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by MAURICE WIGGIN
Read by Richard HURNDALL First of tive instalments
He was entirely useless and ornamental. like football and flowers. He was non-productive, selfish. decorative, and a parasite. Ironically, we loved him all the more.

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Wiggin
Read By:
Richard Hurndall

VIENNA VOLKSOPERN ORCHESTRA
VIENNA RADIO ORCHESTRA
PRAGUE RADIO ORCHESTRA
CZECHOSLOVAK RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
NORWEGIAN BROADCASTING ORCHESTRA
CEDRIC DUMONT
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
PAUL DURAND and HIS ORCHESTRA
Introduced by JON CURLE
Recordings made available by courtesy of Austrian, Czechoslovak. Norwegian. Swiss, and French Radios

Contributors

Unknown:
Cedric Dumont
Unknown:
Paul Durand
Introduced By:
Jon Curle

by Roger MacDougall adapted by Cynthia Pughe
with Hubert Gregg, Nicolette Bernard, Ralph Truman
When Icarus, Max, and Johnnie Hampden slip out of school and embark on a Peace Campaign of their own. all hell is let loose!
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Broadcast on December 4, 1965

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger MacDougall
Adapted By:
Cynthia Pughe
Unknown:
Hubert Gregg
Unknown:
Nicolette Bernard
Unknown:
Ralph Truman
Unknown:
Johnnie Hampden
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Stella Hampden:
Nicolette Bernard
Mrs Hampden:
Dorothy Black
Peter Henderson:
Alan Haines
Sir Harold Cookham:
Garard Green
John Hampden:
Hubert Gregg
Walters:
Nigel Graham
Dr Skillingworth:
Ralph Truman
Miss Betts:
Eva Stuart
Paton:
David Palmer
Daventry:
Brian Hewlett
Andrew Deeson:
Norman Wynne
Mollie:
Miriam Margolyes

Spring Holiday edition with KEN SYKORA introducing: Supply Drop: a took at life in outback New Zealand by CLARRIE O'BRIEN The New Christy Minstrels:
Ken Sykora talks to the American folk group about their life ' on the road ' and their music A Professor in the Clouds:
OLGA ALLEN recalls an encounter ir. Peru Seven Times for Silver: St.
John Howell asks LEONARD LooTES about Dowsing An Alliterative Animal:
ANTHONY OLIVER 'S antidote for insomnia

Contributors

Unknown:
Clarrie O'Brien
Talks:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Olga Allen
Unknown:
John Howell
Unknown:
Anthony Oliver

Griff and Tommy
The book by John Griffiths arranged as a reading in four parts
A story set in a South Wales mining village: the valley is still partly green, and beyond the streets and the pits are fields and hills where imaginative children may find adventure.
Reader, JOHN DARRAN
1: Holiday weather Arranged for radio and produced by Evelyn Williams

Contributors

Book By:
John Griffiths
Reader:
John Darran
Produced By:
Evelyn Williams

A musical quiz devised by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane
DAVID FRANKLIN and MICHAEL FLANDERS challenge
IAN WALLACE and DENIS NORDEN In the chair. STEVE RACE with Graham Dalley at the mellotron

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Graham Dalley

A portrait in words and music in three parts
Written by Michael Kennedy
2: The Break with Salzburg 1777-1782
CAROLINE CRAWSHAW (soprano) JOHN STONE (tenor) JAMES DAVIS (violim PAUL Chopper (viola)
ATARAH BEN-TOVIM (flute) Keith SWALLOW (piano)
BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND Produced by William Relton and Stanley Williamson
Nert Monday: The Last Years followed by an interlude

Contributors

Written By:
Michael Kennedy
Tenor:
James Davis
Conducted By:
Walter Susskind
Produced By:
William Relton
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson
Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Mozart:
David Brierley
Leopold Mozart:
Geoffrey Banks
Maria Mozart:
Dapiine Oxenford

A melodrama by John O'Donovan adapted for radio by the author with Timothy West as John Scott. Earl of Clonmell, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland
Michael Harbour, Kate Binchy Barry Keegan, Jessie Evans
Characters m order of speaking: Produced by JOHN POWELL
The scene: The Court of King's Bench, Four Courts, Dublin, and Newgate Jail, Dublin. The time: 1798. during the reign of George III
(Timothy West is in "The Italian Girl" at the Wyndham's Theatre; Jessie Kvans in "Canterbury Tales" at the Phoenix Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
John O'Donovan
Unknown:
Timothy West
Unknown:
John Scott.
Unknown:
Kate Binchy
Unknown:
Barry Keegan
Unknown:
Jessie Evans
Produced By:
John Powell
Unknown:
George Iii
Unknown:
Timothy West
Unknown:
Jessie Kvans
Clerk of the Court:
Brian Hewlett
Lord Chief Justice Scott:
Timothy West
Miltigan, the Chief Justice's Crier:
Michael Deacon
Peter Shanks, a rebel leader:
Michael Harbour
Mary Neale:
Kate Binchy
Arthur Wolfe Attorney-General:
Barry Keegan
Counsellors:
Dennis Adams
Counsellors:
Leonard Fenton
Eliza Shanks Peter's mother:
Jessie Evans
Turnkeys:
Dennis Adams
Turnkeys:
Leonard Fenton
Viola and Bessie, whores:
Jan Edwards
Viola and Bessie, whores:
Rosalind Shanks
Jack Fennessy, a condemned prisoner:
Nigel Clayton
Brian Borroo a prisoner:
Brian Hewlett
Galvin, hangman:
Malcolm Hayes
Dr Palmer:
Michael Kilgarriff
The Governor of Newgate Jail, Dublin.:
Duncan McIntyre
Viceroy of Ireland:
Leonard Fenton

A City of Bells by Elizabeth GOUDGE abridged by Nan MacDonald Read by GEORGE HAGAN
Produced by John Cardy
Sleepy Torminster , surrounded by deep country, seemed to offer peace to a wounded soldier home from the Boer War. But Jocelyn Irvin found this peace deceptive. The old cathedral city was soon offecing a new life, new challenges. First of fifteen instalments

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Goudge
Abridged By:
Nan MacDonald
Read By:
George Hagan
Produced By:
John Cardy
Produced By:
Sleepy Torminster
Unknown:
Jocelyn Irvin

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