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by ALAN BOUCHER
' It was a hard winter ... Wearing a hooded parka and perched on the grey mass of his building. ho looked more like a rock-troll of Icelandic folk-legend than a human being.' Alan Boucher describes a remarkable feat of do-it-yourself.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Boucher
Unknown:
Alan Boucher

by GEORGE ORWELL adapted for radio by STUART EVANS
2: Oranges and Lemons
Produced by DAVID LYTTLE
Books. Plays. Poems series

Contributors

Unknown:
George Orwell
Radio By:
Stuart Evans
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Narrator:
Alan Wieatley
Winston Smith:
Gary Watson
Julia:
Diana Olsson
Old woman:
Marjorie Westbury
O'Brien:
Kevin Flood
Telescreen Voice:
Stephen Tnorne
Charrington:
Charles E Stidwill

A Tale of Two Men by Roger Macbeth with Cyril Luckham
At the crossroads of his career Underwood must decide either to sink into oblivion or to seek fulfilment.
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH from the Midlands

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger MacBeth
Unknown:
Cyril Luckham
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Underwood:
Cyril Luckham
Betty:
Ursula O'Leary
Molly:
Jane Bond
Headmaster:
Brian Kent
Waller:
George Woolley
Jones:
John Berwyn
Mrs Waller:
Peggy Hughes
Carruthers:
Colin Skipp
Frobisher:
Jim Duckett
Wilkinson:
Richard Taylor
Wilcox:
Peter Biddle
Taylor:
Chrisropher Whitehead
Appteby:
Jeremy Mason
Halliday:
Stephen Hancock
Hetherington:
Phlllp Garston-Jones

from St. John's College, Cambridge
Responses (Morley) Psalms 76, 77
Lessons: Isaiah 44, vv. 1-15;
18; St. Mark 2, vv. 18-28
Canticles (Byrd, Second Service)
Anthem: Hymn of St. Columba
(Britten)
Hymn: The duteous day now closeth (Tune, Innsbruck)
Organist, GEORGE GUEST
Organ Student,
Stephen Cleobury

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Cleobury

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
' To many-towered Camelot ':
The Film: Betty Best talks to JOSHUA LOGAN, the director, and JOHN TRUSCOTT , the designer, about the production of the film.
The Dig: Looking for evidence of the reality
+ Queen for a Year: REITA FARIA talks to Anne Catchpole tRead (almost) all about it
(2): DR. JOHN EARLE reviews some booklets on medical problems
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
John Truscott
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
Dr. John Earle
Introduced By:
Steve Race

A musical quiz devised by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane
David FRANKLIN and FRANK MUIR challenge
IAN WALLACE and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, STEVE RACE with Graham Dalley at the mellotron

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Graham Dalley

Mrs. Betts, who lives in the north-west corner of Essex, has thrown her home open during the last fifteen years to more than a thousand children of all races, creeds. and colours, all shapes and all sizes. Why and how does she do it?
MARGARET BETTS talks to Sonya Callingham
Broadcast on December 19. 1966

Contributors

Talks:
Margaret Betts

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