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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.
6: Arguing a Case
Written and introduced by GILBERT PHELPS
Produced by Peggy Bacon

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gilbert Phelps
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

A Piece of Cake adapted by JOSEPHINE BRUCE from the novel by CHARLES ANTHONY
Two ex-Naval officers, jobless and beset by money troubles, embark on a secret and perilous venture which they hope will solve their problems.
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Adapted By:
Josephine Bruce
Novel By:
Charles Anthony

A family magazine introduced by Ken Sykora and including:

The Paper Tiger: Bruce Angrave talks to Anne Catchpole about his cartoon work and paper sculpture

''Ang on ter t'memory, lad': B.C. Hilliam recalls, as a boy of fourteen, seeing Sir Henry Irving in The Bells at Sheffield

It's All Different Now: Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Churchill, both in their seventies, tell how they refurbished their cottage by themselves and recall their early days

In My Good Books: Benedict Nightingale has some suggestions

Contributors

Presenter:
Ken Sykora
Talks:
Bruce Angrave
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
B. C. Hilliam
Unknown:
Benedict Nightingale

The Deep Woodlanders in Mole's Castle by Elleston Trevor arranged in four parts by NAN MACDONALD
4: The Cannon in the Cavern
Produced by TREVOR HILL

Contributors

Unknown:
Elleston Trevor
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
Storyteller):
Geoffrey Banks
WoX'fl:
Geoptrev Banks
Won Owl:
Geoffrey Banks
Old Stripe, the Badger:
Jack Woolgar
Digger Mole:
Herbert Smith
Potter-the-Otter:
Norman Somers

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

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bob Holness

Listeners' letters and points of difference aired by Renee Houston, Anne Edwards, Anne Summer, Deirdre Costello
In the chair, Anona Winn
Devised by Anona Winn and Ian Messiter
Announcer, Angela Buckland
Produced by John Cassels
Pre-recorded at the Playhouse, Northumberland Avenue, London, W.C.2
(Shortened version: Thurs., 12 noon)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Edwards
Unknown:
Deirdre Costello
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Announcer:
Angela Buckland
Produced By:
John Cassels

Sergei Rachmaninov
A portrait, with records, based on Sergei Rachmaninov : a Lifetime in Music, by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda
Compiled and introduced by FELIX FELTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Unknown:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Music By:
Sergei Bertensson
Music By:
Jay Leyda
Introduced By:
Felix Felton

A chronicle play on the trial and execution of Charles I by C. V. Wedgwood with Richard Pasco as Charles I Jack May as Cromwell
Principal characters in order ot speaking:
Narrator, BASIL JONES
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
Richard Pasco is in I The Italian Girl' at Wyndham's Theatre. London
See page 20

Contributors

Unknown:
C. V. Wedgwood
Unknown:
Richard Pasco
Narrator:
Basil Jones
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker
Produced By:
Richard Pasco
Three citizens of London:
John Wyse
Three citizens of London:
Garard Green
Three citizens of London:
Frank Henderson
Thomas Herbert, attendant on the King:
Nigel Anthony
Charles I:
Richard Pasco
Col Tomlinson:
Nigel Clayton
Oliver Cromwell:
Jack May
Hugh Peter, an army chaplain:
Haydn Jones
Thomas Harrison:
Basil Jones
Algernon Sidney:
Victor Lucas
Thomas, Lord Fairfax:
David Brierlfy
John Bradshaw:
Denis McCarthy
Henry Marten, M P:
Peter Baldwin
Commissary General Henry Ireton, Cromwell's son-in-law:
Paul Harris
Lady Fairfax:
Pauline Letts
Clerk of the Court:
Francis de Wolff
John Cook, Solicitor-General:
Geoffrey Wincott
William Juxon, Bishop of London:
Alan Dudley
A citizen's wife:
Hilda Schroder
John Downes, M P:
Bill Horsley
Princess Elizabeth:
Pauline: Letts
Henry, Duke of Gloucester:
Simon Turner

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