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' The Snowmen and the Sun ' translated from the Rumanian by Jean Ure
The snowmen decide to ask the sun never to return.
2.20 FIGARO
The character created by Beaumarchais illustrated with music by Mozart and Rossini
Second of two programmes written and introduced by David Franklin
2.40 THE STORY OF DE GAULLE
A reconstruction in dramatic form of de Gaulle's escape from Bordeaux in 1940 and his success in building up the Free French Forces Script by Philip Holland

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Ure
Introduced By:
David Franklin
Script By:
Philip Holland

by Roger Dixon
with Peter Claughton and Elsa Palmer
After working thirty years for his firm, Charlie Patcham was presented with the marble clock from the boardroom mantelpiece. When he took it home, his wife refused to have it in the house. Getting rid of it, however, turned out to be easier said than done.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Plays produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Writer:
Roger Dixon
Produced by:
R. D. Smith
Office boy:
Nicholas Edmett
Miss Gooding:
Gudrun Ure
Mr Scathergate:
Norman Claridge
Charlie Patcham:
Peter Claughton
Mary Patcham:
Elsa Palmer
First stranger:
Philip Leaver
Second stranger:
Hugh Manning
Embassy Secretary:
Derek Birch
Bill Partridge:
Brian Wilde
Inspector Watts:
Michael Turner
Other parts:
members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

from York Minster
Sentence; Confession; Absolution Responses (Byrd) Psalm 116
First Lesson: Isaiah 45. vv. 18-25 Magnificat (Nares in F)
Second Lesson: Philippians 3, vv. 1-14
Nunc dimittus- (Nares in F)
Creed: Lesser Litany; Collects
Though I speak with the tongues of men (Bairstow)
Prayers; The Grace
Organist, Francis Jackson. D.Mus.

Contributors

Organist:
Francis Jackson

5.0 JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
The Fuss at the Bus Stop
A story in verse written and told, by Donald Bisset
5.15 THE IVORY CROCODILE
A new 'Charter Pilot' serial written by Gilbert Dalton
Part 3 Produced by Peggy Bacon
5.40 THE HOBBIT
The book by J. R. R. Tolkien abridged by Barbara Henderson
Read in thirteen instalments by David Davis
4: A Thunderstorm
Bilbo and the dwarves escaped from the trolls and reached the house of Elrond, an elf-lord. They watched the elves dancing on midsummer eve, and then they set off once more on the road to the Misty Mountains.

Contributors

Told By:
Donald Bisset
Written By:
Gilbert Dalton
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon
Book By:
J. R. R. Tolkien
Abridged By:
Barbara Henderson
Unknown:
David Davis
Mike Dudley:
Robert Marsden
Billy Perkins:
Billy Thatcher
Mrs Dudley:
Elspeth Duxbury
Angela:
Ysanne Churchman
John:
John Stirling
Jim Talbot:
Bob Arnold
Tom Wickham:
Peter Tuddcnham
Walter Rosenberg:
Arnold Peters
Felix Cardosa:
Philip Garston-Jones

A aeries of five-round contests between London and the Regions
LONDON v. WEST
ROUND 3
London:
Denis Brogan , Geoffrey Grigson
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
West:
Alan Gibson , Vincent Waite
Quiz-Master, Stephen Potter
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Brogan
Unknown:
Geoffrey Grigson
Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Alan Gibson
Unknown:
Vincent Waite
Unknown:
Stephen Potter
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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