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Prayer
All creatures of our God and King
(vv. 1, 2. 7). (S.P. 439; C.H. 13: Tune, Lasst uns erfreuen)
Interlude: ' Henri Dunant'
Prayers: the Prayer for Happiness; the Lord's Prayer
Love divine, all loves excelling (A. and M. 520; S.P 573; C.H. 479: Tune, Love divine)
Blessing
Henri Dunant was a Swiss business man who was so horrified by the suffering of wounded soldiers during wartime eighty years ago that he started a movement to help them. This movement grew into the Red Cross Society, with branches in almost every country in the world. Today's interlude is abou; Henri Dunant and it illustrates the ancient saying to which Christ gave a new meaning: ' Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself (St. Matthew 19, v. 19).

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Dunant
Unknown:
Henri Dunant

TRAVEL TALKS. Man and his Animals: Jack McLaren talks about the Javanese and their water buffaloes
2.20 LET'S JOIN IN. The Adventures of a Little Field Mouse,' adapted by Miriam Langdon from ' Stories to Tell to Children' by Sara Cone Bryant
2.40 LOOKING AT THINGS, Playing at Patterns': Milner Gray , a designer, demonstrates with the help of musical sounds how odd scribbles on a piece of paper can be turned into designs

Contributors

Talks:
Jack McLaren
Adapted By:
Miriam Langdon
Unknown:
Sara Cone Bryant
Unknown:
Milner Gray

introducing
The Folks of Smoky Mountain with Charles Forsythe
Addie Seamon
Johnnie Johnston , Doris Nichols
Don Emsley , Alan Dean
Pearl Carr , Ray Webb
Irene King
Music by the Smoky Mountaineers
Led by Danny Levin
Devised and produced by Charles Chilton

Contributors

Unknown:
Smoky Mountain
Unknown:
Charles Forsythe
Unknown:
Addie Seamon
Unknown:
Johnnie Johnston
Unknown:
Doris Nichols
Unknown:
Don Emsley
Unknown:
Alan Dean
Unknown:
Pearl Carr
Unknown:
Ray Webb
Unknown:
Irene King
Unknown:
Danny Levin
Produced By:
Charles Chilton

Officers and men of the Eighth Army meet again on the anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein with speeches by Field-Marshal the Viscount Mxontgomery of Alamein
K.G., G.C.B., D.S.O. and the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill ,
Band of the Irish Guards
(by permission of Col. T. W. GimsonO.M., C.H., M.P. ) Conducted by Lieut. C. H. Jaeger
Royal Artillery Mounted Band
(by permission of the Officers,
, Royal Artillery)
Conducted by Lieut. B. H. Brown
Introduced by Brian Johnston
From the Empress Hall, Earls Court, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill
Unknown:
Col. T. W. Gimsono.M., C.H., M.P.
Conducted By:
Lieut. C. H. Jaeger
Conducted By:
Lieut. B. H. Brown
Introduced By:
Brian Johnston

Of the many recitals recording the gallantry of fighting men in the Second World War, few were more moving than the story of the convoy that fought its way through to Malta, with the tanker Ohio, in the summer of 1942 The story as it was told on August 19 of that year, by Captain Anthony Kimmins , o.B.E., R.N., la broadcast again today, Trafalgar Day

Contributors

Unknown:
Captain Anthony Kimmins

A lively discussion on subjects upon which the sexes may disagree with Kay Hammond Joyce Grenfell Gladys Young
Charmian Innes versus
John Clements and Herbert Hodge
In the Chair: Roy Plomley
Production by Pat Dixon

Contributors

Unknown:
Kay Hammond
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Gladys Young
Unknown:
Charmian Innes
Unknown:
John Clements
Unknown:
Herbert Hodge
Production By:
Pat Dixon

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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