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by SIR THOMAS BENNETT architect and former chairman of Crawley New Town Development Corporation
In the first world war Thomas Bennett was sent to France by the then Office of Works to supervise the erection of wooden army huts as headquarters for seven British generals and their staffs. Things, however, did not go according to plan....

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Unknown:
Sir Thomas Bennett
Unknown:
Thomas Bennett
Source: Radio Times
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by Kenneth John
'I I know from experience that he must have given either coffee or cigarettes. On your instructions. You're in this racket yourself, aren't you Captain? '
The action takes place in Germany during the days of occupation immediately after the second world war.

(John White is in 'Close the Coal-house Door' at the Fortune Theatre, London)

Contributors

Writer:
Kenneth John
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Squires, the messwaiter:
Frederick Treves
Captain Pulford, Battery Captain:
John Hollis
Lieutenant Batchelor, a young subaltern:
Nicholas Edmett
Major Auker, Battery Commander:
William Fox
Sergeant Wilkinson, Troop Sergeant:
Leonard Fenton
Webster, a gunner:
John White
Anna, a Russian girl:
Gretta Gouriet
Heinemann, a German farmer:
Rolf Lefebvre
Boronoff, a Russian officer:
Michael Spice
De la Riviere, a gunner:
Alaric Cotter
Source: Radio Times
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from Exeter Cathedral

Responses (Bullock)
Psalms 142 and 143 (Flintoft in G minor; Keeton in D)
Lessons: Zephaniah 3; 1 Corinthians 12, vv. 1-27
Canticles (Murrill in E)
Anthem: Blessed city, heavenly Salem (Bairstow)

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Organist and Master of the Choristers:
Lionel Dakers
Assistant Organist:
Christopher Gower
Source: Radio Times
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A family magazine introduced by Ken Sykora and including:
Life at the keyboard: Peter Katin talks to Anne Catchpole about his varied career as a concert pianist
Take a chair: Derek Parker visits the International Furniture Show at Earls Court, London, and talks to Therle Hughes about the history of furniture
A breath of fresh air from the Ilkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist Walter Flesher
Heads down: Margaret Haley remembers an unusual ritual from her schooldays

Contributors

Presenter:
Ken Sykora
Interviewer (Life at the keyboard):
Anne Catchpole
Interviewee (Life at the keyboard):
Peter Katin
Reporter (Take a chair):
Derek Parker
Interviewee (Take a chair):
Therle Hughes
Speaker:
Walter Flesher
Speaker (Heads down):
Margaret Haley
Source: Radio Times
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From the Royal Festival Hall. London
Ronald Dowd tenor: Titus
Heather Harper soprano: Vitellia
Patricia Kern mezzo-soprano: Sextus
Margaret Price soprano: Scrvilia
Janet Coster mezzo-soprano: Annius
John Shirley-Quirk baritone: Publius
BBC Chorus
Colin Bradbury clarinet obbligato; Anthony Jennings basset-horn obbligato; John Constable harpsichord continuo
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Eli Goren
Conductor, Colin Davis
ACT 1

Contributors

Clarinet:
Colin Bradbury
Basset-Horn:
Anthony Jennings
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Source: Radio Times

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