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STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. 'The Marathon.' Stories of the twenty-six-mile Olympic race. Script by Rhoda Power.
2.20 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. 'Across the Pacific' from 'Kon-tiki,' a narrative poem by Ian Serraillier
2.30 LET'S JOIN IN. ' The Good Luck Horse,' arranged for broadcasting by Miriam Langdon from the book by Chih-yi and Plato Chan. Part 2.
2.50 ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS
Excerpts from Act 1 of 'Hugh the Drover' by Vaughan Williams
Other parts by Fabian Smith. John Probyn and Keith Kennedy
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe)
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Introduced by John Russell

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Serraillier
Broadcasting By:
Miriam Langdon
Broadcasting By:
Plato Chan.
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Fabian Smith.
Unknown:
John Probyn
Unknown:
Keith Kennedy
Unknown:
Alan G. Melville
Leader:
John Sharpe
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson
Introduced By:
John Russell
Hugh:
Webster Booth
Mary:
Joyce Gartside

to welcome
Hermione Gingold and Alfred Marks with Lizbeth Webb
On Stage, Please!
Presenting an interlude by students In their last term at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Off the Record
Recording celebrity of the week,
Anne Shelton
Thanks for the Melody
Hits of yesterday and today played by Peter Yorke and his Concert Orchestra
Ipswich Girls' Choir
Conductor, W. H. Dixon
Production by Ronnie Hill
(Richard Attenborough broadcasts by permission of the Boulling Brothers; Lizbeth Webb is in 'Gay's the Word' at the Opera House, Manchester; Alfred Marks, in Variety at the Chiswick Empire)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hermione Gingold
Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
Lizbeth Webb
Unknown:
Anne Shelton
Played By:
Peter Yorke
Conductor:
W. H. Dixon
Production By:
Ronnie Hill
Unknown:
Richard Attenborough
Unknown:
Lizbeth Webb

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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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