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2 unusual facts about The Bull's Hour


The Bull's Hour

The second ship of that kind, Dark Flame, departs from the Solar System on a mission to a habitable planet Tormance (the name is borrowed from David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus) in the Lynx constellation, which was reported by alien space voyagers from Cepheus to be colonized by humans, thought to be Earth escapees from the Age before World Unification.

The name of the novel deriving from an old (1909) Chinese-Russian dictionary (quoting the phrase "Earth is born in the Bull's hour (or Daemon's hour, 2:00 am)").


Anthony Buckeridge

The novels usually followed a format of three major subplots per 16-chapter novel, the early books being derived from the popular BBC radio series on Children's Hour.

After World War II Buckeridge wrote a series of radio plays for the BBC's Children's Hour chronicling the exploits of Jennings and his rather more staid friend, Darbishire; the first, Jennings Learns the Ropes, was first broadcast on 16 October 1948.

He also wrote the 1953 children's book A Funny Thing Happened which was serialised more than once on Children's Hour.

Bonita Granville

Over the next couple of years she played uncredited supporting roles in such films as Little Women (1933) and Anne of Green Gables (1934) before playing the role of Mary in the film adaptation of Lillian Hellman's 1934 stage play The Children's Hour.

Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond

In February 2013 she was assessed as the 4th most powerful woman in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

Caesar's Hour

The program starred, among others, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Janet Blair and Milt Kamen, and featured a number of cameo roles by famous entertainers such as Joan Crawford and Peggy Lee.

Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra

CUJO has performed in numerous professional venues in the UK on national tours including the Bull's Head in Barnes, won gold awards in UK-wide big band competitions and has collaborated with world-famous musicians, composers and arrangers such as Laurence Cottle (2013), Stan Sulzmann (2012), Steve Waterman (2010), Issie Barratt and Mike Gibbs (2009), and Mark Nightingale (2007).

Children's Hour

and serialisations of stories by children's authors such as Malcolm Saville, Rosemary Sutcliff and Arthur Ransome.

Christabel Burniston

When Christabel Burniston was interviewed on Woman’s Hour in 2001, presenter Jenni Murray said: “I’ve always wanted to thank you for everything you’ve done for me. Without you I probably wouldn’t be doing this job today”.

Dukan Diet

On May 14, 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 10 minute 3 sided interview/discussion, conducted by Jenni Murray, and including Dr Dukan on Woman's Hour, examining and evaluating the diet's strategy.

Eileen Barton

By age six, she appeared on The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour, a radio program sponsored by Horn & Hardart's Automat, a then-well-known restaurant chain, and, by age 7, she was working with Milton Berle on his Community Sing radio program, using the name "Jolly Gillette" and playing the sponsor's "daughter" (the sponsor was Gillette Razors).

Eugenia Rawls

She moved to New York City and made her Broadway debut in 1934 as Peggy Rogers in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour.

Gate Theatre Studio

Productions, several of which transferred to the West End following censorship troubles with the Lord Chamberlain, included Oscar Wilde's Salome (1931), Laurence Houseman's Victoria Regina (1935), Elsie Schauffler's Parnell (1936), Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (1936), John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1939) and Reginald Beckwith's Boys in Brown (1940).

Geoffrey Bennett

Over the next two decades he produced about twenty such novels for both adults and children and also wrote a number of radio plays for the BBC, including several serials for Children's Hour which featured the adventures of two Midshipmen, "Tiger" Ransome and "Snort" Kenton.

Jane Sanderson

She was a newspaper journalist before joining the BBC, where she was a producer on The World At One, PM, and Woman's Hour.

Jessie Kesson

As well as domestic work, she worked as a radio producer, producing Woman's Hour and over 90 radio plays.

Kermit Bloomgarden

In his ten years with Shumlin, he helped produce a number of Lillian Hellman's plays, including The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), and Watch on the Rhine (1942), and The Lark (1952), Hellman's English-language version of the play L'Alouette by Jean Anouilh.

L. Hugh Newman

With Peter Scott and James Fisher, he was a resident member of the team who presented "Nature Parliament" on BBC radio's Children's Hour in the 1950s.

Michael Sims

He has appeared on many radio and television programs, including a multi-part documentary about women's bodies on BBC Radio 4's popular program Woman's Hour, as well as on The Early Show on CBS and Inside Edition.

Nabila Ramdani

In the UK, Ramdani participates in flagship current affairs programmes, including the BBC's Woman's Hour, Today, You and Yours, PM, Newsnight, Dateline London, BBC Arabic's Sabaat Ayyam (Seven Days), The Sky News Press Preview, Boulton & Co, and Al Jazeera's Inside Story.

Norman Collins

The second famous programme Collins initiated was the incredibly long-lived Woman's Hour, first broadcast in 1946 and still running every weekday on BBC Radio 4.

Percy Edgar

Under Edgar 5IT pioneered many innovations, from employing the first full time announcers to launching Children's Hour.

Peter Wyton

At 12, Peter Wyton was financing his collection of Arthur Ransome books on Children's Hour, which paid seven shillings and sixpence in book-tokens per broadcast.

The Children's Hour

The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour (later known as just The Children's Hour), a radio and, later, a television program of the 1920s-1950s

Its film adaptations, These Three (1936) starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, and The Children's Hour (film) (1961), with Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner.

The Children's Hour (later known as just Children's Hour), a BBC radio programme for children, broadcast from 1922 until 1964

The Color Purple

In 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of the novel in ten 15-minute episodes as a Woman's Hour serial, with Nadine Marshall as Celie.

The Way We Live Now

It was also adapted for radio (and re-set in the present day) as a 2008 Woman's Hour drama serial under the title The Way We Live Right Now.

Verily Anderson

She was with the BBC in TV and radio between 1946 and 2002 working on Woman's Hour and writing TV Plays.


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