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by RUTH JANETTE RUCK abridged by Marjorie Bilbow
Read by ELIZABETH PROUD
First of seven instalments
Away from it all, farming in Wales, may be many a city worker's dream; but this author made it come true.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Janette
Abridged By:
Marjorie Bilbow

Children at School
The work of Jean Piaget , the Swiss psychologist, has had a great influence on current educational thinking. DR. KENNETH Lovell of the University of Leeds gives an account of it in a group of four talks on Learning and Thinking
1: Babyhood and the Nursery Years
† Broadcast on January 18. 1965

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Piaget
Unknown:
Dr. Kenneth Lovell

The Sleeping Prince by Terence Rattigan adapted by GERRY JONES with Millicent Martin Peter Wyngarde and Fay Compton
Produced by Guy VAESEN
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Terence Rattigan
Adapted By:
Gerry Jones
Unknown:
Millicent Martin
Unknown:
Peter Wyngarde
Unknown:
Fay Compton
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
† ' Uncle Sam without Whiskers '-alias sixty-two-year-old BING CROSBY , who looks back with KEN SYKORA on his career as a singer and film star
Buffalo Bill of the Wild West:
GRACE LOVAT FRASER recalls childhood memories of Colonel William Frederick Cody. who died on January 10, 1917, but who became a legend in his own lifetime
Looking at Books: GILBERT
PHELPS has some suggestions for your library list
+ Can you tell me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Unknown:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Lovat Fraser
Unknown:
William Frederick Cody.
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Toytown
A series of six of the plays by S. G. Hulme Beaman
1: Pistols for Two
Produced by CLAIRE CHOVIL
Broadcast on February 4, 1963
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Produced By:
Claire Chovil
Larry the Lamb):
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Dennis the Dachshund:
Preston Lockwood
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton
Mr Growser:
John Glyn-Jones ,
The Magician:
Norman Shelley
The Inventor:
Ivan Samson
The Mayor of Arkville:
Wilfred Babbage

Patrick Magee and Denys Hawthorne with Henry Stamper and Rolf Lefebvre in Wolves (Les Loups) by Romain Rolland translated by JOHN HOLMSTROM adapted for broadcasting by MOLLIE GREENHALGH
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts: Peter Baldwin Arthur Lawrence , Tim Seely
Ian Thompson , Douglas Hankin
Produced by RONALD MASON
Patrick Magee is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
9.58 Weather forecast

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Magee
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Unknown:
Henry Stamper
Unknown:
Rolf Lefebvre
Unknown:
Romain Rolland
Translated By:
John Holmstrom
Broadcasting By:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Unknown:
Peter Baldwin
Unknown:
Arthur Lawrence
Unknown:
Tim Seely
Unknown:
Ian Thompson
Unknown:
Douglas Hankin
Produced By:
Ronald Mason
Produced By:
Patrick Magee
verrat:
Patrick Magee
Quesnel:
Henry Stamper
Vidalot:
Harold Kasket
Buquet:
Michael Deacon
d'Oyron:
Rolf Lefebvre
Teulier:
Denys -Hawthorne
Chapelas:
John Baddeley
The Spy:
Malcolm Hayes
Jean-Amable:
Glyn Dearman
Hotel Keeper:
Allan McClelland

Catalonia and the Costa Brava
† First of two talks by Neil Bruce
' Spain is a country that has suddenly emerged from a long hibernation behind the protective barrier of the Pyrenees, and has now almost caught up with. and has almost become a part of Western Europe.'
Second talk: Tuesday at 10.45

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Bruce

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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