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Singing Together: Herbert Wiseman

11.20 Music and Movement for Juniors, by Ann Driver

11.40 The Practice and Science of Gardening. 'Elbow Room for Plants,' by Alan Peacock.

12 noon Bible Talks for Sixth Forms. The New Faith and its Source in History: The Kingdom of God' (v). by the Rev. Professor C. H. Dodd.

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Wiseman
Unknown:
Ann Driver
Unknown:
Alan Peacock
Unknown:
Professor C. H. Dodd

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' 1939-1945
A series of programmes featuring highlights of wartime radio Variety, with the story behind them told by Kenneth Adam and John Watt , BBC Director of Variety, 1937-1945. 4 - Settling Down at Bangor, North Wales
BBC Variety Orchestra and the BBC Revue Chorus, conducted by Charles Shadwell , with stars of the shows playing their original parts. Programme written and compiled by Loftus Wigram , with incidental music by Jack Beaver. Produced by Tom Ronald

Contributors

Told By:
Kenneth Adam
Told By:
John Watt
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell
Unknown:
Loftus Wigram
Music By:
Jack Beaver.
Produced By:
Tom Ronald

of Euripides
Translated into English rhyming verse by Gilbert Murray

The action takes place outside the tends of Troy immediately alter its capture by the Greeks.

The play was first acted in the year 415 B.C.

(Dame Sybil Thorndike and Margaret Leighton broadcast by permission of the Old Vic Theatre Company; Dorothy Reynolds broadcasts by permission of the Arts Theatre Group of Actors; Deryck Guyler is appearing in 'The Shop at Sly Corner')

Contributors

Author:
null Euripides
Translator:
Gilbert Murray
Producer:
Val Gielgud
The God Poseidon:
Esme Percy
The Goddess Pallas Athene:
Griselda Hervey
Hecuba, Queen of Troy, wife of Priam, mother of Hector and Paris:
Sybil Thorndike Cassandra, daughter of Hecuba, a prophetess: Anne Cullen
Andromache, wife of Hector, Prince of Troy:
Rita Vale
Helen, wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta; carried off by Paris, Prince of Troy:
Margaret Leighton
Talthybius, Herald of the Greeks:
Deryck Guyler
Menelaus, King of Sparta:
Leon Quartermaine
Chorus of captive Trojan women:
Gladys Young (leader)
Chorus of captive Trojan women:
Dorothy Reynolds
Chorus of captive Trojan women:
Ella Milne
Chorus of captive Trojan women:
Meum Stewart
Chorus of captive Trojan women:
Penelope Davidson
Chorus of captive Trojan women:
Beryl Calder

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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