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Some years ago GORDON SAVAGE, himself an antique dealer, set about collecting a certain unspecified type of antique-' X.'
' I wanted quite seriously to make this a collection, an investment if you like, but certainly not part of my business ... this should be my secret hoard. An insurance for my old age....

I Believe in Conmen by John Hollis with Alan Barry and Margot Boyd
TERRY: 'Society consists of us and them. Them being the ones with money, and us trying to get it off 'em in one way or another. I don'go around hating the people I'm trying to swindle. It's a job of work, like driving a bus.'
Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Alan Barry
Unknown:
Hargot Boyd
Produced By:
Keith Williams
Dr Naughton:
Peter Pratt
Mrs Elizabeth Truman:
Margot Boyd
The Rev Mr Stansfield:
Denis McCarthy
Terry Hammond:
Alan Barry
Molly Hammond:
Anne Stallybrass
Girl in pub:
Carol Mason
Mrs Ellen Ramsay:
Betty Hardy

from Blackburn Cathedral
Responses (WiUs)
Psalms 98-101 (Attwood in D, Noble in D, Foster in F sharp minor, Bertalot in A and Bennett in A)
Lessons: 1 Samuel 17, vv. 1-30;
St. Mark 6. vv. 1-29
Office Hvmn: Stand up and bless the Lord (Carlisle)
Canticles (John Gardner-Chelten ham Service,
Anthem: Alleluia and Carillon for the rejoicing in the House (Elizabeth Poston )
Hymn: Songs of praise the angels sarw (Northampton)
Choirmaster, JOHN BERTALOT
Organist, FRED DEWHURST

Contributors

Unknown:
John Gardner-Chelten
Unknown:
Elizabeth Poston
Choirmaster:
John Bertalot
Organist:
Fred Dewhurst

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
Singer with a Sewing-Machine:
Lisa DELLA CASA talks to Anne Catchpole about her life and operatic career
A Drained Brain: PAMELA CASTLE reflects on a visit to America
The Man who Moves Runways:
JACK PUTTERILL , the Vicar of Thaxted, talks to Roy Trevivian
Nature Notebook: a series by NORMAN ELLISON. 6: The rarest moth in the world

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Talks:
Lisa Della Casa
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
Jack Putterill
Unknown:
Roy Trevivian
Unknown:
Norman Ellison.

The Shield by Arthur Swinson
A further series of six programmes written with the co-operation of H.M. Customs and Excise to illustrate some of the work carried out to detect and circumvent the activities of those who attempt to break the law to their own financial advantage.
2: A Night on the Boundary
An attempt to smuggle cattle over the Irish land boundary
Principal characters:
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Swinson
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
John Carbrook:
Victor Lucas
Mr Campbell:
Allan McClelland
Peter O'Dee:
James Greene
Fred Harper:
Haydn Jones
Driver:
Nigel Clayton
Mr Kieran:
Arthur Cox
Tom Fenton:
Alexander John
Terry:
Harry Towb
Shelagh:
Rosalind Shanks
O'Neill:
Wesley Murphy
Mulligan:
Bill Morrison

Six famous trials heard in the Central Criminal Court selected and presented at the microphone by Edgar Lustgarten
5: Regina v. Franz Muller 1864
Muller was brought back from the U.S.A. to face a charge of murdering a passenger on a London suburban train. The chief evidence against him was a hat found in a bloodstained compartment.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edgar Lustgarten
Unknown:
Franz Muller

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