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LET'S JOIN IN. ' The Golden Touch': adapted for broadcasting from the the Greek legend.
2.20 ADVENTURES IN music. Let's Hear it Again: the programme includes ' The Entry of the Masters ' and 'Dance of the Apprentices' from ' The Mastersingers ' bv Wagner, and Scherzo from ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ' by Mendelssohn. (BBC recording)
2.40 MODERN HISTORY. The 1911 National Insurance Act. The part played by Lloyd George in getting the National Insurance Act through Parliament is described in dramatic form. Script by Margaret J. Miller

Contributors

Played By:
Lloyd George
Script By:
Margaret J. Miller

by Joyce Bell
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by Betty Davies
In the Highlands of Scotland they talk about the two sights. Doris Trevor was a clairvoyante who really had the gift, but when she tried to use it to help her son Nigel her plans went wrong.

Contributors

Produced By:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Doris Trevor
Doris Trevor:
Mary O'Farrell
Jean Trevor:
Eva Stuart
Nigel Trevor:
John Forrest
Lottie:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Sally Marsden:
Diana Oisson
Edith Marsden:
Cecile Chevreau
Colonel Winterton:
Norman Claridge
Mrs Winterton:
Janet Burnell
Miss Stott:
Kathleen Helme
Lawson:
Wilfred Babbage

sung by the Abbot and monks of Downside Abbey with the Choir of Downside School
Deus in adjutorium: Gloria Patrl
(Plainsong)
Psalms 134, 135, 136, 137 (Plainsong)
Little chapter: 2 Corinthians 1, 3. 4 Responsory
Hymn : Caeli Deus sanctissime
(Plainsong)
Magnificat
Pater Noster
Collect
Benedicamus Domino
Motet: Rerum Creator Omnium
(William Mundy )
Choirmaster,
Dom Gervase Murray Bligh
Organist, Dom Cyprian Stockford
School choir conducted by Roger Bevan

Contributors

Unknown:
Caeli Deus
Choirmaster:
William Mundy
Organist:
Dom Gervase Murray Bligh
Conducted By:
Roger Bevan

For Children of Most Ages
' White Boots ' by Noel Streatfeild
A serial play in six parts adapted by the author and May Jenkin
3—' The Inter-Silver Test'
Produced by Claire Chovil
5.50 Children's Hour prayers
The Hallmarks of the Church
Four talks by the Rev. Vere Ducker
I-The Maker's Mark

Contributors

Unknown:
Noel Streatfeild
Produced By:
Claire Chovil
Unknown:
Rev. Vere Ducker
Olivia (Mrs Johnson):
Judith Fellows
George, her husband:
Harold Reese
The Johnson children:Alec:
William Simons
The Johnson children: Toby:
Robin Willett
The Johnson children: Harriet:
Anne Castaldini
The Johnson children: Edward:
Michael Lewis
Lalla Moore:
Sheila Grant
Aunt Claudia:
Joan Henley
Uncle David:
John Richmond
Nana:
Betty Hardy
Miss Goldthorpe:
Barbara Lott
Sam:
Charles Leno
Mr Matthews:
Jeffrey Segal
Max Lindblom:
Paul Hansard

Roll back the carpet and join in the fun with Alf Adamson and his Border Band
Joe Wallace , Bill Robinson
Billy Pigg (Northumbrian pipes)
Master of Ceremonies, Bill Cain
From Haltwhistle. Northumberland
Arranged by Richard Kelly

Contributors

Unknown:
Alf Adamson
Unknown:
Joe Wallace
Unknown:
Bill Robinson
Unknown:
Billy Pigg
Unknown:
Bill Cain
Arranged By:
Richard Kelly

A short effusion by Michael Pickering
Read by the author
Meeting one's girl on the steps of St. Martin-in-the-Fields — this is the starting point of a complex run of catastrophes. None of them seems to be in any way probable but, as the P.C. says in the story, ' there it is.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Pickering

A programme of news and comment on recent events in the field of science and technology
Introduced by Archie Clow
The programme includes a short talk on Medical Electronics by A. NIGHTINGALE , Ph.D.. of the Physics Department,
St. Thomas's Hospital, London

Contributors

Introduced By:
Archie Clow
Unknown:
A. Nightingale

Mendelssohn
Trio in D minor, Op. 49 played by The Beaufort Trio:
Felix Kok (violin)
Alexander Kok (cello) Daphne Ibbott (piano)
Next Wednesday: First of nine programmes to include all Beethoven's Sonatas for violin and piano

Contributors

Violin:
Felix Kok
Cello:
Alexander Kok
Piano:
Daphne Ibbott

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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