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RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Doris Gould
11.20 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. ' Saving the Soil,' by Philip Brown.
1 he work of scientists to preserve the precious top soil on which our supply of food depends
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. Dramatisierung des bekannten Volksliedes : ' Es waren zwei Konigskinder.' Text von Rolf Schreiber

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Gould
Unknown:
Philip Brown.
Unknown:
Rolf Schreiber

Introduced by Leslie Mitchell
This week's edition includes:
'Cinequiz' : Critics v. Filmgoers ' Star at Home ': Robert Beatty
Excerpts from the sound-track of the Plantaganet Picture ' Give Us This Day,' starring Sam Wanamaker , Lea Padovani , Kathleen Ryan , Bonar Colleano , and Charles Goldner
Script written by Michael Storm
Produced by Pat Osborne

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leslie Mitchell
Unknown:
Robert Beatty
Unknown:
Sam Wanamaker
Unknown:
Lea Padovani
Unknown:
Kathleen Ryan
Unknown:
Bonar Colleano
Unknown:
Charles Goldner
Written By:
Michael Storm
Produced By:
Pat Osborne

NATURE STUDY. 'The Robin,' by Scott Kennedy
2.15 HISTORY II. 'The Chartists and their Six Points,' by Victor Cohen
Chartism was started by working-class politicians who were disappointed by the Reform Bill of 1832 and wished for a more radical Parliamentary reform. This programme tells of divided councils in their movement, of the clash between ' moral force ' Lovett and ' physical force ' O'Connor, and of the apparent collapse of what had been a great political force.
2.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES. 'Who Stole the Turnips?' An adaptation by Sam Langdon of a Russian folk story in Arthur Ransome 's book ' Old Peter's
Russian Tales '
3.0 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. Pericles' Funeral Oration and Abraham Lincoln 's Gettysburg Speech: reader, James McKechnie

Contributors

Unknown:
Scott Kennedy
Unknown:
Victor Cohen
Unknown:
Sam Langdon
Unknown:
Arthur Ransome
Unknown:
Abraham Lincoln
Reader:
James McKechnie

A weekly programme about work in the world of science
Acoustics Today by Richard H. Bolt , Ph.D ., Director of the Acoustics Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Bolt, who has been in this country lecturing and studying acoustics, explains that the science of sound waves is rapidly finding new applications, not only in architecture but in widely differing industrial fields.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard H. Bolt , Ph.D

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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