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A sound profile of Manchester City Football Club manager, players, and fans-including recordings made before, during, and after the local Derby game with Manchester United at Old Trafford, a vital match in deciding this year's League Championship
Compiled by PAUL DOHERTY sports agent and journalist Editorial adviser, Michael Parkinson
Produced by Tony Gould

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Doherty
Unknown:
Michael Parkinson
Produced By:
Tony Gould

played by the London Studio Strings
Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by REGINALD KILBEY with songs from PADDY ROBERTS
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Reginald Kilbey
Unknown:
Paddy Roberts
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson

On the night of April 23. 1918. a force of some 450 British seamen raided the German submarine base at Zeebrugge in Belgium in order to immobilise eighteen enemy submannes stationed there.
Fifty years later one of the survivors, COMMANDER BASIL YOULTEN , recalls this daring raid which resulted in the award of eleven V.C.s.

Contributors

Unknown:
Basil Youlten

The Modernisation Man by Allan Peacock with Ewan Roberts
' I am an intruder here. I am here to do nasty things-make chances which can easily be misunderstood I have to make this into an efficient, streamlined organisation.'
Produced by BRIAN MILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Allan Peacock
Unknown:
Ewan Roberts
Produced By:
Brian Miller
John Wardle:
Ewan Roberts
Eddie Sawyer:
Norman Tyrrell
Margaret Wardle:
Angela Brooking
Patsy Wardle:
Angela Morant
Peter Farnham:
Rex Holdsworth
Duncan Howard:
Heath Walker
Paddy Macavy:
Will Leighton
Cecil Pierson-Jones:
Bernard Archard

from Leicester Cathedral
Introit: Glorious in heaven are the souls of all saints (Victoria)
Preces and Responses (Byrd)
Psalm 119, vv. 1-32 (Martin, Hopkins, Edwards, and Barnby)
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Wood in E fiat, No. 2)
Anthem: If we believe that Jesus died and rose again (Goss)
Lessons: Ezekiel 1, vv. 1-14; Acts 12, v. 25, to 13, v. 13
Hymn: Good Christian men rejoice and sing

Contributors

Master of the Music:
George Gray
Assistant:
Robert Prime

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
Carry me back ...: KEN
SYKORA takes a look at the musical scene of the 1870s
Handing it Down:
Peggy Archer talks to PERCY HAWKEN a Cornish bone-setter who is passing on his skills to his young grandson
Have 'em out: MARIE J. MINES reflects on a three-day tonsilectomy
Up from the Country: Ivy
VALLER recalls coming as a kid to live in London fifty years ago
Nature Notebook: a series by NORMAN ELLISON. 4: Octopuses and pearls

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Talks:
Peggy Archer
Unknown:
Percy Hawken
Unknown:
Norman Ellison.

The Tower of London
The novel by Harrison Ainsworth freely adapted in thirteen parts by TONY VAN DEN BERGH
7: Love and Faith
Lady Jane deposed: her father-in-law executed: and the new Roman Catholic Queen. Mary. has favoured tho young Lord Courtenay. Renard turns his attention to Princess Elizabeth — for he means miching mallecho.
Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Novel By:
Harrison Ainsworth
Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Unknown:
Lord Courtenay. Renard
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Queen Mary:
Alexa Romanes
Simon Renard:
Malcolm Hayes
Dame Potentia:
Lynn Carson
Ribald:
Leigh Crutchley
Magog:
Francls de Wolff
Xit:
Nigel Anthony
Lord Courtenay:
Douglas Hankin
de Noailles:
David March
Princess Elizabeth:
Rosalind Shanks
Lord Gardiner:
Duncan McIntyre
Lady Jane Grey:
Gudrun Ure
Dean Feckenham:
Geoffrey Wincott
Lord Guilford Dudley:
Michael Harbour
Cuthbert:
Christopher Bidmead
Nightgall:
Peter Baldwin

TONY VAN DEN BERGH recently spent twenty-four hours with a psychiatrist in Yorkshire
He made recordings during consultations with patients, electrical treatment, and group therapy. Out of this exhausting but normal day's work Tony Van den Bergh has built up an authentic picture of how a psychiatrist works.
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

Compiled from contemporary sources by Alison Plowden
An account of the events which took place during the two years immediately following the death of Henry VIII in 1547-events which led to the execution of the Lord High Admiral Thomas Seymour.
Principal characters:
Other parts played by: Alan Dudley , Betty Hardy
Frank Henderson , Ronald Herdman Anthony Jackson , Victor Lucas Carol Marsh , John Pullen and Ralph Truman
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Plowden
Unknown:
Henry Viii
Unknown:
Admiral Thomas Seymour.
Played By:
Alan Dudley
Played By:
Betty Hardy
Unknown:
Frank Henderson
Unknown:
Ronald Herdman
Unknown:
Anthony Jackson
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Unknown:
Carol Marsh
Unknown:
John Pullen
Unknown:
Ralph Truman
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
Thomas Seymour:
Haydn Jones
Katharine Parr:
Elizabeth Villers
Princess Elizabeth:
Susan Maudslay
Katharine Ashley:
Marjorie Westruby
Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset:
John Justin
Edward VI:
Jean England
Thomas Parry:
Basil Jones
Robert Tyrwhit:
David March
Narrator:
Richard Hurndall

The Spanish guitarist plays on his own specially made ten-string guitar tPart of a recital given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London on October 8, 1967, including works by Gautier, Albeniz, and Manuel de Falla
Narciso Yepes started to play the guitar at the age of five. He studied at the Valencia Conservatory and later with Enesco and Gieseking. His interest in early lute music led him to invent the ten-string guitar on which such music can be performed without modification.
Narciso Yepes broadcasts by arrangement with Christopher Hunt Ltd.

Contributors

Unknown:
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Unknown:
Manuel de Falla
Unknown:
Narciso Yepes
Unknown:
Narciso Yepes

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