Programme Index

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Prayer
King of glory, King of peace (BBC
Supplement 18; S.P. 553; D.S. 118; PH. 146: Tune, Gwalchmai —S.P. 553)
Interlude: Mildred Cable
Prayers: the Prayer for Purity; the Lord's Prayer
Blest are the pure in heart (BBC
Supplement 17; S.P. 455; C.H. 478; P.H. 136: Tune, Franconia —S.P. 455)
Blessing

Regional Variations (2)

Schools: Story of Wales

BBC Home Service Welsh

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT by Rachel Percival
Music selected and arranged by Vera Gray
A programme for five and six-year-olds encouraging them to move to music
Repeated on Thursday at 9.55 a.m.
11.20 ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR 2: Insects on the Move
How grasshoppers communicate with one another, and foraging bees convey the direction and source of food to other bees in the hives by J. D. Carthy
Introduced by Desmond Morris General Science series
11.40 WHAT IS A MYTH?
Norman Nicholson illustrates the importance of myths in literature and introduces a new group of programmes on the use of myth for the expression of religious truth
Sixth Forms series,The Christian Religion and its Philosophy '

Contributors

Unknown:
Rachel Percival
Arranged By:
Vera Gray
Unknown:
J. D. Carthy
Introduced By:
Desmond Morris

A spontaneous discussion by A. G. Street
Mary Stocks
William Connor (Cassandra)
Patrick McNair Wilson
Travelling Question-Master, Freddy Grisewood
Arranged by Michael Bowen From Long-well Green ,
Community Centre, Bristol
Recording of last Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick McNair Wilson
Arranged By:
Michael Bowen
Arranged By:
From Long-Well Green

STORIES AND RHYMES The Wonderful Carpet
A Chinese tale by Margaret Gore about the adventures of a poor young girl called Golden Cloud
2.20 POETS AND POETRY
Requiem for Michael by W. R. Rodgers
W. R. Rodgers , the Irish poet, now lives in Essex. This poem written specially for the Poets and Poetry series is based on an incident near his home when a boy of eighteen was killed in a road accident.
Introduced by Robert Gittings with comments and reading by W. R. Rodgers
2.40 INTERVAL MUSIC
2.45 NATURE STUDY
Stoats Tony sees what he thinks is a weasel, but Mr. Collins recognises the animal as a stoat
Script by Christine Dudley

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Gore
Unknown:
W. R. Rodgers
Unknown:
W. R. Rodgers
Introduced By:
Robert Gittings
Reading By:
W. R. Rodgers
Unknown:
Stoats Tony
Script By:
Christine Dudley

A message of comfort and cheer for all in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness or any other adversity' Stuart Hibberd introduces the second of two talks by Father Aloysius Roche
Listeners' letters are very welcome as they give real help in planning these talks. Send them to Stuart Hibberd, c/o Silver Lining, Broadcasting House, London, W.l. Listeners will realise that speakers cannot reply personally but will try to deal with their problems in the talks.

A programme for the fives to eights
Cuddy and the Toadstool
A story for radio by Ruth M. Dall told by Bryden Murdoch with Sheila Donald Arthur Boland
Leonard Maguire and Jean Campbell (clarsach)
Produced by Margaret Lyford Pike

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth M. Dall
Told By:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
Sheila Donald
Unknown:
Arthur Boland
Unknown:
Leonard Maguire
Produced By:
Margaret Lyford Pike

Regional Variations (3)

Carlos a'r Bib Swyn: story by Sheila Huw Jones

BBC Home Service Welsh

The Family at Number Five in The Fairground Mystery by Theodora Caldwell

BBC Home Service Scottish

June Edition including
This Month in Your Garden by Fred Loads
Young People's Guide to Current Affairs by Robert Reid Sports News by Kenneth Wolstenholme
London News by Judith Chalmers
Here and There
General News by Alan Dixon Edited and introduced by Michael Barton

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Alan Dixon
Introduced By:
Michael Barton

Regional Variations (4)

The King Leprechaun and the Silver Dish: story by George Nash

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Under Sail. Come sailing: Bob Roberts offers tips to beginners

BBC Home Service Midland

Songs sung by Violet Carson

BBC Home Service North

Circus Boy by Ruth Manning-Sanders abridged by Edward Blishen read by John Slater
5: I go to Borak's rescue
Gough's Circus is touring Ireland and is having trouble with the weather and with rowdy audiences. A man called Murphy has had to be dismissed, and he has sworn to have his revenge.....

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Abridged By:
Edward Blishen
Read By:
John Slater

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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