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Prayer
All people that on earth do dwell
(S.P. 443, omitting v. 5; A. and M. 166, omitting v. 5: C.H. 229; P. and H. 1, omitting v. 5: Tune, Old Hundredth)
Interlude: ' Deliverance from Slavery'
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Prayers; the Prayer for God's Presence; the Lord's Prayer
He who would valiant be (S.P. 515;
A. and M. 676; C.H. 576; P. and H. 122: Tune, Monks Gate)
Blessing

TRAVEL TALKS. ' Growing Corn in the Middle West. ' Programme written and narrated by John Usborne. (BBC recording)
2.20 LOOKING AT THINGS. Tables, chairs. and desks: a talk by a designer of furniture
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I. The Wanderings of Odysseus. 3-' The Island of Circe.' Script by Silvia Goodall

Contributors

Unknown:
Middle West.
Unknown:
John Usborne.
Script By:
Silvia Goodall

For Older Listeners
'Biggles and the Pirate Treasure'
Four Biggles adventures adapted by Bertha Lonsdale from stories in the book by Captain W.E. Johns
2- 'Biggles and the Case of the Obliging Tourist'
Production by Trevor Hill
5.40 Talking Time
6 - 'My First Job' by Molly Weir
Actresses, like other artists, often begin by doing something else. Molly Weir, at the age of fifteen, entered 'the world of commerce,' as she puts it, as a typist at fifteen shillings a week. But she got much more than fifteen shillings a week worth of fun out of it.....

Contributors

Adapted By:
Bertha Lonsdale
Production By:
Trevor Hill
Unknown:
Molly Weir
Storyteller:
Norman Richley
Biggies:
Jack Watson
Algy:
Barrie Hesketh
Ginger:
Norman Somers
Bertie:
Nigel Davenport
Alice Hall. a former WAAF on Biggles's wartime station:
Daphne Oxenford
Carlo Antonio Barrosa:
Norman Shelley
Mr Cermak 1:
Graham Tennant
The husband:
Graham Tennant
His wife:
Daphne Oxenford
Inspector Gaskin, of Scotland Yard:
Don Rae
Policewoman Grey:
Valerie Skardon
The Contessa di Malliori, alias ' Mary Jones:
Valerie Skardon

(piano)
Chopin
Eight Studies:
E flat minor. Op. 10 No. 6; C sharp minor. Op. 10 No. 4; A flat. Op. 25 No. 1: C, Op. 10 No. 7: F minor. Op. 25 No. 2; G flat, Op. 25 No. 9; F. Op. 25 No. 3; F. Op. 10 No. 8
Barcarolle in F sharp. Op. 60 Impromptu in F sharp, Op. 36 Impromptu in A flat, Op. 29 Nocturne in E, Op. 62 No. 2 Scherzo in B minor, Op. 20

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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