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LIVING IN THE COUNTRY. ' Colts-foot and Foxglove': Joe learns something about herbs as medicines. Script by Christine Dudley
2.20 GEOGRAPHY. Life and Work in the Americas. ' Introducing the United States': a first look at the U.S.A.
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. ' The Zoo ' : a poetry programme about animals and birds
Including ' The Flower-fed Buffaloes ' by Vachel Lindsay , and ' Michael's Song ' by Wilfrid Gibson

Contributors

Script By:
Christine Dudley
Unknown:
Vachel Lindsay
Unknown:
Wilfrid Gibson

A play for broadcasting by Charles Causley
In the monthly talk this evening Dr. J. G. Porter describes the planets that are visible to the naked eye and their movements across the heavens. The diagram is of the sky looking south at 10.0 p.m.
3.30 'KING
AND QUEEN—BOTH'
A play for broadcasting by Marjorie A. Rowling
Production by Hugh Stewart

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Charles Causley
Unknown:
Dr. J. G. Porter
Broadcasting By:
Marjorie A. Rowling
Production By:
Hugh Stewart
Miguel:
Lewis Stringer
Diego Serrano:
Middleton Woods
Henry Kellendonck:
Hugh Falkus
Teresa:
Gabrielle Blunt
Aunt Louise:
Susan Richards
General Cerisola:
Randolph McLeod
Sentry:
Donald Gray
Queen Elizabeth:
Betty Hardy
Lord Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester:
Roger Snowdon
Lady Katherine Ashley:
Grizelda Hervey
Lady Lettice Knollys, Countess of Hereford:
Brenda Dunrich
Lady Ann Morris:
Ella Milne
Sir William Cecil:
Martin Lewis
The Marquis of Northampton:
Roger Delgado
The Earl of Pembroke:
Howieson Culff
Nicholas Throgmorton:
Eric Anderson
Sir Thomas Heneage:
Alan Reid
Page:
Iain Scott

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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