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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Martin Jarvis
P. J. Kavanagh Arthur Marshall and Joan Turner are quizzed on sayings funny and fatuous - taken from books, journals and walls, or simply overheard.
When we risk no contradiction
It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction
(JOHN GAY)
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

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Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
P. J. Kavanagh
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Joan Turner
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher.
Presented By:
Nigel Rees
Producer:
Alan Nixon
Source: Radio Times

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