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RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Doris Gould
11.20 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. ' The Story of our Vegetables ' by W. J. C. Lawrence, Curator of the John Innes Horticultural Institution. (BBC recording)
How some of our common vegetables originated and how science has helped to improve them
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. Hans will reiten lernen. Text von Stephen Manheim
Vorbei sind die Jahre, als Hans mit einem Schaukelpferd Oder Steckenpferd zufrieden war! Jetzt will er sein Gliick auf einem wirklichen Reitpferd versuchen. So denkt Hans. Das Pferd denkt anders

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Gould
Unknown:
Stephen Manheim

Introduced by Leslie Mitchell
This week's edition includes :
Cinequiz': Critics v. Filmgoers
' Star at Home': Maxwell Reed
Excerpts from the sound-track of the J. Arthur Rank film Dear Mr. Prohack' starring Cecil Parker, Hermione Baddeley,
Sheila Sim, Dirk Bogarde, and Glynis Johns
Programme written by Michael Storm
Produced by Dennis Monger

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leslie Mitchell
Written By:
Michael Storm
Produced By:
Dennis Monger

NATURE STUDY. How Animals Move 1-2, by David Steven
2.15 HISTORY II. Law and Government. ' The First Prime Minister.' Script by Gladys Scott Thomson
2.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES. A programme of Giants and the . Little People, including the poems ' The Fairies ' by William Allingham and ' Grim ' by Walter de la Mare , and an original,story 'The Wee Folk and Fergus' by Maud Morin
3.0 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. Socrates addresses his judges. Two passages from Plato's ' Apology ' read by Bernard Miles.

Contributors

Unknown:
David Steven
Script By:
Gladys Scott Thomson
Unknown:
William Allingham
Unknown:
Walter de la Mare
Unknown:
Maud Morin
Read By:
Bernard Miles.

A weekly programme about work in the world of science
Introducing the Atom by Otto R. Frisch, F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Cambridge
Knowing what atoms are like is the first step to knowing what scientists can do. In this talk Professor Frisch introduces listeners by easy stages to the present-day scientist's conception of what an atom it like.

Contributors

Producer:
Archibald Clow

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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