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RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Gladys Whitred
11.20 GEOGRAPHY. North America. A programme about geographical changes in the Southern Appalachians. Script by Mervyn Jones.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. Die Versteigerung. Walter und Eva gehen zum erstenmal zu einer Versteigerung und durch Zufall machen sie einen Uberraschenden Gelegenheitskauf. Manuskript von Hilde Maria Kraus

Contributors

Unknown:
Gladys Whitred
Script By:
Mervyn Jones.
Unknown:
Uberraschenden Gelegenheitskauf.
Unknown:
Manuskript von Hilde Maria Kraus

ADVENTURES IN ENGLISH. A poetry programme based on the introduction to ' Come Hither,' the anthology by Walter de la Mare , and including ' The Way through the Woods ' by Rudyard Kipling , 'The Deserted House ' by M. E. Coleridge , and ' This is the Key of the Kingdom.' Script by Ruth Ainsworth
2.20 HISTORY i. Owen Tudor. The story of his secret marriage to Catherine de Valois. widow of King Henry V . Script by Antonia Ridge
2.40 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. Health at Home and at Work. 1— The Search for Vitamins (i). Script by F. Le Gros Clark

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter de la Mare
Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
M. E. Coleridge
Script By:
Ruth Ainsworth
Unknown:
Owen Tudor.
Unknown:
Catherine De Valois.
Unknown:
Henry V
Script By:
Antonia Ridge
Script By:
F. Le Gros Clark

A play by Marcel Pagnol Translated from the French and adapted for radio by Barbara Bray
Characters in order of speaking:
Place : The ' Marine' bar on the quayside in Marseilles
Time: About twenty-five years ago
Produced by Donald McWhinnie
(The recorded broadcast of April 11)

Contributors

Play By:
Marcel Pagnol
Unknown:
Barbara Bray
Produced By:
Donald McWhinnie

For Listeners of All Ages
'Spring Fever'
Another of the ' Cameo Cartoons written and produced for radio by Trevor Hill
Incidental music by Ray Martin who conducts the BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
(Leader. Norman George ) and a section of the Littlewoods Girls' Choir
Produced in the BBC's North of England studios
5.30 ' When birds do sing'
The second of a series of three programmes in which Ludwig Koch plays some of his famous recordings to Norman Creek followed by Two-Piano Duets played by Robert andJoan South

Contributors

Unknown:
Trevor Hill
Music By:
Ray Martin
Leader:
Norman George
Unknown:
Ludwig Koch
Unknown:
Norman Creek
Unknown:
Joan South
Storyteller:
Noel Johnson
Floppy:
Violet Carson
Loppy:
Philip Waddilove
Bobtail:
Doris Gambell
Sammy, the Canadian Grey Squirrel:
Herbert Smith
Benjamin Badger H'Esquire:
Fred Fairclough
Mortimer Mole:
Jimmy Thompson
Hector, the mad Hare:
Fred Wilson
Oliver Owl:
Norman Somers
Caraway Crow:
The Author

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