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LET'S JOIN in. ' The Musical Grasshopper ' by Dora Thatcher : a modern fairy tale
2.20 ADVENTURES IN music. Clarinets and Saxophones in Jazz Band and Orchestra: Illustrated talk by Walter Drabble.
2.40 MODERN HISTORY. Nansen and the Refugees of World War I. Script by Sir Hilary Blood , (I.e., K.C.M.G.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dora Thatcher
Talk By:
Walter Drabble.
Script By:
Sir Hilary Blood

by Peter Fraser
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Fraser
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
John Aylward:
James Thomason
The Superintendent:
George Merritt
Catherine Ward:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Victor Ward:
Malcolm Hayes
Frank Barton:
Anthony Viccars
Mary Barton:
Kathleen Helme
Peter Ward,a boy:
Nicky Edmett
Lavinia Ward:
Hilda Schroder
Frances Barton:
Sheila Manahan
Isobel Ransome:
Eva Stuart
Peter Ward as a man:
Peter Wilde
Lord Danbury:
Denis Goacher
Sir Herbert Fothering:
Richard Williams
Commentator:
David March

from St. John's College, Oxford
Responses (William Byrd ) Psalm 18
First Lessen : Job 18
Magnificat (Wood in D)
Second Lesson: St. Mark "6, vv. 1-29 Nunc dimittis (Wood in D)
Creed; Lesser Litany
The Lord's Prayer (Robert Stone) Collects
Anthem: Hear my prayer (Batten) Prayers
The Grace
Organist and Choirmaster.
Stephen Lloyd

Contributors

Unknown:
William Byrd
Choirmaster:
Stephen Lloyd

Advice and entertainment for retired people and older people generally, and a meeting place on .the air for those concerned for their welfare
On Being in Bed: Doreen Norton , S.R.N., offers some advice and gives a warning
Our Girls' Club: Meg Sangar describes her pleasure in a new venture
Presented by Douglas Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Doreen Norton
Unknown:
Meg Sangar
Presented By:
Douglas Smith

' The Globe of Candos
Last episode of the serial play written for broadcasting by John Darran
6—' Black Jungle '
Production by Ifan O. Williams
5.35 Portuguese Portfolio
A series of talks by John D. Stewart
6-Henry the Navigator
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by Canon J. N. Duckworth

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
John Darran
Production By:
Ifan O. Williams
Unknown:
John D. Stewart
Conducted By:
Canon J. N. Duckworth
Brad Saunders:
Hugh David
Dai Hopkins:
Ieuan Rhys Williams
Carole Wright:
Gwenyth Petty
Nellie Crook:
Joan Hobbs
Paul Woolf:
Ivor Maddox
Freddie Cross:
Norman -Wynne
Bob Candy:
Prysor Williams
Mickos:
Dillwyn Owen

Speakers in different Canadian cities discuss French-English relationships in Canada two hundred years after the British conquest of New France Speakers:
Blair Fraser
Editor of MacLean's Magazine
IN OTTAWA
Rene Levesque
French-Canadian broadcaster and journalist
IN MONTREAL
Pierre Dansereau
Dean of the Faculty of Science and Doctor of Botanical Institute in the University of Montreal
IN MONTREAL
Florence Todd
High-school teacher
IN ('AI.GARY
Chairman, J. B. McGeachy
Assistant Editor of Financial Post

Contributors

Unknown:
Blair Fraser
Unknown:
Pierre Dansereau
Unknown:
Florence Todd
Unknown:
J. B. McGeachy

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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