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TRAVEL TALKS. A Village in the Andes. Script by A. L. Lloyd
2.20 THE BIBLE AND LIFE. Everyday Life in the Time of the Prophets. 3-The King's Court. Script by Margaret Boys.
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH 1. ' The Man from Alesia': a story from Roman times by Naomi Mitchison. Adapted for broadcasting by Garry Lyle

Contributors

Script By:
A. L. Lloyd
Script By:
Margaret Boys.
Unknown:
Naomi Mitchison.
Broadcasting By:
Garry Lyle

5.00 For Younger Listeners
'The Boy with the Green Thumb'
A series of six stories written by Barbara Euphan Todd and told by Eve
1: 'Mustard and Cress'
As everyone knows, people with green fingers can make almost anything grow, and people with green thumbs can make everything grow. But on the whole it's best to be mean with magic...

5.15 For Older Children
Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley in 'The Naval Treaty'
The first of six Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The action of the play takes place in London and Woking in the 1880s.
(Felix Felton is appearing in "Nekrassov" at the Royal Court Theatre)

Contributors

Author (The Boy with the Green Thumb):
Barbara Euphan Todd
Author (The Naval Treaty):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by (The Naval Treaty):
Felix Felton
Guest Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes:
Carleton Hobbs
Dr. Watson:
Norman Shelley
Percy Phelps, an old school friend of Watson's:
Peter Coke
Annie Harrison, his fiancee:
Annabel Maule
Joseph Harrison, her elder brother:
James Thomason
Lord Holdhurst, the Foreign Secretary:
Felix Felton
Forbes, a Scotland Yard official:
Alan Reid

A question and answer programme in which a panel of scientists replies to listeners' questions on science and technology
Guest of the week:
S. J. Folley F.R.S. ,of the National Institute for Research in Dairying
The Panel:
Robert Boyd , Peter Sykes
G. P. Wells
In the chair, Sam Pollock
If you have a question you would like to put to the panel please write it on a postcard and address it to ' Who Knows?,' BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W.i.

Contributors

Unknown:
J. Folley F.R.S.
Unknown:
Robert Boyd
Unknown:
Peter Sykes
Unknown:
G. P. Wells
Unknown:
Sam Pollock

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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