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OLIVE SHAPLEY looks at the problems of both adults and children in families where there is only one parent
Produced by Hazel Lewthwaite
† Broadcast in Talkabout (North of England Home Service) on August 27

Contributors

Produced By:
Hazel Lewthwaite

played by the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND / ORCHESTRA
Leader. Maurice Brett
Conductor. TERENCE LOVETT with TOMMY REILLY (harmonica) and JAMES MOODY (piano)
Introduced by ALEXANDER MOYES

Contributors

Leader:
Maurice Brett
Conductor:
Terence Lovett
Unknown:
Tommy Reilly
Introduced By:
Alexander Moyes

MALCOLM HAZELL talks about the Golden Age of prize-fighting-the age of Broughton, Mendoza, and Gentleman Jackson-and introduces readings from William Haz litt's account of the fight between Bill Neate from Bristol and Tom Hickman. the ' Gas-man,' which took place on December 11. 1821
Reader, PETER BALDWIN

Contributors

Talks:
Malcolm Hazell
Unknown:
William Haz
Unknown:
Tom Hickman.
Reader:
Peter Baldwin

Hello, Wherever You Are by Gerald Masters
The regime in Kandara is unpopular with the English broadcaster Bill Lomax , but he is not the only rebel.....
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by JOHN GIBSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Lomax
Produced By:
John Gibson
Mahnlut:
Harold Kasket
Announcer:
Peter Baldwin
Bill Lomax:
Anthony Jackson
Sir Hugh:
Humphrey Morton
Susan:
Rosalind Shanks
Godfrey:
Ronald Herdman
Receptionist:
David Brierley
Reyhan:
Garard Green
Warder:
Ian Thompson
Driver:
Nigel Clayton
Road guard:
Frank Henderson

from the Cathedral Church of St. Mary (Scottish Episcopal), Edinburgh
Preces and Responses (
William Byrd )
Psalms 32, 33
Lessons: Isaiah 10. v. 33, to 11, v. 9
2 Thessalonians 2
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
(Stanford in C)
The Lord's Prayer
Anthem: Hosanna to the Son of David (Thomas Weelkes )
Organist and Master of Choristers, DENNIS TOWNHILL
Assistant Organist, Keith Griffiths

Contributors

Unknown:
William Byrd
Organist:
Thomas Weelkes
Organist:
Keith Griffiths

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
It all began in the Naafi:
Ken Sykora talks to GEORGE MITCHELL and some of his singers
As Good as New?:
ELIZABETH FRANCIS takes a look at dry cleaning
The Hippeastrum: some hints on growing this popular pot plant, by FRED LOADS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Talks:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
George Mitchell
Unknown:
Elizabeth Francis

Watcher in the Shadows by Geoffrey Household dramatised as a five-part serial by BRIAN GEAR
Dennini waits for the unknown assassin to make another attempt on his life. He forces himself to act as the tethered goat in order to tempt the Tiger into the open. Then one evening he returns to the small cottage and finds a stray dog poisoned.
2: The Stranger on the Nash Ruad
Produced by BRANDON ACTON-BOND from the South and West

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Gear
Produced By:
Brandon Acton-Bond
Charles Dennim:
Laurence Payne
Aunt Georeina:
Daphne Heard
Isaac Purvis:
Paul Lorraine
Colonel Parrow:
Ewan Roberts
Jim Melton:
Roy Brimble

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 Repeated: Tuesday, 12.25 p.m.

Contributors

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

The most terrible battle the British Army has ever fought is recalled today by men who lived through it, fifty years ago. Together with their memories. the programme contains an appreciation of the battle - why it was fought and what its results were - by a present-day military historian, Brian Bond
Narrator, Noel Johnson
Produced by David Woodward
See page 50

Contributors

Narrator:
Noel Johnson
Speaker:
Brian Bond
Produced by:
David Woodward

What we sometimes wrongly call barrel-organs came to this country about a hundred years ago. Not many years later CANON ALGERNON WINTLE. then a boy in Kensington, heard one of them and was fascinated
His talk, recorded in 1954. is illustrated by music from several of his own street-pianos
Produced by Patrick Harvey Broadcast on August 16

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon Algernon Wintle.
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace
The story of Alfred Nobel , the Swedish chemist, inventor, businessman, humanitarian, and philanthropist, and of the annual award of his Prizes told by HAROLD ABRAHAMS with the recorded voices of many persons connected with the award of the Prizes and also of some of the recipients
Produced by Leslie Perowne
See page 50

Contributors

Unknown:
Alfred Nobel
Told By:
Harold Abrahams
Produced By:
Leslie Perowne

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