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E. Arnot Robertson and Frank Muir challenge
Nancy Spain and Denis Norden
Umpire, Jack Longland
Midland Region's panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
Last Friday's recorded broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
E. Arnot Robertson
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason

LET'S JOIN IN
'The Elves and the Shoemaker': an adaptation of the Grimm fairy tale, by Miriam Langdon
2.20 ADVENTURES IN MUSIC
Concert on gramophone records The items include:
Children's Overture (Roger Quilter ) Dives and Lazarus (Folk ballad)
Bound for the Rio Grande (Sea shanty)
Troika (Lieutenant Kije) (Prokofiev)
2.40 MODERN HISTORY
Stanley Baldwin and the General Strike: a dramatised account of the strike as it appeared to strike organisers, strike breakers, and the general public, including a reading from Stanley Baldwin 's broadcast at the time

Contributors

Unknown:
Miriam Langdon
Unknown:
Roger Quilter
Unknown:
Stanley Baldwin
Unknown:
Stanley Baldwin

from Ely Cathedral
Preces (Byrd)
Psalms for the Second Evening First Lesson: Isaiah 43, vv. 1-7 Magnificat (Byrd)
Second Lesson: St. John 5, vv.
24-29
Nunc dimittis (Byrd) Creed
Lesser Litany (Byrd) The Lord's Prayer Responses (Byrd) Collects
Anthem: The Souls of the Righteous (Nares)
Prayers
Anthem: Justorum animae (Byrd)
Organist and Master of Choristers, Arthur Wills
Assistant Organist, Christopher Scarf

Contributors

Organist:
Christopher Scarf

Three talks by Gerald Durrell
1: The Penguins of Patagonia
Last year Gerald Durrell set off to South America to collect some additional animals for his newly-founded zoo in Jersey. In this talk he describes a colony of Magellan penguins which he found on a remote stretch of coast some 2,000 miles from Buenos Aires

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Durrell

JUNIOR TIME: 5.0-5.15
A programme for the fives t'o eights Animals you have at home Songs and tunes
Presented by Graham
5.15 THE GOLDEN CHANCE
A story in three instalments written by Alexandra Mara and read by David
2: Storm and Rain on the High Seas
5.25 THE SPANISH CAVE
The book by Geoffrey Household made into a radio play in three parts by Gilbert Phelps
2: Rescued
Would Dick's disappearance help Ramon . to solve the centuries old myster—why it was that from time to time ships sank without trace in calm weather off the Cave of Angels?
Produced by Graham Gauld

Contributors

Written By:
Alexandra Mara
Book By:
Geoffrey Household
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Dick Garland:
Alaric Cotter
Hal Garland:
Peter Wilde
Paca:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Father Juan:
Alan Wheatley
Lola:
June Spencer
Pablo:
Geoffrey Lewis
Ramon ::
Charles Leno
Captain Olazabal:
George Merritt

A series of five-round contests
LONDON v. MIDLANDS
ROUND 2
London:
Cedric Cliffe , Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale Midlands:
Thomas Bodkin , H. E. Howard
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Cedric Cliffe
Unknown:
Hubert Phillips
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Thomas Bodkin
Unknown:
H. E. Howard
Arranged By:
Patrick Harvey

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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