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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
4: Machynlleth to Ponterwyd
Reader, Haydn Jones
Produced by Patrick Harvey
Broadcast on August 15

Contributors

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

Call No Man Happy by Marian Campbell
' A married man ... he shouldn'be fooling around like that. A nice man gives up things like that when he gets married and has a family.'
Produced by MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Marian Campbell
Produced By:
Martin Jenkins
Aileen:
Barbara Mitchell
Gordon:
Ian Thompson
Sylvie:
Joy Osboune
Len:
Bernard Brown
Mrs Dawson Pope:
Maiuorie Westbury

from the Cathedral Church of St. Mary (Scottish Episcopal) Edinburgh
Preces and Responses (
Thomas Morley )
Psalms 22, 23
Lessons: Isaiah 10, v. 33, to 11,
V. 9
St. John 1, vv. 15-28
Office Hymn: Creator of the stars of night (E.H. 1)
Canticles: Morley fauxbourdons
Anthem: Lo, round the throne
(Henry Ley )
Hymn: Jesus calls us (E.H. 205)
Organist and Master of Choristers, DENNIS TOWNHILL
Assistant Organist, Richard Galloway

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Morley
Unknown:
Henry Ley
Unknown:
Dennis Townhill
Organist:
Richard Galloway

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
'Let the organ thunder':
DR. HAROLD DARKE tells Steve Race of his career in music
One ring and away:
PETER SWAN is a retired fireman and is used to leaving every thing-hurriedly
Get me a Buddha: the story of draughts and drama by JANET Hitciiman
Mum to the Profession: Miss
WINNIE BANK tells St. John Howell of some of her theatrical boarders
A breath of fresh air: from the Ilkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist WALTER FLESHER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Dr. Harold Darke
Unknown:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Peter Swan
Unknown:
Janet Hitciiman
Unknown:
John Howell
Unknown:
Walter Flesher

Three Welsh Tales
1: The Benefit Concert by Rhys Davies
Read by Ray Smith
When it was decided to give a benefit concert for Jenkin so that he could buy an artificial leg, nobody thought this event would lead to such strife.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhys Davies
Read By:
Ray Smith

Recently TONY VAN DEN BERGH spent a day with a probation officer and learned of the hour-by-hour work problems and drama of a member of this profession
Produced by Alan Burgess
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RADIOVISION FOR SCHOOLS
To follow certain broadcasts described as ' a radiovision programme ' it is necessary to have the accompanying film strip

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

introduces excerpts from the sound-track album of Finian's Rainbow in which he stars with FRED ASTAIRE and PETULA CLARK
Music and lyrics by Burton Lane and E. Y. Harburg Tommy Steele is in ' The Servant o. Two Masters' at the Wimbledon Theatre

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Petula Clark
Unknown:
Burton Lane
Unknown:
E. Y. Harburg
Unknown:
Tommy Steele

The story of the great
Norwegian polar explorer
Written by MARY-JEAN HASLER
Forty years ago Amundsen, the Norwegian who had beaten Captain Scott to the South Pole and had spent all his life in poiar exploration, set off by aeroplane to try to find an Italian airship party that had crashed and disappeared in the Arctic waste ...
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Written By:
Mary-Jean Hasler
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

RAYMOND CLAUSEN recently spent two years in Malekula, an archipelago of the New Hebrides in the Pacific, studyign both the traditional music of the old tribal rites and the newer sound of missionary hymns and Pacific pop. In this programme he introduces and plays recordings he made in Malekula

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Clausen

Howells
Three Psalm-Preludes (Set 1)
Lo. the poor crieth: But the meek-spirited shall possess the earth; Yea. though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil
Master Tallis 's testament played by NOEL RAWSTHORNE (organ) from Liverpool Cathedral

Contributors

Unknown:
Master Tallis
Played By:
Noel Rawsthorne

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