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Popular favourites for the older listener sung by Mary Condon (contralto) with Ruby Taylor (piano)
Dudley Savage (organ) and a chorus from the Weston-super-Mare
Operatic Society
Chorus-Master, Leon Godby
Introduced by Dudley Savage and based on requests collected by Plymouth Council of Social Service

Contributors

Contralto:
Mary Condon
Piano:
Ruby Taylor
Piano:
Dudley Savage
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

Edited and introduced by Maxwell Knight and Robert Spencer
Bird and Mammal Conferences
The late Professor GUSTAV KRAMER , of the Max-Planck-Institut at Wilhelmshaven in Germany, discusses sun-and-star orientation in birds
M. ROBERT ETCHECOPAR , of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle, outlines current bird-ringing work in France.
Dr. PETER CROWCROFT, of the British Museum (Natural History), talks about his current work on shrews
T. J. PICKVANCE, of the University of Birmingham, gives some results to date of the Midland Mammal Survey, particularly the new light thrown on the numbers and distribution of the hare and the Muntjac deer.
Produced by Jeffery Boswall

Contributors

Introduced By:
Maxwell Knight
Introduced By:
Robert Spencer
Unknown:
Professor Gustav Kramer
Unknown:
M. Robert Etchecopar
Produced By:
Jeffery Boswall

by Merlin Roberts
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
The pianist, Robert Docker
Produced by David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Unknown:
Merlin Roberts
Pianist:
Robert Docker
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Sir Richard Bannister:
Austin Trevor
Martin Condon:
David Enders
Edward Condon:
Robert Perceval
Elaine:
Annabel Maule
Dr Kenway:
Kenneth Edwards
Rosemary:
Beryl Calder

For Children of All Ages
' The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame
Arranged for broadcasting in eight instalments by May Jenkin with music by H. Fraser-Simson 7—'Plots and Counterplots '
Production by Josephine Plummer
5.30 For Older Children
Now Showing in London
A review by Eric Gillett of some of the new films and plays
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame
Unknown:
May Jenkin
Music By:
H. Fraser-Simson
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
Review By:
Eric Gillett
Mr Toad:
Norman Shelley
The Water Rat:
Frank Duncan
The Mole:
Richard Goolden
Mr Badger:
Richard George
The Storyteller:
Mary O'Farrell

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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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