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Speaking and Writing
A series of ten programmes designed to help and encourage those who wish to express themselves more effectively or recapture old skills in the spoken and the written word.
2: Notices and Instructions
Written and introduced by GILBERT PHELPS
Produced by Peggy Bacon Broadcast on October 10. 1966

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gilbert Phelps
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

Flora Robson Festival
Dame Flora stars in some of her favourite plays
Mary Tudor by Wilfrid Grantham with Maurice Denham , Jill Balcon
Roger Delgado , Carleton Hobbs Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Tudor
Unknown:
Wilfrid Grantham
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Unknown:
Roger Delgado
Unknown:
Carleton Hobbs

A family magazine introduced by SANDRA CHALMERS from the North of England and including: In the land of sugar limestone: Teesdale has been described as ' The Westminster Abbey of Botany ' with its colonies of rare Arctic and Alpine plants. Will the growth of industry sweep all this away? ALAN DIXON reports f Talk about Pets! :
JANE ETTRIDGE , a young housewife, says: ' Since human company is scarce, animals play an important part in our lives ' Easy Money: Monday morning-Pension Day! But DOUGLAS EDWARDS lost his book and The Spinners who weave the items together in song

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sandra Chalmers
Unknown:
Alan Dixon
Unknown:
Jane Ettridge
Unknown:
Douglas Edwards

Toytown
A series of the plays by S. G. Hulme Beaman
3: Frightfulness at the Theatre Royal
Produced by CLAIRE CHOVIL Broadcast on October 5, 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Produced By:
Claire Chovil
Larry:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Dennis:
Preston Lockwood
Mayor:
Felix Felton
Mr Growser:
John Glyn-Jones
Ernest:
Peter Claughton
Punch:
Charles Leno
Judy:
Ann Codrington
Manager:
Ivan Samson
Inventor:
Ivan Samson
Captain Higgins:
Norman Shelley
Magician:
Norman Shelley

Latest regional news — The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling-South-East Sport-MICHAEL BROOKE looks at listeners' letters in Postscript
Introduced by COLIN HAMILTON
Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Introduced By:
Colin Hamilton

Listeners' letters and points of difference aired by RENÉE HOUSTON ROMANY BAIN IRENE THOMAS
VALERIE ANN FISHER
In the chair, ANONA WINN
Devised by Anona Winn and Ian Messiter
Announcer, Angela Bucklana Produced by John Cassels
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse. Northumberland Avenue. London. W.C.2

Contributors

Unknown:
Bain Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Valerie Ann Fisher
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Announcer:
Angela Bucklana
Produced By:
John Cassels

Arturo Toscanini
A portrait, with records, of the great Italian conductor, based on The Magic Baton by Filippo Sacchi
Compiled by Hilary Pym Introduced by FELIX FELTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Arturo Toscanini
Unknown:
Filippo Sacchi
Unknown:
Hilary Pym
Introduced By:
Felix Felton

by Mel Dinelli
At first he appeared to Mrs. Gillis to be a boy who just needed sympathy and understanding. But was he someone far more dangerous? Produced by ALAN AYCKBOURN
See page 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Mel Dinelli
Produced By:
Alan Ayckbourn
Mrs Gillis:
Eileen Derbyshire
Howard Wilton:
Colln Edwynn
Mr Armstrong:
Kenneth Gilbert
Ruth:
Sara Aimson
Mr Franks:
Geoffrey Banks
Doug:
Paul Webster

by PETER OPPENHEIMER
Tutor in Economics at Christ Church, Oxford
1: As Good as Goldf Sterling is not only the means with which Britons buy what they need at home and abroad: it also has an important international function both as a trading currency and as a repository of foreign wealth. These functions, though advantageous to Britain, do mean that the management of our own economy is made more difficult. In the first of two talks on the pound, Peter Oppenheimer considers these ad. vantages and disadvantages.

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Oppenheimer
Unknown:
Peter Oppenheimer

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