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RHYTHM AND MELODY
Choir from
Cathay's High School, Cardiff
BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Songs arranged and orchestrated by Grace Williams
Programme introduced by Gladys Whitred
11.20 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. Overcoming Distance. 9-' Voices Across Space.' Script by John Richmond
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. Im Seekurort: Sonnenschein und Regen. Freuden und Leiden-das alles in der richtigen Mischung! Text von Milo Sperber.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Arwel Hughes
Unknown:
Grace Williams
Introduced By:
Gladys Whitred
Script By:
John Richmond
Unknown:
Milo Sperber.

NATURE STUDY. Nature Quiz
2.15 THE music Box, by Gordon Reynolds
2.25 HISTORY II. ' T. E. Lawrence and the Arabs': a Briton helps to organise the Arab revolt against the Turks in the 1914-18 war. Script by John Kennett.
2.50 STORIES AND RHYMES.Connla of the Golden Hair': an adaptation by Sam Langdon of the Irish story by Una na Cahill

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Unknown:
T. E. Lawrence
Script By:
John Kennett.
Unknown:
Sam Langdon
Story By:
Una Na Cahill

An outside broadcast about archaeology
Introduced by Audrey Russell from the Society of Antiquaries in London
In this programme commentators describe some of the modern methods used to discover how and where our forebears lived. Charles Gardner , from an aircraft, describes some ancient remains near Peterborough: Frank Gillard watches a hamlet of the dark ages being excavated in Cornwall, and David Lloyd James describes the work of reconstruction at the British Museum Laboratory

Contributors

Introduced By:
Audrey Russell
Unknown:
Charles Gardner
Unknown:
Frank Gillard
Unknown:
David Lloyd James

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

A series of four talks by Bertrand Russell , o.M.
1-Alfred North Whitehead. O.M.
Bertrand Russell 's first portrait is of a philosopher and mathematician who profoundly influenced the intellectual life of his generation by his books and his teaching. One of these books was ' Principia Mathematical of which Bertrand Russell was joint author. In this talk he recalls the early years of this century when he and Whitehead were collaborating in the preparation of their famous joint work.
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Contributors

Unknown:
Bertrand Russell
Unknown:
Bertrand Russell
Unknown:
Bertrand Russell

A weekly programme about work in the world of science
A Tree with a Past: the Dawn Redwood, or Metasequois by F. W. Jane , D.sc.
Professor of Botany in the University of London
The Dawn Redwood was discovered seven years ago in China. It is a legacy from antiquity and as such has attracted considerable attention-so much so that Professor Jane has described it as the journalists' tree. In this talk he explains the reasons for its popularity.

Contributors

Unknown:
F. W. Jane

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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