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Impressions of life in the Soviet Union by someone who has lived it, MERVYN MATTHEWS
1: Consuming Interest
'The fact that the Soviet citizen is so debarred from any active part in the political side of life probably makes his concern for the day-to-day business of living that much keener.'
Broadcast on September 10
Politics and all that: Oct. 4

Source: Radio Times
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Programme 1
Written by Raymond Escoffey
A programme for primary school pupils in their third year of French
9.55 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT 11 by James Dodding
Moving about the floor in different ways using imaginary ropes and footballs.
Wednesday's broadcast

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Unknown:
James Dodding
Source: Radio Times
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1: Our Earth is Round by HARRY ARMSTRONG
Radiovision programme
11.20 BIG FISH, LITTLE FISH by Italo Galvino
A story about a boy who went underwater fishing and a woman who had been crossed in love.
Listening and Writing series
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS
Current Affairs: a broadcast on a subject of topical interest

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Armstrong
Unknown:
Italo Galvino
Source: Radio Times
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Little Rooster found a diamond button, but the Turkish Sultan stole it. by Kate Seredy adapted for radio and produced by Anita Hewett
Let's Join In series
2.20 THE MEDICI AND
THE MAGI by BRIAN ROBB and FRANCIS HOYLAND from Talks for Sixth Forms
A radiokision programme
2.40 SNOW WHITE AND
ROSE RED
The Grimm fairy tale retold by GARRY LYLE
Stories and Rhymes series

Contributors

Unknown:
Kate Seredy
Duced By:
Anita Hewett
Unknown:
Brian Robb
Unknown:
Francis Hoyland
Told By:
Garry Lyle
Source: Radio Times
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HOWARD LOCKHART introduces today's family magazine from Scotland
Water Power: in the twenty-fifth year of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, a reminder in song, story, and poetry of the men who built the concrete dams
Oldest Post Office: it can be found in Dumfriesshire. NORMAN THOMSON tells you where
H.M.S. Unicorn: GEORGE SHEPHERD has been to see one of the oldest ships afloat. Marine artist HAROLD WYLLIE explains how she can be re-rigged to become one of Scotland's great tourist attractions
Chanterelle: just one of the mushrooms JANET WALLER serves as a treat for her family Ceud Mile Failte: on the eve of the Gaelic Mod, DUNCAN MACLEOD talks about the language of his ancestors

Contributors

Introduces:
Howard Lockhart
Unknown:
George Shepherd
Artist:
Harold Wyllie
Unknown:
Janet Waller
Talks:
Duncan MacLeod
Source: Radio Times
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Jimmy Clitheroe in Two Crimes are Better Than One with PETER SINCLAIR , Patricia BURKE DANNY Ross , DIANA DAY
BRIAN TRUEMAN , JOE GLADWIN JOHN GRAHAM , IVOR SALTER
Written by James Casey and Frank Roscoe
Produced by JAMES CASEY
Broadcast on January 7 (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Clitheroe
Unknown:
Peter Sinclair
Unknown:
Patricia Burke
Unknown:
Danny Ross
Unknown:
Diana Day
Unknown:
Brian Trueman
Unknown:
Joe Gladwin
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Ivor Salter
Written By:
James Casey
Written By:
Frank Roscoe
Produced By:
James Casey
Source: Radio Times
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by Tony Van den Bergh
Last February Mr. Hayward was painfully crippled; now he is walking comfortably on his all-metal ball-and-socket hip joint. Total hip replacement is an operation that has already brought relief to 4,000 people
This programme follows Mr. Hayward from before the operation, through the operating theatre, and right up to the present time.
Produced by Mick Rhodes
Parts of this programme were first broadcast in ' New Worlds '
9.58 Weather forecast

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Van
Produced By:
Mick Rhodes
Source: Radio Times

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