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KENNETH KENDALL asks:
What is sleep? Why do we sleep? Why do some of us not sleep? What sort of help do sleeping pills give, and what are their hidden dangers?
Written and produced by EILEEN CAPEL
Broadcast on Nov. 29. 1968

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Kendall
Produced By:
Eileen Capel

presenting BILL McCUE in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest, SUZANNE STEELE and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA reader, Ian Tyre
Conductor, IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by Eddie Fraser

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill McCue
Unknown:
Suzanne Steele
Produced By:
Eddie Fraser

A panel game controlled (!) by NICHOLAS PARSONS in which
KENNETH WILLIAMS , DEREK NIMMO GERALDINE JONES , CLEMENT FREUD try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by Ian Messiter
Produced by David Hatch
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse.
Northumberland Ave... London, W.C.2
Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl at the Adelphi Theatre. London
Repeated: Friday, 7.0 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Geraldine Jones
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including: new look on the label:
GORDON Gow investigates the effects of the Trade Descriptions Act
Walk to a Shire: THE REV.
THE HON. OLIVER TWISLETON -WYKEHAM-FIENNES gives Mark Hankey his thoughts on moving from a parish in Lambeth to become Dean of Lincoln Cinema Verite: D- L. PARSONS recalls going to ' the pictures in the Khyber Pass
Pennies and Prose-or how I stopped being a ' cabbage by DOROTHY YOUNG tYour letters

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Gordon Gow
Unknown:
Oliver Twisleton
Unknown:
Mark Hankey
Unknown:
L. Parsons

American Humour
A series of eightreadings chosen and abridged by MARVIN KANE
8: My Life and Hard Timesby James Thurber
Read by JOHN PHILLIPS
Produced by R. D. Smith

Contributors

Abridged By:
Marvin Kane
Unknown:
James Thurber
Read By:
John Phillips
Produced By:
R. D. Smith

Adapted for radio in twenty parts by Val Gielgud from four of the Hornblower books by C. S. Forester with John Westbrook as Horatio Hornblower, Jack Woolgar , Geoffrey Banks.
Book 4: Lord Hornblower

Contributors

Adapter:
Val Gielgud
Writer:
C. S. Forester
Producer:
Trevor Hill
The Dean of Westminster:
Robert Wallace
A Lieutenant:
James Claydon
Admiral Lord St Vincent:
Tom Harrison
Admiral Lord Hornblower (story teller) and Sir Horatio Horn blower:
John Westbrook
Lady Barbara, sister of the Duke of Wellington and now Horatio's wife:
Patricia Hastings
Lieutenant Freeman of the Porta Coeli:
Geoffrey Banks
Brown, Hornblower's servant:
Ronald Harvi
mutineers aboard Flame:
Jack Woolgar

Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENÉE HOUSTON, CHARMIAN INNES DEE ANNAN , CAROL BINSTED
In the chair. ANONA WINN
Devised by Anona Winn and Ian Messiter
Produced by John Cassels
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse.
Northumberland Ave... London, W.C.2
Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 p.m.
Be Reasonable!, a male reply: Sat... 7.0 p.m.; Tues., 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Charmian Innes
Unknown:
Dee Annan
Unknown:
Carol Binsted
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
John Cassels

A series of programmes about men and women whose rebellion against the society in which they lived had a dramatic and formative influence.
The Dark Page
The story of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis 1818-1865 the Hungarian doctor who established the causes and cure of childbed fever in the face of great medical opposition Written for radio by ALEXANDER McKEE
Research by Use McKee with Others taking part:
Michael Deacon. Frank Duncan
Kenneth McClellan , Harold Reese Lockwood West , Peter Williams and Francis de Wolff
Narrator, C. R. HEWITT
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER

Contributors

Unknown:
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
Radio By:
Alexander McKee
Unknown:
Michael Deacon.
Unknown:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
Kenneth McClellan
Unknown:
Harold Reese
Unknown:
Lockwood West
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Narrator:
Francis de Wolff
Narrator:
C. R. Hewitt
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker
Semmelweis:
Anthony Jacobs

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