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A weekly magazine for amateur gardeners
Introduced by JOHN STREET featuring Chelsea Flower Show as seen through the eyes of visitors including both experts and amateurs
GEORGE GILLARD with advice on the week's work
Produced by George Sigsworth

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Street
Unknown:
Chelsea Flower Show
Unknown:
George Gillard
Produced By:
George Sigsworth

The Black and White Minstrels come to the end of their seven-and-a-half-year run at the Victoria Palace tonight
That length of time has had an effect on the lives of those who have presented the show and on their faithful and often regular audiences. NICK BARRETT investigates these effects and talks to those involved
Produced by Russell Harty

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Barrett
Produced By:
Russell Harty

A portrait in words and music by Nigel Douglas with the voices of MARIA CALLAS
MARIO DEL MONACO, Lisa DELLA CASA GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO
NIGEL Douglas , Tito GOBBI
ADÈLE LEIGH, CHRISTA LUDWIG ANNA MOFFO. BIRGIT Nn.
SSON ALFRED PICCAVER , PAUL SCHOEFFLER ELISABETH SCHWARZKOPF
LEO SLEZAK , RICHARD TAUBER
JON VICKERS , EBERHARD WACHTER LJUBA WELITSCH
WOLFGANG WINDGASSEN
Nigel Douglas , who started his professional career in Vienna, is now a principal tenor with the Zurich Opera.
Produced by George Fischer
Broadcast on November 20. 1968

Contributors

Music By:
Nigel Douglas
Unknown:
Maria Callas
Unknown:
Lisa Della Casa
Unknown:
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Unknown:
Nigel Douglas
Unknown:
Christa Ludwig
Unknown:
Anna Moffo.
Unknown:
Sson Alfred Piccaver
Unknown:
Paul Schoeffler
Unknown:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Unknown:
Leo Slezak
Unknown:
Richard Tauber
Unknown:
Jon Vickers
Unknown:
Eberhard Wachter
Unknown:
Ljuba Welitsch
Unknown:
Wolfgang Windgassen
Unknown:
Nigel Douglas
Produced By:
George Fischer

A weekly survey of the world of motoring
BILL HARTLEY introduces:
PATRICK MACNAGHTEN with useful advice on imagination in driving
LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU on the history of motoring
The Brrrrm-Brrrrms: JENNIFER BARLING with views on a modern disease together with topical news and at 12.23* the latest traffic report
Produced by Jim Pestridge
See special Motoring feature on centre pages

Contributors

Introduces:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Patrick MacNaghten
Unknown:
Jennifer Barling
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

A spontaneous discussion by John Betjeman, Alastair Burnet, David Frost, Sylvia Syms
Chairman, David Jacobs

From Axminster, Devon
Last Friday's broadcast (Radio 2)
Listeners' views for use in 'Any Answers? ' (Thursday at 8.45 p.m., Radio 2 should be addressed to the BBC, [address removed], marked 'Any Answers?'

Contributors

Panellist:
John Betjeman
Panellist:
Alastair Burnet
Panellist:
David Frost
Panellist:
Sylvia Syms
Chairman:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

'It's as if it weren't meant for me. Such a strange letter. Full of things that I didn't think my husband could know about or understand. Even poetry. Perhaps some good will have come out of this accident, after all.'
See page 54

Contributors

Writer:
Cyril Lampitt
Produced by:
Alfred Bradley
Nurse Walkley:
Juliet Cooke
Nurse Fulwood:
Sharon Duce
Vie Crosspool:
Colin Edwynn
Joseph Doolin:
P G Stephens
Bernard Broomhill:
Paul Darrow
Isabel Broomhill:
Beth Harris

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A radio happening with Jimmy EDWARDS , TED RAY Tommy TRINDER CYRIL FLETCHER
In the chair, McDONALD HOBLEY
Special guest, FENELLA FIELDING from an idea by Jimmy Edwards
Produced by Edward Taylor
Broadcast on Aug 18, 1968 (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Tommy Trinder
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
McDonald Hobley
Unknown:
Fenella Fielding
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

Willi Boskovsky conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with VALERIE TRYON (piano)
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
Produced by Anthony Philpott
The programme includes the Overture. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai), Austrian Peasant Dances (Max Schonherr), and the last movement from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, in A major (K.488).

Contributors

Unknown:
Willi Boskovsky
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Piano:
Valerie Tryon
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Produced By:
Anthony Philpott

Terence Rattigan Festival
While the Sun Shines adapted for radio by CYNTHIA PUGHE with Ronald Lewis
Wartime brings together strange bedfellows, not least in a Mayfair flat ...
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
See page 54

Contributors

Unknown:
Terence Rattigan
Radio By:
Cynthia Pughe
Unknown:
Ronald Lewis
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Horton:
Lockwood West
The Earl of Harpenden:
Ronald Lewis
Lieutenant Mulvaney:
Warren Stanhope
Lady Elizabeth Randall:
Kate Coleridge
The Duke of Ayr and Stirling:
Peter Pratt
Lieutenant Colbert:
Philippe Monnet
Mabel Crum:
Margaret Wolfit

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