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Prayer
New every morning (A. and M. 4:
S.P. 31, omitting vv. 4 and 5; C.H. 259. vv. 2, 3. 4. 6. 8: Tune, Melcombe)
Interlude: Brother Lawrence'
Prayers; the Prayer for God's
Presence; the Lord's Prayer
Forth in thy name (omitting v. 2) (A. and M. 8; S.P. 29; C.H. 651: Tune, Angel's Song)
Blessing
Brother Lawrence was a young lay brother who lived in a monastery in France about three hundred years ago. He had a dull and humdrum job in the kitchen, but, amid all the noise and clatter, he formed the habit of keeping God continually in his thoughts and wrote one of the most famous books about prayer. The Practice of the Presence of God.' His story illustrates our Lord's saying: ' Blessed are the meek. for they shaH inherit the earth ' (St. Matthew 5, v. 5).

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT I, by Marjorie Eele
To be repeated tomorrow at 9.45 a.m.
11.2Q HISTORY I. ' The Cadiz Expedition ' : Sir Francis Drake 's daring raid on the Spanish port where the Armada was being prepared for sea. Script by Robert Gittings
11.40 PANORAMA. ' The Poetry of Flight': a Battle of Britain fighter pilot talks about the poetry he likes

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Eele
Unknown:
Sir Francis Drake
Script By:
Robert Gittings

ADVENTURES IN MUSIC. ' Rossini's Overture, William Tell ': first of two illustrated talks by Arthur Langford
2.35 SENIOR ENGLISH II. ' The Invisible Man,' by G. K. Chesterton. A radio adaptation by Molly Dawson of one of the Father Brown stories

Contributors

Unknown:
William Tell
Unknown:
Arthur Langford
Unknown:
G. K. Chesterton.
Unknown:
Molly Dawson

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I Live in Brazil by Elizabeth Kendall
Just before she left to go back to her home in Sao Paulo, Elizabeth Kendall recorded this talk about the difficulties and pleasures of running a home in South America. Do the advantages of an open-air life, plenty of domestic help, and lovely gardens outweigh the disadvantages of dust, damp, and the endless fight against insects?

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Kendall
Unknown:
Elizabeth Kendall

by J. E. Morpurgo
Jack Morpurgo is an author and publisher who has lived in the United States in various places and at various times during the last fifteen years. He considers that our ideas about the United States are largely formed by the films, sometimes in subtle ways, and that this leads us into error.

Contributors

Unknown:
J. E. Morpurgo
Unknown:
Jack Morpurgo

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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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More