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visits Stafford for a programme of folk songs and dances with Rosemary Redpath (singer)
Dick Pitman (fiddler)
Tony Smith (dialect monologue)
Fred's Folk Five Band
Hutchinson's Family Band
Programme arranged and introduced by Kenneth Clark

Contributors

Singer:
Rosemary Redpath
Singer:
Dick Pitman
Unknown:
Tony Smith
Introduced By:
Kenneth Clark

Let's Join In: Kalulu and the Lion
In this folk tale from Rhodesia, Kalulu the Hare tries to outwit StlUmba the Lion

2.20 The Little Sweep
The short opera which forms the last act of Benjamin Britten's entertainment for children 'Let's Make an Opera'
Second of three programmes introduced by Arthur Langford

2.40 Modern History: The National Health Service
Introduced in 1948, the N.H.S. brought a new conception of 'social medicine' to Britain. Today's programme describes Before and After this dramatic change.
Script by Margaret J. Miller

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Introduced By:
Arthur Langford
Script By:
Margaret J. Miller

Where There's a Will by NORMAN GlNSBURY freely adapted from a short story by Charles Reade
George Sutton is near to death and his relatives are annoyed that he is leaving £ 5,000 of his considerable fortune to his housekeeper. But Mr. Sutton recovers and changes his will.....
Joan Sanderson is appearing in ' Pools Paradise ' at the Phoenix Theatre, London
3.30 app.
Voyage of Discovery
A play for radio by BEATRICE GILBERT
A young actor travelling home from America wangles a berth in the cabin of a famous playwright in the hope of securing a part in one of his plays.
Plays produced by DAVIO H. GODFREY s

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Glnsbury
Story By:
Charles Reade
Story By:
George Sutton
Unknown:
Joan Sanderson
Unknown:
Beatrice Gilbert
Produced By:
Davio H. Godfrey
Nona:
Angela Munnion
Florence Newton:
Joan Sanderson
Geoffrey Newton:
Ralph Hallett
Edith Bannes:
Mary Wimbush
Nurae:
Barbara Mitchell
George Sutton:
Keith Williams
Dr Stevenson:
Charles Simon
Margot Hartford:
Ann Murray
Pater Chalgrove:
Ralph Hallett
Rupert Greyshot:
Hugh Manning
George Lan*:
Charles Simon
Martin Lane:
Diana Olsson

from Winchester Cathedral
Antiiphon : Turn thy face from my sins (Prendergast)
Exhortation; Confession; Absolution; the Lord's Prayer
Versiclee and Responses (Byrd) Psalims 41, 42, 43
First Lesson: Exodus 16, vv. 2-15
Magnificat (Morley Second Service) Second Lesson: Ephesians 4, vv.
17-30
Nunc dimittis (Morley Second
Service)
Creed; Lesser Litany; the Lord's
Prayer (Farmer)
Versicles and Responses (Byrd) Collects
Anthem : Turn thee unto me, 0
Lord (Boyce)
Prayers; the. Grace
Organist and Master o.f the Choristers R. Alwyn Surplice

JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
Up Above the World seHigh
Songs and tunes about things you can see in the sky
Introduced by Graham Gauld
5.t5 GEORDIE
The novel by David Walker adapted by Ian G. Ball
1: 'Write for
- My Only Unique Course
Geordie was vexed because everyone called him Wee Geordie , and he took steps to see they didn't go on doing it.
Produced by Ian Wishart
See page 39
.5.40 THE HOBBIT
The book by J. R. R. Tolkien abridged, by Barbara Henderson
Read in thirteen instalments by David Davis
19: 'A Welcome in. Lake- Town '
All the dwarves were imprisoned in dungeons by the Elvenking. Bilbo, who had been overlooked because he was wearing his magic ring, found a way to rescue them. He led them out, while the gaoler slept, and stowed them into empty wine barrels which were thrown out of the elves' fortress
* to drift down to Lake-Town, where the wine came from.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Graham Gauld
Novel By:
David Walker
Adapted By:
Ian G. Ball
Unknown:
Wee Geordie
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Book By:
J. R. R. Tolkien
Abridged By:
Barbara Henderson
Unknown:
David Davis
Geordie:
Neil Brown
The Laird:
John Young
Dadi:
Alex MacKenzie
Mum:
Erne Morrison
Jean -:
Laobej Spouse
Samson:
Alan Thompson
Mrs Robertson:
Jean Faulds
BaHanti:
James Sleigh

A series of five-round contests between. London and the Regions
LONDON v. SCOTLAND
Round 4
London
Denis Brogan, Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale Scotland
Sir James Ferg-usson Jack House
Quiz-Master, Kevin FitzGerald
Arranged by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Hubert Phillips
Unknown:
Lionel Hale Scotland
Unknown:
Sir James Ferg-Usson
Unknown:
Jack House
Unknown:
Kevin Fitzgerald
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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