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One hundred and fourteen years ago George Borrow set out to walk across Wales from Llangollen towards the south-west.
John SEYMOUR recently followed in his footsteps carrying not an umbrella but a tape-recorder
1: Llangollen to Sycharth Reader, Haydn Jones
Produced by Patrick Harvey
Broadcast on August 7

Contributors

Unknown:
George Borrow
Unknown:
John Seymour
Reader:
Haydn Jones
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

by JAMES VANCE MARSHALL
The story of a girl and her brother who survive a plane crash in the Australian desert.
Adapted by Michael Hyde
2: The Way Back
Listening and Writing series

Contributors

Unknown:
James Vance Marshall
Adapted By:
Michael Hyde

A weekly magazine programme of special interest to women at home who may be considering returning to work or training for a new career.
Presented by CAROLINE NICHOLSON and MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by Evelyn Gibbs

Contributors

Presented By:
Caroline Nicholson
Produced By:
Evelyn Gibbs

A family magazine introduced from the Midlands by DAVID STEVENS and including:
Life Begins at Forty-Or Does
It?: asks ERIC ROBERTS
Confessions of a Theatre Critic: GARETH LLOYD EVANS reveals all
Lot 126—a Stradivarius: GEOF
FREY GREEN looks into the story behind the recent sale of one of these classic violins
It's a Long Way to Tipperary: the story of this famous marching song of the First World War recounted by VIVIAN BIRD

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stevens
Unknown:
Gareth Lloyd Evans

Visitors to France
3: Dr. WILLIAM ROOTS
Arranged for radio by Simona Pakenham
Reader, COLIN EDWYNN
Narration spoken by ALAN SYKES
On Monday. August 29, 1814, Dr. Roots set off from \Kingston to visit Paris with his family only five months after the fall of Napoleon.

Contributors

Reader:
Simona Pakenham
Spoken By:
Alan Sykes

Repeated: Monday, 1 30 p.m

Contributors

Writer:
Edward J. Mason
Editor:
Godfrey Baseley
Producer:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Travers-Macy:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine Johnson:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Fiona Watson:
Carole Boyd
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Nora McAuly:
Julia Mark
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Lester Nicholson:
Hayward Morse

with Nicholas Parsons featuring
DENISE BRYER , PETER REEVES
BOB TODD , and RONALD FLETCHER
Script by PETER MYERS
Produced by John Bridges

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Denise Bryer
Unknown:
Peter Reeves
Unknown:
Bob Todd
Unknown:
Ronald Fletcher
Script By:
Peter Myers
Produced By:
John Bridges

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