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A panel game controlled(!) by NICHOLAS PARSONS in which
KENNETH WILLIAMS , DEREK Nimmo ANDREE MELLY , 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:
Andree Melly
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWES
Is it worth it?: JEREMY VERITY looks at the Race to the Moon with experts on space research from Russia and America
7 Come-Back: LESLIE SMITH puts listeners' questions to the churchman who hadn'met a Christian'
Long long trail: a mile of pennies is a somewhat unrealistic conception, as H. COLIN Davis found when he agreed to take charge of this sideshow at a local charity bazaar
The good life:
MADELEINE O'GORMAN talks to Anne Catch pole about her time as a mannequin in the 1920s
Melbourne after midnight:
BOB THORPE meets one of Melbourne's roadsweepers on the job

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Unknown:
Jeremy Verity
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Unknown:
H. Colin
Talks:
Madeleine O'Gorman
Unknown:
Anne Catch
Unknown:
Bob Thorpe

Tales from Tolstoy
Ten stories from the great Russian novelist selected and abridged by H. Oldfield Box
2: ' From Triumph to Disaster ' from War and Peace
Reader, DENYS HAWTHORNE
Produced by David A. Turner

Contributors

Abridged By:
H. Oldfield Box
Reader:
Denys Hawthorne
Produced By:
David A. Turner

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
John Bennett
BOOK 4: Lord Hornblower
3: Counter-Stroke
Produced by TREVOR HILL

Contributors

Unknown:
Val Gielgud
Unknown:
C. S. Forester
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Horatio Hornblower
Unknown:
John Bennett
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
Admiral Lord Hornblower (story teller) and Sir Horatio Hornblower:
John Westbroox
Colonel Dobbs, Commander of the Marines:
Derrick Gilbert
Captain William:
Bush-John Bennett
Captain Howard:
John Unstrum
Brown:
Ronald Harvi
Mr Livingstone, Third Officer:
Tom Harrison
Due d'Angouleme:
David Mahlowe
His Equerry:
Colin Edwynn
Duchcsse d'Angouleme:
Madeleine Vacher
Lady Barbara Hornblower:
Patricia Hastings

Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENÉE HOUSTON. ISOBEL BARNETR ROSE SHAW , MARY KENNY
In the chair, ANONA WINN
Devised by Anona Winn and Ian Messiter
Produced by John Cassels

Contributors

Unknown:
Rose Shaw
Unknown:
Mary Kenny
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
John Cassels

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