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Essential Lancashire—' a snug and family town '
To RAY GOSLING , as a child in the South of England, Rochdale meant two very different things: it meant Gracie Fields and the Yelloway coach. Now it means other things as well ...

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Gosling

by ARTHUR MILLER adapted for radio by Michael Lawrence : part 2
Produced by David Lyttle
Books, Plays, Poems series

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Miller
Unknown:
Michael Lawrence
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Elizabeth:
Diana Olsson
Proctor:
Jon Rollason
Mary:
Eva Haddon
Hale:
Peter Jeffrey
Corey:
Georee Merritt
Nurse:
Earle Grey
Cheever:
Kevin Flood

Francis de Wolff and Pauline Letts in The Agra Run
A new play for radio by Peter Preston
The action of the play takes place in present-day India.
Produced by JOHN POWELL
See page 44

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis de Wolff
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Peter Preston
Produced By:
John Powell
Vincent Otley:
Peter Williams
Margaret OUey, his wife:
Pauline Letts
Hari Dass:
Frank Henderson
The Rt Hon Dennis Bakewell:
Francis de Wolff
Atan Wiverton, his Private Secretary:
Peter Baldwin
Professor K S Rao:
Ronald Herdman
Conference Chairman:
David Brierley

from
Bradford Cathedral, Yorkshire
Responses (Ayleward)
Psalm 104 (Buck in E flat and Bairstow in A flat)
Lessons: Exodus 15, v. 27 to 16. v. 35; Ephesians 4, vv. 17-30
Canticles (Byrd, Second Service)
Anthem: Nolo mortem peccatoris
(Morley)
Hymn: 0 Christ who art the light and day (Christe qui lux)
Organist and Choirmaster, KEITH RHODES

Contributors

Choirmaster:
Keith Rhodes

A special edition broadcast live from St. Albans in which
Ken Sykora introduces: A Celebrity Guest
The Settlers: in folk style
Basil Boothroyd : looking at St. Albans
Senior Choir of the Francis Bacon Grammar School
Marjorie Proops
William Hardcastle and Tim Gudgin discussing
Is your journey really necessary Produced by Rosemary Hart and Dennis Lower
Presented before an invited audience at the New City Hall, Civic Centre. St. Albans

Contributors

Introduces:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Basil Boothroyd
Unknown:
Francis Bacon Grammar
Unknown:
Marjorie Proops
Unknown:
William Hardcastle
Unknown:
Tim Gudgin
Produced By:
Rosemary Hart
Produced By:
Dennis Lower

The Tower of London
The novel by Harrison Ainsworth freely adapted for radio in thirteen parts by TONY VAN DEN BERGH
2: Beneath the Moat
Queen Jane has been warned by an old nurse: and Cuthbert kidnapped by the head jailer.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Novel By:
Harrison Ainsworth
Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Cuthbert, a squire:
Christopher Bidmead
Nightgall, head jailer:
Peter Baldwin
Magog, a giant warder:
Francis de Wolff
Ribald, his crony:
Leigh Crutchley
Northumberland, Lord Protector:
Denis McCarthy
Arundel:
John Wyse
Simon Renard, Spanish Ambassador:
Malcolm Hayes
Jane, the Queen:
Gudrun Ure
Lord Guilford Dudley:
Michael Harbour
Winchester:
Rolf Lefebvre
Nurse Ellen:
Marjorie Westbury
Cicely:
Beth Boyd
Dame Potentia, a cook's wife:
Lynn Carson
Xit, a dwarf:
Nigel Anthony
Alexia, a crazed prisoner:
Margaret Ford

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
Recorded before an invited audience at the Commonwealth Institute. London
Repeated: Tuesday, 12.25 p.m.

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
The Whitaker Wright Case
A prosecution for fraud, 1904
Broadcast on July 6, 1966
The Crown v. The Seddons—Murder, Old Bailey , 1912

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Rufus Isaacs
Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten
Unknown:
Whitaker Wright
Unknown:
Old Bailey

Four Lent talks by THE VERY REV. A. C. CRAIG , D.D.
2: Things He Said and Did
The miracles of Jesus, once the glory of the faithful. are often today a stumbling-block. But when all efforts have been made to account for them, the miracle of Jesus himself remains.

Contributors

Unknown:
Very Rev. A. C. Craig

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