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A programme for children undeir five
Nursery rhymes, atonies, and music
I love listening to the stories, especially the ones about Charles,' wrote a four-year-old boy: Please could we hear about the Birthday Party? ' Charles was the boy for whom time hung heavy while he spent a long morning waiting to go to his friend's birthday party. At last the hour came, and with it the end of the story. But some of our listeners, like the one quoted, wanted to know about the party too, so Ruth Ainsworth has written a sequel. On Thursday we shall repeat ' The Long Morning,' and on Friday our under-fives will hear the story of ' Charles at the Party.' It was this same Charles who liked collecting things. He kept them in a ' useful bag.' This acquisitive theme touches a vital and universal interest, and more than one home, we have reason to believe, now has a ' useful bag.' But one little girl got the idea wrong. 'I cannot stop her,' wrote her mother, from collecting dirty bits of paper and oddments from out of the streets.' We hope that hearing again today, tomorrow, and on Wednesday about Charles' bag will help to put her right. Elizabeth A. Taylor

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth A. Taylor

Introduced by Mary Hill and, Including
'Their Point of View': Cldff Mlchelimore brings to the mobile microphone servants of the public to tell you about their side of the picture.,
'Over the Hills and; Far Away: Excursion in Moscow Foreat,' by Wnigihit Miliar
' Thought for Food' : Joan Gilman talks albout the fascinating pasiMme of readiing cookery books
' Jure Profile ' : a radio portrait of a woman in the news during the past month, by Gordon Cruicksihiank
' Courting in the Kitchen,' by Maura Laverty. 7 — ' The Plain Cook'
Serial: 'The Tragedy of the Korosko,' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . Abridged by Barbara Henderson. Read by Ronald Simpson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Mary Hill
Unknown:
Cldff Mlchelimore
Unknown:
Wnigihit Miliar
Talks:
Joan Gilman
Unknown:
Gordon Cruicksihiank
Unknown:
Maura Laverty.
Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Abridged By:
Barbara Henderson.
Read By:
Ronald Simpson

Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Lesley Wilson
To be repeated tomorrow at 11.0 a.m.
Last week Gwen and David returned from Wales. David went to see Dr. Dale to get his permission before his engagement to Gwen was made public. Dr. Dale asked David to wait six months before getting married. Gwen tried to tell Mr. Fulton but he refused to listen. When eventually she did tell him he was furious and said he would do all he could to stop the marriage as he could not have a married woman as his secretary. Gwen was hurt and upset. Gwen and David went to buy the ring during a lunch hour; while they were trying to get a taxi for Gwen, Michael drew up in his car and gave her a lift. He told Gwen that if she ever changed her mind she had only to say so, and he would marry her.
Principal characters this week:

Contributors

Script:
Lesley Wilson
Mrs Dale:
Ellis Powell
Dr Dale:
Douglas Burbidge
Gwen Dale:
Beryl Calder
Bob Dale:
Derek Hart
Mrs, Freeman:
Dorothy Lane
Sally Lane:
Thelma Hughes
Mrs Morgan:
Grace Allardyce
David Owen:
Anthony James
Isabel Fieldring:
Thea Wells
Poppy:
Patricia Laffan
Mrs Mountford:
Vivienne Chatterton
Mrs Humphries:
Mary Williams
Maud French:
Gwen Day Burroughs
Monument:
Charles Lamb
Sammy Smart:
John Mann
Stan Skeats-:
Lewis Stringer
Mrs Skeats:
Joan Clement Scott
Richard Fulton:
Norman Chidgey
Mr King:
Noel Howlett

by Arnold Ridley
Adapted by Cynthia Pughe
The action of the play takes place between the months of October and the following April at ' Cliffeview.' a small private hotel in the popular south-coast resort of Letchmouth
Production by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Ridley
Adapted By:
Cynthia Pughe
Production By:
Archie Campbell
Doris the maid:
Fanny Carby
Fred Hubble, a visitor:
Desmond Canrington
Gilbert Bernal the proprietor:
Barry Jones
Mary Pillington, the housekeeper:
Mary Wimbuah
Cora Bernal, Gilbert's- wife:
Beatrice Kane
Hayes, the porter:
Charles Lamb
Ellen, the cook:
Susan Richards
General Kilkenny, a permanent guest:
John Turnbull
Mrs Leuchers, another guest:
Courtney Hope
Beatrix Neale, Cora's sister:
Ella Milne
Dr Courtemay:
Patrick Troughton
George Hawkins:
Campbell Singer

Melodies in reminiscent mood played by Tolchiard Evans and his Pioneers of Rhythm and &ung by Dinah Kaye and Ken Beaumont
Introduced by Rex Palmer
Musical arrangements remembered by Ray Terry
Produced by John Simmonde

Contributors

Played By:
Tolchiard Evans
Unknown:
Dinah Kaye
Unknown:
Ken Beaumont
Introduced By:
Rex Palmer
Unknown:
Ray Terry
Produced By:
John Simmonde

Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.
A story of country folk.

Contributors

Writer:
Geoffrey Webb
Writer:
Edward J. Mason
Editor:
Godfrey Baseley
Producer:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Harry Oakes
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Christine Archer:
Pamela Mant
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer, his wife:
June Spencer
Mr Fairbrother:
Leslie Bowmar
Grace Fairbrother:
Monica Grey
Walter Gabriel:
Robert Mawdesley
Simon:
Eddie Robinson
Bill Slater:
John Franklyn
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville

The Dawn of a New Age
The coming of ragtime was but one of the many signs. of change in the social life of Britain reflected by Dame Ethel Smyth Ivy Close Bossy Phelps Vera Brittain George Robey Peter Bernard

Others taking part: Ivan Samson, Olwen Brookes. Vivieihne Chatterton, Jane Grahame Arthur Busih, Neal Arden, Hugh Falkus. Stephen Jack Rogw Snowdon, Fred Yule, and Richard George Singers: Olga Gwynne, Horace Percival, and the Three Musketeers
THE PAGES TURNED BY CHRISTOPHER STONE
Written and introduced by Leslie Baily Produced by Charles Brewer BBC Revue Chorus and I [w Augmented Revue Orchestra :Mh Conducted by Frank Cantell at8.0

starring Alfred Marks
Peter Yorke and. his Concert Orchestra
The Raddo Revellers
Beryl Reid
Tony Fayne and David Evans
Harry Dawson
Script by Sid Colin with additional material by Lionel Harris and Ronald Wolife
Produced by Roy Speer

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
Peter Yorke
Unknown:
David Evans
Unknown:
Harry Dawson
Script By:
Sid Colin
Unknown:
Lionel Harris
Unknown:
Ronald Wolife
Produced By:
Roy Speer

Algernon Blackwood tells his story
' The Destruction of Smith'
* Smith,' says Algernon Blackwood , was no ordinary member of the clan. He was Ezekiel B. Smith of Smithville, the hideous little town he had created on the desert site where he discovered the oil that made him a millionaire.' And this, being a story told by Algernon Blackwood , is no ordinary story, and once again listeners must be prepared for that chill down the spine they have learned to expect when listening to this doyen of story-tellers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Algernon Blackwood
Unknown:
Algernon Blackwood
Unknown:
Ezekiel B. Smith
Told By:
Algernon Blackwood

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