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A look back, with tempered affection, at a career on British railways: by G. F. FIENNES author of 1 Tried to Run a Railway, who resigned last year from the General Managership of B.R. Eastern Region.
1: Under the Bowler Hat
Broadcast on July 22
Friday: On the footplate

Contributors

Unknown:
G. F. Fiennes

1: Pipeline Layer
North Sea gas comes ashore and is piped into Britain's gas pipeline network.
Script by Barry Carman
Exploration Earth series
2.20 THE SILENCE OF THE SEA by Vercors translated by Cyril Connolly and adapted for radio by Zoe Bailey
Produced by Elizabeth Ornbo
Books. Plays. Poems series
2.45 MAKING CRYSTALS by MARGARET SHEFFIELD
A crystal of alum will grow larger in a solution of alum and water.
Nature series

Contributors

Script By:
Barry Carman
Translated By:
Cyril Connolly
Unknown:
Zoe Bailey
Produced By:
Elizabeth Ornbo

Wilfred Pickles in The Front Room by Robert Storey
' Most women have something to bother about-kids or an ailing mother, or something. But she's had nothing. Only the front room.'
Produced by ALAN AYCKBOURN

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Storey
Produced By:
Alan Ayckbourn
All:
Wilfred Pickles
Mavis:
Katherine Parr
George:
James Beck
Charlie:
Harry Mahkham
Ada:
Heather Stoney
Muriel:
Joyce Adcock

from Llandaff Cathedral
Preces and Responses (Tomkins)
Hymn: Gowoniant i Dduw'r Tad
(137 Emynau'r Eglwys)
Psalms 82, 84, 85 (Revised Psalter) Lessons: Job 18 (R.S.V.)
Luke 5, vv 1-16 (NEB.)
Canticles (Bryan Kelly in C) Anthem: Make a joyful noise
(William Mathias )
Organist and Master of the Choristers, ROBERT H. JOYCE
Assistant organist. Graham Elliot

Contributors

Unknown:
Bryan Kelly
Organist:
William Mathias
Unknown:
Robert H. Joyce
Organist:
Graham Elliot

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE
A Musical Marriage: JACQUELINE
DU PRÉ and DANIEL BARENBOIM talk to Dan Zerdin about their music-making at home and on the concert platform
Royal Bestseller: 100 years ago
Queen Victoria published her Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands. GORDON BROMLEY looks at her book and its recent reprint in Victoria in the Highlands by David Duff
With a Pinch of Salt:
ROSEMARY HART takes a look at the ingredient which adds flavour to our language and our life
The Care of your Plants: FRED
LOADS in horticultural vein

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Introduced By:
Daniel Barenboim
Unknown:
Dan Zerdin
Unknown:
Gordon Bromley
Unknown:
David Duff
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart

The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley arranged for broadcasting in thirteen parts by Neville Teller Reader, Wilfred Pickles
Miss Trant has found her Scots doctor; Susie, Inigo, and Jerry are set for a London career; and the rest of the company have jobs for the season. Now Miss Trant faces the bill for the damage to the theatre-and this is where Mr. Oakroyd steps in. 12: Detective Oakroyd Reports
Produced by Trevor Hill

Contributors

Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Reader:
Wilfred Pickles
Produced By:
Trevor Hill

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