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let's JOIN in. The Little Red Engine is Busy ' by Diana Ross
2.20 ADVENTURES in MUSIC. - The Little Sweep ': a shortened version of Benjamin Britten 's children's opera introduced by William Appleby
2.40 history ii. ' The Australian Gold Rush.' Script by Henry Marshall

Contributors

Unknown:
Diana Ross
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Introduced By:
William Appleby
Script By:
Henry Marshall

by Nancy Brysson Morrison
Other parts played by Effie Morrison and Joan Fitzpatrick
Produced by Finlay J. Macdonald
(A new production of the play previously broadcast in the Scottish Home Service on December 24, 1955)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Brysson Morrison
Played By:
Effie Morrison
Played By:
Joan Fitzpatrick
Produced By:
Finlay J. MacDonald
Father Bernard:
Bryden Murdoch
Grannie:
Meg Buchanan
Kirsty:
Nora Laidlaw
Lady Wain:
Maud Risdon
Maysie Wain:
Margot van Der Burgh
Rachel:
Mary Riggans
Effle:
Hilary Thomson

For Older Children
Marius Goring in 'The Eagle of the Ninth'
From the book by Rosemary Sutcliff
Adapted by Felix Felton
2 — 'The Saturnalia Games'
Production by David Davis
' A long march, a long march
And twenty years in store,
When I left my girl at Clusium
Beside the threshing floor '
Rosemary Sutcliff writes on page 8
5.50 Children's Hour prayers for Lent
Conducted by Canon Fred Stallard
' Forty days until Easter '

Contributors

Unknown:
Marius Goring
Book By:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Adapted By:
Felix Felton
Production By:
David Davis
Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Conducted By:
Canon Fred Stallard
Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young cohort commander:
Marius Goring
Clodius Maxitnus, the temporary relief commander:
Lewis Stringer
Autus, the fort surgeon:
Richard Williams
Cassius, the new fort commander:
Lionel Gamlin
Uncle Aquila:
Laidman Browne
Esca a young Briton:
Martin Starkie
Cottia:
Ann Totten
Narcissa, her nurse:
Mary Morrell

Three programmes on the meaning, progress, and social consequences of automation
3-The Effects on People
Frank Pickstock
Organising Secretary
Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies,
University of Oxford puts some of the questions he hears discussed to a panel of people interested in the progress of automation and in its social effects
On the panel:
Lord Halsbury
Managing Director. National
Research Development Corporation
Sir Frederic Hooper an industrialist with special interests in the development of overseas trade
Edwin Fletcher
Secretary of the Production Department of the T.U.C.
Bruce Miller
Lecturer in Politics at University College, Leicester the ' semi-informed layman ' who conducted the first two programmes in this series

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Pickstock
Unknown:
Sir Frederic Hooper
Unknown:
Edwin Fletcher

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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