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The world-famous story by JONATHAN SWIFT
Read in six parts by MAx ADRIAN
2:
Blefuscu Gulliver has been given his liberty by the little men of Lilliput. But this is not the end of his troubles, just the beginning ...
Broadcast on July 20. 1967

Contributors

Story By:
Jonathan Swift
Unknown:
Max Adrian
Unknown:
Blefuscu Gulliver

† by JOHN CHANCELLOR
Freddy Felton was a Fleet Street eccentric of the 1920s who churned out successful articles on subjects of which he had no knowledge whatsoever, and who drank stout for breakfast with a spoon.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Chancellor
Unknown:
Freddy Felton

Make Thee an Ark by Elizabeth Howard
' Being here today in the rain I felt like a shipwrecked sailor. I wanted to put a message in a bottle and throw it at a passing car.'
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Howard
Produced By:
Alfred Bradley
Pru:
Beth Harris
Georgina:
Joanna Tope
Colin:
Paul Darrow
Gordon:
Derrick Gilbert
Evangelist:
Sheila Price
Mr Duncan:
George Holden
Sara:
Fiona Walker

from Bath Abbey
Introit: This joyful Eastertide (Dutch Carol)
Responses (Bernard Rose)
Psalms 47, 48, 49 (Turle, Robinson, Walmisley)
Lessons: Song of Songs 2, vv. 8-end: St. Matthew 28, vv. 16-end
Canticles (Stanford in A)
Anthem: Christ is now rysen agayne (Brian Brockless )
Hymn: Christ the Lord is risen again (E.H. 129)

Contributors

Organist and Master of the Choristers:
Dudley Holroyd
Assistant organist:
Raymond Jones

A family magazine introduced by Tim GUDGIN and including:
Cathedral Choirs: why do so few people take the opportunity, occurring almost daily, of hearing some of the finest choirs in the country? MICHAEL GILLIAM visits Guildford
New deal for oysters: Colin REID looks at the supply and consumption of what was once a food of the poor
Shakespeare on the shop floor: J. E. GREGSON on how he was invited to run an industrial theatre in Leeds in 1922 Protest marcher-old style: DAPHNE GREINER recalls Comrade Mary Hughes , the Dew-drop Inn, and Trafalgar Square in the 1930s

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Michael Gilliam
Unknown:
Colin Reid
Unknown:
J. E. Gregson
Unknown:
Mary Hughes

Michael Flanders introduces
Spivs, Songs, and The Search for Solvency including
Nationalisation Berlin Airlift
Royal Silver Wedding Anniversary Birth of II.R.H. Prince Charles I.T.M.A. 's 300th Performance
The starting of Mrs. Date's Diary Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi The Proms: 21 years with the BBC XIV Olympic Games
European Economic Co-operation The National Health Service Top Songs, Tunes, and Shows with the recorded voices of DR CHARLES HILL
THE RT. Hon. SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS His MAJESTY KING GEORGE VI WYNFORD VAUGHAN-THOMAS
TOMMY HANDLEY , ELLIS POWELL
' HOWARD KEEL, SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
ALEC GUINNESS
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER DOLORES GRAY
THE RT. HON. ERNEST BEVIN THE RT. HON. CLEMENT ATTLEE JOHN SNAGGE , DON BRADMAN
GEORGES GUÉTARY, LIZBETH WEBB FIELD-MARSHAL
SMUTS MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT and David Brierley , Michael Deacon Kathleen Helme , Godfrey Kenton of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Compiled, written, and produced by JOHN BRIDGES in collaboration with LESLIE BAILY

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Flanders
Unknown:
Prince Charles I.T.M.A.
Unknown:
Mahatma Gandhi
Unknown:
Dr Charles Hill
Unknown:
Sir Stafford Cripps
Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Unknown:
Tommy Handley
Unknown:
Ellis Powell
Unknown:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Unknown:
Sir Laurence Olivier
Unknown:
Dolores Gray
Unknown:
Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin
Unknown:
Rt. Hon. Clement Attlee
Unknown:
John Snagge
Unknown:
Lizbeth Webb
Unknown:
Smuts Mrs.
Unknown:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Unknown:
David Brierley
Unknown:
Michael Deacon
Unknown:
Kathleen Helme
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Produced By:
John Bridges
Unknown:
Leslie Baily

1862-1934tA portrait of the composer drawn from the writings and recorded memories of those who knew him. by RAYMOND NEWPORT
Narrator, DUNCAN MCINTYRE
Readers:
Recorded t'oires:
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM. BASIL DUN BENNO MOISEIWITSCH. ERIC FENBY NORAH SCOTT-TURNER
Music from gramophone records conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM and SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Produced by Maurice Brown , Broadcast on February 20

Contributors

Narrator:
Duncan McIntyre
Unknown:
Sir Thomas Beecham.
Unknown:
Dun Benno Moiseiwitsch.
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Produced By:
Maurice Brown
Delius:
Felix Felton
Clare, his sister:
Betty Hardy
Jelka his wife:
Martina Mayne

Does Britain need a privately financed university quite outside the state education system* tUnder the chairmanship of WALTER JAMES , Editor of The Times Educational Supplement, four speakers discuss this idea first publicised in January by Professor H. S. Ferns
Speakers:
PROFESSOR FERNS himself
PROFESSOR JOHN REx
PROFESSOR A. H. HALSEY
Mr. M. W. McCRUM
Headmaster of Tonbridge School

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter James
Unknown:
Professor H. S. Ferns
Unknown:
Professor John Rex
Unknown:
Professor A. H. Halsey
Unknown:
Mr. M. W. McCrum

by JUDITH LISTOWEL
Reports from a tour just ended 3: The United States of Central Africa in which the Congo, the Chad Republic. and the Central African Republic grouped last year
' In Kinshasa I talked for an hour with President Mobutu, who sent me in his own helicopter to see his farm (very good) on which he has built, by way of his country residence, a pagoda!
' In Chad I coincided with the West German President in whose honour everything closed down for four-and-a-half days. No European is allowed beyond ten kilometres of Fort Lamy without a permit from the Minister of the Interior in person. for banditry is rampant.'
Nigeria: Thursday, 10.45

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