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† MARY CATHCART BORER was one of a group of six archaeologists working on the West bank of the Nile just before the second world war. She describes the strange methods used to retrieve her stolen revolver in this remote place.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Cathcart Borer

2: Locusts, a 'plague of Egypt' that is still with us
Script by Geoffrey Sherlock
Exploration Earth series
2.20 CORIOLANUS by William Shakespeare adapted by John Kerry : parti
Produced by David Lyttle
Books, Plays, Poems series
2.45 OAK WOODS by ERIC SIMMS
Certain plants and animals live together in oak woods.
Nature series

Contributors

Script By:
Geoffrey Sherlock
Unknown:
William Shakespeare
Adapted By:
John Kerry
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Unknown:
Eric Simms

A play for radio by Joan O'Connor

'She does believe in being loyal. But what to? She doesn't believe in your sort of "hurray patriotism" you see. Loyalty, a person's loyalty. to a country or anything, has got to go deeper than that.'

Cast in order of speaking: [see below]

Contributors

Writer:
Joan O'Connor
Producer:
David Davis
Cora Souter:
Sheelah Wilcocks
Albert Souter:
Lockwood West
Maggie Souter:
Barrie Shore
Ted Souter:
Anthony Jackson
Tom Souter:
Jo Manning Wilson
Alex Dinsmore:
Peter Baldwin
Mrs Frant:
Dorit Welles
Constable Frant:
Godfrey Kenton
Mick:
John Bryning
Police Sergeant:
Hector Ross
PC Packer:
Peter Baldwin
Reporter:
John Bryning

from the Chapel of Trinity College,
Dublin University sung by the COLLEGE CHAPEL CHOIR
Preces and Responses (Smith)
Canticles (Michael Wise )
Psalm 119, vv. 145-176 (Mine in G minor; Hancock in B fiat)
Lessons: Genesis 46, v. 26, to 47, v. 12; Philippians 3
Anthem: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake (Hilton)
Organist and Choirmaster, DAVID MILNE

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Wise
Choirmaster:
David Milne

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
This'll make you whistle: ELSIE RANDOLPH talks to Ken Sykora about her musical - comedy partnership with Jack Buchanan
Wheels within wheels: Anne Suter talks to WALTER BEDLOW , last of a line of wheelwrights and cart-makers
I was brainwashed: BOB THORPE recalls the cross-country races of his schooldays
A breath of fresh air from the Ilkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist WALTER FLESHER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Talks:
Elsie Randolph
Unknown:
Jack Buchanan
Talks:
Anne Suter
Unknown:
Walter Bedlow
Unknown:
Bob Thorpe
Unknown:
Walter Flesher

by Victor Canning adapted in five parts by Howard Jones
2: Ninus and Elsa
' You stay away from them. What kind of people are you meeting? You know how many bodies they pull out of that river every year? Not half as many as go in and stay there.'
Produced by ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Canning
Unknown:
Howard Jones
Produced By:
Roger Pine
Edward Furse:
Michael Spice
Anselm Dekker:
Denis McCarthy
Charlie Ponz:
David Brierley
Ninus Rohner:
Wilfrid Carter
Elsa:
Pauline Letts

and all that
Roger Snowdon introduces an hour of music and reminiscence with MAURICE CHEVALIER JOSEPHINE BAKER
JEAN SABLON , Miss BLUEBELL and other personalities of the great show world of Paris, and with a cast of actors tells something of its past and its present
The actors:
LEONARD FENTON , URSULA HANRAY KATHLEEN HELME. GODFREY KENTON VICTOR LUCAS , DENIS MCCARTHY
ROSALIND SHANKS , GLADYS SPENCER
Compiled and produced by Roger Snowdon
See page 39

Contributors

Introduces:
Roger Snowdon
Unknown:
Maurice Chevalier
Unknown:
Josephine Baker
Unknown:
Jean Sablon
Unknown:
Leonard Fenton
Unknown:
Ursula Hanray
Unknown:
Kathleen Helme.
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Unknown:
Denis McCarthy
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Unknown:
Gladys Spencer
Produced By:
Roger Snowdon

by Thea Holme
The story of Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, who was destined to become Queen, but died young with Patricia Gallimore as Princess Charlotte
Others taking part:
Alaric Cotter. Joan Hart
Thea Holme , Alexander John Godfrey Kenton. Pauline Letts
Denis McCarthy , Frederick Treves
Narrator, ROLF LEFEBVRE
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER

Contributors

Unknown:
Thea Holme
Unknown:
Patricia Gallimore
Unknown:
Alaric Cotter.
Unknown:
Joan Hart
Unknown:
Thea Holme
Unknown:
Alexander John
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton.
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Denis McCarthy
Narrator:
Frederick Treves
Narrator:
Rolf Lefebvre
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker

A report by Ian Rodger who knew the Durham-Newcastle area in its latter days of depression, and recently returned to find it on the verge of a huge industrial and social revolution
Produced by Francis Dillon
See page 39

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Rodger
Produced By:
Francis Dillon

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