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Four programmes looking at British canals, the people who operate them, and the opportunities they provide for a different type of holiday
Introduced by PETER WHEELER
3: The Shropshire Union Canal
Produced by Don Mosey

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Wheeler
Produced By:
Don Mosey

Not in the Book
The comedy by Arthur Watkyn with Noel Miff
Eleanor Summerfield Peter Williams and Nicholas Phipps
When contemplating murder, how handy to have the planning done for you. To have, so to speak, a textbook.
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Comedy By:
Arthur Watkyn
Unknown:
Noel Miff
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Unknown:
Nicholas Phipps

A family magazine introduced from Nottingham by Bob Allred

250 and still going: Eric Roberts talks to Richard Field, editor of the Northampton Mercury and Herald, one of the oldest newspapers in the world

Changing faces: Miss Alice Cowdell, retiring after twenty-one years as a Leicester head-mistress. talks to Barrie Ecclestone about running a school where three-quarters of the pupils are now immigrants

The doll's teapot: Marion Culhane talks about the sentimental souvenirs of childhood

Food from wood?: Dr. J. Lyn Garraway, Lecturer in Chemistry at Wye College, talks to Eric Bradshaw about the kind of food we may be eating in the future

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Allred
Talks:
Eric Roberts
Unknown:
Miss Alice Cowdell
Unknown:
Barrie Ecclestone

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 Jean-Paul Sartre from the translation by KITTY BLACK with Stephen Murray
Angela Pleasence , Anna Cropper and Cavan Kendall
' A Party is never anything but a means to an end. There is never more than one end: power.'
'There is never more than one end: to put into practice our ideals. all our ideals, and nothing but our ideals.'
Produced by RONALD MASON
See page 42

Contributors

Translation By:
Kitty Black
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Angela Pleasence
Unknown:
Anna Cropper
Unknown:
Cavan Kendall
Produced By:
Ronald Mason
Olga:
Anna Cropper
HUGO:
Cavan Kendall
Jessica:
Angela Pleasence
Louis:
Ian Dewar
Slick:
Leonard Fenton
Georges:
Trader Faulkner
Hoederer:
Stephen Murray
Karsky:
Frederick Treves
Prince Paul:
David Spenser

Handel
Oboe Concerto No. 3. in G minor
Organ Concerto No. 14, in A major
LEON GOOSSENS (oboe)
SIMON PRESTON (organ)
BATH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Conducted by YEHUDI MENUHIN gramophone records

Contributors

Oboe:
Leon Goossens
Oboe:
Simon Preston
Conducted By:
Yehudi Menuhin

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