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A family magazine introduced by Tim Gudgin and including:
On my way to the theatre: Nigel Stock, BBC-tv's latest Dr. Watson, who is appearing in "Mixed Doubles" at the Comedy Theatre, London, drops in to the studio to talk about himself and his career.
Very Fishy: Harold Cotton, an ichthyotomist, talks to St. John Howell about his unusual job.
My First Job: Molly Weir started at fifteen years of age and shillings a week in a lawyer's office in Glasgow.
Youth and Age: Gilbert Phelps reviews "The Poisoned Stream" by Hans Habe and three stories by Turgenev.

FAMILY FARE Radio 4 : 4.45 p.m. When Home This Afternoon was launched five years ago it was billed as having 'older listeners specially in mind.' But more and more we found younger people switching on and young old 'uns objecting to being segregated. As James Norbury put it, 'You can learn a lot from the young, and the young, I still think, can learn something from the old.' Home, like Litvinov's peace, is indivisible. We now call ourselves a family magazine and hope, amongst other things, to interpret the generations to each other. Today, for example, ' Youth and Age ' is the subject of our book review. Incidentally, The Poisoned Stream has nothing to do with Harry Cotton, fish anatomist, in spite of what Nigel Stock, BBC-tv's latest Dr. Watson (today's visitor), might deduce. Tomorrow schoolchildren come into their own. Over 200 boys and girls from Wood Green Comprehensive recently chartered a hovercraft to land on the Goodwins. Brian Cullingford joined them in the Princess Margaret, and reports on ' the school on the sands.' Also listeners will hear again a voice from the days when Children's Hour occupied our space-Ralph Whitlock, who has swapped Cowleaze Farm for the Mission Field. This week you can wander from Bari to Brecon Beacons, meet an actor and an ichthyotomist, 'Mon general' et 'ma blonde,' a musical director and a professional dowser-all, as our Zena Skinner would say, ' good family fare.' (Jack Singleton)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
John Howell
Unknown:
Molly Weir
Unknown:
Hans Habe

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
Repeated: Sunday, 12.25 p.m.

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

by Paul Woodruff adapted for radio by COLIN TUCKER
Music by JOHN LAMBERT
A panorama of the life of the second Roman Emperor. ranging from his innocent idealistic twenty-fourth year to his depraved disillusioned seventy-ninth year, and his fifty-third, when in a letter to the Senate he disposes of his loyal friend. Its nine scenes are arranged out of chronological order so that the effect of political and personal machinations becomes clear before their origins and motives. with Nigel Stock as the Emperor Tiberius
Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
Nigel Stock Is in 'Mixed Doubles' at the Comedy Theatre. London
See page 41

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Woodruff
Unknown:
Colin Tucker
Music By:
John Lambert
Unknown:
Nigel Stock
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuin
Produced By:
Nigel Stock
Seleucus, court poet:
Denys Hawthorne
Hippias majordomo:
John Pullen
Macro, commander of the Guard:
Michael Deacon
Philosopher:
John Wyse
Sejanus, Tiberius' favourite:
John Bentley
Sergeant of the Bodyguard:
Brian Haines
The Emperor Augustus:
Peter Williams
Vipsania, Tiberius' first wife:
Jan Edwards
Julia, his second wife:
Kate Coleridge
Julius Antonius, her lover:
David Valla
Paulus:
David Brierley
Nerva, Tiberius' friend:
James Thomason
Thrasyllus, court soothsayer:
John Wyse
Caligula:
David Valla
Piso:
John Wyse
Quaestor:
Frederick Treves
Regulus:
Brian Haines
Cassius:
Peter Williams
Priscus:
David Brierley
Charicles, a doctor:
Brian Haines

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