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SINGING TOGETHER, by Ronald Biggs
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN. 'Skilled Hunters of the Late Old Stone Age.' Script by Rhoda Power.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH, by Andree Duranton. ' 'Joli Tambour’ : dramatisation d'apres la célèbre chanson
12.5 BIBLE TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. The Meaning of the Epistle to the Romans. ' Moral Responsibility.' by the Rev. C. H Dodd, D.D., .Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Biggs
Script By:
Rhoda Power.
Unknown:
Andree Duranton.
Unknown:
Rev. C. H Dodd,

STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' Montezuma, the Aztec Emperor, meets Cortez who is exploring Mexico (1519).' Script by Rhoda Power
2.30 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES. ' Mendelssohn and his Music': an illustrated talk by Reginald Jacques
2.50 ' 'LET'S HEAR IT AGAIN.' Arthur Langford talks about Sibelius's ' Valse Triste '

Contributors

Script By:
Rhoda Power
Talk By:
Reginald Jacques
Talks:
Arthur Langford
Unknown:
Valse Triste

'Through the Looking-Glass' by Lewis Carroll, arranged as a dialogue story.
4—'The Lion and the Unicorn, and the White Knight'
5.30 Records old and new
5.40 ' News from the Zoo,' by Geoffrey Vevers

Contributors

Unknown:
Lewis Carroll
Unknown:
Geoffrey Vevers
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch (uncle Mac)
Alice:
Angela Glynne
White King:
Ernest Jay
Haigha:
Carleton Hobbs
Unicorn:
Wilfred Babbage
White Knight:
Richard Goolden

A comedy by Maurice J. Valency
Music by Antony H&pkins
Produced by Peter Watts
Others taking part include: Joan Clement Scott, Ann Codrington, Cyril Gardiner, Malcolm Hayes. Anita Hill, Charles Lefeaux, Bryan Powley, William Trent, and Gabrielle Blunt

Contributors

Produced By:
Peter Watts
Unknown:
Joan Clement Scott
Unknown:
Ann Codrington
Unknown:
Cyril Gardiner
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes.
Unknown:
Anita Hill
Unknown:
Charles Lefeaux
Unknown:
Bryan Powley
Unknown:
William Trent
Unknown:
Gabrielle Blunt
Alkestis:
Margaret Diamond
Watchman:
Ronald Sidney
Admetos, King of Pherae:
Roderick Lovell
Zoilos, a general:
Peter Creswell
Crito, a philosopher:
Geoffrey Dunn
The Scavenger:
W Bartlett Mullins
Pheres, Admetos's father:
Richard Williams
Herakles:
Sebastian Shaw
Akastos, King of Iolchos:
W. Bartlett Mullins
Zeus:
Norman Shelley

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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