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Let's Join In
'Who Stole the Turnips?' by Arthur Ransome. Radio adaptation by Sam Langdon

2.20 Adventures in Music: Behind the Scenes at the Opera
A talk by Charles Mackerras, illustrated with recorded interviews with Jennifer Vyvyan and Peter Potter

2.40 History II: Burke and Wills cross Australia
Script by Henry Marshall

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Ransome
Unknown:
Sam Langdon
Talk By:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Jennifer Vyvyan
Unknown:
Peter Potter
Script By:
Henry Marshall

by Eden Phillpotts
Other parts played by Joyce Worsley , Yvonne Bonnamy Brewster Mason. Ronald Baddiley
Peter Jeffrey , Douglas Leach
Produced by Patrick Dromgoole from a BBC West of England studio

Contributors

Unknown:
Eden Phillpotts
Played By:
Joyce Worsley
Played By:
Yvonne Bonnamy
Played By:
Brewster Mason.
Played By:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
Peter Jeffrey
Unknown:
Douglas Leach
Produced By:
Patrick Dromgoole
Gregory Merdle:
George Woodbridge
Mrs Ford:
Phyllis Smate
Amos Thorn:
Denis Raymond
Nellie Caunter:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Nicholas Caunter:
Patrick Westwood
Jerry Masterman:
George Holloway

from Ely Cathedral
Preces (Gibbons)
Psalms for the Thirteenth Evening
First Lesson: Genesis 46, v. 26, to
47. v. 12
Audi benigne Conditor (E.H. 66)
Magnificat (Walmisley in D minor) Second Lesson: Philippians 3
Nunc dimittis (Walmisley in D minor) Creed
Lesser Litany; the Lord's Prayer;
Responses; Collects
Anthem: Wash me throughly
(Wesley)
State and Embertide prayers Blessing
Organist and Master of the Choristers,
Michael Howard
Assistant organist, Arthur Wills

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Howard
Organist:
Arthur Wills

For Older Children
Marius Goring in ' The Eagle of the Ninth' from the book by Rosemary Sutcliff adapted by Felix Felton
3—' Marching Orders '
Placidus, a young tribune
Robert Bernal
Production by David Davis
When the young Roman centurion Marcus Aquila came to Great Britain in his first military command he hoped to solve the mystery of the Ninth Hispana Legion. Badly wounded in defending his fort against a British attack, he was now staying with his Uncle Aquila at Silchester. At the Saturnalia Games there he had seen and persuaded his uncle to purchase for him a young British slave, by name Esca, who had taken part in a gladiatorial duel. It was from Esca that Marcus learned more about the lost Ninth Legion.
5.50 Children's Hour prayers for Lent conducted by Canon Fred Stallard
2—' Jesus in the Temple '

Contributors

Unknown:
Marius Goring
Book By:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Adapted By:
Felix Felton
Production By:
David Davis
Unknown:
Marcus Aquila
Conducted By:
Canon Fred
Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young cohort commander:
Marius Goring
Esca his slave:
Martin Starkie
Uncle Aquila:
Laidman Browne
Cottia:
Ann Totten
Rufrius Galarius a surgeon:
John Glyn-Jones
Claudius Hieronimianus legate of Victrix:
Ralph Truman

Five broadcasts on European painting by Eric Newton
I-Families of Styles
Our enjoyment of pictures is too often hampered by the jargon of the art critics. Semi-technical terms like expressionism ' and cubism '—even ' realism or * romanticism '—are often used so imprecisely that they confuse where they should illuminate. To clear up this confusion is one of Mr. Newton's aims in this series: to give more precise meanings to such terms; to show by illustration and example how a clearer understanding of the ' isms' and their relationship to each other can contribute greatly to our pleasure in art.
Next Wednesday: Period Vision
An illustrated pamphlet price 2s. 6d. (containing fifty-three reproductions, six in colour) may be obtained through newsagents or booksellers, or post free from [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Newton

Its Rise and Fall
Three programmes by Isaac Deutscher
It is four years since, on March 5, 1953, Joseph Stalin died. Ever since then the people of the Soviet Union have been living under the sign of de-Stalinisation.
De-Stalinisation epitomises a clash between the Stalin myth which dominated the life of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century and the nation's desire to free itself from the myth.
Tonight, in the first of three programmes, the birth and growth of the Stalin myth is traced.
Produced by Laurence Gilliam

Contributors

Unknown:
Isaac Deutscher
Unknown:
Joseph Stalin
Produced By:
Laurence Gilliam

BBC Home Service Basic

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