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A family magazine introduced from Scotland by HOWARD LOCKHART
Gale: a VLctonan funeral card led JOHN SKINNER to investigate the loss of 167 fishermen in Eyemouth and district
Factory: industrial democracy at work in Glasgow: a report by NORMAN THOMSON
House: JONATHAN MILLER describes his new Scottish home on Speyside
Correspondence: letters on bagpipe music and poetry
Exhibition: a childhood visit to the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow thirty years ago. recalled by SHEILA MONTGOMERY
Clan: SIR IAIN MONCREIFFE Of that Ilk talks about his recent book The Highland Clans
Tribe: life in an African village by its ' adopted mother,' NAOMI MITCHISON

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Lockhart
Unknown:
John Skinner
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
Naomi Mitchison

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

Unknown:
Michael Brooke
Introduced By:
Bob Holness

Listeners' letters and points of difference aired by RENEE HOUSTON, BERYL REID
MARJORIE PROOPS , RITA MERKELIS
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 Av... London. W.C.2
Shortened version: Thurs., 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Reid
Unknown:
Marjorie Proops
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Announcer:
Angela Buckland
Produced By:
John Cassels

A social history in song
6: War's Alarms with JOANNE BROWNE. CHARLES YOUNG PAT WHITMORE , CHARLES WEST HARRY LANDIS , ANN MURRAY
THE RITA WILLIAMS SINGERS
RADIO ORCHESTRA conducted by ALFRED RALSTON
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
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RADIOVISION FOR SCHOOLS
To follow certain broadcasts described as a radiovision programme it is necessary to have the accompanying Kim strip.

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanne Browne.
Unknown:
Charles Young
Unknown:
Pat Whitmore
Unknown:
Charles West
Unknown:
Harry Landis
Unknown:
Ann Murray
Conducted By:
Alfred Ralston
Produced By:
Charles Chilton

The Burning of the Reichstag witnessed by Sefton Delmer
On the night of February 27, 1933, the German Parliament building in Berlin was burned down. SEFTON DELMER. then Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Express, talks to ROBERT MILNE-TYTE about how he got one of the great scoops of his journalistic career.
Broadcast in the BBC World Service

Contributors

Unknown:
Sefton Delmer
Unknown:
Sefton Delmer.
Unknown:
Robert Milne-Tyte

A play for radio by Jon Rollason from the novel by John Christopher
.with Jack Watling
Rosalind Shanks , Glyn Houston and Dennis Alaba Peters
A dramatic fall In the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's atmosphere leads from a severe winter to a new Ice Age. Together with large numbers of Europeans. Andrew Leedon seeks sanctuary in Nigeria.
Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
Jon Rollason
Novel By:
John Christopher
Unknown:
Jack Watling
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Unknown:
Glyn Houston
Unknown:
Dennis Alaba Peters
Unknown:
Andrew Leedon
Produced By:
Keith Williams
McKay:
Haydn Jones
Andrew Leedon:
Jack Watling
Abonitu:
Dennis Alara Peters
David Cartwell:
Glyn Houston
Carol Leedon:
Margaret Robertson
Madeleine Cartwell:
Rosalind Shanks
Captain:
Chisholm Ianthompson
Lieutenant:
Christopher Bidmead
Bank Manager:
Lionel Ngkane
Embassy Official:
Lockwood West
Alt Bates:
Peter Williams
Lady Arunawa:
Jumoke Debayo
Wing-Cmdr Torbock:
Alexander John
General Mutalli:
Frank Cousins

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER JAMES introduces this edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
For very late letters you can ring [number removed] and dictate your message

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter James

Dowland
Lachrimae or Seven Teares
SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS August Wenzinger (treble viol) Hannelore Miiller (tenor viol Marianne Maier (tenor viol) Jan Crafoord (bass viol)
Johannes Koch (bass viol)
Eugen Muller-Dombois (lute) gramophone records

Contributors

Tenor:
Hannelore Miiller
Tenor:
Marianne Maier
Bass:
Johannes Koch
Unknown:
Eugen Muller-Dombois

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