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Why don't they do something about it?: written by Jack King
Christian Focus series
11.20 CRYSTAL CLEAR
A story by David Williams ; and the poems 'The Diviner,' 'Personal Helicon,' and ' Progman' by Seamus Heaney
† Listening and Writing series
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS
Trade Unions Today
1: Are Unions still necessary? by W. E. J. MCCARTHY

Contributors

Written By:
Jack King
Written By:
Christian Focus
Story By:
David Williams
Unknown:
W. E. J. McCarthy

A folk tale retold and dramatised by Barbara Sleigh
Join In series
2.20 OP ART by EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
† Art Design series: radiovision
2.40 NOBODY PLAYS WITH A
CABBAGE by Meindert De Jong
Jim's vegetable garden becomes his absorbing interest adapted by John Richmond
Stories and Rhymes series

Contributors

Unknown:
Meindert de Jong
Adapted By:
John Richmond

Ten programmes on voluntary work in the community 7: Citizen Participation
Local needs often act as a spur to individuals or groups to take a more active part in their neighbourhood affairs, whether this means providing a children's play-group, sitting on the committee of the local community associations, or helping with welfare services for the elderly or. handicapped.
DAVID HOBMAN talks to volunteers who are helping to meet the community's needs.
Produced by Dennis Simmons
Accompanying publication: p. 40

Contributors

Talks:
David Hobman
Produced By:
Dennis Simmons

A family magazine introduced from Southampton by CLIVE JACOBS
A Record with ' The Recorder
SYBIL HADDOCK has conducted a Postbag for the Methodist Recorder for over forty years
Flashback to a long, dark drop: a memory of Exbury by MICHAEL COLLINS
Wizards of the withy: NORMAN GOODLAND on a rural craft that is thriving in Hampshire
Music from Carisbrooke: JACK JONES , Curator of the Carisbrooke Castle Museum, describes and plays the Princess Elizabeth chamber organ

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jacobs
Unknown:
Sybil Haddock
Unknown:
Michael Collins
Unknown:
Jack Jones

A series of ten programmes arranged for radio by JULIA SMALL
Narrator, NEIL FREEMAN
4: My dearest Louise
The Empress Marie Louise of France with HILDA SCHRODER and JOHN BENNETT
† Produced by Trevor Hill

Contributors

Narrator:
Neil Freeman
Unknown:
Marie Louise
Unknown:
John Bennett
Produced By:
Trevor Hill

Repeated: Monday, 1.30 p.m.

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine Johnson:
Lesley Saweard
Paul Johnson:
Leslie Dunn
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Hazel Woolley:
Hilary Armstrong
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mabel Larkin:
Kay Hudson
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Brigadier Winstanley:
Anthony Godfrey
Lady Isabel Lander:
Mary Wimbush

A panel game controlled(!) by NICHOI.AS PARSONS in which
KENNETH WILLIAMS. DEREK NIMMO CLEMENT FREUD , ANDRÉE MELLY try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Tuesday's broadcast
Derek Nimmo is in 'Charlie Girl at the Adelphi Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams.
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Andrée Melly
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

Scottish National Orchestra
Leader, Sam Bor
Conductor, Alexander Gibson
Part 1

8.50* The Interval: Paganini in Edinburgh
Leslie Gardiner talks about Paganini's concert in the Assembly Rooms, and some of the effects of his visit

Contributors

Leader:
Sam Bor
Conductor:
Alexander Gibson

Nielsen
Wind Quintet 11922)
MELOS ENSEMBLE
Richard Adeney (flute) Peter Graeme
(oboe and cor anglais)
Gervase de Peyer (clarinet)
William Waterhouse (bassoon) Neill Sanders (horn) gramophone record

Contributors

Flute:
Richard Adeney
Oboe:
Peter Graeme
Clarinet:
Gervase de Peyer
Horn:
Neill Sanders

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