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Opening Music: Schubert's Symphony No. 5, in B flat major
9.5 RELIGIOUS SERVICE for Primary Schools
The Prayer of Dedication
Lord of all hopefulness (S.P. 565;
D.S. 79; BBC Supplement 13: Tune, Slane-S.P. 565)
Interlude: John Hoyland and his work for Save the Children Fund
Prayer
Father, hear the prayer we offer
(S.P. 487; D.S. 123; P.H. 120; P.H.J. 112; BBC Supp. 11: Tune, Gott will's machen-S.P. 487)
Closing music

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hoyland

Madge Stephens (soprano)
Trevor Ling (baritone)
Paul Hamburger (piano)
SOPRANO:
Was belebt die schdne Welt;
Geheimes; Rastlose Liebe. Schubert
Continued in next column
BARITONE:

Contributors

Soprano:
Madge Stephens
Piano:
Paul Hamburger
Unknown:
Rastlose Liebe.

ALCESTIS IN THE
UNDERWORLD
A Greek legend which tells how Alcestis so loved her husband Admetus that she was willing to die and go to the Underworld in his stead.
Script by Dorita Curtis-Hayward Adventures in English series
2.20 THE WATER WORKS
In this programme you hear about the Chew Valley reservoir and the water treatment works which were built by the Bristol Waterworks Company.
Script by Leslie Wolff
Science and the Community series
2.40 ALEXANDER SELKIRK The real Robinson Crusoe (1717)
Script by Rhoda Power
Stories from British History series
3.0 LOOKING AT THINGS
A Book of Your Own
Harry Blacker , artist and Illustrator. talks about book production and suggests books we can make ourselves

Contributors

Script By:
Dorita Curtis-Hayward
Script By:
Leslie Wolff
Unknown:
Alexander Selkirk
Script By:
Rhoda Power
Artist:
Harry Blacker

by HARRY HARRISON
Buttercup Creates a Disturbance
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Harrison
Produced By:
Michael Bowen
Peter:
Paul Lavers
Pinkie:
Vanessa Hill
Forty-Fifty:
Hedley Goodall
Policeman:
Hedley Goodall
Clara Chuff:
Ann Codrington
Charlie Cattletruck:
Johnny Morris
Buttercup:
Sarah Stannard
Bluebird:
Angela Brooking
Daisy:
Rosina Enright
Little Willie:
John Foley
Man:
Harry Carter

Scientists answer listeners' questions on science and technology
In the chair:
Professor G. P. Wells , F.R.S.
Members of panel: David Dewhirst
University of Cambridge
T. F. Gaskell
A petroleum geophysicist
Charles Vernon
University College, London
Gwynne Vevers
Zoological Society of London Arranged by Archie Clow
If you have a question to put to the panel, please write it on a postcard, and address it to ' Who Knows? ' BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W.I.

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor G. P. Wells
Unknown:
David Dewhirst
Arranged By:
Archie Clow

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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