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The Enthusiast: Brian Ahearne is a Swansea builder by trade. But when he is not working, his life is devoted to collecting records and relics of the Irish tenor Count John McCormack. As well as records of McCormack. he has more than sixty old gramophones and 3,000 records of other well-known singers of the past.
He admits that what started as a hobby has now become an obsession, and he talks to ANITA MORGAN about it.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Ahearne
Unknown:
John McCormacK.

Rosea Kemp of the London Weather Centre discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.

(Broadcast on December 25, 1968)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Rosea Kemp
Producer:
Ronald Cook

Ten programmes for those starting or returning to study who are experiencing difficulties.
Introduced by CHRIS CUTHBERTSON
Written by Steve Lutman
5: The Social Aspects of Study
The network of social relationships -the family, friends, neighbours, and fellow-students — provide both a framework for learning and also some of the problems.
Accompanying publication: p. 40

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Cuthbertson
Written By:
Steve Lutman

A family magazine introduced from the North by BARRY CHAMBERS and including:
Silk: PAT CALLAGHAN goes to
Macclesfield to find a tradition that is flourishing in the twentieth century
The lady with the bike:
JOAN MARKHAM tells Mary Redcliffe about her early days as a district nurse
Report from York:
FRANCIS JACKSON , organist at York Minster, talks to Philip Radcliffe about the present state of this famous instrument

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Callaghan
Unknown:
Joan Markham
Unknown:
Mary Redcliffe
Organist:
Francis Jackson
Unknown:
Philip Radcliffe

Being the biography of bachelor Bliss
also
PERCY EDWARDS , ANTONY VICCARS PAULINE LETTS , CAROL MASON in this week's story: The Hotline
Written by Godfrey Harrison Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
Pre-recorded at The Paris. Lower
Regent Street. London. S.W.I.

Contributors

Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Antony Viccars
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Carol Mason
Written By:
Godfrey Harrison
Produced By:
Edward Taylor
David Bliss:
George Cole
his sister Anne Fellows:
Brenda Bruce
his brother-in-law Tony Fellows:
Colin Gordon
his girl friend Tina:
Muriel Pavlow

by Hugh Leonard with Kevin McHugh and John Dearth
Produced by R. D. Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Leonard
Unknown:
Kevin McHugh
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Billy Beavis:
Kevin McHugh
Mrs Beavis:
Peggy Marshall
Irene ,:
Eithne Dunne
Kevin:
Barry Keegan
Fran:
Eileen Colgan
Teddy:
John Dearth

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