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VERA RAMBAUT recently visited a friend in the Nilgiri Hills in Southern India and there met a certain Dr. Narasinham, who does selfless and important medical work among primitive tribespeople
Miss Rambaut's friend had emigrated to India in order to help the doctor in his work, and Miss Rambaut describes their visits to the various hospitals and clinics the doctor has founded.

Contributors

Unknown:
Vera Rambaut

Well, I'm not Laughing by Barbara Foxe with Robert Stephens and Anthony Jackson
' The room is full of magic, Ladies and Gentlemen ... It all lies in the power of the magician. and I am a very powerful magician. Watch the magician, Ladies and Gentlemen. Watch the magician
Cast in order of speaking: and John Pullen
Grizeida Hervey. Peter Williams
Produced by HALLAM TENNYSON
Robert Stephens is a National
Theatre Player

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Foxe
Unknown:
Robert Stephens
Unknown:
Anthony Jackson
Unknown:
John Pullen
Unknown:
Grizeida Hervey.
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Produced By:
Hallam Tennyson
Produced By:
Robert Stephens
Tony Bennett:
Robert Stephens
Mary:
Jan Edwards
Albert:
Anthony Jackson
Miss Taylor:
Betty Hardy
Mr Warburton:
Will Leighton

from Salisbury Cathedral Responses (Smith)
Psalm 104 (Goss, Russell, Turle)
Lessons: Ecclesiastes 5; Acts 4, v. 32, to 5, v. 11
Canticles (Purcell in G minor)
Anthem: 0 sing unto the Lord
(Purcell)
Organist and Master of the Choristers, RICHARD G. SEAL
Assistant Organist, Michael Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard G. Seal
Organist:
Michael Smith

Introduced by STEVE RACE
My Life With Music:
RICHARD LEWIS , the Welsh tenor, talks to Anne Catchpole about his career
Vision Without Sight:
Helen Keller remembered by PROFESSOR T. H. PEAR
One Month After:
NIGEL MURPHY has been finding out how the National Giro has been going, from the G.P.O. and the customers
01 Al, The River King-the Mississippi at the turn of the century, by EVELYN Siums

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Richard Lewis
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
Helen Keller
Unknown:
Professor T. H. Pear
Unknown:
Nigel Murphy
Unknown:
Evelyn Siums

A Touch of Magic
The book by Geoffrey Morgan adapted as a serial reading in five parts by the author
Read by Richard Hurndall
4: Hopes
The telephone call from London shattered Joe's peace of mind again -Mr. Massiter was coming to stay. What changes would his presence make at Valley End? Joe tried to look on the bright side. But when he got home from school on Friday the Rolls was in the drive. and Joe knew that he was there.

Contributors

Book By:
Geoffrey Morgan
Read By:
Richard Hurndall

a Medical Social Worker
(Almoner)
TONY VAN DEN BERGH recently spent a day with a medical social worker from a leading London teaching hospital.
He accompanied her on her rounds and recorded discussions with patients, doctors, and other social workers. Out of these recordings he has built up an authentic picture of a day in the life of a medical social worker.
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

A portrait in words and music by Nigel Douglas with the voices of MARIA CALLAS
MARIO DEL MONACO, LISA DELLA Casa GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO
NIGEL DOUGLAS. Tito GOBBI
ADÈLE LEIGH, CHRISTA LUDWIG ANNA MOFFO , BIRGIT NILSSON
ALFRED PICCAVER , PAUL SCHOEFFLER ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF
Leo SLEZAK , RICHARD TAUBER
JON VICKERS , EBERHARD WACHTER LJUBA WELITSCH
WOLFGANG WINDGASSEN
Nigel Douglas , who started his professional career in Vienna, is now . principal tenor with the Zurich Opera.
Produced by GEORGE FISCHER
See page 46

Contributors

Music By:
Nigel Douglas
Unknown:
Maria Callas
Unknown:
Lisa Della Casa
Unknown:
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Unknown:
Nigel Douglas.
Unknown:
Christa Ludwig
Unknown:
Anna Moffo
Unknown:
Birgit Nilsson
Unknown:
Alfred Piccaver
Unknown:
Paul Schoeffler
Unknown:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Unknown:
Leo Slezak
Unknown:
Richard Tauber
Unknown:
Jon Vickers
Unknown:
Eberhard Wachter
Unknown:
Ljuba Welitsch
Unknown:
Wolfgang Windgassen
Unknown:
Nigel Douglas
Produced By:
George Fischer

An account of the ' London particular' of December 1952, which caused the deaths of nearly four thousand people
Adapted by ARTHUR SWINSON from his book
A Casebook of Medical Detection
Narrator, DAVID MAHLOWE Other parts played by Michael Deacon , Colin Edwynn Lisa Harrow , Ronald Harvi
Peter Wheeler , Christopher Wilkinson
Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON
See page 48

Contributors

Adapted By:
Arthur Swinson
Played By:
Michael Deacon
Played By:
Colin Edwynn
Played By:
Lisa Harrow
Played By:
Ronald Harvi
Unknown:
Peter Wheeler
Unknown:
Christopher Wilkinson
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson

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