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Your questions about wildlife and the countryside answered by CHARLES COLES. JAMES FISHER and ERNEST NEAL
Question-Master, DEREK JONES Produced by John Sparks
Send your questions on a postcard to Country Parliament. BBC. Bristol. 8

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Coles.
Unknown:
James Fisher
Question-Master:
Ernest Neal
Question-Master:
Derek Jones
Produced By:
John Sparks

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
3: Wharves and Watermen
† Produced by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Roberts
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

by Maurice Levinson
Fatso. a well-to-do eccentric, has long been a source of irritation to a group of London taxi-drivers. But at last they have an opportunity of seeing the other side of his nature.
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Levinson
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
Sam:
Anthony Jackson
Mario:
Antony Viccars
Jim:
Nigel Anthony
Pop:
Alan Dudley
Ginger:
Haydn Jones
Fatso:
John Sharp
A Kill:
Rosalind Shanks
Police Sergeant:
Wilfred Babbage
Police Constable:
Gavin Campbell

First of a series of adaptations of the short stories by W. Somerset Maugham
The Force of Circumstance adapted for radio by LIONEL Hale with Cecil Parker
' My fellow guests at the Dolphin were the usual winter residents, but there was one youngish man there. He was lonely-that was evident, for I noticed him eyeing me across the dining room, or as we sat at our separate little tables in the lounge. Clearly he wanted someone to talk to ... ' Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
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Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Hale
Unknown:
Cecil Parker
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Storyteller:
Cecil Parker
Guy:
Denys Hawthorne
Doris:
Barbara Mitchell
Abdul:
Ronald Herdman

from Holy Trinity Parish Church, Southport, Lanes.
Introit: I sing of a maiden
(Lennox Berkeley)
Responses (Smith)
Psalms 126-129
Lessons: Isaiah 6, vv. 1-8
1 John 5, vv. 1-12
Office Hymn: Word supreme, before creation (St. Thomas)
Canticles (Sumsion in G)
Anthem: Hodie, Christus natus est (Sweelinck)
Hymn: A great and mighty wonder (Es ist ein Ros')
Organist and Choirmaster, DAVID BOWMAN

Contributors

Choirmaster:
David Bowman

A family magazine
† introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
The Didgeridoo Man: ROLF HARRIS talks to John Ellison about the turning points in his life
Irashaimase-Welcome: HIROKO AND CHISE talk to Rosemary Hart about the Japanese style of entertaining
In the shadow of the Fish's Tail: ROGER CATCHPOLE , home from two years in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal, talks to Jack Singleton
A carefree, smiling land ...: some impressions of Swaziland from JESSIE HERTSLET

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Talks:
Rolf Harris
Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Roger Catchpole
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Jessie Hertslet

Watcher in the Shadows by Geoffrey Household dramatised as a five-part serial by BRIAN GEAR
5:The Duel
At last Charles Dennim came face to face with his would-be murderer, the unknown man he calls the Tiger: hut Dennim in an apparently friendly race on horseback had reached the partial safety of a village inn. and there the long duel begins ... Produced by BRANDON ACTON-BOND

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dennim
Produced By:
Brandon Acton-Bond
Charles Dennim:
Laurence Payne
The Tiger:
Alex Scott
Policeman:
William Fisher
Inspector Callender:
Roger Bizley
Gen Sir Thomas Pamellor:
Hedley Goodall
Admiral Cunobel:
David Horne
Benita Gillon:
Elizabeth Bell
Aunt GeorKina:
Daphne Heard

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

Maurice Gendron (cello)
Douglas Whittaker (flute) David Butt (flute)
Trevor Williams (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by Henryk Czyz
(liven before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to Ticket Unit [address removed]enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. Followed by an interlude

Contributors

Cello:
Maurice Gendron
Flute:
Douglas Whittaker
Violin:
Trevor Williams
Conducted By:
Henryk Czyz

Bach
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue In
C major
Chorale Preludes (Christmas and New Year)
Vom Himmel hoch. da komm' ich her (S.606): In dulci Jubllo (8.608,: Christum wir sollen ioben schon (S.611); Das alto Jahr vergangen ist (S.614): In dir ist Freude (S.615) played by ROYSTON HAVARD (organ)
From St. German's Church, Cardiff

Contributors

Played By:
Royston Havard

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