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LET'S join in. Epaminondas and his Aunt ie ' and ' Epaminondas helps in the Garden freely adapted from the tales by Sara Cone Bryant and Constance Egan
2.20 ADVENTURES IN music. Children's Overture: an illustrated talk by Gordon Reynolds on the music by Roger Quilter.
2.40 MODERN HISTORY. Lenin and the November Revolution. Script by John Tully
Sarah Masters tells Jill how she saved a fugitive in St. Petersburg in 1917, and how her father met Lenin.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sara Cone Bryant
Unknown:
Constance Egan
Talk By:
Gordon Reynolds
Music By:
Roger Quilter.
Script By:
John Tully
Script By:
Sarah Masters

A serial in fiveparts dramatised by Thea Holme from the novel by the author of ' Elizabeth and her German Garden '
PART1 and Produced by Mollie Greenhalgh
Lotty Wilkins and Rose Arbuthnot , both sunshine-starved in London, are attracted by an advertisement for an Italian castle to be let. They decide to sample its pleasures, and ask young Lady Caroline and old Mrs. Fisher to share expenses.
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Contributors

Dramatised By:
Thea Holme
Produced By:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Unknown:
Lotty Wilkins
Unknown:
Rose Arbuthnot
Lotty Wilkins:
Janet Burnell
Rose Arbuthnot:
Thea Holme
Mr Briggs:
Keith Buckley
Lady Caroline Dester:
Penelope Lee
Mrs Fisher:
Kathleen Helme
Mellersh Wilkins:
Haydn Jones
Club Women:
Gladys Spencer
Club Women:
Nerys Kerfoot

by Wallace Geoffrey
Cast in order of speaking:
Devils and other parts played by Charles Simon , Gareth Morgan and Nigel Anthony
Production by Audrey Cameron
Satan, at a board-meeting in Hell, decides that it is the 'little man' on whom they must concentrate their temptations. Nipper, Satan's son, finds the ideal one in Mr. Podbury, an antique dealer. Mammon, Bacchus, and Blondy-an American cutie-are all sent to bring about his downfall ...

Contributors

Unknown:
Wallace Geoffrey
Played By:
Charles Simon
Played By:
Gareth Morgan
Played By:
Nigel Anthony
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Narrator:
David Bird
Mr Satan:
Lockwood West
Jarvis, his secretary:
Jon Rollason
Nipper, his son:
Nicholas Edmett
Mr Podbury, an antique dealer:
John Bryning
Martha Podbury, his wife:
Kathleen Helme
Ethel, a maid:
Gladys Spencer
Mammon:
Tom Watson
Blondy:
Mary Wimbush
Bacchus:
Julian Somers
St Peter:
Hugh Dickson

A Nursery Sing-Song with Vi, Doris, and Herbert
5.15 David Peel In
' Return to Hindteford ' by Margaret Potter
3-' The Purse '
Production by Trevor Hill
While riding over to visit Mr. Ackroyd at Gossington Hall with Joanna, Martin suddenly discovers that her father, Sir Charles, is Third Secretary at the Admiralty; leaving her, he rides off to try and see Sir Charles before he leaves Hindleford for London. Shortly after, Sir Charles is stopped-by a highwayman whose main interest seems to be centred on the luggage rather than on trinkets. It is then that Martin tells Jo about certain papers an agent of England gave to him in Boulogne.....
5.50 Children's Hour prayers
Saying Your Prayers
Five talks by the Rev. Stanley McQuade 4 — Do they make you better?

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Production By:
Trevor Hill
Unknown:
Stanley McQuade
Martin:
David Peel
Joanna:
Judith Bradshaw
Philip Bellinger:
Barrie Hesketh
Ben Levitt, the highwayman:
Graham Tennant
Landlord of the ' Black Swan':
Tom Harrison
His wife:
Norma Wilson
Nathaniel:
Herbert Smith

A series offive-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Wales
ROUND 2
London:
Cedric Cliffe , Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
Wales:
T. 1. Ellis, Wyn Griffith
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Hubert Phillips
Unknown:
Wyn Griffith
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

A personal appreciation of the Five Towns and their people by Bernard Hollowood
The speaker, who is editor of Punch and a native of Burslem, feels that there is a unique quality in the Potteries and in the local outlook on life. He recalls incidents and stories supporting this theory.

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Hollowood

Mendelssohn
Quintet in B flat, Op. 87 played by the Lyra String Quartet: Granville Casey (violin)
John Crossan (violin)
John Linn (viola)
John Mclnulty (cello) with Ronald Duncan (viola)

Contributors

Violin:
Granville Casey
Violin:
John Crossan
Viola:
John Linn
Cello:
John McLnulty
Viola:
Ronald Duncan

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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