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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY... ' The
Scientific Spirit '
K. G. Collier , Senior Lecturer in Education at Exeter Training College, introduces a series of Sixth Form programmes on ' Belief in God and the Rise of Science,' designed to illustrate the relationship between scientific knowledge and religious faith.
10.0 Announcements
10.5 News commentary

Contributors

Unknown:
K. G. Collier

SINGING TOGETHER, by William Appleby.
Amid the new-mown hay The Maid and the Mill Ye holy angels bright
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN. ' Why Fossils are Found on Land.' Script by Honor Wyatt , from material supplied by Richard Palmer.
How rocks are arranged in layers; the ups and downs of land and sea; the naked land of early times
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH. Jean-Pierre et Papa font la cuisine. N'est pas cuisinier qui veut! Texte de Jean Vigne.

Contributors

Unknown:
William Appleby.
Script By:
Honor Wyatt
Unknown:
Richard Palmer.
Unknown:
Jean Vigne.

STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' Haroun Al Raschid, Caliph of Baghdad.' (A.D. 765-809). Script by Christine Dudley
Al Raschid means The Just, but the many stories told about Haroun, whom most people know from the ' Arabian Nights * or Flecker's ' Hassan,' leave one uncertain how far he deserved this title. Listeners may judge for themselves this afternoon.
2.25 SENIOR ENGLISH I. ' Food and Festival': light verse chosen by Ormerod Greenwood
Programme includes the anonymous ' St. Bartholomew's Fair' and Thackeray's ' Mahogany Tree '
2.50 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES. ' The Woodwind-I,' by Archie Camden
3.10 LET'S HEAR IT AGAIN. Three pieces from Elgar's Suite, ' The Wand of Youth': Little Bells; Tame Bears; Wild. Bears

Contributors

Script By:
Christine Dudley
Script By:
Al Raschid
Unknown:
Ormerod Greenwood
Unknown:
Archie Camden

(violin)
Allegro (Fiocco, arr. Bent and O'Neill): with Hubert Greenslade (piano)
Jota (No. 4 of Seven Popular Spanish
Songs) (Falla, arr. Kochanski): with Leon Degraux (piano)
Gopak (Sorotchinsky Fair) (Mussorgsky, arr. Dushkin): with Leon Degraux (piano) on gramophone records

Contributors

Piano:
Hubert Greenslade
Piano:
Leon Degraux
Piano:
Leon Degraux

(Extra edition) featuring
Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly
Howard Marion-Crawford
Alfred Marks
Paddle O'Neill
Daphne Anderson
Marcia Owen
The Men About Town
Peter Yorke and his Concert Orchestra and a visiting celebrity
Script by Peter Myers
Lionel Harris and Geoffrey Coop
Production by Roy Speer

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Braden
Unknown:
Barbara Kelly
Unknown:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
Paddle O'Neill
Unknown:
Daphne Anderson
Unknown:
Marcia Owen
Unknown:
Peter Yorke
Script By:
Peter Myers
Script By:
Lionel Harris
Unknown:
Geoffrey Coop
Production By:
Roy Speer

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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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