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A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
Specialist in the Studio: a family doctor answers listeners' questions
Don'breathe in-breathe out: MACDONALD WALLACE has some advice on how to relax in tense situations
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
MacDonald Wallace
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing With MARIAN DAVIES and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Ian Tyre
Conductor, IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by Eddie Fraser

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill McCue
Unknown:
Marian Davies
Leader:
Ian Tyre
Conductor:
Iain Sutherland
Produced By:
Eddie Fraser

A series of five morning plays 4:Worse Than Their Bite
A comedy for radio by Samuel Selvon
Love me, love my dog! and PERCY EDWARDS as Rover
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Selvon
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Jackson:
Horace James
Matilda:
Myrtle Robinson
Mrs Briggs:
Marjorie Westbury
Bill:
Wilfrid Carter

LONDON STUDIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by Marcus DODS including music by Eric Coates , Anthony Collins , Joseph Horovitz , Ronald Binge , and Robert Farnon

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Leopold
Conducted By:
Marcus Dods
Music By:
Eric Coates
Music By:
Anthony Collins
Music By:
Joseph Horovitz
Music By:
Ronald Binge
Music By:
Robert Farnon

A series featuring the best-known Walt Disney films made in the last thirty years
Adapted and introduced by Desmond Carrington
This week: The all-cartoon film first shown in 1942, Bambi
Music and lyrics by Larry Morey and Frank Churchill
Produced for radio by Desmond Carrington and Spencer Hale

Contributors

Introduced By:
Desmond Carrington
Unknown:
Larry Morey
Unknown:
Frank Churchill
Unknown:
Desmond Carrington
Unknown:
Spencer Hale

Requiem on Strangford by John Tarrant
Strangford Lough in the County Down-too beautiful a setting, one might think, for sudden death ... Produced by David A. Turner Wednesday's broadcast (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tarrant
Unknown:
Strangford Lough
Produced By:
David A. Turner

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
' A little dab of powder-a little drop of paint ... ': ROSEMARY HART takes a look at the history, use, and manufacture of cosmetics
Sacred Cowes:
NEVILLE BRAY-BROOKE talks about the history and mystique of yachting
Coincidence?: MARJORY ROSS recalls an experience in Egypt when she was a W.A.A.F. in an underground signals centre
Getting the bird: GEORGE VIL-
LIERS, in his Cordon Rouge series, gives some advice about buying and cooking chickens
Drop us a line: your news, views, and memories

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Talks:
Neville Bray-Brooke
Unknown:
Marjory Ross

Tom Brown 's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes adapted as a reading in five parts by ANGELA JESSON Read by MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES
4: George Arthur
Tom assumes responsibilities and the course of his life changes.
Produced by Anthony Cornish
Michael Tudor Barnes is a National Theatre Player

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Brown
Unknown:
Thomas Hughes
Unknown:
Angela Jesson
Read By:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Read By:
George Arthur
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Produced By:
Michael Tudor Barnes

A serial in eight parts by Gilbert Phelps
A man leaves security with the purpose of finding adventure in a remote country somewhere in South America.
1: There's no such thing as coincidence
Other parts played by Diana Robson. Henry Webb Michael Deacon
Signature tune composed by FITZROY COLEMAN
Produced by R. D. SMITH
See page 36

Contributors

Played By:
Diana Robson.
Played By:
Henry Webb
Played By:
Michael Deacon
Composed By:
Fitzroy Coleman
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Dr Roger Pringle RAF DE:
La Torre
Robert Dacres:
Victor Lucas
David Roberts:
Humphrey Morton
Vincent Tarrant:
John Dearth
Consuela Tarrant:
Margaret Robertson
Adnan Binlow:
Antony Viccars
Myra Binlow:
Hilda Kriseman
Donald Cowcher:
Alan Lawrance
Jimmy Anstruther:
Ian Lubbock

1909-1929 with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives, and with music, DEREK PARKER tells the story of the balletic revolution in the West, led by Serge Diaghilev
Contributors include:
CYRIL BEAUMONT , ALEXANDRE BENOIS ANTON DOLIN , GRACE LOVAT FRASER DIANA GOULD , ARNOLD HASKELL
TAMARA KARSAVINA , CONSTANT LAMBERT DAME Marie RAMBERT LYDIA SOKOLOVA
DAME NINETTE DE VALOIS
Produced by Denys Gueroult

Contributors

Music:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Serge Diaghilev
Unknown:
Cyril Beaumont
Unknown:
Alexandre Benois
Unknown:
Anton Dolin
Unknown:
Grace Lovat Fraser
Unknown:
Diana Gould
Unknown:
Arnold Haskell
Unknown:
Tamara Karsavina
Unknown:
Dame Marie Rambert
Unknown:
Lydia Sokolova
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

Mystery Child? Miracle Child? Linda Martel , a severely handicapped child born in Guernsey. lived only five short years Yet during that time a remarkable series of events happened, resulting in a daily stream of visitors to Linda asking for and believing in her power to help and cure them. True? Did Linda possess a special power, or was it just another case of infectious hysteria? NANCY WISE went to Guernsey and talked with Linda's parents, her brother, friends, observers, to try to discover the mystery of Linda's personality, the miracle of her cures
1 Written and produced by Nancy Wise See page 37

Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Martel
Produced By:
Nancy Wise

The Man and his Music
2: The Years of Triumph
Francis de Wolff as Giuseppe Verdi Patience Collier as Giuseppina Strepponi
Trader Faulkner as Narrator and Peter Baldwin
Written and compiled by HALLAM TENNYSON
Music research by Renata Warburg
Produced by JOHN POWELL
Patience Collier is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis de Wolff
Unknown:
Patience Collier
Unknown:
Trader Faulkner
Unknown:
Peter Baldwin
Unknown:
Hallam Tennyson
Produced By:
John Powell

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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