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Adventures in English: Shadrach: 3: The Escape
by Meindert De Jong.
A serial story adapted by Sam Langdon.

2.20 Science and the Community: The Fight Against Germs: 5: Clean Air

2.40 Stories from British History: Sir Philip Sidney: A Courtier and Soldier

Contributors

Author (Adventures in English:
Shadrach): Meindert Dejong
Adapter (Adventures in English:
Shadrach): Sam Langdon
Script (Science and the Community):
Philip Brown
Script (Stories from British History):
Christine Dudley

Saguita Al Bate (The Baseball Match) and other songs sung to the guitar by the Vaughan Brothers.

5.15 For Older Children
Midland Made: Castyncarbonsteyl
A visit to one of Europe's largest steel foundries.
Eric Tobitt and Jim Pestridge describe the processes in casting some of the large and intricate parts of machinery at this works near Darlaston, in the Black Country.
(BBC recording)

5.40 Home, Sweet Home: 4: Coney Island
Four talks by Owen Tweedy.
Mr. Tweedy's Coney Island is nowhere near New York. It is a mile and a half long by a mile wide, and it lies just off the north-west coast of Ireland. It has six cottages and a population of fourteen.

Contributors

Singers/guitarists (Saguita Al Bate):
The Vaughan Brothers
Presenter (Midland Made):
Eric Tobitt
Presenter (Midland Made):
Jim Pestridge
Speaker (Home, Sweet Home):
Owen Tweedy

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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