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LET'S JOIN IN. ' The Easter Lamb ' by Margaret Gore : a seasonal tale with an Italian setting
2.20 ADVENTURES IN music. Singing solo: illustrated talk by Hervey Alan
2.40 MODERNHISTORY. Singapore: Sir
Stamford Raffles. Script by John Tully '
The programme traces the career of Rattles and describes how he came to choose the deserted site on Singapore Island where a free city state now stands.

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Gore
Talk By:
Hervey Alan
Script By:
John Tully

by Michael Brett
Another chapter in the story of the County Gazette
Characters in order of speaking:
Other parts played bv members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by David H. Godfrey
Mr. Elton doesn't think his junior reporter, George Maxwell , is capable of walking the length of the High Street and back without getting into trouble. George takes up this challenge, but Mr. Elton is proved to be right.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Brett
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Reporter:
George Maxwell
Frederick Elton:
George Hagan
Stella:
Judy Bailey
George Maxwell:
Frederick Treves
Michael O'Hara:
Robert Mooney
Police Constable:
John Hollis
Inspector Marks:
Norman Claridge

The short story by W. W. Jacobs dramatised for radio by Lionel Brown
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by David H. Godfrey
(The recorded broadcast of April 26 in the Light Programme)
Jackson Pepper , ex-pilot, is already regretting his marriage of three months. If only Captain Budd, his wife's first husband, who was presumed drowned at sea thirty years ago, could be proved to be alive after all !

Contributors

Story By:
W. W. Jacobs
Unknown:
Lionel Brown
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Unknown:
Jackson Pepper
Jackson Pepper:
John Hollis
Mrs Pepper:
Ella Milne
Captain Crippen:
George Merritt
Miss Winthrop:
Molly Lumley
Stationmaster:
Ronald Sidney

from King's College, Cambridge
Introit: Eya. resurrexit (G. R. Wood ward)
Sentence; Exhortation: Confession;
Absolution
The Lord's Prayer
Responses (William Smith ) Psalms 22. 23
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 11. vv.
13-32
Magnificat (Morley, First Service) Second Lesson: Acts 11. vv. 1-18
Nunc dimittis (Morley, First Service) Creed; Lesser Litany The Lord's Prayer
Responses (William Smith ) Collects
Anthem: Haec dies (Shepherd) Prayers
Final Responses (E. W. Naylor)
Organist and Director of Music,
David Willcocks
Organ Scholar, Simon Preston

Contributors

Unknown:
G. R. Wood
Unknown:
William Smith
Unknown:
William Smith
Unknown:
David Willcocks
Unknown:
Simon Preston

—2— by Sir Norman Angell
' The unlettered can be wiser than the learned, wiser because closer to reality, to facts at first hand.' Sir Norman Angell reflects on what he learned through choosing to be a pioneer in the wild west rather than a student in Cambridge.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Norman Angell
Unknown:
Sir Norman Angell

For Younger Listeners
Nursery Sing-Song with Doris and Herbert and Mabel Hardy at the piano
4.15 Over the Border-to Wales
A series of programmes by Myfanwy Howell
8-Flintshire
Singer, Shan Emlyn
Harpist, Gwenllian Dwyryd
Production by Evelyn Williams
5.50 Children's Hour prayers
The Undiscovered Country
Four talks by the Rev. Elsie Chamberlain
I-Making the Choice
5.55 The Weather
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region

Contributors

Unknown:
Mabel Hardy
Unknown:
Myfanwy Howell
Singer:
Shan Emlyn
Harpist:
Gwenllian Dwyryd
Production By:
Evelyn Williams
Unknown:
Rev. Elsie Chamberlain
Mr Lloyd:
Dillwyn Owen
Mrs: Lloyd Sheila:
Huw Jones
Gwen:
Valerie Berwick
Alun Kenneth:
Stewart Jones
Davy Jones:
Charles Williams
Mr Price:
Die Hughes
Priest:
Michael Dennis
Mr Parry:
Bryn Calvin Thomas
Mrs Parry:
Nesta Harris
Richard Bevan:
Cledwyn Jones
Nurse:
Margaret Bennison

(Fourth Year)
A weekly contest between 143 choirs
The third of ten programmes in the National Competition
YOUTH CHOIRS:
Birkenhead Girls' Choir
Conductor. Peggy McKnight
Bristol Youth Choir
Conductor, Ronald Short
MIXED VOICE CHOIRS:
Belfast Gaelic Choir
Conductor, Gerard O'Rawe
Glasgow Phoenix Choir
Conductor, Peter Mooney
LADIES CHOIRS:
Jersey Ladies' Choir
Conductor. Arthur Dobb
The Coleraine Linnets
Conductor, Mavis Christie
Introduced by Leslie Regan
Produced by Charles Beardsall
The finalists in each class will take part in a nation-wide broadcast on Tuesday, June 28.

Contributors

Conductor:
Ronald Short
Conductor:
Gerard O'Rawe
Conductor:
Peter Mooney
Conductor:
Arthur Dobb
Conductor:
Mavis Christie
Introduced By:
Leslie Regan
Produced By:
Charles Beardsall

A programme of news and comment on recent events in the field of science and technology
Introduced by Archie Clow
The programme includes a description by E. H. THOMPSON , O.B.E., Professor of Surveying and Photogrammetry at University College, London, of the recreation by photogrammetry of the lost plans of a destroyed architectural dome.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Archie Clow
Unknown:
E. H. Thompson

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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