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Singing Together
by William Appleby

11.20 How Things Began: The First Farmyards
Domestication of animals in the Neolithic Age.
Script by Rhoda Power.

11.40 Intermediate French: Le Mardi Gras
Partout en France on fete le dernier jour du Carnaval.
Texte de Jean-Jacques Oberlin

Contributors

Unknown:
William Appleby
Script By:
Rhoda Power.
Unknown:
Jean-Jacques Oberlin

STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' The Captives and Euripides ': the lives of some Athenians taken prisoner at Syracuse are spared because they can recite poetry (413 B.C.). Script by Rhoda Power
2.30 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Conducted by Clifton Helliwell
Music introduced by Joseph Cooper

Contributors

Script By:
Rhoda Power
Conducted By:
Clifton Helliwell
Introduced By:
Joseph Cooper

' Bitty and the Bears '
A story by Elizabeth Gorell , told by May E. Jenkin (Elizabeth)
9—'Going Home '
5.15 ' The Tale of the Lion Sertorius ': narrative poem by Ian Serraillier , read by Lionel Gamlin
Animal and bird imitations by Percy Edwards
5.35 Opera Glass ' or How to Listen to Opera': series of five talks by Boyd Neel
4—'The Two Giants '

Contributors

Story By:
Elizabeth Gorell
Told By:
May E. Jenkin
Unknown:
Ian Serraillier
Read By:
Lionel Gamlin
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Boyd Neel

Resident team:
F. C. Hooper
Compton Mackenzie Mrs. M. A. Hamilton
Guest speakers:
John Summerson
Architect, author, and Curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum and another whose name is being announced today
Question-Master:
Gilbert Harding

Contributors

Unknown:
F. C. Hooper
Unknown:
Compton MacKenzie
Unknown:
Mrs. M. A. Hamilton
Unknown:
John Summerson
Unknown:
Sir John Soane
Question-Master:
Gilbert Harding

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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