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Singing Together
by William Appleby
The girl I left behind me...trad. song
Greensleeves...English song, arr. Vaughan Williams
Heave away, my Johnny...Somerset shanty

11.20 How Things Began: 2: Metal smiths at work.
Script by Rhoda Power.
(BBC recording)

11.40 Intermediate French
A la fete foraine. Il fait une belle nuit de printemps, dit Andre apres le diner, si nous allions tous passer la soiree a une fete foraine! Quelle bonne idee! s'ecrie Marie-Madeleine.
Texte de Rene Leplat

Contributors

Script (How Things Began):
Rhoda Power
Script (Intermediate French):
Rene Leplat

Stories from World History: Horatius (c.510 B.C.).
Script by Phyllis Drayson

2.20 Prose and Verse Readings: Training a Hawk
from "The Goshawk" by T.H. White

2.30 Let's Join In: The Happy Day
A springtime story by Gertrude Yeoman, with music by Ann Driver

2.50 Orchestral Concerts: Verdi's "Il Trovatore"
Illustrated talk by Charles Mackerras.

3.10 Let's Hear It Again
Scherzo from the Piano Concerto No 2: Saint-Saens

Contributors

Script (Stories from World History):
Phyllis Drayson
Author (Prose and Verse Readings):
T.H. White
Writer (Let's Join In):
Gertrude Yeoman
Music (Let's Join In):
Ann Driver
Speaker (Orchestral Concerts):
Charles Mackerras

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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