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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Babies. Diet, and Dummies: discussed by Anne Cuthbert and a paediatrician Open Letter to an English School-teacher: from C. J. Smilh , headmaster of Dezda School. Nyasaland
Carnal or Creative: Gordon Gow considers French films today'
Legal Roundabout: Dudley Perkins on recent cases in the Law Courts

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Anne Cuthbert
Unknown:
C. J. Smilh
Unknown:
Gordon Gow
Unknown:
Dudley Perkins

Conducted by Sir John Summerson
Film: Penelope Gilliatt
Theatre: Richard Findlater
Radio: Laurence Kitchin
Book: C. V. Wedgwood
Art: Basil Taylor

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir John Summerson
Unknown:
Penelope Gilliatt
Unknown:
Richard Findlater
Unknown:
Laurence Kitchin
Unknown:
C. V. Wedgwood
Unknown:
Basil Taylor

visits
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
After spending the first six days in Southern Rhodesia, Her Majesty has been visiting Barotseland and the Copperbelt in Northern Rhodesia. She is now in Lusaka
Gerald Dimond talks about the places visited and introduces recordings of some of the events.
Produced by Geoffrey Topping

Contributors

Unknown:
Her Majesty
Talks:
Gerald Dimond
Produced By:
Geoffrey Topping

Nature's Electricians
Many people have seen or heard of the Electric Eel. But at least six families of fishes have developed electric organs.
Richard KEYNES , F.R.S., and HANS LISSMAN , F.R.S., discuss with GWYNNE VEVERS their original research on these remarkable animals and play some unusual recordings.
Produced by Bruce Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Keynes
Unknown:
Hans Lissman
Produced By:
Bruce Campbell

A Pageant in Sound from the Works of the Venetian Masters
given before an audience in Liverpool Cathedral
Introduced by Alec Robertson

2.30-4.30

ILSE WOLF (soprano) HONOR SHEPARD (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) WILFRED BROWN (tenor) CYRIL HORNBY (tenor) WILLIAM Coombes (baritone) JOLYON Donfison (bass-baritone)
Continuo: Noel Rawsthorne (organ) Charles Spinks (chamber organ) Wendy L/Evesque (harp) Bertha Murnaghan (harp)
Liverpool Welsh Choral Union (Chorus-Master, Caleb Jarvis)
Liverpool Cathedral Choir (Choirmaster, Ronald WÍlan)
A Choir and Recorder Group of Liverpool Schoolchildren (Trained by W.H.J. Jenkins)
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead)
Conducted by Walter Goehr

PART 1 at 2.30
Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon primi toni Motet: In Ecclesiis Vivaldi Gloria

3.25 app. The Sounds of Venice
A talk by James Morris, journalist and world traveller
'Venice,' said Nietzsche, 'is a synonym for Music.' Today the truly Venetian sounds are homelier, less high-flown, and often much, much noisier.
(BBC recording)

PART 2 at 3.40 app.
Monteverdi Motet: O Beatae Viae Audi coelum; Ave Maris Stella (Vespers, 1610) Magnificat (Selva Morale) (first performance in modern times)

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and Time Again'
' Tom's Midnight Garden '
The book by Philippa Pearce adapted as" a serial play in six parts by John Keir Cross
4—' The Room with Barred Windows '
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Book By:
Philippa Pearce
Produced By:
David Davis
The Storyteller:
Charles E Stidwill
Tom:
Jean England
Hatty:
Ann Totten
Aunt Gwen:
Rachel Roberts
Uncle Alan:
Norman Shelley
Abel:
Martin Starkie
James:
Glyn Dearman
Mrs Melbourne:
Joan Henley

Appeal on behalf of the Mary Macarthur Holiday Home for Working Women by Mrs. Mary Stocks
Contributions (preferably by cropped postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to [address removed]
There are two Mary Macarthur Holiday Homes, one at Poulton-le-Fylde, near Blackpool, and one at Stansted, Essex, which provide restful holidays for working women who could not otherwise afford a holiday. The main object is to provide a necessary rest to prevent illness.
Visitors come from all parts of the British Isles, and among their number arc mothers and housewives as well as women and girls who are earning their living. They pay what they can afford, and the only qualification required is the need for a rest and the inability to pay the cost of a normal holiday.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs. Mary Stocks.

October 1942-May 1943

"The achievements of the 8th Army will gleam and glow in our history" (Churchill)

The triumphal advance of the 8th Army in North Africa as it was reported at the time in despatches recorded in the field and in the words of the wartime Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, M.P.
With the voices of: The Army Commander: General Montgomery; War Correspondents: Bruce Anderson (South Africa) A. L. Curry (New Zealand) Frank Gillard, Denis Johnston, Godfrey Talbot and officers and men of the 8th Army and of the RAF

Compiled by M. A. Carter
at 10.15-

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