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by Jean Anouilh adapted for radio by Lindsay Evans : part 3
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
First guard:
Kevin Flood
Haemon:
Gordon Gardner
Messenger:
Stephen Thorne

The Gift by Wendy Dewar-Durie
' We need your help-we need it desperately. Laura's a perfectly ordinary little girl.... at least, we thought she was until about two weeks ago.'
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Wendy Dewar-Durie
Produced By:
David A. Turner
Dick Ryan:
Tom Garrett
Marion Ryan:
May Diver
Laura Ryan:
Fionnuala Rolston
Brian Roberts:
Robert McLernon
Miss Birch:
Gwyndolyn Stewart
Roger:
John Stewart
John McNalty:
Louis Rolston
Mrs Ritchie:
Gertrude, Russell
David Ritchie:
Michael Lynch
Airport announcer:
Viola Morgan

from St. David's Cathedral within the Octave of the Feast of St. David, Patron of Wales
Responses (Byrd)
Psalm 132
Lessons: Ecclesiasticus 50, vv. 4-24
St. Matthew 25, vv. 14-23
Office Hymn: Urbs beata (E.H.
169, Mode ii)
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
(Wood in D)
Creed
Responses (Byrd)
Collects
Anthem: Blessed City (Bairstoio) Prayers and Final Responses
Director of Music, PETER BOORMAN
Sub Organist, Rosalyn Charles

Contributors

Music:
Peter Boorman
Organist:
Rosalyn Charles

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
The Writer and the Song:
Ken Sykora talks to PADDY ROBERTS about some of his songs, including ' Horsey Horsey ,' and his work for the Song-writers Guild founded twenty-one years ago
Cockney into bumpkin:
ELIZA BETH RING takes an office job in the country
My Lancashire Grandmother: a childhood memory of sixty years ago by C. MORTON SYKES
Tardy Gardening?: FRED LOADS talks about late planting and evergreens

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Talks:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Paddy Roberts
Unknown:
Horsey Horsey
Unknown:
Eliza Beth
Unknown:
C. Morton Sykes
Talks:
Fred Loads

The Blanket of the Dark by John Buchan
.adapted for radio in seven parts by NORMAN PAINTING
Peter Pentecost , chosen leader of a faction to depose Henry VIII. has been rejected by his beloved Sabine. In a snowstorm he receives a vision which changes his whole life—he plans to capture the King. who is staying at Woodstock.
7: Taste of Victory
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH

Contributors

Unknown:
John Buchan
Unknown:
Norman Painting
Unknown:
Peter Pentecost
Unknown:
Henry Viii.
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Peter Pentecost:
Alan Devereux
Lord Avelard:
Douglas Storm
Dickon:
Peter Biddle
Solomon Darking:
Bob Arnold
Carmelite Friar:
George Woolley
Witch:
Penelope Shaw
Henry VIII:
Denys Hawthorne
Mother Sweetbread:
Joyce Latham
Madge Littlemouse:
Eileen Barry
officer:
Graham Weston
Thomas Cromwell:
John Bott
Simon Rede:
John Rowe
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

Famous Cases of Sir Rufus Isaacs , K.C.
Chosen and presented at the microphone by Edgar Lustgarten
3: Joel v. Sievier
A prosecuti(m for blackmail, 1908
Rufus Isaacs did not often appear at the Old Bailey, either by choice or necessity. In this case he appeared for the defendant against Edward Carson , and in a ruthless cross-examination, conducted as ever with immaculate courtesy, virtually destroyed the prosecution's case.
Broadcast on June 22. 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Rufus Isaacs
Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten
Unknown:
Rufus Isaacs
Unknown:
Edward Carson

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