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Bob Roberts , master and owner of the Cambria, the last barge still trading under sail alone, talks to those who regard the Port of London as the centre of their lives
1: Gravesend for orders
Produced by Patrick Harvey
A group of three programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Roberts
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

Cold Comfort by Colin Mares with Tony Britton , Clifford Rose and Josephine Tewson
How to cure a common cold by a character who is never without one.
† Produced by GUY
VAESEN Tony Britton Is In ' A Woman of No Importance ' at the Vaudeville Theatre. London: Clifford Rose is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Mares
Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
Clifford Rose
Unknown:
Josephine Tewson
Unknown:
Vaesen Tony Britton
Unknown:
Clifford Rose
Irene Stoddart:
Josephine Tewson
Malcolm Bradbury:
Clifford Rose
Dr Stoddart:
Tony Brition
Mr Braithwaite:
Alexander John
Secretary:
Beth Boyd
Jackson:
Nigel Clayton

from Llandaff Cathedral
Introit: Hosannah to the Son of David (Weelkes)
Versicles and Responses (Smith)
Office Hymn: Creator of the starry height (A. and M. Rev. 45)
Psalms 69 and 70 Lessons: Isaiah 22, vv. 1-14
1 Peter 2, vv. 11-31
Canticles (Jackson in G)
Anthem: 0 thou the central orb
(Wood)
Organist and Master of the Choristers, ROBERT JOYCE
Acting Assistant Organist, Graham Elliot

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Joyce
Organist:
Graham Elliot

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Carol and Chorale:
DAVID WILLCOCKS talks to Anne Catch -pole about the choirs he has conducted
Hero Worship: P. W. R. FOOT recalls his first job with a West End bookseller and publisher
A Painful Subject: Why do we feel pain, and why can some people stand more pain than others? AUBREY WILSON , with the help of medical experts, looks at what is known about pain

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Talks:
David Willcocks
Unknown:
Anne Catch
Unknown:
P. W. R. Foot
Unknown:
Aubrey Wilson

Watcher in the Shadows by Geoffrey Household dramatised as a five-part serial by BRIAN GEAR
In the dusk the unknown assassin. the Tiger, had quietly walked into tM trap set by Dennim and Colonel Parrow. Dennim acting as the bait had been nearly killed. The Tiger as an innocent horseman had escaped the police cordon almost unnoticed.
3: The Hearse with No Coffin
Produced by BRANDON ACTON-BOND from the South and West

Contributors

Unknown:
Colonel Parrow. Dennim
Produced By:
Brandon Acton-Bond
Charles Dennim:
Laurence Payne
Jim Melton:
Roy Brimble
Colonel Parrow:
Ewan Roberts
Mrs Melton:
Peggy Tether
Policemen David HYDE:
Anthony Pardoe
Aunt Georgina:
Daphne Heard
Admiral Cunobel:
David Horne
Benita Gillon:
Elizabeth Bell
The Rev Matthew Gillon:
George Holloway

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 RACK 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

From the Royal Festival Hall. London
Clifford Curzon (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Bean Conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi
Part 1
8.47* The Interval
BROWN STONEWARE
AND ALL THAT by GEORGE SCURFIELD
Old style, chunky, practical domestic hardware is much in vogue now. George Scurfield 's shop was one of the first to sell this kind of thing, from coffee grinders to sweet jars, and to rediscover several forgotten designs.

Contributors

Leader:
Hugh Bean
Conducted By:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Unknown:
George Scurfield

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