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TRAVEL TALKS. On the Pampas of Argentina. Script by George Pendle .
2.20 THE BIBLE AND LIFE. Everyday Life in the Time of the Prophets. 5-The Invasion from the North. Script by Margaret Boys.
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH i. ' The Elephants of Sargabal' by Rene Guillot , adapted for broadcasting by Philippa Pearce. Part 2

Contributors

Script By:
George Pendle
Script By:
Margaret Boys.
Unknown:
Rene Guillot
Broadcasting By:
Philippa Pearce.

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
3: 'The Maids of all Work'
Sometimes Miss Cobb came to visit Mr. Martin. She was a very nice old lady, and she lived by herself in a bungalow which had a square tangle of weeds in front. When she was younger her garden had been as pretty and tidy as could be, but now it seemed that only magic could put things right.

5.15 For Older Children
Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley in 'The Blue Carbuncle'
The third of six Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Scene: London at Christmas time in the late 1880s

Contributors

Stories By:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised By:
Felix Felton
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Sherlock Holmes:
Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson:
Norman Shelley
Peterson, a commissionaire:
Hamilton Dyce
Breckinridge, a Covent Garden salesman:
James Thomason
Henry Baker, a member of a goose-club:
Felix Felton
Windigate, landlord of the Alpha Inn:
Hamilton Dyce
John Ryder, attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan:
Hugh David
Mrs Oakshott, an egg and poultry supplier:
Janet Morrison

A question and answer programme in which a panel of scientists replies to listeners' questions on science and technology
Guest of the week:
H. O. J. Collier Ph.D. , a pharmacologist
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:
H. O. J. Collier Ph.D.
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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