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Decisive Events
Trafalgar
Against a background of life at sea during the Trafalgar campaign. this broadcast conveys the sense of loss felt by all ranks at the death of Nelson, whose qualities of leadership had defended them from the critical danger of attack by the combined navies of France and Spain and the armies of Napoleon.
Script by Elizabeth Ornbo and Richard Wortley

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Script By:
Elizabeth Ornbo
Script By:
Richard Wortley

A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
Always Building.... is the motto of Chester Zoo and its director George Mottershead , who talks to BARBARA McDONALD about his early struggles and later successes
The motto comes from the activities of the beavers in the zoo, who nightly endeavour to build a bridge of mud and sticks in order to escape from their enclosure: and every morning the zoo staff do a demolition job. The elephants, on the other hand, are quite happy in their Pachyderm House, the envy of every elephant in captivity.

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Unknown:
Chester Zoo
Director:
George Mottershead
Unknown:
Barbara McDonald

Ten programmes for those starting or returning to study who are experiencing difficulties.
Introduced by CHRIS CUTHBERTSON
Written by Steve Lutman
4: The Psychology of Study
How do people learn? Some claim that clear logical thinking is most important; others believe that they learn best in an imaginative unconventional way.

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Introduced By:
Chris Cuthbertson
Written By:
Steve Lutman

Time and the Conways by J. B. Priestley
' No, Time's only a kind of dream, Kay. If it wasn'it would have to destroy everything-the whole universe-and then remake it again every tenth of a second. But Time doesn'destroy anything. It merely moves us on-in this life-from one peephole to the next.'
Produced by ALAN AYCKBOURN
Saturday's broadcast

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Unknown:
J. B. Priestley
Produced By:
Alan Ayckbourn

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Earl Mountbatten of Burma continues his conversation with Derek Cooper about his life and times.
' Blush not, my fair, at what I send': Jack Singleton talks to FRANK STAFF about his recent book The Valentine and its Origins
Whose Zoo?: TONY BLACK looks at the growth of private zoos
Gran-in-England: MAY HAWKINS has some advice for families who have emigrated

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Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Earl Mountbatten
Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Talks:
Jack Singleton

Being the biography of bachelor Bliss
George Cole as David Bliss
Brenda Bruce as his sister Anne Fellows
Colin Gordon as his brother-in-law Tony Fellows
Muriel Pavlow as his girl friend Tina also
PERCY EDWARDS , JOHN GRAHAM VICTOR LUCAS , PAULINE LETTS in Better the dog
Written by Godfrey Harrison Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR .
Pre-recorded at The Paris, Lower
Regent St., London, S.W.I

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Unknown:
George Cole
Unknown:
David Bliss
Unknown:
Brenda Bruce
Unknown:
Anne Fellows
Unknown:
Colin Gordon
Unknown:
Tony Fellows
Unknown:
Muriel Pavlow
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
John Graham
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Written By:
Godfrey Harrison
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

by William Inge adapted by GERRY JONES with Mavis Villiers and Robert Beatty
' You should have seen Doc before he gave it up. He lost all his patients, just wanted to stay drunk all day long and he'd come home at night and ... You just wouldn'believe it, if you saw him now.5
Produced by RONALD MASON
See page 34

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Unknown:
William Inge
Adapted By:
Gerry Jones
Unknown:
Mavis Villiers
Unknown:
Robert Beatty
Produced By:
Ronald Mason
DOC:
Robert Beatty
Marie:
Maureen Beck
Lola:
Mavis Villiers
Turk:
Karl Helo
Postman:
Peter Pratt
Mrs Coffman:
Hilda Kriseman
Milkman:
Louis Negin
Bruce:
Peter Baldwin
Ed Anderson:
Ian Dewar
Elmo Huston:
Wilfrid Carter

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
TONY BROWN introduces this edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
For either the weekday or Sunday editions, send your letters to: Listening Post, BBC, London, [Postcode removed]. For very late letters you can ring (01)-[number removed], extension 3030, and dictate your message.

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Introduces:
Tony Brown

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