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LET'S JOIN IN. Preparation for the Nativity Play.
This programme will help children to take part in next week's broadcast.
2.20 ADVENTURES IN MUSIC
Concert on Records
Composers of the Danube
Intermezzo from Hary Janos (Kodaly) Three Hungarian Folk Songs (
Matyas Seiber )
Rumanian Dance No. 2 (Bartok)
Slavonic Dance No. 1, in C (Dvorak)
2.40 HISTORY ii. ' Robert Owen , Script by Mervyn Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Hary Janos
Unknown:
Matyas Seiber
Unknown:
Robert Owen
Script By:
Mervyn Jones

' POLLY POSTES'
A radio play by Irene Hall based on the story by S. Baring-Gould
3.40 app. RESCUE' by Willmar Cardell
Plays produced by Patrick Dromgoole
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Contributors

Play By:
Irene Hall
Story By:
S. Baring-Gould
Unknown:
Willmar Cardell
Produced By:
Patrick Dromgoole
Roger Curnow:
Basil Jones
Polly:
Constance Chapman
Farmer Trewen:
Hedley Goodall
Will Kelynack:
Lewis Gedge
Tom:
Denis Raymond
Mrs James:
Irene Hall
Sam Bluett:
Bernard Fishwick
Percy:
Bedford Daniel
Jim Roberts:
Basil Jones
Ned Currah:
Bernard Fishwick
Cap'n Tadd:
Lewis Gedge
Simon Lawry:
Denis Raymond
Garfield Webb:
George Holloway

from Wells Cathedral
Sentence; Confession; Absolution The Lord's Prayer
Versicles and Responses (Morley) Psalms 27. 28, and 29 First Lesson: Isaiah 10, vv. 5-23
Magnificat (Howells: Collegium Regale)
Second Lesson: Revelation 8
Nunc dimittis (Howells: Collegium
Regale)
Creed; Suffrages; Collects
Anthem: Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons)
Prayers and the Grace
Organ Voluntary: Psalm Prelude
No. 1 (Howells)
Organist and Master of the Choristers,
Denys Pouncey
Assistant organist, Hugo Langrish

Contributors

Unknown:
Denys Pouncey
Organist:
Hugo Langrish

For Older Listeners
' The Silver Jet '
A two-part adventure by Margaret Potter
1 — ' The Barrier '
Production by Trevor Hill
Technical adviser on the script.
Gerald Hawkins. Ph.D.
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5.50 Children's Hour Prayers
' What I Like Best in the Bible ' by Ormerod Greenwood
1—' The Prophet Who Wouldn't
Answer the Door '

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Production By:
Trevor Hill
Unknown:
Gerald Hawkins.
Unknown:
Ormerod Greenwood
Professor Selby the scientist:
Bryden Murdoch
Bill Armstrong:
Noel Johnson
Dave Trelevan:
Philip Waddilove
Don Juan Cordilla, a metallurgist from Bolivia:
Norman Shelley
Keith Lovell:
Paul Webster
Sergeant Fraser, Livernool Branch of the Home Office:
Geoffrey Matthews
Driver:
Geoffrey Banks
Major Collins, of Northern Command:
Leonard Williams
Battery Sergeant-Major:
Herbert Smith
R A F Instructor:
Barrie Hesketh
Maggie, the Professor's housekeeper:
Valerie Skardon

Five programmes about some of the differences and sources of misunderstanding which arise between the French and the British on various aspects of social life and politics
4-The New Industrial France
Paul Willert , formerly British 'Air Attache in Paris and now in an Anglo-French business concerned with aviation, opens the programme with his views about industrial developments in France. Jacques Lesur, Managing Director of a large French textile firm, presents a Frenchman's view of the question, illustrating his points with recordings of individual Frenchmen.

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Willert

with Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe , Spike Milligan
The Ray Ellington Quartet
Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott
Announcer, Wallace Greenslade
Script by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Production by Pat Dixon

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Sellers
Unknown:
Harry Secombe
Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
Ray Ellington
Unknown:
Max Geldray
Conducted By:
Wally Stott
Announcer:
Wallace Greenslade
Script By:
Spike Milligan
Script By:
Larry Stephens
Production By:
Pat Dixon

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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