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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY. Belief and Action. 3 - Christian
Political Action.' (1) Dr. Nathaniel Micklem , Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, discusses Dante's political theory as expressed in his book ' De Monarchia '
10.0 INTERVAL MUSIC played today by Josephine Lee
10.5 News commentary

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. Nathaniel Micklem
Unknown:
Josephine Lee

SINGING TOGETHER, by William Appleby
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN. 4-' Learning to Count and to Measure.' Script by Rhoda Power.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH. Concours: ecoutez ces gens au travail et essayez de deviner Ie nom de leur metier ou de leur profession. Preparez de quoi ecrire. Texte' d'Anne Guillemin

Contributors

Unknown:
William Appleby
Script By:
Rhoda Power.

STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' Sir John Franklin ': the first voyage, in 1819-22, of a great explorer. Franklin died in 1847 in the attempt to discover the north-west passage. Script by John Allen
2.25 SENIOR ENGLISH 1. Have You Met ... Captain Cuttle?' : another character from ' Dombey and Son' by Charles Dickens takes the story of Florence Dombey further. Script by Penelope Knox
2.50 ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS
' The Beggar's Opera '
A shortened form of the eighteenth-century ballad opera by John Gay , arranged for broadcasting by Roger Fiske
BBC Singers
Jacques Orchestra
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Franklin
Script By:
John Allen
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Script By:
Penelope Knox
Unknown:
John Gay
Unknown:
Roger Fiske
Conducted By:
Leslie Woodgate

A play by Charlotte Haldane
Characters in the order of speaking:
The scene is London, after the establishment of a totalitarian regime in an imaginary future
Production by Mary Hope Allen

Contributors

Play By:
Charlotte Haldane
Production By:
Mary Hope Allen
Narrator:
Donald Gray
Vanessa Freeman:
Catherine Salkeld
Arthur Cooper, her brother:
Norman Claridge
John Freeman, her husband:
Hugh Burden
Gladys Green:
Eileen Beldon
Hubert Smiles:
Denis Gordon
Dr Stewart Lavenham:
John Turnbull
Comrade Wilson:
Hugh Manning
Comrade Sam Turner, Security Officer:
Stanley Groome
James Keir Thornton:
Finlay Currie'
Comrade Jack Huntwell:
Frank Pettingell
Grace Cooper:
Thea Holme
Radio commentator:
Basil Jones
Public Prosecutor:
Donald Bisset

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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