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Travel Talks. How the World Lives. "The Good Earth", by Vincent J. Jasper.
Chinese peasant farmers in the Yang-tse Kiang valley work hard on their small farms and raise rice and millet to feed the family.

2.20 Let's Join-in: A story about a machine, "Paul and the Steam-Roller". A radio version of the tale in the picture book, 'Stories for Paul', by D. M. Chapman.

2.40 Senior English: 1: Have you met Sherlock Holmes? Douglas Allan introduces Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective

Contributors

Speaker (Travel Talks):
Vincent J. Jasper
Author of story (Let's Join-in):
D.M. Chapman
Speaker (Senior English):
Douglas Allan

' Tusker's Day Out': another story about the Baby Elephant written by Mollie Chappell
' The Face of Rock': a play written for broadcasting by Gethyn Stoodley-Thomas

Contributors

Written By:
Mollie Chappell
Broadcasting By:
Gethyn Stoodley-Thomas
Griffith Rees:
Philip Phillips
Susan Travers:
Vera Meazey
Shyncin Lewis:
W P Thomas
Nathan Jones:
Prysor Williams
David John Emlyn:
Moses Jones
Dai Evans:
Gunstone Jones
Albert Jenkins:
Norman Wynne
Alan Henley:
Brian Morris
Bob Grainger:
Dafydd Havard

An excerpt from Derek Salberg 's pantomime. Produced by Hastings Mann
With Naughton and Gold, Wendy Toye. N'Gai. Jack Farr, Paula Grey. Michael Cole, Jean Telfer, Tarzan, the Lehminski Ladies, and the Alexandra Babes. Orchestra directed by Eric LeFern. Introduced by Philip Garston -Jones. From the Alexandra Theatre. Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Salberg
Produced By:
Hastings Mann
Produced By:
With Naughton
Unknown:
Wendy Toye.
Introduced By:
Philip Garston

'Can I paint my own front door? ' A discussion on the plan versus the man. Speakers: L. E. White , author of the report, ' Tenement Town'; Colm Brogan ; and Kenneth J. Campbell , A.R.I.B.A., President of the Association of Building Technicians. In the chair, F. J. Osborn , Chairman of the Executive of the Town and Country Planning Association, and one of the founders of Welwyn Garden City
The New Towns Act and other measures have revived in some people the fear that planning is going to put them under a sort of regimental discipline. Washing on the front lawn and hens in the back garden may be forbidden. Perhaps the citizen will not be able to paint his own front door. These and other points are dealt with in tonight's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
L. E. White
Unknown:
Colm Brogan
Unknown:
J. Campbell
Unknown:
F. J. Osborn

On the terrace 'of a fashionable hotel three visitors and the waiter chat about the music that the orchestra is playing
Script by Aubrey Danvers-Walker based on an idea by W. R. Ley. Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted bv Frank Cantell. Produced by Cleland Finn

Contributors

Script By:
Aubrey Danvers-Walker
Unknown:
W. R. Ley.
Unknown:
Frank Cantell.
Duced By:
Cleland Finn
The man:
Ivan Samson
He:
Charles Mason
she:
June Spencer
Gioacchino:
Dino Galvani
The singer:
Morgan Davies

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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