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' The Lazy Farmer and the Giant Grimm '
Adapted by Elspeth Whitaker from the story
' A Moon of Gobbags ' by Dora Broome
Produced by David Lloyd James
5.30 For Older Children
The Home of the Wheel
Four programmes about wheels: how they are made and used
4-The Extremes
Eric TOBITT and JIM PESTRIDGE find more unusual wheels. This programme winds up the series with large and small, hard and soft wheels.

Contributors

Adapted By:
Elspeth Whitaker
Unknown:
Dora Broome
Produced By:
David Lloyd James
Unknown:
Eric Tobitt
Unknown:
Jim Pestridge
The Wife:
Betty Hardy
The Farmer:
Peter Claughton
The Giant:
Ralph Truman
The Shepherd:
Cyril Shaps
The Fisherman:
Frank Atkinson
The Wise Woman:
Phoebe Hodgson
The Storyteller:
David Davis

by Denis Constanduros
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by R. D. Smith
The story takes place in a small residential seaside town, out of season.

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Constanduros
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Christine Taylor:
Margaret Gordon
Mr. Tavlor, a retired engineer, her father:
Newton Blick
Anthony Morrison, an actor and play-wright:
John Dearth
A girl, a character-juvenile:
Betty Linton
Waiter:
Joe Sterne

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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