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Every Whit Tuesday this small town in Luxembourg is thronged with pilgrims, village bands, and dancers who come to honour St. Willibrord, an English monk who is buried in Echternach.
PAUL MARTIN introduces some recordings he made at last year's festivities
Produced by Helen Fry
Broadcast in June 1968

Contributors

Introduces:
Paul Martin
Produced By:
Helen Fry

The pattern of life in a village in the southern half of India
4: The Festival by Margery Morris
Narrator, BARRY FOSTER
Produced by David Lyttle

Contributors

Narrator:
Margery Morris
Narrator:
Barry Foster
Produced By:
David Lyttle

A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
Advice on Fertility: a Gynaecologist talks to June Rose about ways in which childless couples can be helped
Specialist in the Studio: a Doctor answers listeners' questions on epilepsy
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

A unit of three poetry programmes arranged by David and Elizabeth Grugeon
3: Summer and Sea
Poems by John Walsh , Richard Kell. T. S. Eliot , Frances Corn-ford. W. W. E. Ross , Walter de la Mare , Carl Sandburg , D. H. Law rence. and Kinoshita Yuji (translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite ).
† Living Language series

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Grugeon
Unknown:
John Walsh
Unknown:
Richard Kell.
Unknown:
T. S. Eliot
Unknown:
W. W. E. Ross
Unknown:
Walter de La Mare
Unknown:
Carl Sandburg
Unknown:
D. H. Law
Unknown:
Kinoshita Yuji
Unknown:
Geoffrey Bownas
Unknown:
Anthony Thwaite

recounts some of the highlights of her life from the time she left South Africa to her present success as a comedy actress
She introduces the voices, singing and talking, of some of her friends and fellow artists.
Produced by Helen Fry
Broadcast in 1967

Contributors

Produced By:
Helen Fry

A family magazine introduced by Tim GUDGIN and including:
150 years of Publishing: WILLIAM COLLINS talks to Jack Singleton
Syon Park: PERCY THROWER takes Anne Catchpole on a conducted tour of the Garden Centre, open to the public on the Duke of Northumberland's estate at Brentford, Middlesex
The Road to Satentia: LESLIE GARDINER wanders round the heel of Italy. 3: Along the Apulian Aqueduct
Your letters

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Talks:
Liam Collins
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole

Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson
Second of seven selected excerpts
In which we are introduced to Modestine and take our leave of Le Monastier and Father Adam.
Reader, HOWARD M. LOCKHART
Produced by Stewart Conn
Broadcast on July 7. 1968 (Radio
4: Scotland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Reader:
Howard M. Lockhart
Produced By:
Stewart Conn

A serial in eight episodes by Francis Durbridge
6: Mr. Leo Brent
Other parts: Rosalind Shanks Alan Dudley , Ian Thompson
Duncan Mclntyre. Nwel Clayton
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Broadcast on March 14, 1968
(Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Durbridge
Unknown:
Rosalind Shanks
Unknown:
Alan Dudley
Unknown:
Ian Thompson
Unknown:
Duncan McLntyre.
Unknown:
Nwel Clayton
PaulTemple:
With Peter Coke
Steve:
Marjorie Westbury
Wilfred Davis:
Basil Jones
Ricky:
Frank Henderson
Inspector Crane:
Haydn Jones
Leo Brent:
Denys Hawthorne
Sir Graham Forbes:
James Thomason
Mrs Treveb an:
Barbara Mitchell
Dr Kohima:
Rolf Lefebvre
Carl Lathom:
Simon Lack

Marie Mallet 's letters from Court, 1887-1901 edited by Sir VICTOR MALLET, G.C.M.G., C.V.O., who introduces and closes the programme with Celia Johnson as Marie Mallet
Compiled and written by THEA HOLME
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Sir Victor Mallet, one of Queen Victoria's many Godchildren, after serving in the Army 1914-18, entered the Diplomatic Service: he was Embassy Counsellor at Washington 1936-39, and thereafter Minister at Stockholm for the rest of World War II, Ambassador at Madrid, and then at Rome, until he retired in 1954. His account of life at Court in the later years of Queen Victoria is based on the letters of his mother, Marie Adeane, and on family papers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Marie Mallet
Edited By:
Sir Victor Mallet.
Unknown:
Ceha Johnson
Unknown:
Marie Mallet
Produced By:
David Davis
Produced By:
Sir Victor Mallet
Unknown:
Marie Adeane
Queen Victoria:
Thea Holme
Bernard Mallet:
Godfrey Kenton
Narrator:
John Richmond

Introduced by Eric RHODE
STEVEN WATSON on Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
JANET ADAM SMITH on Donald Hall 's anthology of American Poetry
D. A N. JONES on Simon Trussler 's assessment of The Plays of John Osborne and Bessie Head 's novel When Rain Clouds Gather
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Eric Rhode
Introduced By:
Steven Watson
Unknown:
Antonia Fraser
Unknown:
Janet Adam Smith
Unknown:
Donald Hall
Unknown:
N. Jones
Unknown:
Simon Trussler
Unknown:
John Osborne
Unknown:
Bessie Head
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

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