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Gently Round the Bend by Charles Hatton
' When a successful popular writer dies, does his famous here have to die with him? Not necessarily, but who will keep him alive-and at what personal cost? '
Produced by GLYN DEARMAN
Aubrey Woods is in ' The Four Musketeers ' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Hatton
Produced By:
Glyn Dearman
Produced By:
Aubrey Woods
Nigel Hastings:
John Humphry
Margery:
Elizabeth Morgan
Edgar Bristow:
Aubrey Woods
Oliver Burbank:
Alan Dudley
Sheila Murray:
Anna Summerfield
Mrs Lee:
Betty Hardy
Taurus:
Denys Hawthorne
Sadia Granel:
Carole Mowlam

from The Abbey and Cathedral Church of St. Alban, Herts
Introit: Psallite Domino (Byrd) Responses (Clucas)
Psalms: 142 (Watson); 143 (
W. Ellis )
Lessons: Judges 14; Hebrews 10, vv. 1-18
Canticles (Watson in E)
Office Hymn: 0 Christ, our ioy
<E.H. 142)
Anthem: Ascendit Deus (Philips) Organ Voluntary: Heut' triumpliiret Gottes Sohn (Bach)
Acting Organist, SIMON PRESTON
Assistant Organist, John Freeman

Contributors

Unknown:
W. Ellis
Unknown:
Gottes Sohn
Organist:
Simon Preston
Organist:
John Freeman

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
' Always ': Irving Berlin is eighty this month. KEN SYKORA traces the career of the Russian Rabbi's son who wrote ' White Christmas ' and ' Alexander's Ragtime Band '
The Milky Way: ROSEMARY HART takes a look at the story of milk from the dairy farm to the pint on your doorstep
' Hemp for a commoner, silk for a lord ': DEREK PARKER marks the centenary of the end of public executions

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Derek Parker

The Tower of London
The novel by HARRISON AINSWORTH freely adapted in thirteen parts by TONY VAN DEN BERGH
12: In the Torture Chamber
Xit has found a father and de Noailles has suborned Nightgall.
Elizabeth, under house arrest, has realised she no longer has hope of Queen Mary's clemeney.
Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Novel By:
Harrison Ainsworth
Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Ribald:
Leigh Crutchley
Magog:
Francis de Wolff
Dame Potentia:
Lynn Carson
Elizabeth:
Rosalind Shanks
Queen Mary:
Alexa Romanes
Lord Gardiner:
Duncan McIntyre
Lord Courtenay:
Douglas Hankin
Simon Renard:
Malcolm Hayes
Nightfall:
Peter Baldwin
Sir Thomas Wyatt:
Garard Green
Cicely:
Beth Boyd
Cuthbert:
Christopher Bidmead
Lady Jane Grey:
Gudrun Ure
Dean Feckenham:
Geoffrey Wincott
Lord Guilford Dudley:
Michael Harbour

A series of three documentaries
3: Rival Big Brothers
In South-East Asia, America and China are sometimes regarded as alien forces who compete for influence-the Americans with military and economic aid, the Chinese with revolutionary evangelism.
JOHN TUSA discusses the American and Chinese presence with the Foreign Ministers of Singapore and Thailand, and assesses the contention that South-East Asia could collapse like a stack of dominoes in the face of a Vietcong victory in Vietnam
Produced by Keith Hindell

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Produced By:
Keith Hindell

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