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RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Doris Gould
11.20 SCIENCE AND TIIE COMMUNITY.
' Opening Up New Pastures.' Script by Martin Chisholm. (BBC recording)
The tight against the tsetse fly and the discovery of the drug antrycide to protect the cattle of Africa
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. ' Die neue Schallplatte.' Text von Else Johannsen. Willi schleppt Hans und Lore in einen Musikladen, um eine neue Schallplatte zu kaufen. Wie gewohnlich bringt er alle zur Verzweiflung

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Gould
Script By:
Martin Chisholm.
Unknown:
Else Johannsen.

Introduced by Leslie Mitchell
This week's edition includes :
'Cinequiz': Critics v. Filmgoers
' Star at Home': Donald Houston
Excerpts from the sound-track of the Paramount film 'The Great Lover,'starring Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, and Roland Young
Script written by Michael Storm
Produced by Pat Osborne

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leslie Mitchell
Written By:
Michael Storm
Produced By:
Pat Osborne

NATURE STUDY.'My Dog': a talk by a veterinary surgeon on keeping a dog as a pet
2.15 HISTORY 11. 'Gladstone and Disraeli.' Script by J. C. Gagg
Liberalism 'v. Conservatism: that was the great political issue of Victorian days. It would be difficult to find two more vividly contrasting figures than Gladstone (the Grand Old Man) and Disraeli (Dizzy). The programme tells something of the clash between the two men and the rival ideals they represented.
2.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES. ' Ben, the Story of a Cart-Horse,' adapted as a two-part serial by Jean Sutcliffe from the book by Primrose Cummings. 1— 'Ben Leaves the City'
3.0 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. 'Flight to Australia.' C. Day Lewis reads a shortened version of a poem from ' A Time to Dance.'

Contributors

Script By:
J. C. Gagg
Unknown:
Jean Sutcliffe
Book By:
Primrose Cummings.

Help from the Hills
An enquiry into the possibilities of developing unprofitable farm land in England and Wales
2-The West
J. T. Beresford discusses with R. B. Vellacott , an Exmoor farmer, and F. H. Shapland , Chairman of the Devon N.F.U.. the problems of increasing the productivity of marginal land on Exmoor and other parts of the West Country

Contributors

Unknown:
T. Beresford
Unknown:
R. B. Vellacott
Unknown:
F. H. Shapland

A weekly programme about work in the world of science
Mesons and Matter by Norman Feather , F.R.s.,
Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh During the week leading nuclear physicists have been meeting in Edinburgh to dis
' cuss present knowledge of the constituents that make up matter as we know it. Professor Feather gives a short account of what has been happening at their International Conference on Elementary Particles.

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Feather

BBC Home Service Basic

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