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TRAVEL TALKS. How the World Lives. Dwellers in the Tundra.' by Bosworth Monck. Wandering tribes with their reindeer win a living from the frozen plains of Siberia
2.20 LET'S JOIN IN-A New Year story: ' The Little Old Woman pays her Bills.' written for broadcasting by Jean Sutcliffe
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I. Short story: ' The Man who could work Miracles,' by H. G. Wells. Adapted by Ursula Keeble

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Jean Sutcliffe
Unknown:
I. Short
Unknown:
H. G. Wells.
Adapted By:
Ursula Keeble

'The Princess and the Goblins': a play by Barbara Sleigh from the book by George Macdonald.
Produced by W. E. Davis.
Part 2
(Harcourt Williams broadcasts by permission of the Covent Garden Opera Trust)

5.40 'Pigeon Post,' by Arthur Ransome.
Today Derek McCulloch reaches the end of the story

Contributors

Play By:
Barbara Sleigh
Book By:
George MacDonald.
Produced By:
W. E. Davis.
Unknown:
Arthur Ransome.
Unknown:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Harcourt Williams
Princess Irene:
Joyce Moore
The King her father:
Wilfred Babbage
Lootie:
Mabel Constanduros
Curdie:
John Alexander
Grandmother:
Mary O'Farrell
Goblin King:
Norman Shelley
Goblin Queen:
Vivienne Chatterton
Harelip:
Lionel Stevens
Sir Walter:
Andrew Churchman

14-' Broadcasting.' Do listeners get the programmes they want?
Hear the people's voice answering this question at a free discussion in which members of the public are invited to take part. From the City Arms Hotel, York. In the chair, Harold Hunter. Deputy Director of the Bureau of Current Affairs. (Produced in collaboration with the Bureau of Current Affairs)

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Hunter.

On the terrace of a fashionable hotel three visitors and a waiter chat about the music that the orchestra is playing
Taking part are Lionel Gadsden , Charles Mason. June Spencer, Dino Galvani , and Doris Gambell. Script by Aubrey Danvers- Walker, based on an idea by W. R. Ley. Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Frank Cantell. Produced by Cleland Finn

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Gadsden
Unknown:
Charles Mason.
Unknown:
Dino Galvani
Unknown:
Doris Gambell.
Unknown:
W. R. Ley.
Conducted By:
Frank Cantell.
Produced By:
Cleland Finn

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More