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TRAVEL TALKS. ' Farmers of the Nile Valley,' by B. A. Keen , F.R.S.
2.20 LET'S JOIN IN-' The Gingerbread Man,' arranged for broadcasting by Jean Sutcliffe
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I. Book Talk: ' The Man-Eaters of Tsavo.' by J. H. Patterson , adapted by Ursula Keeble. A true story of men against lions in British East Africa

Contributors

Unknown:
B. A. Keen
Broadcasting By:
Jean Sutcliffe
Unknown:
J. H. Patterson
Adapted By:
Ursula Keeble.

' Seven White Gates '
Adapted by Muriel Levy from the book by Malcolm Saville. Produced by May E. Jenkin. Part 4
' Pigeon Post,' by Arthur Ran some, told as a serial story by Derek McCulloch (' Mac '). Part 4

Contributors

Adapted By:
Muriel Levy
Book By:
Malcolm Saville.
Duced By:
E. Jenkin.
Unknown:
Arthur Ran
Story By:
Derek McCulloch
Peter:
Rosamond Barnes
David:
Peter Mullins
Mary:
Patricia Fox
Dickie:
Elaine MacNamara
Uncle Micah:
Philip Wade
Aunt Carol:
Gwen Day Burroughs
Jenny:
Dorothy Gordon

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 , Helen Clare , George James , Anya Lincoln , Trefor Jones, Clapham and Dwyer. Produced by Tom Ronald.

Contributors

Unknown:
B. C. Hilliam
Unknown:
Ivor Dennis
Unknown:
Beryl Orde
Unknown:
Helen Clare
Unknown:
George James
Unknown:
Anya Lincoln
Duced By:
Tom Ronald.

as off to work we go with Peter Waring, Kenneth Horne, and Charmian Innes
Escorted by Nell Ballantyne, Maurice Denham, the Melody Men, and the Dance Orchestra, conducted by Stanley Black. Script by Frank Muir. Produced by Charles Maxwell

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Waring
Unknown:
Kenneth Home
Unknown:
Nell Ballantvne
Unknown:
Maurice Denham.
Conducted By:
Stanley Black
Script:
Frank Muir
Producer:
Charles Maxwell

Cast includes James McKechnie as Marco Polo , and Ronald Simpson as Narrator. Written and produced by Rayner Heppenstall In 1271. a youth of seventeen left Venice in the company of his father and his uncle and proceeded in an easterly direction overland from Acre. Twenty-four years later he returned, with extravagant stories of the court of Kubla Khan which few believed.

Contributors

Unknown:
James McKechnie
Unknown:
Marco Polo
Unknown:
Ronald Simpson
Produced By:
Rayner Heppenstall
Unknown:
Kubla Khan

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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