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EMPIRE DAY PROGRAMME FOR SCHOOLS. Wynford Vaughan Thomas , Richard Dimbleby , and Colin Wills describe visits by Their Majesties to Commonwealth countries
11.20 HISTORY I. 'Soldiers in a Peaceful City ': a story of Philadelphia during the War of Independence. Script by Penelope Knox
11.40 PANORAMA. Changing Africa. 'African Wild Life: its extinction and preservation'

Contributors

Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Unknown:
Richard Dimbleby
Unknown:
Colin Wills
Script By:
Penelope Knox

from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Let thy merciful ears (Weelkes)
Prayers
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Psalm 119, vv. 1-32
First Lesson: 1 Kings 8, w. 22-30
Magnificat: Tone 1 (Fauxbourdon, Fayrfax)
Second Lesson: James 5, w. 1-18
Nune dimittis: Tone 7 (Fauxbourdon, anon., 1547)
Creed and Collects
Hear my prayer (Purcell) Prayers
Choral Prelude on St. Mary (Charles Wood)

Contributors

Organist:
Boris Ord

A Nursery Programme
' Bud and the Badgers': story in four parts by Ida Gandy. Told by Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac). Part 2
Some favourite records
5.20 'Set to Music'
5 — ' The Forsaken Merman by Matthew Arnold
Set to music by Arthur Somervell
BBC Singers; soloist, Stanley Riley
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Frank Cantell
Reader. Carleton Hobbs

Contributors

Told By:
Derek McCulloch
Unknown:
Matthew Arnold
Music By:
Arthur Somervell
Soloist:
Stanley Riley
Conducted By:
Frank Cantell
Reader:
Carleton Hobbs

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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