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' The Animals who Sang '
Story by Mary Wilson read by Effie Morrison
Carols for very young children sung by the Scottish Junior Singers
Conductor, Agnes Duncan
Silent Night
The story behind the Christmas song by Joe Corrie
Guitarist, Norman Quinney
Organist. Barbara Laing
More carols sung by the Scottish Junior Singers
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden

Contributors

Story By:
Mary Wilson
Read By:
Effie Morrison
Conductor:
Agnes Duncan
Unknown:
Joe Corrie
Organist:
Norman Quinney
Organist:
Barbara Laing
Produced By:
Kathleen Garscadden
Father Mhor, a priest:
Lain Cuthbertson
Martha, his housekeeper:
Miriam Owens
Hans Heidi, a villager:
Tom Smith
Jacob Krespel, a poor charcoal-burner:
Robert Sloss
Anna, his wife:
Isobel Spouse
Franz Gruber, an organist:
Douglas Robin
Liese, his young daughter:
Margaret Love
Herr Hautmartin, a villager:
David Webster
Herr Strasser, a glove-maker:
Arthur Boland
Herr Trebor Director of Music:
Iain Cuthbertson
The King of Saxony:
Robert Sloss

Appeal on behalf of the Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops, by Lt.-General Lord Freyberg, V.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be sent to [address removed]
For more than fifty-seven years the Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops has worked unceasingly for the benefit of all serving and ex-Service men and women, and more than three million have been helped. In the Lord Roberts Workshops the men of three wars, with an average disability of sixty per cent, have been trained and employed to produce furniture of all kinds, bedding, basketware, and brushes.
In a Training Centre in Surrey, specially equipped for spinal cases, the more severely disabled are being trained in clock assembly and repair and in invisible mending-remunerative crafts which the men can follow later from the shelter of their own homes. Other centres are established for the aged, for the disabled and convalescent, and the Society maintains twenty-two Cottage Homes. The Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops is a voluntary organisation and needs funds to continue its vital work.

Contributors

Speaker:
Lt.-General Lord Freyberg

A novel by John P. Marquand adapted as a serial in twelve parts by H. Oldfield Box
12-' You'd better think fast '
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham
Angered because Madge had taken advantage of his absence in Hollywood to persuade Jim to enlist (and so separate him from Sally Sales), Jeffrey has stayed on in Hollywood, with Marianna Miller. And feeling suddenly released from the weight of his worries and responsibilities, he has at last begun to write a play of his own.
But the play, when finished, has proved worthless. Jeffrev sees that the course of his life has become too firmly set for any permanent escape to be possible. The bond that binds him to Jim is too strong anyway; and the threat of the war situation remains.
And so he has returned to his own family, to take up the old routine.

Contributors

Novel By:
John P. Marquand
Unknown:
H. Oldfield Box
Produced By:
Wilfrid Grantham
Jeffrey Wilson:
Bernard Braden
Madge, his wife:
Helen Horton
Jim his elder son:
Geoffrey Matthews
Gwen his daughter:
Rowena Cooper
Sally Sales:
Ann Moffatt
Radio Announcer:
Leonard Trolley

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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