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A programme of old favourites sung by DAPHNE ELSTON (soprano) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and a chorus from the BRISTOL SAVOY OPERATIC SOCIETY Conductor, ERIC DAVIS Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE

Contributors

Soprano:
Daphne Elston
Conductor:
Eric Davis
Introduced By:
Dudley Savage

played by the LONDON STUDIO STRINGS
Conducted by ERIC WETHERELL with ROBIN HALL and JIMMIE MACGREGOR Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
Eric Wetherell broadcasts by arrangement with the Welsh National Opera Company

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eric Wetherell
Unknown:
Robin Hall
Unknown:
Jimmie MacGregor
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Introduced By:
Eric Wetherell

by Simon Raven
A comedy series in six parts depicting some improbable aspects of life in a Cambridge College.
1:A Delicate Question
SENIOR COMMON ROOM: Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
See page 67

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Raven
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Lovelace Dunkerton, Tutor:
Derek Francis
Rutherford-Jones, Master:
Hector Ross
Rev The Hon D'Arcy BlessinKton, Vice-Master.:
Denys Blakelock
Piers Flute Domestic Bursar:
Donald Layne-Smith
Senior Fellow:
Noel Howlett
UNDERGRADUATES :David Fitzhamilton-James:
Kenneth Fortescue
Aneurin Akenzua:
Lionel Ngakane
COLLEGE SERVANTS: Mr Windermere, Head Porter:
George Merritt
Percival:
Anthony Hall
Jenkins:
Ronald Herdman

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical
Oklahoma!
Part 2: starring
GORDON MACRAE , SHIRLEY JONES ROD STEIGER , GLORIA GRAHAME
Introduced and adapted by GORDON Gow
Produced by Tony Luke Broadcast on September 15 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon MacRae
Unknown:
Shirley Jones
Unknown:
Rod Steiger
Unknown:
Gloria Grahame
Adapted By:
Gordon Gow
Produced By:
Tony Luke

A family magazine introduced from Scotland by HOWARD LOCKHART and including: The Play That Never Grows
Old: children in Kirriemuir. the birthplace of Barrie, talk about Peter Pan View from the Rostrum:
ALEXANDER Gibson , the conductor, and his wife Veronica talk about living with music SOS Stromness: the hazards of lifeboat work in the days of sail and oar are recalled by TOM WISHART The Year That's Awa': where the Scot goes, the traditions of Hogmanay go too, but for how long?

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Lockhart
Unknown:
Peter Pan
Unknown:
Alexander Gibson
Recalled By:
Tom Wishart

Dickens's London
Sketches of life in the metropolis during the last century selected by DEREK PARKER from the writings of Charles Dickens
3: London Recreations Read by MICHAEL MCCLAIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Read By:
Michael McClain

Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling — This week's Name in the News — Sports Spot-FRED STREETER on Gardening
Introduced by COLIN HAMILTON
Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Introduced By:
Colin Hamilton

Contributors

Written By:
Edward J. Mason
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Prudence Forrest:
Mary Dalley
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Ronnie Beddoes:
Harry Littlewood
Doughy Hood:
Arnold Ridley
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Brig. Winstanley:
Anthony Godfrey

asks KEN SYKORA with the help of sounds, voices, and music from the BBC Sound Archives
Trying to get the answers:
JONATHAN MILLER , ALAN BENNETT and MICHAEL FLANDERS, DONALD SWANN Produced by David Allan

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Unknown:
Donald Swann
Produced By:
David Allan

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Sheila Hancock, Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Carol Binsted try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Pre-recorded at The Piccadilly, 201 Piccadilly, London, W.1.
(Nicholas Parsons is in "Uproar in the House" at the Whitehall Theatre, London; Derek Nimmo in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London.)

Contributors

Chairman:
Nicholas Parsons
Panellist:
Sheila Hancock
Panellist:
Derek Nimmo
Panellist:
Clement Freud
Panellist:
Carol Binsted
Devised by:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by EVAN CHARLTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Evan Charlton

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