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RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Gladys Whitred
11.20 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. Science and the Larder. 5 — ' The Soil.' Script by L. J. Wolff
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. Achtung! frlsch gestrichen! ' Franz und Liese sagen: ' was die Hatismaler ktinnen. das konnen wir auch.' Hoffentlich haben sie recht! Text von Rolf Richards

Contributors

Unknown:
Gladys Whitred
Script By:
L. J. Wolff
Unknown:
Rolf Richards

Regional Variations (2)

Announcements.

BBC Home Service North

Introduced by Leslie Mitchell
This week's edition includes the following recorded items:
Pastimes of the Picture-Makers:
Jeanne Heal introduces this week's guest-authoress, Ray Allister
Peter Ustinov talks to Luis Vargas about his part as Nero in the film spectacle Quo Vadis '
A visit to the set of ' On Monday Next,' a Constellation production at Isleworth Studios, including interviews with Robert Morley , Margaret Rutherford ,Kay Kendall , and the director Ralph Smart
Excerpts from the sound-track of the London Films production ' Home at Seven,' starring Ralph Richardson , Margaret Leighton , and Jack Hawkins
Script written by Michael Storm
Produced by Pat Osborne

Contributors

Introduced By:
Leslie Mitchell
Introduces:
Jeanne Heal
Unknown:
Ray Allister
Talks:
Peter Ustinov
Unknown:
Luis Vargas
Unknown:
Robert Morley
Unknown:
Margaret Rutherford
Unknown:
Kay Kendall
Unknown:
Ralph Smart
Unknown:
Ralph Richardson
Unknown:
Margaret Leighton
Unknown:
Jack Hawkins
Written By:
Michael Storm
Produced By:
Pat Osborne

NATURE STUDY. Our Eyes,' by Philip Eggleton
2.15 THE music box, by Gordon Reynolds
2.25 HISTORY II. ' The Oregon Trail a young American strikes west into the lands beyond the Missouri (1842). Script by Antony Brown
2.50 STORIES AND RHYMES. ' Five Children and It ': three-part serial from the book by E. Nesbit. Part 2. Adapted by Julia Goodey

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Eggleton
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
Missouri
Script By:
Antony Brown
Book By:
E. Nesbit.
Adapted By:
Julia Goodey

Regional Variations (4)

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Children's Hour: talk; songs for St. Valentine's Day; Y to Ifanc; sgwrs. ' Y Byd a'r Betws.'

BBC Home Service Welsh

Children's Hour: play. 'The Adventures of Samuel Poppleton.'

BBC Home Service North

' Tiger Mountain '
A South-American adventure by Angus MacVicar
Conclusion:
' The Dark Gods from the Sun '
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden
Excitement begins to rise as the time of the Festival of the Sun draws near. Radagoya does not believe in the use of force and refuses to call in the army against the rebellious de Vaca. But Colonel Abbott has an alternative plan. Will ' the dark gods from the sun ' arrive in time?
5.30 ' Searching for Songs': a .talk by Margaret J. Miller on the work of Cecil Sharp 'I sowed the seeds of love,
And I sowed them in the spring: I gathered them up in the morning so soon, While the small birds so sweetly sing'

Contributors

Unknown:
Angus MacVicar
Produced By:
Kathleen Garscadden
Talk By:
Margaret J. Miller
Colonel Abbott, v c:
Archie Henry
Jock Mitchell, his adopted son:
Neil Brown
Roderick MacDougall, his batman:
Robert Sloss
Pedro Garcia, a Paraguayan guide:
Bryden Murdoch
Rona Cunningham:
Hilary Paterson
Miss Harriet McGillivray. her grand-aunt:
Jean Wilkinson
Radagoya, High Priest of the Pyramid:
Leonard Maguire
Salazar, the chief scribe:
Douglas Murchle
Wee Jimmy:
Moira Pedersen
Alonso de Vaca (The Tiger):
Rikki
Lt Bill Curtis, U S A A F:
Fulton

Regional Variations (3)

Welsh serial: Teulu Tv Coch.

BBC Home Service Welsh

What's Your Fancy?: listeners' requests (records).

BBC Home Service West

Bridging the Gap-the Limits of Agricultural Expansion
4-Mechanisation by Frank Henderson of Enstone, Oxfordshire and A. B. Lees of Coventry, Warwickshire
A. B. Lees, adviser to a firm of agricultural machinery manufacturers, discusses with Frank Henderson , who has a highly mechanised eighty-acre farm, how a knowledgeable use of machinery can expand food production.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Henderson
Unknown:
A. B. Lees
Unknown:
Frank Henderson

Regional Variations (4)

The Devil a Saint

BBC Home Service North

Band Night: Woodfalls Silver Band

BBC Home Service West

As North.

BBC Home Service Midland

A revue by professional artists under twenty-one years old
Ann Hart , Leslie Crowther Jean Stone , Dulcie Walker
Louise Traill. Gillian Eastwood
Gordon Skelt Andrew 's
Ilford Girls' Choir
Conducted by Eric Gilder
Augmented Dance Orchestra Conducted by Stanley Black
Script by Peter Jeffries
Peter Myers. Alec Grahame
Produced by Frederick Piffard

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Hart
Unknown:
Leslie Crowther
Unknown:
Jean Stone
Unknown:
Dulcie Walker
Unknown:
Louise Traill.
Unknown:
Gillian Eastwood
Unknown:
Gordon Skelt Andrew
Conducted By:
Eric Gilder
Conducted By:
Stanley Black
Script By:
Peter Jeffries
Script By:
Peter Myers.
Unknown:
Alec Grahame
Produced By:
Frederick Piffard

Regional Variations (2)

BBC Welsh Orchestra; Howell Glynne (bass).

BBC Home Service Welsh

The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentley (violin)
Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cellos
Harry Isaacs (piano)
Before an audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London

Contributors

Violin:
Erich Gruenberg
Violin:
Lionel Bentley
Viola:
Keith Cummings
Cellos:
Douglas Cameron
Piano:
Harry Isaacs

with Kitty Bluett
Peter Sellers , Patricia Hayes Graham Stark , Charles Leno
John Hanson , The King's Men
Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra
Script by Eddie Maguire
George Wadmore , and Ted Ray
Produced by George Inns

Contributors

Unknown:
Kitty Bluett
Unknown:
Peter Sellers
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Graham Stark
Unknown:
Charles Leno
Unknown:
John Hanson
Script By:
Eddie Maguire
Script By:
George Wadmore
Script By:
Ted Ray
Produced By:
George Inns

The New Approach
The story of the recent reconnaissance expedition told by its leader, Eric Shipton , and four other members of the 1951 party -W. H. Murray , Dr. Michael Ward , T. D. Bourdillon , and Earle Riddiford-in conversation with John Morris , who was a member of the 1922 and 1936 expeditions

Contributors

Leader:
Eric Shipton
Unknown:
W. H. Murray
Unknown:
Dr. Michael Ward
Unknown:
T. D. Bourdillon
Unknown:
Earle Riddiford-In
Unknown:
John Morris

Regional Variations (2)

First Impressions of I-ndia talk by Eric Ashby, Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast.

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Prospecting Under the Sea-Bed by Maurice N. Hill of the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics in the University of Cambridge
About two-thirds of the earth is covered by water and as yet little is knowp about the earth's ciust below the sea. But shock waves from depth charges penetrate deeply into the earth's crust and, as Dr. Hill describes, by recording what returns to the surface it is possible to find out about the structure of the earth many miles below the sea.

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice N. Hill

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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