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Let's Join In: The Sixpence that Rolled Away
by Louis MacNeice.
Specially adapted for broadcasting.

2.20 Adventures in Music: Hansel and Gretel
The first of two illustrated talks by Gladys Whitred on the opera by Humperdinck.

2.40 Modern History: How India won her Independence

Contributors

Writer (Let's Join In):
Louis MacNeice
Speaker (Adventures in Music):
Gladys Whitred
Script (Modern History):
Maurice Whitbread

from the Parish Church of St. Michael, Cornhill.
Introlt: O most merciful (Wood)
Responses (Smith)
Psalms 96 and 97
First Lesson,: Isaiah 55
Magnificat (Wood in E flat)
Second Lesson: Revelation 2, w. 18-38
Nunc dimittis (Wood in E flat)
Creed
The Lord's Prayer (Stone)
Responses (Smith)
Anthem: The eyes of all wait upon thee (Harris)
Prayers Blessing
Organ Voluntary: Flourish for an occasion (Harris)

Contributors

Organist and Director of Music:
Harold Darke

For Older Children: Masquerade: 3: Pomerel Place
An eighteenth-century romance in six episodes by Aubrey Feist.
Pomerel Place: Seat of the Most Hon. the Marquess of Blandon; situated in West Sussex near the village of North Harting; twelve courtyards; three hundred and seventy rooms; and the noble park, finely wooded, five miles in circumference.

5.50 Children's Hour prayers
Conducted by the Provost of Coventry.
Building a Cathedral: 3: The decorators who beautify it

Contributors

Writer:
Aubrey Feist
Producer:
David Davis
Julian Ashby:
David Peel
Miranda Bellamy:
Prunella Scales
Tom Bligh:
Basil Jones
Faulkner Bellamy:
Simon Lack
Count Emilio Zeppi:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Mr. Bounty:
Cyril Shaps
Prayers conducted by (Children's Hour prayers):
The Provost of Coventry [Harold Williams]

A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions.
London: Cedric Cliffe, Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale

Midlands: Professor Thomas Bodkin, H. E. Howard
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding

(BBC recording)
Repeated on Thursday at 1.10

Contributors

Contestant (London):
Cedric Cliffe
Contestant (London):
Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master (London):
Lionel Hale
Contestant (Midlands):
Professor Thomas Bodkin
Contestant (Midlands):
H. E. Howard
Quiz-Master (Midlands):
Gilbert Harding

A radio portrait based upon contemporary accounts of her life and character.
Orchestra conducted by Douglas Robinson with a section of the Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
(BBC recording)
(Douglas Robinson and Chorus broadcast by permission of General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
The unfinished miniature by Isaac Oliver is in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Terence Tiller writes on page 8

Contributors

Compiled and produced by:
Terence Tiller
With the advice of:
Sir John Neale
Music arranged by:
Elizabeth Poston
Orchestra conducted by:
Douglas Robinson
Singers:
A section of the Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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