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The story of the first sixth-form international school in the world, where students from forty countries are learning to break down international barriers in education
Narrated and produced by BRIAN HOEY
Holiday-makers on the South Wales coast are used to seeing athletic-looking young men acting as lifeguards or in charge of rescue boats. This is but one of the activities in the curriculum of the first international sixth-form college in the world at St. Donat's Castle near Llantwit Major; a high academic standard is also demanded. The Castle was once the retreat of William Randolph Hearst. the famous American newspaper tycoon. Founded in 1962, the college now houses nearly 300 students.

Contributors

Produced By:
Brian Hoey
Unknown:
William Randolph

by ROBERT FRASER
The hippies, junkies, and scroungers who now travel the world present an alarming problem, but when Robert Fraser trekked home from Malaya after doing his National Service he neither became nor encountered any of these types.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Fraser
Unknown:
Robert Fraser

The Giving Time
A new radio comedy by Gwyn Thomas
In the belief that solitude corrupts and solitary carolling corrupts utterly, Theo Morley decides to re-form the town choir in order to bring back the shine and the glory to Christmas. He draws up a new manifesto and dreams of a miracle, only to discover that ' miracles drive blind and what one man prays for often ends up in the lap of another.'
Produced by Lorraine DAVIES

Contributors

Comedy By:
Gwyn Thomas
Unknown:
Theo Morley
Produced By:
Lorraine Davies
Theo:
Ronnie Williams
Teilo:
Ryan Davies
Edwin:
Bryn Williams
Gomer:
Brinley Jenkins
Mrs Tyndall:
Gwenyth Petty
Mr Moyle:
Ray Handy

from Chelmsford Cathedral
Responses (Richard Aylward ) Psalms 93 (Monk); 94 (Turle)
Lessons: Isaiah 35, w. 1-10; St.
John 1, vv. 15-28
Canticles: (Watson in E)
Anthem: Laetentur Coeli (Byrd)
The Lord will come (A. and M.
Rev. 52)
Master of the Music, John JORDAN
Assistant Organist, David Sparrow

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Aylward
Unknown:
Laetentur Coeli
Organist:
David Sparrow

A family magazine introduced by TIM GUDGIN and including:
Spotlight on a Star: SALLY ANN
HOWES talks to Peter Davalle about her career and her role in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Pot Plant Street: ALBERT BUTLER has always liked gardening tComic opera: Aida with a difference, experienced by FAY COWAN tEmbankment tidings:
MICHAEL MEECH visits the London Embankment Mission and reports on its work among needy people

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Sally Ann
Unknown:
Peter Davalle
Unknown:
Albert Butler
Unknown:
Fay Cowan
Unknown:
Michael Meech

Three Welsh Tales
3: Possessions by George Ewart Evans
Read by RONNIE WILLIAMS
A month after my father died, they sold up the shop to pay the debts. The only bit of stock left after the sell-up was the pony and cart and the old piano with a pleated silk front.

Contributors

Unknown:
George Ewart Evans
Read By:
Ronnie Williams

A complete performance of the famous Savoy opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
A Scottish Opera production from the King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Chorus of gondoliers, contadine, men-at-arms, heralds, and pages
SCOTTISH OPERA CHORUS
Chorus-Master, Arthur Oldham
BBC Scottish SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conductor, JAMES LOUGHRAN
ACT 1: The Piazzetta, Venice: 1750

Contributors

Chorus-Master:
Arthur Oldham
Leader:
Tom Rowlette
Conductor:
James Loughran
The DuKe of Plaza-Toro, a Grandee of Spain.:
Lawrence Richard
Luiz, his attendant:
John Robertson
Don Alhambra Del Bolero, the Grand Inquisitor.:
William McCue
Venetian Gondoliers:Marco Palmieri:
John Wakefield
Giuseppe Palmieri:
Ronald Morrison
Antonio:
John Grailam
Francesco:
Martin Lane
Giorgio:
Jack Leishman
Annibale:
Bruce Clark
The Duchess of Plaza-Toro:
Johanna Peters
Casilda, her daughter:
Jill Gomez
Contadine: Gianetta:
Anne Pashley
Contadine: Tessa:
Janet Coster
Contadine: Fiametta:
Ann Baird
Contadine: Vittoria:
Ann Heggie
Contadine: Giulia:
Pamela Molcher
Inez; the King's foster-mother:
Elsa Kendal

Just Moving Gently ...
The expectation and the experience of Meditation compiled by Dilip Hiro from recorded conversations with disciples of some of the Schools of Meditation to be found in Britain today
Narrated by STUART HALL
Editor, Mary Baker
Produced by Charles Parker

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilip Hiro
Unknown:
Stuart Hall
Editor:
Mary Baker
Produced By:
Charles Parker

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