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A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
Going to the Pictures:
PETER DAVALLE reviews some of the films you can see this month and meets TOMMY STEELE on location in Ireland and MICHAEL LUKE who filmed King Oedipus in Greece
The man under the acacia trees: CHARLOTTE BLOCH-ZAVREL talks about a strange encounter in a boarding-house in Geneva
The faith of an Ibo:
Gordon Gray talks to an Ibo of Biafra about being a Christian in that country at the present time
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Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Peter Davalle
Unknown:
Tommy Steele
Unknown:
Michael Luke
Talks:
Gordon Gray

They Would Not Yield
Eight true stories of adventure and survival adapted for radio by Duncan Carse
7: With Shackleton on the ' James Caird '
† DUNCAN CARSE tells of the survival of the 1914 Imperial Transantarctic Expedition in Shackleton's own words, from South

Contributors

Unknown:
James Caird

by Richard Gordon adapted for radio in thirteen episodes by RAY COONEY starring with Episode 7: Our First
Baby RAY COONEY as Tony Benskin EDWARD CAST as Taffy Evans NORMA RONALD as Vera GWENDOLINE WATTS as Sheila BETH BOYD as Sister and Granny BRIAN HAINES as Porter and Padre
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
Unknown:
Baby Ray Cooney
Unknown:
Tony Benskin
Unknown:
Taffy Evans
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Vera Gwendoline Watts
Unknown:
Sheila Beth Boyd
Unknown:
Granny Brian Haines
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Geoffrey Sumner
Simon Sparrow:
Richard Briers
Sir Lancelot Spratt:
Geoffrey Sumner

Jack de Manio introduces a review of The Two-faced Year with STAINLESS STEPHEN, PRUNELLA STACK SIR LEONARD HUTTON SIR DONALD BRADMAN
LANCE SIEVEKING , SIR ADRIAN BOULT NOËL COWARD, GERTRUDE LAWRENCE GRACIE FIELDS
The RT. HON. EMANUEL SHINWELL C.H., M.P.
WING-CMDR. RALPH BOOTH, A.F.C. Sir FRANK WHITTLE and members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company: Wolfe Morris, Stephen Thorne Ralph Truman
Written, compiled, and produced by JOHN BRIDGES in collaboration with LESLIE BAILY

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Leonard Hutton
Unknown:
Sir Donald Bradman
Unknown:
Lance Sieveking
Unknown:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Gertrude Lawrence
Unknown:
Rt. Hon. Emanuel Shinwell
Unknown:
Sir Frank Whittle
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne
Unknown:
Ralph Truman
Produced By:
John Bridges
Unknown:
Leslie Baily

Dr. Johnson defined a conductor as ' one who accompanies in order to shew the way.'
DEREK PARKER discusses with Norman Del Mar some of the observations made by his fellow conductors on record in the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Denys Gueroult

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Norman Del Mar
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

The Rt. Hon.
Sir Robert Menzies
K..., C.H., Q.C.
Prime Minister of Australia 1939-41 and 1949-66 Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in conversation with KENNETH HARRIS
Recorded at the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Walmer Castle, kent
Edited version of the programme produced bv Stanley Hyland and shown on BBC-tv on October 26: previously broadcast on Radio 4 on November 9. 1967

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Robert Menzies
Unknown:
Kenneth Harris
Unknown:
Stanley Hyland

The Rescue of de Gaulle
Maj.-Gen. Sir Edward Spears Bt., K.B.E., C.B., M.C.
talks to JOHN TERRAINE
In June 1940 General Spears was in Bordeaux with Churchill's permission to get out of a collapsing France the charismatic figure of Charles de Gaulle , then under-Minister of War and seemingly the only man in France anxious to continue the war.....

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles de Gaulle

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