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Service for Primary Schools

BBC Home Service Scottish

for Primary Schools
Introductory music
9.8 THE SERVICE
0 come all ye faithful (Tune,
Adeste Fideles-S.P. 78)
Story: A Child is
Born Bishop Ken 's Christmas Prayer 0 little town of Bethlehem
(Tune, Forest Green-S.P. 79)
Tuesday's service

Contributors

Unknown:
Born Bishop Ken

Concert of songs and music and performance of the Play of Daniel

Order of songs:
The Grand Old Duke of York
We have planted in our garden
Shortnin' bread
The Gypsies are merry
What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
The Play of Daniel Carol : Still be still

Contributors

Written and produced by:
Jenyth Worsley

Regional Variations (3)

Record requests

BBC Home Service South and West

Gaelic News

BBC Home Service Scottish

Midland Region's popular panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, JACK LONGLAND
† Tuesday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden

Regional Variations (5)

Trem: people and events

BBC Home Service Welsh

Recordings from the Royal Smithiield Show

BBC Home Service South and West

Record requests

BBC Home Service North

Ulster Farm

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Listeners' letters answered and points of difference aired by RENÉE HOUSTON
JOY
ADAMSON HEATHER JENNER
NORMA RONALD
In the chair, ANONA WINN
Devised bv Anona Winn and Ian Messiter
Produced by John Cassels

Contributors

Unknown:
Adamson Heather Jenner
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
John Cassels

Ideas in Education
Moral and Religious Education
In the last of four programmes about religion in the Primary School,
RONALD GOLDMAN and JAMES HEMMING consider the development of children's moral outlook and the relation between religious and moral education at Primary level, and two headmasters discuss the importance of the corporate life of the school
Introduced by F. H. HILLIARD
Produced by Robert Hutchison

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Goldman
Unknown:
James Hemming
Introduced By:
F. H. Hilliard
Produced By:
Robert Hutchison

Chairman, DILYS POWELL
Broadcasting: STEPHEN POTTER
Book: MARGHANITA LASKI
Art: David PIPER
Film: A. ALVAREZ
Theatre: J. W. LAMBERT
Producer, Jocelyn Ferguson
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Stephen Potter
Unknown:
David Piper
Producer:
Jocelyn Ferguson

Regional Variations (4)

The Hereford Madrigal Society!

BBC Home Service Midland

Record requests

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Gaelic Service

BBC Home Service Scottish

Daphne Phelps
The story of a Yorkshire woman who went to Sicily seventeen years ago, and has become the islanders' friend, patron, and champion
Recorded and narrated by JAMES McNEISH
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
James McNeish
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

Barsley in Bloomsbury:
MICHAEL BARSLEY looks at life from his flat over a family butcher's in Bloomsbury. 2: The Great Leveller
Strictly for the Birds:
ANNE CATCHPOLE visits the National Exhibition of Cage Birds at Olympia. and meets some of the exhibits and exhibitors
Green Thoughts: ALBERT BUTLER recalls a lady whose garden he used to tend
Your Letters
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Barsley
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
Albert Butler
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

Magnolia Buildings by Elizabeth Stucley
A year in the life of a family abridged as a four-part serial reading by Graham Gauld
Spring has been a trying time for the Berners, what with the flu epidemic, Val' finding ' a purse, and Mum going into hospital.
3: Summer
Reader, JEAN ENGLAND
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Stucley
Reading By:
Graham Gauld
Produced By:
Graham Gauld

Regional Variations (7)

Round-up

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News Sport

BBC Home Service Scottish

News. Stock Market Reports. News in Welsh

BBC Home Service Welsh

Voice of the North: regional magazine

BBC Home Service North

News Round-up

BBC Home Service South and West

News

BBC Home Service Midland

Today's news and the stories behind the news-Name in the News-Scotland Yard Calling-Sport-Preview
Introduced by BOB HOLNESS
Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bob Holness

Regional Variations (3)

Renfrew Pipe Band

BBC Home Service Scottish

Ulster Garden

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

played for you by the 'LONDON STUDIO STRINGS
Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by REGINALD KILBEY with TOMMY REILLY (harmonica)
Introduced by JOHN HOBDAY

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Reginald Kilbey
Unknown:
Tommy Reilly
Introduced By:
John Hobday

Regional Variations (5)

The early years of the Ulster Group Theatre

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Bernicia Ensemble

BBC Home Service Scottish

ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON

BBC Home Service Basic

Changes in the South and West during the next ten years. Three M.P.s discuss the series

BBC Home Service South and West

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Home Service Basic

Robert McLernon tells the story of the origins and early years of the Ulster Group Theatre.

Regional Variations (3)

The Road to Westminster+

BBC Home Service Midland

Come Thursday; light entertainment

BBC Home Service Scottish

by ROGER PEMBERTON
Provoked by Marghanita Laski 's recent talk on Why I Hate Advertising, an advertising man of some experience takes up the cudgels.

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Pemberton
Unknown:
Marghanita Laski

Regional Variations (2)

Common Room: University of Wales research projects

BBC Home Service Welsh

Answers to listeners' questions about science and technology Panel:
J. D. CARTHY
Department of Zoology
Queen Mary College, London
B. M. Foss
Institute of Education, Lond
A. HUNTER
Royal Greenwich Observatory
B. J. MASON
Meteorological Office
In the chair,
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Arranged by Archie Clow
If you have a question to put to the panel, 'write it on a postcard to: Who Knows?, BBC. Broadcasting House, London, W.I.

Contributors

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

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST tKENNETH KENDALL introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome

Regional Variations (2)

The Olin Quartet

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Schubert
String Quartet in A minor
(D.804) played by the WANG QUARTET
Alfredo Wang (violin) James Barton (violin) Gordon Mutter (viola) George Isaacs (cello)
The Quartet broadcasts by permission of the University College of Cardiff

Contributors

Violin:
Alfredo Wang
Violin:
James Barton
Violin:
Gordon Mutter
Cello:
George Isaacs

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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