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RHYTHM AND MELODY byi Gladys Whitred
11.20 GEOGRAPHY
Turkmenia
Script by Michael Stidworthy
Michael Stidworthy has just returned from a visit to this little-known republic in Soviet Asia. Ashkhabad, its capital, and irrigation schemes in the Kara Kum Desert are his main topics.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN
Womit kann ich dienen?
Script by Milo Sperber
Inge Schwarz has luck on her side when she decides that something must be done to try to boost sales in Herr Steinbock 's business.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gladys Whitred
Script By:
Michael Stidworthy
Script By:
Michael Stidworthy
Script By:
Milo Sperber
Script By:
Inge Schwarz
Unknown:
Herr Steinbock

Grishka and the Bear
Story by Rene Guillot
Script by Michael Hyde
A tale of friendship between the Russian boy Grishka and his bear-cub. Part 1
Adventures in English series

2.20 Methods of Medicine 3: Your Temperature
Script by H. E. Harbour
Science and the Community series

2.40 The Adventures of Richard Fanshawe
The story of a Royalist gentleman, after the execution of Charles I in 1649. working in Ireland for the cause of Prince Charles against Cromwell
Script by Jo Manton

Contributors

Story By:
Rens Guillot
Script By:
Michael Hyde
Script By:
H. E. Harbour
Script By:
Jo Manton

5.0 JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
The Cruise of the Toytown Belle
A Toytown play by S. G. Hulme Beaman
Part 1
Produced by Claire Chovil
5.30 MUSIC CLUB
Malcolm Arnold introduces a programme for young musicians
This month's guests broadcasting for the first time
From Scotland
Brian Rankin (cornet)
Accompanist. Barbara Laing
From Wales
Roy Gillard (violin)
Accompanist, Mary Kendall
From London
David Warrenne and Anthony Green two pianos

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Produced By:
Claire Chovil
Accompanist:
Mary Kendall
Unknown:
David Warrenne
Unknown:
Anthony Green
Larry theLamb:
Derek McCumoch
Narator:
Derek McCuhoch
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
Dennis the Dachshund:
Preston Lockwood
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton
Mr Growser:
John Glyn-Jones
The Magician:
Norman Shelley
Captain Higgins:
Norman Shelley
The Inveenter:
Ivan Samson
Peter Brass:
Ivan Samson

Excerpts from
Act 5 of Gounod's opera with Nicolai Gedda as Faust
Victoria de los Angeles as Marguerite
Boris Christoff as Mephistopheles
Chorus and Orchestra of the Paris Opera
Conducted by Andre Cluytens on a gramophone record

Contributors

Conducted By:
Andre Cluytens

A monthly programme in which radio is used to link speakers in London and other world centres to exchange views on important issues of common interest
Chairman in London
Robert McKenzie
The subjects dealt with in Radio Link are highly topical. They, and the names of the speakers, will be announced only shortly before each broadcast.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert McKenzie

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.

Appears in

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More