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Introduced by Olive Shapley
'What's Your Worry?': 100,000 people want to adopt children, and there are 200,000 homeless children; Marian Cutler explains why it is difficult to solve the problem of homeless children by adoption
' Why Does a Doctor Examine You? by a doctor
' Talking . and Playing,' by Kathleen Cooper , the pianist
' The Language of the Artist': the musician uses sounds, the writer uses words. Basil Taylor talks about the resources of the painter, the sculptor, and the architect
' Keeping Household Accounts,' by Sylvia Lewin
The Tradesmen's Books! The Household Accounts! When David Copperfield married his Dora these, according to Dickens, were the rifts in the lute of their happiness. But need domestic accounting be such a bogy for the modern housewife? In her talk today Sylvia Lewin firmly says no, and she describes the home-made accounting system she uses in keeping monthly records of what she spends on runnihg a home for a husband and two small children. She claims that it's a practical method, involving none of the pathetic struggles of Dora Copperfield -who used to screw up her receipts tilt they looked like curl-papers, and protested of the accounts she kept, ' They won't come right. They make my head ache so. And they won't do anything T want !
Serial: Evensong ' by Beverley Nichols. Abridged by James Langham. Read by Patience Collier

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
Marian Cutler
Unknown:
Kathleen Cooper
Talks:
Basil Taylor
Unknown:
Sylvia Lewin
Unknown:
David Copperfield
Unknown:
Sylvia Lewin
Unknown:
Dora Copperfield
Unknown:
Beverley Nichols.
Abridged By:
James Langham.

Tenth of a series written by Leslie Julian Jones
Carey Edwards and Aubrey Danvers-Walker
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Rae Jenkins Production by Tom Ronald

Contributors

Written By:
Leslie Julian Jones
Written By:
Carey Edwards
Written By:
Aubrey Danvers-Walker
Conducted By:
Rae Jenkins
Production By:
Tom Ronald
Ethel Wiggins:
Ethel Revnell
Mr Wiggins:
Wilfred Babbage
Ruby Wiggins:
Cecile Chevreau
Mrs Higginbotham:
Clarice Clare
Mr Stead (the lodger):
Hal Stead
Angela:
Ethel Revnell

Light Programme

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