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Regional Variations (2)

I Ysgolion Cymru: Storiau l'r Plant Lleiaf.

BBC Home Service Welsh

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT II, by Marjorie Eele
11.20 THE WORLD OF WORK. 1—' The Square Peg in the Round Hole': a talk by Alec Rodger , Director of the Vocational Guidance Centre at Birkbeck College, London.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Eele
Talk By:
Alec Rodger

travel TALKS. Round the Pacific. ' Octopus Hunting off the Gilbert Islands ': a talk by Sir Arthur Grimble , K.C.M.G.
2.20 LET'S JOIN IN. 'The Evergreen Story': a simple myth retold by Jean Sutcliffe to music by Ann Driver
2.40 LOOKING AT THINGS. The House You Live In. ' What is a House? ': an introductory talk by Anthony Bertram
Listeners need paper and pencil

Contributors

Talk By:
Sir Arthur Grimble
Unknown:
Jean Sutcliffe
Music By:
Ann Driver
Talk By:
Anthony Bertram

Regional Variations (4)

Children's Hour: including serial play, 'The Grey Pilot.' 1 — ' In the Pentland Tavern.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Children's Hour: including serial play.

BBC Home Service North

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

'Operation Catapult'
A modern adventure serial in six parts by Gilbert Dalton
3 - 'Hue and Cry'
On a dark and breezy night an expedition leaves Redfold Preparatory School in the Cotswolds to go to 'Windy Edge,' a cottage not far away, to get the working model of the new jet-engine, the Mistral, which is hidden in a cave in the grounds. With Johnny Burke on the expedition are Barbara, the headmaster's niece, Stephen Shaw, and Mr. Cowbell, the school handyman. What they have not suspected is that Vale Verner, Jim Lowden, and Ropey Roke are watching them from the cottage.

5.30 'Treasures You Never Thought Of': talk by Geoffrey Grigson
Records old and new

Contributors

Writer (Operation Catapult):
Gilbert Dalton
Producer (Operation Catapult):
Peggy Bacon
Mr Huffe:
Ivan Samson
Barbara Huffe:
Nona Blair
Stephen Shaw:
Brian Roper
Johnny Burke:
D English
Mile Julie:
Cecile Chevreau
Vale Verner:
Geoffrey Lewis
Jim Lowden:
Dudley Rolph
Ropey Roke:
Peter Wilde
Mr Cowbell:
Bob Arnold
Speaker (Treasures You Never Thought Of):
Geoffrey Grigson

Regional Variations (2)

Melody Market.'

BBC Home Service Scottish

The sixteenth episode in the new adventures of Shorty, a London taxi-driver and the Passenger
Script by Cyril Campion
Production by Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Script By:
Cyril Campion
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Shorty:
Jerry Verno
Philip:
Noel Johnson
Charmian:
Patricia Field
Daphne:
Rosemary Lomax

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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