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A look back, with tempered affection, at a career on British railways by G. F. FIENNES author of I Tried to Run a Railway, who resigned last year from the General Managership of B.R. Eastern Region.
5: Public Relations
Broadcast on July 31
The Railwayman and other Animals: Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
G. F. Fiennes

by JOSEPH HONE
Malawi is in many ways out. of step with the other new African nations. With most of its civil servants still British, the capital Zomba retains much of the old-style colonial country-club atmosphere. Joseph Hone gives his impressions of the country he has recently visited.

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Hone

Babby Joe by James Douglas
Even smudged with tears one marriage' licence is worth a thousand promises.
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Babby Joe
Unknown:
James Douglas
Produced By:
David A. Turner
Cissie:
Doreen Hepburn
Vera:
Gertrube Russell
Charlie:
Charles Witherspoon
Babby Joe:
Sam McCready
Flash:
Michael Dufty
Bimbo:
Louis Rolston
Bert:
Derek Lord

from Carlisle Cathedral
Antiphon: Ah thou poor world
(Brahms)
Responses (Byrd)
Psalms 147-150 (chipp,Stanford)
Lessons: Job 33; Hebrews 11, vv.
17-40
Canticles in F)
Anthem: Let nothing ever grieve thee (Brahms)
Hymn: 0 King enthroned on high
Master of the Music, ANDREW SEIVEWRIGHT
Assistant organist, William Snowdon

Contributors

Organist:
William Snowdon

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including
Programmes for Sale (ii):
H. ROONEY PELLETIER of Radio Enterprises introduces more BBC programmes available on records, including the Goons. Scrapbook for 1945, and the Garnett Family
Pedigree, Please!: VIVIAN
OTLEY-WARD -JACKSON talks to Sonya Callingham about his work as a genealogist
Half-timer: J. R. GREGSON recalls the foremen who influenced him as a lad of twelve in the cotton mill

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
H. Rooney Pelletier
Unknown:
Sonya Callingham
Unknown:
J. R. Gregson

A Touch of Magic
The book by Geoffrey Morgan adapted as a serial reading in five parts by the author
Read by Richard Hurndall
1: Visitors
After the crowded streets of London's East End Joe found a new and magical world in the country round Valley End. The countryman Ben Pollard taught him the rhythm of the seasons and the ways of the wild creatures who inhabited wood and field. But wherever you lived Life still had its problems, as Joe discovered.
A sequel to * Small Piece of Paradise ' by the same author

Contributors

Book By:
Geoffrey Morgan
Read By:
Richard Hurndall
Unknown:
Ben Pollard

BBC Symphony Orchestra Led by Hugh Maguire Conducted by James Loughran
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale. London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to Ticket Unit[address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Maguire
Conducted By:
James Loughran

Excerpts from
Aspects of Love
An anthology compiled by GRACE MATCHETT and presented by the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow Readers
ZOË HICKS. MICHAEL MEACHAM Produced by Stewart Conn
Broadcast on August 30 (Radio 4:
Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Grace Matchett
Produced By:
Stewart Conn

BBC Radio 4 FM

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