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Radio's famous breakfast-time magazine was launched ten years ago today, and the birthday will be celebrated in the daily editions on Monday. The Saturday digest is a stripling of only eighteen months but JACK DE MANIO will certainly not allow the occasion to pass without something special to mark the fact that the parent programme is 'ten years young' and still going strong

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack de Manio

Written by BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN starring Kenneth Home with KENNETH WILLIAMS , HUGH PADDICK
BETTY MARSDEN , BILL PERTWEE
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
EDWIN BRADEN
AND THE HORNBLOWERS
Announcer, Douglas Smith
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Broadcast on April 30 (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
Barry Took
Written By:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Kenneth Home
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Fraser Hayes
Unknown:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

Denis Matthews, pianist, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Shortened repeat: Monday, 12.25 p.m.)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Denis Matthews
Producer:
Monica Chapman

A Hell of a Day on Monday
A new play for radio by Gerry Jones
' Prepare yourselves for a shock-are you ready?-Very well—here it is-the world is going to end tomorrow.'
And Huw has never been wrong yet!
Cast in order of speaking: with Sian Davies , Rosalind Shanks. NiKel Clayton , and Nigel Anthony
Produced by JOHN POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Jones
Unknown:
Sian Davies
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks.
Unknown:
Nikel Clayton
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Produced By:
John Powell
Daniel the Doom:
Geoffrey Wincott
Old Bill:
Haydn Jones
Enoch:
Ronald Herdman
John Morgan:
Henry Stamper
Mr Jenkins:
Bernard Brown
Mrs Jenkins:
Barbara Mitchell
Mr Jones:
Basil Jones
Mrs Jones:
Ann Murray
Miss Owen:
Christine Pollon
The Reverend Watkyn:
Ralph Truman
Edwards:
Ian Thomson
Huw:
Anthony Hall
Willy the Barman:
Leroy Lingwood

A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
A magazine for shoppers: EIRLYS ROBERTS, Editor of Which', talks to Marjorie Anderson
Close of play: a memory from MARIE CASTLE, a cricketer's wife
Microphone Memories: JEAN METCALFE looks back to the time when she introduced Woman's Hour
F.A.N.Y.s-a Diamond Jubi lee: PAT WASHINGTON saw the first contingent to go off on active service in 1914 A Different Race?:
MARGARET DRABBLE , NORAH PHILLIPS , JANET QUIGLEY , and REBECCA WEST discuss the proposition that men do not belong to the same race as women

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Jean Metcalfe
Unknown:
Diamond Jubi
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
Norah Phillips
Unknown:
Janet Quigley

with in this week's story Older Women
Are More Experienced with and Written by DICK CLEMENT and IAN LA FRENAIS
Produced by JOHN BROWELL
Dunald McKillop is a member of the Welsh Theatre Company
Broadcast on Aug. 27 (Light)

Contributors

Written By:
Dick Clement
Written By:
Ian La Frenais
Produced By:
John Browell
Produced By:
Dunald McKillop
Rodney Bewes,:
James Bolam
Bob Ferris and:
Terry Collier
Mrs Winsor:
Rhoda Lewis
Jack:
Donald McKillop
Cloughy:
Bartlett Mullins
Elsie:
Madeleine Mills

A special edition of Gala Concert Hall with 1 JOHN CAMERON (baritone)
GEORGE MACPHERSON (bass)
THE GALA CHORUS
Directed by JOHN MCCARTHY and the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, MARCUS DODS
Introduced by DAVID FRANKLIN
Produced by Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from Cavalleria Rusticana (Muscagni), Don Giovanni (Mozart), Cenerentnla (Rossini), and Carmen
(Bizet)
George MacPherson broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Baritone:
John Cameron
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Introduced By:
David Franklin
Produced By:
Gareth Walters
Unknown:
Don Giovanni
Unknown:
George MacPherson

A play for radio by Basil Douglas
Based on the story by Gerald Kersh
with Norman Shelley and Simon Lack
Pianist, Carlina Carr
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

[Article] On the Other Hand
Pifferari, a likable impresario, tells how he made and lost a fortune in promoting the ill-starred career of a young pianist.
Martyn C. Webster's farewell production for Saturday-Night Theatre at 8.30

Contributors

Writer:
Basil Douglas
Based on the story by:
Gerald Kersh
Pianist:
Carlina Carr
Producer:
Martyn C. Webster
Pifferari:
Norman Shelley
Gerald:
James Thomason
Mrs Shell:
Joan Matheson
Martin Shell:
Simon Lack
Camay:
Antony Viccars
Lady Catskill:
Margaret Robertson
Lord Catskill:
John Baddeley
Lara Danko:
Dorit Welles
Mr Greenglass:
Malcolm Hayes

† Brian REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical, with WENDY COOPER journalist and broadcaster
EDWARD BLISHEN educationist
NICHOLAS TOMALIN
Literary Editor, New Statesman

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Wendy Cooper
Unknown:
Edward Blishen
Unknown:
Nicholas Tomalin

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