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MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR INFANTS, by Ann Driver
11.20 HISTORY 1. Great People and Their Times: 'George Washington,' by Desmond Hawkins. ' Be united, be Americans': a great Virginian unites a divided colony and leads its army to victory
11.40 OFF THE SYLLABUS. ' Romeo and Juliet': scenes from Shakespeare's play, chosen and adapted by Jo Manton Part 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Driver
Unknown:
Desmond Hawkins.
Lady Capulet:
Margaret Halstan
Nurse:
Susan Richmond
Juliet:
Peggy Ashcroft
Romeo Basil:
C Langton
Capulet:
D A Clarke-Smith

ADVENTURES in MUSIC... New Friends and Old,' by Grace Williams
2.35 SENIOR English II. Serial. ' David Copperfield ,' by Charles Dickens. adapted by Penelope Knox. Part 1— ' David as a young child' (showing Dickens's power of creating characters)

Contributors

Unknown:
Grace Williams
Unknown:
David Copperfield
Unknown:
Charles Dickens.
Adapted By:
Penelope Knox.

from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Antiphon: Deliver us, O Lord (Batten)
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins)
Psalm 89
First Lesson: Isaiah 55. vv. 6-13
Magnificat (Sydney Watson, in E)
Second Lesson: St. Luke 6. vv. 1-19
Nunc dimittis (Sydney Watson, in E)
Creed
The Lord's Prayer (Stones)
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins)
Collects
Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles (Byrd)
Prayers
Organist, Boris Ord

Contributors

Organist:
Boris Ord

' Three Friends': a story by Muriel Chamberlain. told by W. E. Davis (' David ')
Edna Hatzfeld and Alan Paul at two pianos
5.25 ' Nature Parliament': your questions answered by the resident members, L. Hugh Newman , Peter Scott , and Brian Vesey-FitzGerald , with Derek McCulloch in the chair

Contributors

Story By:
Muriel Chamberlain.
Told By:
W. E. Davis
Unknown:
Edna Hatzfeld
Unknown:
Alan Paul
Unknown:
L. Hugh Newman
Unknown:
Peter Scott
Unknown:
Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Derek McCulloch

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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