Regional Programme Midland is a radio channel.

Regional Programme

Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

Regional Programme Midland

Midland

THE DAILY SERVICE

Weather Forecast for Farmers and Shipping

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR

5.0 From Regional : 
A Play 
' Turpin's Ride to York ' by L. DU GARDE PEACH  
Ostlers, Showmen, Constables, and Bystanders played by: Ralph Truman , Cyril Nash , Charles Lefeaux , Philip Wade , Norman Shelley , 
Stephen Jack , and Charles Mason 
This was a favourite play in Mr. Peach's Roads of England series, and is being repeated in response to many requests 
5.30 From North :  
A Children's Concert by the BBC Northern Orchestra 
Leader, Alfred Barker introduced and conducted by Leslie Russell

THE SECOND NEWS

Midland Bulletin for Farmers (Potato Prices), Midland Announcements, and Midland Sports Bulletin

THE NORRIS STANLEY SEXTET

'THE MAN WHO MARRIED THE WHOLE VILLAGE'

A Short Story by Jerome K. Jerome 
Adapted for broadcasting by Paul Bloomfield and read by D. J. Walters 
Jerome K. Jerome , best remembered by his humorous novel 'Three Men in a Boat' and his play The Passing of the Third Floor Back, was a native of Walsall, Staffordshire. Paul  Bloomfield , who has adapted this short story, is a member of the Midland Talks department and is himself a novelist.

POPULAR SATURDAY CONCERT

from the Town Hall, Birmingham 
The City of Birmingham Orchestra 
Leader, Alfred Cave 
Conductor, Leslie Heward -

An Interlude of GRAMOPHONE RECORDS

'SPORT IN THE MIDLANDS'

with eye-witness accounts of Wolverhampton Wanderers v. Stoke City 
(Football League) by A. E. FOWLER 
Coventry v. Leicester 
(Rugby Union) by F. M. T. BUNNEY

NEWS SUMMARY

(including Weather Forecast) 
SPORT, TOPICAL TALKS

LATE NEWS SUMMARY

Regional Programme Scotland is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 13th September 1931. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

Regional Programme Scotland

Regional Programme London is a radio channel.

Regional Programme London

Regional Programme Western is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 16th May 1933.

Regional Programme Western

Regional Programme Northern is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 17th May 1931.

Regional Programme Northern

Regional Programme Wales is a radio channel.

Regional Programme Wales

Regional Programme Northern Ireland is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 6th January 1935.

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POPULAR SATURDAY CONCERT

Contributors

An Interlude of GRAMOPHONE RECORDS

'SPORT IN THE MIDLANDS'

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Regional Programme Midland

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