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RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Gladys Whitred
11.20 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. The story of the Telegraph. Script by Alan Hill
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. Hans wird verhaftet: in einem Juwelierladen ist eingebrochen worden; der Verdacht fallt auf Hans; aber kann er wirklich der Dieb sein? Text von Milo Sperber

Contributors

Unknown:
Gladys Whitred
Script By:
Alan Hill
Unknown:
Milo Sperber

Introduced by Leslie Mitchell
This week's edition includes:
A recorded interview with Gregory Peck
' Canteen Cinequiz '
' Movie Mailbag': your questions answered by Jeanne Heal
Excerpts from the sound-track of the Paramount film Riding High.' starring Bing Crosby. Coleen Gray , Charles Bickford. and Frances Gifford
Script written by Michael Storm
Produced by Pat Osborne

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leslie Mitchell
Unknown:
Gregory Peck
Unknown:
Bing Crosby.
Unknown:
Coleen Gray
Unknown:
Charles Bickford.
Unknown:
Frances Gifford
Written By:
Michael Storm
Produced By:
Pat Osborne

NATURE STUDY. ' What's in a Ditch? ' by G. F. Friend
2.15 HISTORY II. 'Peel and his Police Force': the story of the ' Bobbies.' Script by Ivor Jones
2.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES. ' The Dolls' House,' adapted by Jean Sutcliffe as a three-part serial from the book by Rumer Godden. 3—' Birdie's Heroism '
3.0 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. ' The Retreat from Corunna': a reading from The Recollections of Rifleman Harris '

Contributors

Unknown:
G. F. Friend
Script By:
Ivor Jones
Adapted By:
Jean Sutcliffe
Book By:
Rumer Godden.

Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by John Arlott , A. G. Street , Jack Long land, and Osbert Lancaster
Travelling Question-Master ,
Freddy Grisewood
From Grass Royal School, Yeovil
Presented by Nicholas Crocker

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
A. G. Street
Unknown:
Jack Long
Unknown:
Osbert Lancaster
Unknown:
Travelling Question-Master
Presented By:
Nicholas Crocker

A comedy adventure in eight episodes by Max Kester
3 — ' Enter the Dark Horse '
Production by Vernon Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Max Kester
Production By:
Vernon Harris
Fothergill:
Naunton Wayne
Fanshawe:
Basil Radford
Stephen Hackett:
Derek Bond
Bobbie Treveiyan:
Barbara Murray
Edward Crawford:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Sylvia Ma inwaring:
Mary MacKenzie
Fowler:
Charles Mortimer
Donnolly:
Billy Thatcher
Daloy:
Sidney Vivian

A Danish audience at the Studenterforeningen, Copenhagen, asks questions in English about Britain and the British. The questions, unknown to the platform party in advance, are answered by Honor Balfour
Sir Charles Bartlett
Alan Bullock
David Gemmill
Chairman, Denis Morris

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Charles Bartlett
Unknown:
Alan Bullock
Unknown:
David Gemmill
Unknown:
Denis Morris

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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