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Marjorie Anderson introduces:
A Day into Two: introducing the views of married women
The Changing Pace: Miss E. J. D. Morrison talks about being old
In Partnership:Maxand Elizabeth Robertson
Mrs. Giovanna Thompson , who describes her work

Contributors

Introduces:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Miss E. J. D. Morrison
Unknown:
Elizabeth Robertson
Unknown:
Mrs. Giovanna Thompson

A request programme of records
Festival Polonaise (Svendsen): Danish
State Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erik Tuxen
Cowkeeper's Tune (Grieg):
Boyd Neel String Orchestra conducted by Boyd Neel
Symphony No. 3 (Sinfonia espansiva)
(Nielsen): Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Frandsen

Contributors

Conducted By:
Erik Tuxen
Unknown:
Boyd Neel
Conducted By:
Boyd Neel
Conducted By:
John Frandsen

Edited and introduced by James Fisher
Bird-watchers from six continents gathered earlier this month at Helsinki for the twelfth International Ornithological Congress. James FISHER introduces recordings made by some of the distinguished visitors, including Salim Ali of India and Finnur Gudmundsson .of Iceland, and also of a rare bird visitor to Finland, Blyth's reed warbler.
Guy MOUNTFORT tells of the birds he saw during an excursion to Kuusamo, a place of wild and grand scenery on the Arctic Circle, breeding place of such rareties as the broad-billed sand piper, crane, and rustic bunting.
Produced by Jeffery Boswall

Contributors

Introduced By:
James Fisher
Unknown:
James Fisher
Unknown:
Salim Ali
Unknown:
Finnur Gudmundsson
Produced By:
Jeffery Boswall

For Children of Most Ages
' The Flood' from
' Stories from the Bible ' by Walter de la Mare told by David
' And the Lord God said to Noah: "Behold, I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a token of an everlasting covenant between me and thee and all that come after thee, that never more shall there be a flood to destroy the earth where the life that I have created hath its dwelling." '
5.20 For Children of All Ages
Hymns of the North
R. T. Brooks introduces recordings made on a visit to some places associated with popular hymns and hymn tunes
Illustrations sung by the choir of St. Andrew's Parish Church
Chilton Moor, County Durham
Produced by Herbert Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter de la Mare
Produced By:
Herbert Smith

Nature's Technique of Creation by Sir Gavin de Beer, F.R.S. Director of the British Museum
(Natural History)
This week sees the centenary of one of the greatest contributions to human thought-the communication to the Linnean Society in London by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace of their theory of the origin of species by natural selection. In his talk, Sir Gavin examines the theory in the light of a hundred years of subsequent scientific development.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Gavin de Beer, F.R.S.
Unknown:
Charles Darwin
Unknown:
Alfred Russel Wallace

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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