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Regional Variations (2)

I'r Ysgolion: Materion y Dvdd.

BBC Home Service Welsh

by Maurice Hussey

For his own peace of mind, the speaker says, he is determined to cling to his conviction that the earth is flat - no matter what proofs scientists may produce to the contrary. He explains what the earth is like as he sees it and why he prefers it that way; and offers some help, by the way, to the Bureau of Missing Persons.

Contributors

Speaker:
Maurice Hussey

music AND MOVEMENT I, by Marjorie. Eele
To be repeated tomorrow at 9.45 a.m.
11.20 HISTORY I. 'Gerald the Welsh-man': a character study of one of the most interesting and outstanding Welshmen of the Middle Ages. Script by Sam Langdon
11.45 EARLY STAGES IN FRENCH. Listeners are asked to take an active part in this simple French programme.
They can hear Tante Rosine talking to the concierge. Script by Émile Harven

Contributors

Script By:
Sam Langdon
Unknown:
Tante Rosine

Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by Ralph Wightman , Mary Stocks
Graham Hutton , Robert Henriques
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
From the Queen's Hall,
Barnstaple. Devon

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Wightman
Unknown:
Mary Stocks
Unknown:
Graham Hutton
Unknown:
Robert Henriques
Unknown:
Barnstaple. Devon

Regional Variations (2)

Schools: Scottish Affairs.

BBC Home Service Scottish

FOR THE FOURTEENS. Right or Wrong. 3-' It's up to me.' Script by Christine Dudley
2.20 ADVENTURES in music. Handel: last of three illustrated talks by Roger Fiske
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH II. ' The Moon-stone.' by Wilkie Collins , adapted for broadcasting by Penelope Knox. Part 3

Contributors

Script By:
Christine Dudley
Unknown:
Roger Fiske
Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Broadcasting By:
Penelope Knox.

from Ely Cathedral
Versicles and Responses (Smith)
Psalm 37 (Oxford Psalter)
First Lesson: Job 4
Earth's mighty maker (E.H. 59)
Magnificat (Byrd, Third Service)
Second Lesson: St. Luke 1, vv. 24-56
Nunc dimittis (Byrd, Third Service)
Creed, Suffrages, Collects
Anthem: O Christ, who art the light and day (Byrd) (words as E.H. 81)
Prayers
Organist, Dr. Sidney S. Campbell

Contributors

Organist:
Dr. Sidney S. Campbell

Regional Variations (4)

Children's Hour. Story*; play.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Children's Hour. Story; school choir*-: talk: piano.

BBC Home Service Midland

Awr y Plant: cystadleuaeth gerddorol: ' Cledwyn Miles ac Arlios y Dynion Eira ': drama dditectif-2.

BBC Home Service Welsh

A nursery sing-song with Doris and Trevor and Nancy Harris at the piano
' Edward's Adventure '
A story by Marion Suckley
Told by Herbert Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Harris
Story By:
Marion Suckley
Told By:
Herbert Smith

Regional Variations (3)

Children's Hour: ' Nature Diary,' by Arnold Benington

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Children's Hour: wandering with Nomad, the naturalist.

BBC Home Service North

Music played by the Stoneleigh Junior Orchestra
Conductor, H. Edward Gough
' Where Ant-hills are as high as Lamp-posts': talk by Hugh Barty-King

Contributors

Conductor:
H. Edward Gough
Talk By:
Hugh Barty-King

Regional Variations (5)

The Three Strausses. BBC Midland Light Orchestra.

BBC Home Service Midland

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Wilfred Pickles in ' Under the Barber's Pole ': play.

BBC Home Service North

'Soiree': an entertainment for older folks.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Another incident in the career of Police-Constable Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby
Script by Alan Stranks
10—' The Case of the Heart of Gold '
Produced by Vernon Harris
(The recorded broadcast of July 7 in the Light Programme)

Contributors

Unknown:
Police-Constable Archibald
Script By:
Alan Stranks
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
P C 49:
Brian Reece
Joan:
Joy Shelton
Chief Inspector Wilson:
Leslie Perrins
Detective-Sgt Wright:
Eric Phillips
Phineas Gold:
Carleton Hobbs
Mungo Fletcher:
Deryck Guyler
John Callender:
James Raglan
Sergeant Frost:
Frank Foster

Regional Variations (5)

Hymn-Singing; St. Thomas' Parish Church Choir; Choir-Master. L. G. Mitchelbourne Symes

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Theatre Call: excerpt from ' The Blue Lamp.' From the Grand Theatre. Blackpool.

BBC Home Service North

The Faith in the West, including a description of the meeting of Cornish Churchmen in Truro.

BBC Home Service West

Scotland Sings: Hall Russell Male Voice Choir; the Strilla Singers.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Talk by Dr. Erik Routley ,
Chaplain of Mansfield College, Oxford
Illustrations by the BBC Singers
Organist, Dr. George Thalben-Ball
Dr. Routley writes on page 6

Contributors

Talk By:
Dr. Erik Routley
Organist:
Dr. George Thalben-Ball

Four feature programmes based on Chester Wilmot 's book and on contemporary documents
I-From Nazi-Soviet Pact to Grand Alliance
Written and narrated by Chester Wilmot
Produced by Laurence Gilliam
In this series of broadcasts the diplomacy. and strategy of rhe Second World War are re-examined in an attempt to discover why Germany was defeated, and how Russia became the dominant power in Europe.
Laurence Gilliam writes on page 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Chester Wilmot
Unknown:
Chester Wilmot
Produced By:
Laurence Gilliam

with Thorley Walters , Norman Shelley and supporting cast
Script by Sid Colin and David Climie
Music composed by Alan Paul and played by Alan Paul and his Music-Makers
(Leader. Max Jaffa )
Production by Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Unknown:
Thorley Walters
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Script By:
Sid Colin
Script By:
David Climie
Composed By:
Alan Paul
Played By:
Alan Paul
Leader:
Max Jaffa
Production By:
Audrey Cameron

Regional Variations (5)

The Ernest Element Quartet: Tom Bromley (piano). Dvorak.

BBC Home Service Midland

' The McFlannels.'

BBC Home Service Scottish

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

BBC Northern Orchestra. Dvorak.

BBC Home Service North

Loveridge-Martin-Hooton Trio:
David Martin (violin)
Florence Hooton (cello)
Iris Loveridge (piano)

Contributors

Violin:
David Martin
Cello:
Florence Hooton
Piano:
Iris Loveridge

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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