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A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
Behind the Scenes: a report on the work of hospital management committees
Specialist in the Studio: a psychiatrist answers listeners' questions on depression
Viewpoint: Too much bed-making?: ANNE JOHNSON , a hospital matron, asks whether nurses are always employed to best effect
Are you really sitting comfortably?: DONALD NORFOLK gives some advice on chairs
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Anne Johnson
Unknown:
Donald Norfolk
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with JANE FYFFE
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Ian Tyre
Conductor, lAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by Eddie Fraser

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill McCue
Unknown:
Jane Fyffe
Leader:
Ian Tyre
Conductor:
Lain Sutherland
Produced By:
Eddie Fraser

says That's Life illustrated by opinions and comments from the BBC Sound Archives
Guest, GEORGE ABERCASSIS
Written by Robert Turley
Produced by Sheila Anderson
Brian Rix is in ' Let Sleeping Wives Lie ' at the Garrick Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
George Abercassis
Written By:
Robert Turley
Produced By:
Sheila Anderson
Produced By:
Brian Rix

by Samuel Selvon
You hide something and everybody looking for it, and they get nearer-" You smoking a little? " They get nearer still and " You right in the smoke "... And when they get the spot where vou hide the thing-" You right In the fire."'
Wednesday's broadcast on Radio 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Selvon

from St. Cuthbert's
Roman Catholic Church, Withington, Manchester Celebrant.
CANON WILLIAM O'LEARY
Preacher,
FR. JOSEPH DAVIS, M.S.F.S.
Acts 8, 26-40; John 20, 11-18 Proper for Easter Thursday
Gradual Chant: This is the day that the Lord hath made (16c. anon.)
Sequence: Christians, to the Paschal victim (Plainsong)
Mass in G minor (Leighton Lucas) Hymn: Let us rejoice
THE BARLOW SINGERS directed by MICHAEL CALLAGHAN Organist. Josephine Larkin

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon William O'Leary
Directed By:
Michael Callaghan
Organist:
Josephine Larkin

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
Getting Alongside: ALAN HAY-DOCK visits the Simon Community House in Kentish Town, a centre for some of society's drop-outs
Victorian Best-seller:
MARGOT LAWRENCE talks about Silas K. Hocking
Thursday Topic: or it's happening now
Drop us a line? your news, views, and memories

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Lan Hay-Dock
Talks:
Margot Lawrence
Unknown:
Silas K. Hocking

Welsh Adventure by Viola Bayley arranged in five parts by PHYLLIS MORGAN
3: Mystery at Craigwen House
Serena's friend Jimmy has arrived at Craigwen House. much to her annoyance. Owen Reece from the farm joined Jeannie and her brother David when they followed a mysterious night prowler down to the lake. Could he have been one of Aunt Georgie's guests at Craigwen?
Reader, GWENYTH PETTY
Produced by Evelyn Williams

Contributors

Viola:
Bayley
Unknown:
Phyllis Morgan
Unknown:
Owen Reece
Reader:
Gwenyth Petty
Produced By:
Evelyn Williams

from the novel by Susan Gilruth adapted in five parts with Sheila Grant and Frederick Treves
Take three married couples, two spinster schoolteachers. one slightly sinister foreigner, and one sex kitten. Stir the mixture well under a hot Mediterranean sun-and stand well back!
Part 2
Adapted and produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Novel By:
Susan Gilruth
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Unknown:
Frederick Treves
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Jean Underwood:
Sheila Grant
Bill Underwood:
Frederick Treves
Olivia Gore:
Gudrun Ure
Gail Peters:
Wendy Lovelock
Chief Officer:
Nigel Anthony
Rikki:
Nigel Clayton
Elsie Bird:
Ann Murray
Wireless operator:
Haydn Jones
Nicholas Gore:
Bruce Beeby
Mrs Middleton:
Grizelda Hervey
Gertrude Chambers:
Anna Burden

Calcutta, for most of us, conjures up a picture of an Oxfam advertisement multiplied several million times over.
John ROSELLI makes no attempt to whitewash the picture, but he does insist that Calcutta is also a lively and functioning city-' one of the last and greatest of the roaring cities.'

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† LESLIE SMITH introduces letters from today's postbag
For very late letters you can ring [number removed]and dictate your message

Contributors

Introduces:
Leslie Smith

Nigeria
Fourth of five reports from Arab and African nations by JUDITH LISTOWEL
Of all former British colonies Nigeria started independence with the highest hopes. Her upheavals have been the more disappointing.

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Listowel

Beethoven
Quartet in F major, Op. 135
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Broadcast on March 22

Contributors

Violin:
Sydney Humphreys
Violin:
Raymond Keenlyside
Viola:
Margaret Major
Cello:
Derek Simpson

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