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Travel Talks: Round the Commonwealth
Cy Grant talks about his childhood in a sugar-growing district of British Guiana.

2.20 Looking at Things: Restaurants and Snack Bars

2.40 Senior English I: Poetry Programme: A Tale of Country Things
by John Masefield.

Contributors

Presenter (Travel Talks):
Cy Grant
Script (Looking at Things):
Barbara Naish
Presenter (Senior English I):
John Masefield

[Starring] Dick Bentley and Jimmy Edwards
with Wallas Eaton, Alma Cogan, June Whitfield.
The Keynotes
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz

(Yesterday's recorded broadcast in the Light Programme)
(Jimmy Edwards is appearing in 'The Talk of the Town' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Contributors

Script:
Frank Muir
Script:
Denis Norden
Producer:
Charles Maxwell
Singers:
The Keynotes
Musicians:
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
[Orchestra] conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Announcer:
David Dunhill
Comedian:
Dick Bentley
Comedian:
Jimmy Edwards
[Actor]:
Wallas Eaton
[Actor]:
Alma Cogan
[Actress]:
June Whitfield

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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