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Prayer
Awake mv soul (S.P. 25. omitting vv.
2. 4 and Parts 2 and 3: A. and M. 3, omitting vv. 2, 4 and Part 2: C.H. 256. omitting vv. 2. 4, 5: P. and H. 172. omitting v. 3: Tune. Morning Hymn)
Interlude: ' The Boyhood of Jesus' Prayers; the Prayer for God's Presence: the Lords Prayer
Be thou my vision (BBC Supplement
2; C.H. 477, omitting vv. 4, 5: Tune: Slane)
Blessing

Regional Variations (2)

For Welsh Schools. Rhigwm a Chan.

BBC Home Service Welsh

Interval music
10.0 RARI.Y STAGES IN FRENCH
A programme in simple French, in which listeners are invited ta take an active part. Script by Jean-Jacques Oberlin.
Scène: 'A la Gare d'Austerlitz.' Monsieur and Madame Lefort meet their niece, Marie-Thercse, at the station.

Contributors

Script By:
Jean-Jacques OBErlin.
Script By:
Madame Lefort

Regional Variations (2)

Schools. The Storv of Wales: Roman Invasion of Britain.

BBC Home Service Welsh

music AND MOVEMENT I, by Marjorie Eele
Repeated on Thursday at 9.55 a.m.
11.20 CENTRAL SCIENCE. Heat. I-Early Ideas About Heat. Script by J. G. Porter , Ph.D.
11.40 RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY. 'Jesus Christ: History, Interpretation and Faith.' 1-A Historical Religion: introductory talk by Robert C. Walton

Contributors

Unknown:
Marjorie Eele
Script By:
J. G. Porter
Talk By:
Robert C. Walton

A spontaneous discussion by Mary Stocks , Jeremy Thorpe
Sir Robert Boothby , K.B.F., M.P .
The Rt. Hon.
Emanuel Shinwell M.P ,.
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
From the Church House.
Mullion, Cornwall

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Stocks
Unknown:
Jeremy Thorpe
Unknown:
Sir Robert Boothby , K.B.F., M.P
Unknown:
Emanuel Shinwell M.P
Question-Master:
Freddy Grisewood

STORIES AND RHYMES. ' The Twins with Stars in their Foreheads': a Portuguese fairy-tale adapted for broadcasting by Norma Douglas-Henry
2.20 SENIOR ENGLISH ii. Charles Dickens : a biographical programme. Script by Gladys Scott Thomson
2.40 NATURE CALENDAR.
2.45 NATURE STUDY. 'The Little Owl.' Script by Christine Dudley. (BBC recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Norma Douglas-Henry
Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Script By:
Gladys Scott Thomson
Script By:
Christine Dudley.

Regional Variations (3)

Children's Hour. ' Exploring the Hut Country ' with Betty. lain and the Hut-Man. ' The Boys of Glen Morroch —1: serial.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Children's Hour in Welsh. Story. BBC Welsh Orchestra. Talk.

BBC Home Service Welsh

A Nursery Sing-Song with Vi and Herbert
' The Four Umbrellas' by Doris Rust told by Rosalie Williams
5.25 For Children of Most Ages
' C for Children, and H for Hour' Geoffrey gives the results of the competition he set on August 21 and Day Out
Last of a new series of holiday excursions by W. R. Dalzell
3-Penshurst Place
A visit to the home of Lord De L'Isle and Dudley, v.c., and the house in the heart of Kent where the great Elizabethan scholar and soldier, Sir Philip Sidney , was born. The house is notable, among many things, for its splendid Baron's Hall, with the original timbered roof and for the armoury.

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Rust
Told By:
Rosalie Williams
Unknown:
W. R. Dalzell
Unknown:
Sir Philip Sidney

Regional Variations (3)

Pipes and Drums by the Clan Fraser Pipe Band.

BBC Home Service Scottish

The Mystery Story of the Future: talk by L. A. Knight.

BBC Home Service Welsh

An all-in comedy match between Freddie Sales
Wyn Calvin , Leslie Adams
Inter-round notes by the Peter Crawford Trio and the BBC Northern Dance Band
Promoted by James Casey

Contributors

Unknown:
Freddie Sales
Unknown:
Wyn Calvin
Unknown:
Leslie Adams
Unknown:
Peter Crawford Trio
Unknown:
James Casey

Regional Variations (2)

Encore!: highlights of the musical stage. Heather Harper: John Hargreaves; BBC Midland Chorus and Light Orchestra.

BBC Home Service Midland

presenting
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Lehmann
Overture: The Impresario (Mozart)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Guido Cantelll
Symphony No. 4, in A (The Italian)
(Mendelssohn)
N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Arturo Toscaninl
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey
(The Twilight of the Gods)
(Wagner) on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Fritz Lehmann
Conducted By:
Guido Cantelll
Conducted By:
Arturo Toscaninl

Regional Variations (2)

'Laansen Zizes': Cornish dialect story.

BBC Home Service West

by J. B. Priestley
At the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow J. B. Priestley yesterday unveiled a memorial plaque to James Bridie, the Scottish playwright who died in 1951. Tonight he speaks of Bridie's place in the theatre.

Contributors

Unknown:
J. B. Priestley

An anthology of Anglo-American off-beat humour
Compiled by David Climie with Miriam Karlin , Kenneth Connor
Deryck Guyler , Graham Stark Georgia Brown , David Jacobs
Music composed by Stanley Myers additional music by Alfred Ralston played by Malcolm Lockyer and his Off-Beats
Produced by Roy Specr

Contributors

Unknown:
David Climie
Unknown:
Miriam Karlin
Unknown:
Kenneth Connor
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Graham Stark
Unknown:
Georgia Brown
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Composed By:
Stanley Myers
Music By:
Alfred Ralston
Played By:
Malcolm Lockyer
Produced By:
Roy Specr

Regional Variations (3)

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

BBC Northern Orchestra: Symphony No. 31 in D (K.297) (Paris) (Mozart); Suite. Rakastava (Sibelius): Symphony No. 5 in D (Vaughan Williams).

BBC Home Service North

Brompton Oratory Choir
Director, Henry Washington
From the Little Oratory Chapel

Contributors

Director:
Henry Washington

Regional Variations (2)

A series of specially chosen programmes
The experiences of a musician on military service by Jeremy Sandford with Ian Lubbock and Gerald Fox-Salamon.
Music composed by Jeremy Sandford and conducted by Charles Mackciras
Produced by David Thomson
Series edited by David Thomson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Sandford
Unknown:
Ian Lubbock
Unknown:
Gerald Fox-Salamon
Composed By:
Jeremy Sandford
Conducted By:
Charles MacKciras
Produced By:
David Thomson
Edited By:
David Thomson
Bandmaster:
Malcolm Graeme
Sergeant:
Geoffrey Lumsden
Jeremy:
Kenneth Haigh
Saul Piccolo:
Frank Partington
Jackie Clarinet:
Alan Bates
Josh Cornet:
Clarence Wright
Junker Jim:
Charles Hawtrey
Tom Euphonium:
Alun Owen
Max Sax:
Bill Beesley
Annie:
Margaret Flint

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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