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by Richard Miers
* Have you ever stuck a postage stamp on a wild elephant? It sounds like a riddle or catch question, but believe it or not there are a very select few who have actually achieved this remarkable feat.' In this talk Richard Miers tells how once in Africa he nearly joined that ' select few.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Miers
Unknown:
Richard Miers

by PETER MIDDLETON with Bettina Dickson , Bill Kerr
Russell Napier
On Christmas Eve, 1953, as preparations in New Zealand to celebrate a Christmas graced by the presence of The Queen in Auckland were approaching their climax, an appalling railway disaster shocked the Dominion and the world. The story of that tragic event and the heroism displayed by men and women involved in it are reconstructed in this programme.
Narrator, WILFRID THOMAS
Produced by Joe Burroughs
Recorded broadcast of August 15. 1960, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Middleton
Unknown:
Bettina Dickson
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Russell Napier
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs

A programme for the fives to eights
Come Along and Join Our Song with Sassie Rees and Maimie Noel Jones
The musical story:
' The Jumping Cow ' written and told by Nesta Crossley
Introduced by Evelyn Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Sassie Rees
Unknown:
Maimie Noel Jones
Told By:
Nesta Crossley
Introduced By:
Evelyn Williams

from the Theatre Royal, Toytown The Babes in the Wood by kind permission of Farmer Giles
Wild Beasts of the Forest kindly lent by Mr. Noah Thunder and Lightning and other effects by the Inventor Music by the Augmented Toytown Orchestra
Book of the words by S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production by Josephine Plummer

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr. Noah Thunder
Unknown:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production By:
Josephine Plummer
The Babes:Dennis the Dachshund:
Preston Lockwood
Larry the Lamb:
Derek McCulloch
The Cruel Baron:Arthur Growser:
John Glyn-Jones
The Good Hired Assassin:His Worship the Mayor of Toytown:
Howieson Culff
The Bad Hired Assassin:Bert Higgins:
Norman Shelley
The Noble Butler:Police Constable Ernest:
Stephen Jack
The Demon King:The Magician:
Norman Shelley
The Fairy Queen:Amelia Goose:
Mary . O'Farrell

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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