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MAUREEN DUFFY introduces her own poems, ' After Ausonious' and ' Snowtime '; and ' Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas , ' The Combat ' by Edwin Muir , ' To My Mother ' by George Barker , ' The Centaur ' by May Swenson, ' If it were Winter ' by Barry MacSweeney
Listening and Writing series

Contributors

Introduces:
Maureen Duffy
Unknown:
Dylan Thomas
Unknown:
Edwin Muir
Unknown:
George Barker
Unknown:
Barry MacSweeney

on Cliff Richard who traces his career from pop star to all-round entertainer with the help of his record hits and scenes and songs from his films
Written and introduced by PETER MATTHEWS
Produced by Lyn Fairhurst

Contributors

Unknown:
Cliff Richard
Introduced By:
Peter Matthews
Produced By:
Lyn Fairhurst

This year in Britain thousands of men, women, and young people will be reported missing. Why do they vanish? Where do they go? What are the dangers they face? Who will help them? How can they be found? Do we need a National Bureau of Missing Persons?
Programme compiled and presented by ALEX MACINTOSH

Contributors

Presented By:
Alex MacIntosh

A family magazine introduced from the North by BARRY CHAMBERS including:
Fasting and Feasting: a survey by GEOFFREY BURGESS of the past and future place of fish in our diet
Location Bolton: JAMES MASON in conversation with John Alldridge about his role in the film version of Spring and Port Wine
All in a Day's Work: JOAN MARKHAM tells Mary Redcliffe about her life as a rural district nurse

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Burgess
Unknown:
James Mason
Unknown:
John Alldridge
Unknown:
Joan Markham
Unknown:
Mary Redcliffe

Sinister Twilight
The fall and rise again of Singapore
The book by Noel Barber abridged as a five-part reading by MARJORIE BILBOW
Read by NIGEL GRAHAM
4: The End of the Myth
' The Japanese forces drive the Allied troops from the Malay Peninsula and launch their attack on Singapore Island. " The honour of the British Empire and of the British Army is at stake " (Winston Churchill).'

Contributors

Book By:
Noel Barber
Reading By:
Marjorie Bilbow
Read By:
Nigel Graham

Repeated: Monday, 1.30 p.m.
Hayward Morse is appearing at the Queen's Theatre, London

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine Johnson:
Lesley Saweard
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Lady Isabel Lander:
Mary Wimbush
Brig Winstanley:
Anthony Godfrey
Vicar:
Arnold Peters
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Arthur Tovey:
Harry Stubbs
Anita Nicholson:
Ann Murray
Lester Nicholson:
Hayward Morse

TONY VAN DEN BERGH recently spent a week with a leading north-country consultant. He accompanied the surgeon on his rounds, into the lecture room. out-patients, and operating theatre. From his recordings he has built up a picture of the various facets of a surgeon's life
Produced by Alan Burgess
See page 45

Contributors

Produced By:
Alan Burgess

What to do between 15 and 16? A discussion between
DUDLEY FISKE who organises education in Manchester; JOHN WELCH who inspects schools in the I.L.E.A.; Tim McMuLLEN who does research into resources for learning; NORMAN EVANS who teaches at a College of Education
Chairman, STUART MACLURE Editor of Education

Contributors

Unknown:
Dudley Fiske
Unknown:
John Welch
Unknown:
Tim McMullen
Unknown:
Norman Evans

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