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by Jean Anouilh, adapted for radio by Lindsay Evans

Books, Plays, Poems series

Contributors

Author:
Jean Anouilh
Adapted by:
Lindsay Evans
Producer:
Sam Langdon
Chorus:
Michael Gwynn
Creon:
Hugh Burden
Antigone:
Diana Olsson
Nurse:
Mary O'Farrell
Ismene:
Meg Wynn Owen
Haemon:
Gordon Gardner
First guard:
Kevin Flood
Second guard:
Charles E Stidwill
Third guard:
Gordon Gardner

The Wild Cat by Brian and Celia Behan with Patrick Magee and Denys Hawthorne
' As long as we're divided the bosses will go on treating us like pigs. But if we stuck together there's nothing we couldn'have.'
Produced by RONALD MASON
Patrick Magee is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
See page 42

Contributors

Unknown:
Celia Behan
Unknown:
Patrick Magee
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Produced By:
Ronald Mason
Produced By:
Patrick Magee
Mick Sullivan:
Patrick Magee
John O'Brien:
Denys Hawthorne
Gerry:
James McManus
Sausage:
Tom Bowman
Dennis:
Ronald Herdman
Tipp:
Derry Power
Duke:
Frank Singuineau
Mr Brown:
Ralph Truman
Brickie:
Denis McCarthy
Mary O'Brien:
Barbara Mitchell
Walker:
Nigel Clayton
Henry Grant:
Alexander John

from Canterbury Cathedral
Responses (Gibbons and Barnard)
Psalms: 73, 74
Lessons: Deuteronomy 4, 1-8
Romans 3, 19-26
Canticles (Wood in G)
Anthem: Ave, Jesu Christe
(Philips)
Hymn: When thou hast spent the lingering day (tune, Grafenberg)
Organist, ALLAN WICKS
Assistant organist, Philip Moore

Contributors

Unknown:
Jesu Christe
Organist:
Allan Wicks
Organist:
Philip Moore

The Blanket of the Dark by John Buchan adapted for radio by NORMAN PAINTING
Peter Pentecost , heir to the Duke of Buckingham, at the age of twenty-two is leading a faction to depose Henry VIII with the help of the Parliament of Beggars and sustained by his love for Sabine Beau-forest. A new acquaintance. Simon Rede , may be friend or foe ...
4: Secrets of Minster Lovell
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH .

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
Peter Pentecost
Unknown:
Henry Viii
Unknown:
Simon Rede
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Peter Pentecost:
Alan Devereux
Brother Tobias:
Arthur Pentelow
Dickon:
Peter Biddle
Mother Sweetbread:
Joyce Latham
Wench:
Jackie Clarke
Catti:
Emrys Williams
Simon Rede:
John Rowe
Solomon Darking:
Bob Arnold
Blackthorn:
George Woolley
Madge Littlemouse:
Eileen Barry
John Naps:
Stephen Hancock

A panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE Scott-James and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, JACK LONGLAND

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

by lain Crichton Smith abridged as a seven-part reading from an unpublished novel set in Sutherland during the Highland Clearances
Alone again in her own house. Mrs. Scott knows that another visit from Sellar is imminent. This is the concluding chapter.
Part 7
Reader, BRYDEN MURDOCH
Broadcast on August 13. 1967
(Radio 4: Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Crichton Smith

2: Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra
DEREK PARKER outlines the history of great European orchestras
This week he talks about the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, which was founded in 1882, and plays historic recordings of their performances conducted by: SERGlU CELIBIDACHE , FERENC FRlCSAY WILHELM FURTWȀ NGLER PAUL HINDEMITH\
HERBERT VON KARAJAN
RUDOLF KEMPE, ARTHUR NlKlSCH
EBU recordings
Produced by Rosemary Hart

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Conducted By:
Serglu Celibidache
Unknown:
Wilhelm FurtwȀ
Unknown:
Ngler Paul
Produced By:
Rosemary Hart

There are in local as in national government elected members and civil servants: those who decide and those who recommend and carry out. How do the officers of a County Council see themselves and the work they have to do?
Tim MATTHEWS has been look. ing for representative answers in East Sussex
Produced by Patrick Harvey
See page 42

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Matthews
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

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