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A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
Specialist in the Studio: an ophthalmologist answers questions about cataract
A Home for our Parents: ANGELA PAIN reports on an unusual scheme to house elderly people
Anaemias: DR. JOHN EARLE explains
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Dr. John Earle
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

A rare collection of instruments from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century: discussed by MADEAU STEWART and illustrated with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
3: Early Pianos (i)
Produced by Leslie Perowne

Contributors

Unknown:
Madeau Stewart
Produced By:
Leslie Perowne

A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWES and including:
'Thanks for sacking me':
ERIC NEWBY , author of .4 Short Walk in the Hindu Kush , talks to John Ellison about the turning points in his life tThe March King: personal memories of John Philip Sousa by B. C. HILLlAM (Flotsam), with piano illustrations
Poor Caroline!: FRANCES Coll-
INGWooD recalls 'the queen that never was,' born 200 years ago
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Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Unknown:
Eric Newby
Talks:
Hindu Kush
Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
John Philip Sousa

Lost Splendour
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
2: The Great Houses of Russia

Contributors

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

A play in five parts by Francis Durbridge with Simon Lack as Robert Bristol
Part 1
Other parts: Beatrice Kane and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
This serial. written for the European Broadcasting Union. was broadcast last autumn on Radio 2.

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Durbridge
Unknown:
Simon Lack
Unknown:
Beatrice Kane
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Det -SKt Cooper:
Antony Viccars
Hilda:
Carol Marsh
Chief-Insp Daly:
Haydn Jones
Robert Bristol:
Simon Lack
Vanessa Allen:
Barbara Mitchell
Lewis Bristol:
William Fox
Eve Bristol:
Isabel Dean
Katherine Hauptman:
Noel Hood
Freddie Hauptman:
Frank Henderson

Beethoven
March in C major, Op. 45 No. 1, for piano duet
Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 23 Variations in D major on Ich denke dein, for piano duet
ANTHONY SALTMARSH (violin) ALAN ROWLANDS (piano)
MARIA DONSKA and ALAN ROWLANDS (piano duet)

Contributors

Piano:
Alan Rowlands
Piano:
Maria Donska
Piano:
Alan Rowlands

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More