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Decisive Events
The Indian Mutiny, 1857
Here the fighting at Meerut and Delhi is presented as typical of the terrible events which suddenly shattered a period of comparative peace and unprecedented material progress.
Script by Margaret J. Miller

Contributors

Script By:
Margaret J. Miller
Source: Radio Times
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A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
Millionaire Barrow-boy
Frank Brierley is now the millionaire boss of a string of cut-price stores in the East Midlands. But he started his working life at the age of thirteen selling from a tiny market stall. Today he talks to TOM COYNE about how his flair for selling earned him his fortune.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Brierley
Unknown:
Tom Coyne
Source: Radio Times
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One-ninth above Bloomsbury
The British Museum world-famous but still as one writer expressed it ' only one-ninth above Bloomsbury,' is facing crucial changes and has recently renewed itself at the top level of its personnel.
H. ROONEY Pelletier talks to SIR JOHN WOLFENDEN , the new Director, and with the aid of the BBC Sound Archives looks into the Museum's more than 200 years of history and wonders about its future
Produced by Sheila Anderson

Contributors

Talks:
H. Rooney Pelletier
Unknown:
Sir John Wolfenden
Produced By:
Sheila Anderson
Source: Radio Times
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A series of ten programmes
Introduced by CHRIS CUTHBERTSON
Written by Steve Lutman
8: The Idea of Subjects
How are areas of subjects divided up, say into history, philosophy, politics? The development of specialisation of subjects is paralleled by the development of specialised jobs; for example, the process which began 200 years ago with the Industrial Revolution.
Accompanying publication: p. 44

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Cuthbertson
Written By:
Steve Lutman
Source: Radio Times
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A family magazine introduced by Tim Gudgin and including:
'Mame' at the Lane: Derek Parker looks at the history of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and its current production.
Reward for crime: Gordon Gow talks to authors and critics about the books that have won the Crime Writers' Association Gold and Silver Dagger awards.
She made her own moleskin slippers: Dodo Abbott, ex-Women's Land Army, turns over some back numbers of The Land Girl.
My card, sir: visiting cards are still de la mode in Singapore, says Mike Williams.
The Lambing Torch: Barbara Joseph recalls a wild night in mid-Wales

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Talks:
Gordon Gow
Talks:
Silver Dagger
Unknown:
Mike Williams
Unknown:
Barbara Joseph
Source: Radio Times
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Alcestis
The bold and boastful Admetus discovers that he cannot even preserve his own life without the help of his wife and friends.
DAVID DAVIS reads the third of four legends retold by ANTHEA DAVIES taken from her book
A White Horse with Wings

Contributors

Unknown:
David Davis
Unknown:
Anthea Davies
Source: Radio Times
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Being the biography of bachelor Bliss
PERCY EDWARDS , DERYCK GUYLER DAVID GRAHAM
LEONARD BROCKWELL in this week's story: The Modest Hero
Written by Godfrey Harrison
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
Pre-recorded at The Paris, Lower
Keyent Street. London. S.W.I.
Repeated: Sunday, 12.25 p.m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
David Graham
Unknown:
Leonard Brockwell
Written By:
Godfrey Harrison
Produced By:
Edward Taylor
David Bliss:
George Cole
Anne:
Brenda Bruce
Tony:
Colin Gordon
Tina:
Muriel Pavlow
Source: Radio Times
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Verdi
REQUIEM
Anne Evans (soprano)
Oriel Sutherland (mezzo-sop) Stuart Kale (tenor)
Brian Rayner Cook (bass)
Choir and Orchestra drawn from the ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC
GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC
AND DRAMA
TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
Given in the Royal Albert Hall, London in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen and H.R.H. Princess Anne
Concert promoted by the Henry Wood Concert Society
In association with the Henry Wood National Memorial Trust The National Anthem (arr. Wood)
See page 43

Contributors

Soprano:
Anne Evans
Soprano:
Oriel Sutherland
Tenor:
Stuart Kale
Bass:
Brian Rayner Cook
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli
Source: Radio Times
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of Hull
In 1866 the Diana was trapped for the winter in the Arctic ice
MICHAEL HYDE has compiled from the journal of the ship's surgeon the story of her feat of endurance
GEOFFREY BANKS as Narrator COLIN EDWYNN as C. E. Smith
Broadcast in ' Talkabout ' (Radio
4: North) on December 8. 1968

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hyde
Narrator:
Colin Edwynn
Source: Radio Times

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