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Reception Test

2.10 Scottish Social History
4. Interlude: Round the Clock in a Thirteenth Century Burgh
R. L. Mackie
The time is half-past five on the rooming of March 20, l2S6; the place, a house overlooking the Mercat Gait, or as it is called now, the High Street of Dundee. After the burgh minstrel has aroused the slumbering town, the voices which we shall hear are those of the master of the house, who is a merchant, his wife, and his son, a boy of twelve. The chief characters are Gilbert, a merchant. Emma, his wife. John, his son.

2.30 Interval

2.35 Science, Course 2
'Living Things, Their Activities and relationships'
4 - 'Intelligence'
A. D. Peacock (Professor of Natural History, University College, Dundee)

Contributors

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R. L. Mackie
Unknown:
A. D. Peacock

Conductor, MARGARET S. HOY
The Edinburgh Gaelic Choir will be welcomed to the microphone tonight if the enthusiasm with which its performances are always received in Edinburgh is any criterion. The conductor. Miss Hoy, is a member of the teaching staff of Tynecastle School, Edinburgh, and a member of the Scottish Sub-council for School Broadcasting.

Regional Programme Scotland

About 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.

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