juma Bin Aley talks about his home in Zanzibar
2.20 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH, by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Andree Duran ton. ' Chez le dentiste '
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I. Short story: ' A Question of Habit,' from ' Light Freights.' by W. W. Jacobs. Introduced by L. A. G. Strong

Contributors

Talks:
Juma Bin Aley
Unknown:
Jacques OBErlin
Unknown:
Andree Duran
Unknown:
I. Short
Unknown:
W. W. Jacobs.
Duced By:
L. A. G. Strong

Grace McChlery reads a story for the youngest listeners: ' The Magic Dressing Case.' by Isobel Steele
' Serenade for Children ': folk music from many lands and some Scottish ballads and poems. Jean Alexander (soprano). Andrew Bryson (piano). John Tainsh (tenor). Jean Taylor Smith (poetry reader), and the John MacArthur Quintet

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Steele
Soprano:
Jean Alexander
Soprano:
Andrew Bryson
Tenor:
John Tainsh
Tenor:
Jean Taylor

An all-Canadian discussion (recorded in Winnipeg by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) on whether Canada wants, and has room for, immigrants from Britain
Speakers: D. J. McKenzie. Chief Grain Commissioner for the Dominion Government; W. J. Waines. Economic Adviser to the last Canadian Royal Commission on Immigration; Harry Chappell , Manitoba General Representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Employees: and C. W. M. Hart , for fifteen years Professor of Sociology at Toronto University

Contributors

Unknown:
D. J. McKenzie.
Unknown:
J. Waines.
Unknown:
Harry Chappell
Unknown:
C. W. M. Hart

R. C. Hilliam ('Flotsam'), with Ivor Dennis at a second piano, presides over the following ' Follies ' : Clapham and Dwyer, Beryl Orde , Helen Clare , Charmian Innes , George James , and Trefor Jones. Produced by Tom Ronald.

Contributors

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

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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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