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The Outdoors Indoors
No longer are museums mere collections of dusty skins, skeletons. and glass-fronted displays. You are liable to find live plants and animals-and professional exhibition officers are helping to make museums exciting places to visit.
Presented by DEREK JONES and CHRISTOPHER MYLNE
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Presented By:
Derek Jones
Presented By:
Christopher Mylne

Drug raids ... Hooligans stoning the Fire Brigade ... Ponies on the loose....
These are some of the incidents in the story of twenty-four hours with Panda cars in Cardiff
Introduced and produced by GAENOR THOMAS

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Produced By:
Gaenor Thomas

Mist off the Sea by William Ingram with Dorothy Lane
An old lady who has nothing but the end of her life to look forward to would seem to be an odd companion for a young girl. But the two of them spend an afternoon by the sea and discover the bonds that brought them together.
Produced by JANE GRAHAM

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Unknown:
William Ingram
Unknown:
Dorothy Lane
Produced By:
Jane Graham
Miss Clare:
Dorothy Lane
Gladys:
Sheila Grant
The Girl:
Elizabeth Proud
George:
Ken Jones
Charles Senior:
Michael Spice
Charles Junior:
Nicholas Edmett

The first ocean-going propeller-driven ship in the world lies on a beach in the Falkland Islands.
Ϯ RICHARD GOOLD-ADAMS , who is chairman of a project for raising her and bringing her back to this country, talks to Patrick Harvey about his plans.

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Unknown:
Falkland Islands.
Unknown:
Richard Goold-Adams
Unknown:
Patrick Harvey

The Fire Eater by Jean Barnes
Charlie Scorby , hot-tempered, aggressive and selfish to a degree, plays with fire, gets burnt, and finds that there's no place like home. withand Produced by JOE BURROUGHS

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Unknown:
Jean Barnes
Unknown:
Charlie Scorby
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
Charlie Scorby:
Wilfred Pickles
Annie Scorby:
Kathleen Helme
Barbara Tooth:
Barbara Mitchell
Mr Smith:
Francis de Wolff
Stella:
Hilda Kriseman
Frank:
Brian Haines
Jack Larkin:
Wilfrid Carter
Ken Dawson:
Michael Spice
Miss Elston:
Marjorie Westbury

from Worcester Cathedral
Introit: Let thy hand be strengthened (John Blow)
Responses (Byrd)
Psalms 114, 115 (Garrett, South)
Lessons: Deuteronomy 11, vv. 13-
32; Acts 11. vv. 1-18
Canticles (Byrd, Second Service)
Anthem: Victimae Paschali (Byrd)
Organist and Master of the Choristers, CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON
Assistant Organist, Harry Bramma

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Unknown:
Victimae Paschali
Unknown:
Christopher Robinson
Organist:
Harry Bramma

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
St. George For ...?: MALCOLM BILLINGS tries to find out
Viva San Jorge!: NINA EPTON describes a conversation with the President of the Association of St. George during a visit to Alcoy in Spain
Mr. Rambler (ii): TOM STEPHEN -son, retiring General Secretary of the Ramblers' Association, continues his conversation with Jack Singleton about the milestones in his life
' New Moon KEN SYKORA drops in on the Ipswich Operatic Society's preparations for the fortieth birthday production of Sigmund Romberg 's operetta

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Tom Stephen
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Sigmund Romberg

My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin abridged into ten episodes by Peter Bartlett
2:The Asylum Again
I get my first job on the stage, my father dies, and Mother is taken back to Cane Hill Asylum.
Read by CHARLES LENO
Produced by John Cardy
Broadcast as a morning serial in September 1968

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Unknown:
Charles Chaplin
Unknown:
Peter Bartlett
Read By:
Charles Leno
Produced By:
John Cardy

A case of medical detection
Written by ARTHUR SWINSON
' Listen. Doc: anyone who says I've been carrying a load of small-pox around on my van is a liar.'
How did variola major, the most virulent form of the disease, spread across the North of England in 1953? Other parts: Geoffrey Banks
Colin Edwynn , Barbara Greenhalgh Ronald Harvi , Ruth Holden Christopher Wilkinson
Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Written By:
Arthur Swinson
Unknown:
Geoffrey Banks
Unknown:
Colin Edwynn
Unknown:
Barbara Greenhalgh
Unknown:
Ronald Harvi
Unknown:
Ruth Holden
Unknown:
Christopher Wilkinson
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson
Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Dr King:
John Linstrum

from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Hans Leygraf (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Bean Conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi
Part 1: Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 19, in F major (K.459)
See page 43
8.33* The Interval
TOURIST TRADERS
Ϯ NORMAN DAVIES has recently returned from a stay of some years in Eastern Europe where, he says, the difficulties of holiday making — even for Eastern Europeans-are considerable but not insurmountable to those prepared to bend the rules a little.
8.53* BBC Symphony Concert
Part 2: Bruckner
Symphony No. 6, in A major
9.58 Weather forecast

Contributors

Piano:
Hans Leygraf
Conducted By:
Christoph von Dohnanyi
Unknown:
Norman Davies

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