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A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
Specialist in the Studio: a doctor answers listeners' questions on heart disease
Viewpoint: a psychiatrist asks Do we really need mental hospitals? '
Nurse instead of Doctor: PAUL VAUGHAN reports on a family doctor's experiment
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Paul Vaughan
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

A rare collection of Instruments from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century: discussed by MADEAU STEWART illustrated with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
2: Early Harpsichords
Produced by Leslie Perowne

Contributors

Unknown:
Madeau Stewart
Produced By:
Leslie Perowne

Most of us take normal fluent speech for granted, but for the stammerer every conversation becomes a potential nightmare.
OLIVE SHAPLEY has been looking at the problem
Among those taking part:
JONATHAN MILLER , MARY HARRIS and J. H. B . PEEL
Produced by Hazel Lewthwaite
Broadcast in Talkabout on Radio
4 (North) on October 29. 1967

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
Mary Harris
Unknown:
J. H. B . Peel
Produced By:
Hazel Lewthwaite

A family magazine introduced by Tim GUDGIN and including:
' All farce is based on truth ': actor-manager BRIAN Rix talks to Elizabeth Francis about his life and career from Cottingham to Whitehall
At Home with the Danes:
ZENA SKINNER looks round the exhibition at Battersea Park
True Tales by ROBERT RIETTY.
2: A ghost from the ghetto Thursday Topic or it's happening now tDrop us a tine: your news. views, and memories

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Talks:
Brian Rix
Unknown:
Elizabeth Francis
Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Unknown:
Robert Rietty.

The autobiography of Prince Felix Youssoupoff 1887-1967 translated by ANN GREEN and NICOLAS KATKOFF abridged by Donald Bancroft in eight episodes
Read by GEORGE MERRITT
1: Earliest Memories
See page 37

Contributors

Unknown:
Prince Felix Youssoupoff
Translated By:
Ann Green
Unknown:
Nicolas Katkoff
Abridged By:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
George Merritt

A serial in five parts from the novel by Susan Gilruth with Sheila Grant and Frederick Treves
The case of Gail Peters seemed to be nearing its end. But after the arrival of Det.-Insp. Gordon there were a few surprises to come.
Part 5
Jean Underwood. .............Sheila GRANT
Adapted and produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Novel By:
Susan Gilruth
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Unknown:
Frederick Treves
Unknown:
Gail Peters
Unknown:
Jean Underwood.
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Bill Underwood:
Frederick Treves
Hugh Gordon:
David Brierley
Chief Officer:
Nigel Anthony
Gertrude Chambers:
Anna Burden
Elsie Bird:
Ann Murray
Professor Middleton:
Lockwood West
Mrs Middlelon:
Grlzelda Hervey
Olivia Gore:
Gudrun Ure
Rikki:
Nigel Clayton

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London Philharmonic
Orchestra
Leader, Rodney Friend
Conductor, Bernard Haitink
From the Royal Festival Hall
Part 1: Beethoven
Overture: Coriolan
8.10* Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat major (Emperor)

Contributors

Piano:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Leader:
Rodney Friend
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink

London is not only the G.L.C., for which there is no election this year - but also thirty-two separate Boroughs, and in these today has been Election Day. Most of them have been Labour-controlled, and this Late-Night Special bringing you the results will show whether or not the Conservatives have succeeded in reversing the position.
ANTHONY KING takes the chair, and with him are two local election experts, L. J. SHARPE and TREVOR SMITH
Forecast for coastal waters at 11.45

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony King
Unknown:
L. J. Sharpe
Unknown:
Trevor Smith

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