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by Hugh Ross Williamson
3—' Who was Little Boy Blue?'
Certain nursery-rhyme characters can be identified without any reasonable doubt. For instance, the little girl with a little curt right in the middle of her forehead was Edith Longfellow , the daughter of the poet Henry Longfellow ; and the brave old Duke of York who had ten thousand men was King George Ill 's son, Frederick. But Little Boy Blue? According to one authority he' was a drunken friar, but according to Hugh Ross Williamson he was someone quite else.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Ross Williamson
Unknown:
Edith Longfellow
Unknown:
Henry Longfellow
Unknown:
King George Ill
Unknown:
Hugh Ross Williamson

RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Gladys Whitred
11.20 GEOGRAPHY. Underdeveloped Areas. Northern Canada. Script by Monica Mugan.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN: ' Nur WCT in Angst lebt.' Nach einem unglUcklichen Ereignis ftirchtet Friedrich das Schlimmste. Es taucht plotzlich ein Mann auf, der daraus seinen Nutzen ziehen will. Manuskript von Milo Sperber.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gladys Whitred
Script By:
Monica Mugan.
Unknown:
Friedrich Das

ADVENTURES IN ENGLISH. 'Emil and the Detectives ' by Erich Kastner , adapted for broadcasting bv Garry Lyle. 2—' The Password '
2.20 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. Man and Machines. 3-What is a Robot? Script by Tony Gibson
2.40 STORIES FROM BRITISH HISTORY. An Elizabethan Courtier: Sir Walter Raleigh. Script by Margaret Stanley -Wrench

Contributors

Unknown:
Erich Kastner
Unknown:
Garry Lyle.
Script By:
Tony Gibson
Unknown:
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Script By:
Margaret Stanley

Five reminiscent talks by the Earl of Lytton, O.B.E.
4-Lady Constance Lytton
Forty years ago Constance Lytton was known in the British press as ' Suffragette, jail-bird, dancing dervish, hooligan, unwomanly woman.' Lord Lytton remembers his aunt as a very different being, and tells of the qualities and the circumstances that led to such distortions.

Contributors

Unknown:
Lady Constance Lytton
Unknown:
Constance Lytton

For Children of Most Ages
'Cowleaze Farm'
' The Fox in the Smithy '
Produced by Mollie Austin
Ralph Whitlock writes on page 43
5.25 For Listeners of all Ages
Buttons and Bows
Michael Shaw introduces songs and tunes from the shows with Harry Engleman and his Players and Donald Scott
Produced by Peggy Bacon

Contributors

Produced By:
Mollie Austin
Unknown:
Ralph Whitlock
Introduces:
Michael Shaw
Unknown:
Harry Engleman
Unknown:
Donald Scott
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon
Margaret:
Susan Carey
Anne:
Sally Hall
Farmer Whitlock:
Ralph Whitlock
Jonas:
Douglas Horner
Mark Harden:
Victor Fawkes
Billy Boniface:
Denis Raymond

written down by Lucy Broadwood in 1893 from the singing of Henry Burstow , of Horsham
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Rosetta and her gay ploughboy; Death and the Lady; Van Diemen 's Land; I must live all alone; Boney's lamentation: The wealthy farmer's son

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucy Broadwood
Unknown:
Henry Burstow
Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Piano:
Frederick Stone
Unknown:
Van Diemen

Famous detection writers select and discuss their favourite fictional and real-life cases
A series edited by John Keir Cross and Frederick Bradnum
The second connoisseur
Edmund Crispin on his real life choice
'CHLOROFORM
FOR MR.BARTLETT'
The case of Adelaide Bartlett
Written and produced by Frederick Bradnum
Other parts: Malcolm Hayes
Joan Sanderson. and Sheila Manahan

Contributors

Edited By:
John Keir Cross
Edited By:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Edmund Crispin
Produced By:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Unknown:
Joan Sanderson.
Unknown:
Sheila Manahan
Adelaide Bartlett:
Janette Richer
Edwin Bartlett:
Manning Wilson
The Rev George Dyson:
Frank Windsor
Doctor Leach:
Denis McCarthy
Edwin Bartlett, Senior:
Jack Shaw
Mr Edward Clarke Q c:
Trevor Martin
Mr Pollard, q c:
Will Leighton

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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