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Board Chairman
Lord Robens, Chairman of the National Coal Board, talks to TONY VAN DEN BERGH about the influences and events which have shaped his career

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh

The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts:
1: Scope and Achievements
lord DENNING, Master of the Rolls and Chairman of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, gives the first of two talks about the Commission's work which is reflected in the Centenary Exhibition opening on June 12 at ths National Portrait Gallery, London
Second talk, by Dame Veronica Wedgwood : ne.rt Wednesday, 12.0

Contributors

Talk By:
Dame Veronica Wedgwood

Maugham the Storyteller
Gigolo and Gigolette
A short story by W. Somerset Maugham adapted for radio by VAL GIELGUD with The biggest draw the Casino has had is Paco's latest discovery, Madam Stella. She dives from the top of a sixty-foot ladder into a tank of water only five feet deep on the surface of which petrol is set ablaze.
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
See colour feature on pages 27-29

Contributors

Unknown:
Val Gielgud
Unknown:
Madam Stella.
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
the Storyteller:
Carleton Hobbs
Somerset Maugham:
Carleton Hobbs
Paco Espinel:
John Gabriel
Sandy Westcott:
Ralph Truman
Eva Barrett:
Joan Miller
Countess Camerata:
Hilda Kriseman
Prince Repnin:
David March
Lord Wrexham:
Godfrey Kenton
Lady Wrexham:
Kathleen Helme
George Barstow:
Lawrence James
Mrs Barstow:
Patricia Hayes
Sydney Cotman:
Brian Haines
Stella Cotman:
Patricia Gallimore
Flora Penezzi:
Patricia Hayes
Carlo Penezzi:
David March

from the Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford
Introit: Dominus custodit te (Rose) Responses (Rose)
Psalms 22 (Camidge), 23 (anon.) Lessons: 1 Samuel 7
St. Mark 2, vv. 1-22
Canticles (Collegium Magdalenae Geoffrey Bush)
Anthem: Great Lord of Lords
(McCabe)
Organist and Informator
Choristarum. BERNARD ROSE
Organ Scholar. John Toll

Contributors

Bernard:
null Martin

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
Bali Ha'i: MURIEL SMITH , the American mezzo-soprano, talks to Anne Catchpole about her singing roles from Carmen Jones to South Pacific to High Diplomacy
My life in Local Politics: MONA MITCHELL of Brighouse tells Bob Thorpe how she became Mayor and reflects on the public's changing attitude to local affairs
The Samsui women of Singapore: Barbara BROOKS describes an unusual group of Chinese labourers
Will I miss the kids!: P. W. R. FOOT , schoolmaster, thinks aloud on retirement

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Muriel Smith
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
Carmen Jones
Unknown:
Mona Mitchell
Unknown:
Bob Thorpe
Unknown:
Barbara Brooks
Unknown:
P. W. R. Foot

My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin abridged into ten episodes by Peter Bartlett
Read by CHARLES LENO
Produced by John Cardy 8: War Comes
I make fun of Hitler on the screen and call for a Second Front now.
Broadcast as a morning serial in September 1968

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Chaplin
Unknown:
Peter Bartlett
Read By:
Charles Leno
Produced By:
John Cardy

25th Anniversary of D-Day
On June 6, 1944. the greatest fighting force the world has ever seen left the harbours of England to invade the German-occupied fortress of Europe.
Robert Reid , a former War Correspondent, tells the story, with the help of some of his old colleagues, of the commanders and men who fought the battle
Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein introduces the programme with a specially recorded prologue Produced by Steve Allen
A BBC Sound Archives production

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Reid
Produced By:
Steve Allen

Edith Evans talks to MICHAEL ELLIOTT , who introduces recordings of her work ranging from 1933 to 1968
The programme includes a tribute by John Gielgud
Arranged and produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX
Broadcast on Aug. 30. 1968
9.58 Weather forecast

Contributors

Talks:
Edith Evans
Unknown:
Michael Elliott
Unknown:
John Gielgud
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux

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