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TIME AND TUNE
Songs to sing and music to listen to
Introduced by Kay Foster
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN Mesopotamia: 1
A visit to Sumer during the reign of Shubad (c. 2500 B.C.)
Script by Rhoda Power
11.40 LIGHT OPERA IN ENGLAND
1: Roger Fiske discusses the English theory of opera

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kay Foster
Script By:
Rhoda Power
Unknown:
Roger Fiske

CRUSOES OF SUNDAY ISLAND by Elsie K. Morton
Adapted for broadcasting by Garry Lyle
Episodes from a book describing the adventures of a family of real-life castaways on a Pacific Island
2.20 THE BIBLE AND LIFE
Christian Worship
1: How Christians Worship
Illustrated talk by the Rev. Dr. Erik Routley
2.40 LORNA DOONE by R. D. Blackmore adapted for broadcasting by Garry Lyle
1: John Ridd meets Lorna

Contributors

Unknown:
Elsie K. Morton
Broadcasting By:
Garry Lyle
Unknown:
Rev. Dr. Erik Routley
Unknown:
Lorna Doone
Unknown:
R. D. Blackmore
Broadcasting By:
Garry Lyle

A programme for the fives to eights
Alexander Armstrong
A serial dialogue story by John D. Stewart
26: Tadpoles
Introduced by Cicely Mathews
5.15 ORBIT ONE ZERO
A play in six parts written by Peter Elliott Hayes with Felix Felton as Dr. Petrie
2: The Cylinder
' I have told you of the giant radio-telescope on the Isle of Skara, and the strange pattern of signals that were being monitored, and the finding, in a lonely cove, of a vibrating cylindrical object.'
Other parts played by members of the cast
Produced by David Davis
5.45 THE GREAT
AMERICAN RAILROAD
Its history and legends its songs and ballads
Written, narrated, and sung by Alexis Korner
2: Civil War
Produced by Claire Chovil

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Armstrong
Story By:
John D. Stewart
Introduced By:
Cicely Mathews
Written By:
Peter Elliott Hayes
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Produced By:
David Davis
Sung By:
Alexis Korner
Produced By:
Claire Chovil
Tom Lambert:
David Spenser
Cliff:
Graydon Gould
Liz:
Elaine MacNamara
Prof McLaren:
Lan Sadler
Peter Garrick:
Harold Reese

True stories of the search for enemy spies in wartime, based on the memoirs of Lt.-Colonel
Oreste Pinto with Bernard Archard as Colonel Pinto
4: Like Father Like Son
Script by Robert Barr
Production by Charles Maxwell
The recorded broadcast of September 28 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Archard
Script By:
Robert Barr
Production By:
Charles Maxwell
Colonel Pinto:
Bernard Archard
Captain:
John Graham
Gabriel:
Russell Napier
Jan Loeven:
Ian Keill
Loeven:
Ronald Baddiley
Orderly:
Michael Sherwell

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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