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Prayer
Happy are they, they that love God
(BBC Supplement 16; S.P. 509; C.H, 440: D.S. 70: Tune. Binchester-S.P. 509)
Interlude: Peter and the lame man Prayers: the Prayer for Protection; the Lord's Prayer
From thee all skill and science flow
(BBC Supplement 24: S.P. 285; C.H. 351; S.H. 47; P.H. 200: Tune. Belmon,t-C.H. 309)
Blessing

TIME AND TUNE
Songs to sing and music to listen to
Introduced by Kay Foster
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN
Athens
The BBC Observer from the past visits Athens (e. 433 B.C.) and attends a meeting of the Assembly Script by Rhoda Power
11.40 THE INDEPENDENCE OF
OUR JUDGES
LORD BIRKETT recalls the origins of the law governing the independence of the judges and discusses its importance in modern society in maintaining the liberty of the subject.
Talks for Sixth Forms series

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kay Foster
Script By:
Rhoda Power

ACROSS THE PERSIAN DESERT by Eiskine Childers
Describing a journey from Karachi to Teheran that included the crossing of the Persian Desert by bus
2.20 THE BIBLE AND LIFE
The Parables in Modern Dress 3: The Lowest Seats at Table (St. Luke 14, vv. 8-11)
Script by Jack Shepherd
2.40 THE OPEN BOAT
A story of four shipwrecked men by Stephen Crane

Contributors

Unknown:
Eiskine Childers
Script By:
Jack Shepherd
Unknown:
Stephen Crane

by FREDERICK GRICE
A tale of a Durham mining village half a century ago
Adapted as a four-part serial play by Bertha Lonsdale
2: Exploring Down the Staple and Production by Herbert Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Grice
Production By:
Herbert Smith
Mr Bradwell the storyteller:
Geoffrey Banks
Dick Ullathorne:
Clive Briggs
Kit, his brother:
Robert Huxter
Davy his father:
Graham Tennant
Hetty, his mother:
Louise Andrews
Mr Sleath:
Tom Harrison
Mrs Ullathorne, Dick's grandmother:
Valerie Skardon
Mr Curtis:
George House
Police Sergeant:
John Blain
Police Constable:
Paul Webster
Elijah Lee:
George Buchan
Two Miners:
Peter Wheeler
Two Miners:
John Daglish

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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