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by Jean Anouilh adapted for radio by Lindsay Evans : part 1
Produced by Sam Langdon
Books. Plays. Poems series

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Anouilh
Unknown:
Lindsay Evans
Produced By:
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

Uncle Guy
A play for radio by John Boland with Norman Shelley
Uncle Guy 's tales about his former life abroad fascinate Joe who spends more and more time listening to the old man. Joe's wife Beth feels she is being neglected.
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
John Boland
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Uncle Guy
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Beth:
Margaret Robertson
Joe:
Alexander John
Guy Collins:
Norman Shelley
Mrs Ricks:
Marjorie Westbury
Mr Ricks:
Garard Green
Georgina:
Ysanne Churchman
Walter Henstone:
Haydn Jones
Mrs Nora Byers:
Barbara Mitchell
Landlord:
Antony Viccars

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
Television Tunesmith: RON GRAINER. composer of signature tunes and incidental music, talks to Anne Catchpole about making music that fits tDate with a Patient:
IRENE NICHOLSON talks to Peter Enders about facing death and living on borrowed time
The Gossip: another reminiscence by SARAH PEARCE
Nature Notebook: a series by NORMAN ELLISON. 2: Amber and Ammonites

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Talks:
Irene Nicholson
Unknown:
Peter Enders
Unknown:
Sarah Pearce
Unknown:
Norman Ellison.

The Blanket of the Dark by John Buchan adapted for radio by NORMAN PAINTING
In the bowels of Minster Lovell , Peter Pentecost , once a clerk in holy orders and now heir to the Duke of Buckingham, has discovered the body of the treacherous Lord Lovell, and has resolved to seek no further for his treasure. He is pursued for treason and once more seeks sanctuary among the ' Upright Men.'
5: King of the Beggars
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
Minster Lovell
Unknown:
Peter Pentecost
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Peter Pentecost:
Alan Deverfeux
John Naps:
Stephen Hancock
Brother Tobias:
Arthur Pentelow
Solomon Darking:
Bob Arnold
Simon Rede:
John Rowe
Lord Avelard:
Douglas Storm
Dickon:
Peter Biddle
Sabine Beauforest:
Jill Meers
Steward:
John Bott

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

3: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
DEREK PARKER outlines the history of great European orchestras
This week he talks about the Parts Conservatoire Orchestra which dates back to 1828.
Produced by Rosemary Hart

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Produced By:
Rosemary Hart

What relevance has the convent to an increasingly materialistic world? How does a nun reconcile the demands of her enclosure with the demands of her womanhood and of the world outside her convent? Can a nun of a teaching order, for example, impart to her pupils Miat knowledge of the ways of the world that is an essential part of their education-destined. as most of them are, not to be nuns themselves?
LESLIE SMITH talks about these and other matters to a DOMINICAN NUN, herself tile headmistress of her convent's school
Broadcast on September 14. 1967

Contributors

Talks:
Leslie Smith

What is it like, for the children of Indian and Pakistani immigrants, to grow up in Britain in the 1960s?
English people are not eating Chapatti!
The first of two programmes compiled by Dilip HIRO in which the teenagers themselves give a lively account of British food. dress, customs, religious observance-and attitudes to the immigrant in school, street, home, coffee bar
Introduced by STUART Hall , with readings by John Harris Edited by Mary Baker
Produced by Charles Parker

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilip Hiro
Introduced By:
Stuart Hall
Edited By:
Mary Baker
Produced By:
Charles Parker

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