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Every day heavy lorries laden with valuable exports leave the Channel ports to cross over to France en route for Paris, to Switzerland and Italy. The drivers speak a few words of each language.
IAN RODGERrecorded throughout one such trip and presents a programme on the whole operation
Produced by Fancis Dillon

Contributors

Produced By:
Fancis Dillon
Source: Radio Times
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Light Music from Europe played by the VIENNA FOLK OPERA ORCHESTRA A VOCAL GROUP FROM
EBERWEIN ROGER BOURDIN AND HIS ORCHESTRA NORWEGIAN BROADCASTING Orchestra AMSTERDAM POI.ICE BAND
CEDRIC DUMONT AND HIS ORCHESTRA CESKA PISEN Choir and BRNO RADIO FOLK ORCHESTRA RAYMOND CHEVREUX AND HIS ORCHESTRA and the VIENNA RADIO ORCHESTRA
Recordings made available by courtesy of Austrian. Bavarian. French. Norwegian. Netherlands. Swiss. and Czechoslovak Radios

Contributors

Unknown:
Eberwein Roger Bourdin
Unknown:
Cedric Dumont
Unknown:
Raymond Chevreux
Source: Radio Times
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on BBC Radio 4 FM

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Understudy to a Star:
FREDA BRUCE LocKHART recalls some personal memories of Gertrude Lawrence whose stage career has recently been made into a film called Star!
Journey through Britain:
Jack Singleton talks to JOHN HILLARY about his one-man Odyssey on foot from Land's End to John o'Groats
Back from Africa:
Michael Meech talks to REG BEDFORD of the Methodist Association of Youth Clubs and to some members who have done a year's voluntary work overseas
Drop us a line: your news. views, and memories

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Freda Bruce Lockhart
Unknown:
Gertrude Lawrence
Talks:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
John Hillary
Talks:
Michael Meech
Source: Radio Times
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They Would Not Yield
Eight true stories of adventure and survival adapted by Duncan Carse
5: Four Dark Walls
† Betty HARDY tells the story of Edith Bone in solitary confinement in a Communist prison in Hungary, from Seven Years Solitary

Contributors

Unknown:
Betty Hardy
Unknown:
Edith Bone
Source: Radio Times
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by Richard Gordon adapted for radio in thirteen episodes by RAY COONEY starring with Episode 5: The First Operation
Produced by DAVID HATCH
Pre-recorded at The Paris. Lower
Regent Street. London. S.W.I
Geoffrey Sumner is in ' Uproar in the House ' at the Whitehall Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Gordon
Unknown:
Ray Cooney
Produced By:
David Hatch
Simon Sparrow:
Richard Briers
Sir Lancelot Spratt:
Geoffrey Sumner
Tony Benskin:
Ray Cooney
Taffy Evans:
Edward Cast
Mr Stoker:
Christopher Denham
Sister:
Ann Murray
Padre and George:
Anthony Jackson
Source: Radio Times
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From the Royal Albert Hall London
Yvonne Minton (contralto)
Nell Gotkovsky (violin)
Allegri String Quartet Eli Goren (violin)
Peter Thomas (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) Bruno Schrecker (cello) with Peter Frankl (piano)
BBC Men's Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Bean Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Brahms
Part 1
Alto Rhapsody
7.49* Violin Concerto in D major

Contributors

Contralto:
Yvonne Minton
Violin:
Nell Gotkovsky
Violin:
Eli Goren
Violin:
Peter Thomas
Viola:
Patrick Ireland
Cello:
Bruno Schrecker
Piano:
Peter Frankl
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult
Source: Radio Times

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