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Ten programmes for those starting or returning to study who are experiencing difficulties.
Introduced by CHRIS CUTHBERTSON
Written by Steve Lutman
9: The problem of Integration Last week's programme looked at how subjects came to be divided up. Today's is about the attempts to bring them closer together-a logical procedure when, for example, history and sociology so evidently overlap.
Accompanying publication: p. 44

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Cuthbertson
Written By:
Steve Lutman

A family magazine introduced by Ken SYKORA and including:
Vic Feather: the man who has risen from being a flour-boy in the ' Co-Op ' to high office in the T.U.C. talks to JOHN ELLISON about the turning-points in his life
Some books to buy or borrow: HONOR WYATT makes a selection
Threepence an ounce: MAJOR-GENERAL ALAN WHITESIDE tells Peggy Archer how he grows his own tobacco
Naebody wants to ken: LAVINIA DERWENT remembers how it was wicked to be ill
Dress by yellow candlelight: KATHERINE LLOYD talks about collecting fashionplates

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
General Alan Whiteside
Unknown:
Peggy Archer
Talks:
Katherine Lloyd

The Horn of Healing
Three brothers and a King's daughter learn that it is both foolish and perilous to ignore a legend.
DAVID DAVIS reads the last of four legends retold by ANTHEA DAVIES taken from her book
A White Horse with Wings

Contributors

Unknown:
David Davis
Unknown:
Anthea Davies

A musical quiz devised by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane
DAVID FRANKLIN and FRANK MUIR challenge
IAN WALLACE and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, STEVE RACE
Graham Dalley at the keyboard

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Graham Dalley

A new play for radio by Patrick Simpson with Barry Justice
Joanna Dunham , Ronald Adam
A palace at Winchester: A.D. 959
Against the grim setting of a Saxon court a young prince woos his lovely child-bride. Their romance, distasteful alike to the Church and to certain courtiers, leads them relentlessly towards a tragic fate.
with Hilda Kriseman
Alaric Cotter , Antony Viccars
Music composed by DAVID MUNROW played by DAVID MUNROW and GILLIAN REID
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Joanna Dunham is in ' Soldiers at the New Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Simpson
Unknown:
Barry Justice
Unknown:
Joanna Dunham
Unknown:
Ronald Adam
Unknown:
Hilda Kriseman
Unknown:
Alaric Cotter
Unknown:
Antony Viccars
Composed By:
David Munrow
Played By:
David Munrow
Unknown:
Gillian Reid
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Produced By:
Joanna Dunham
Guthrie and Eric, two courtiers:
Peter William,
Guthrie and Eric, two courtiers:
Peter Baldwin
Edwy, the young king:
Barry Justice
Edgar (twelve), his brother:
Paul Dorfman
Wilfred, his friend:
Michael Deacon
Elgiva, his cousin:
Joanna Dunham
Lady Ethel, her mother:
Joan Miller
Abbot Dunstan:
Wilfrid Carter
Edred, the old king:
Ralph Truman
Archbishop Oda:
Ronald Adam
Apstone, a priest:
Hector Ross
Clonrig, another priest:
John Pullen

Middlemarch by GEORGE ELIOT abridged and read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Produced by John Cardy
Part 2: The Widow and the Wife
First of fifteen Instalments
Dorothea's marriage to Mr. Casaubon has not proved to be the sublime experience she expected. But however often the anticipated wedded bliss falls below expectations. there are always fresh recruits to the ranks. Tertius Lydgate , Rosamond Vincy. Celia Brooke , and Sir James Chettam are all going to try it, and Fred Vincy would like to take Mary Garth to the altar, too. And Fred cherishes another fond hope-that there will be a good inheritance for him when old Uncle Feather-stone passes on ...

Contributors

Unknown:
George Eliot
Read By:
Gabriel Woolf
Produced By:
John Cardy
Unknown:
Tertius Lydgate
Unknown:
Rosamond Vincy.
Unknown:
Celia Brooke
Unknown:
Sir James Chettam
Unknown:
Fred Vincy
Unknown:
Mary Garth

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