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The pattern of life in a village in the southern half of India
6: Pilgrimage by Margery Morris
Narrator, BARRY FOSTER
Producer, David Lyttle

Contributors

Narrator:
Margery Morris
Narrator:
Barry Foster
Producer:
David Lyttle

A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
I need not have worried: JEAN RICHARDSON recalls her son's experiences as a hospital patient
Specialist in the studio: a G.P. answers listeners' questions
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Jean Richardson
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

The Fleas and Mr. Morgan by Martin Waddell with James Young as Albert Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
The little fleas have littler fleas, and so ... Wednesday's broadcast (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Waddell
Unknown:
James Young
Unknown:
Albert Big

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Robert Shaw-actor and author: the star of stage and screen, who has also written plays and novels, talks to John Dyas about the two sides of his artistic life
From troubles of the world: ZENA SKINNER visits the world's largest duck farm in Lincolnshire
A Song for England?: SHEILA MORRIS still seeks for a song to fill a need she first became aware of in her youth-hostel-ling days
Your letters

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fifth of seven selected extracts: In which the journey continues and a night is spent among the pines.
Reader, HOWARD M. LOCKHART
Produced by Stewart Conn
Broadcast on July 28, 1968 (Radio
4: Scottish)

Contributors

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

An enquiry into the making of some popular myths about robbers, killers, and rogues in general
Illustrated by ballads including some American examples and the Ballad of the Great Train Robbery
STEVE BENBOW and his guitar accompanied by ALF EDWARDS (concertina)
Written and produced by FRANCIS DILLON

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Benbow
Accompanied By:
Alf Edwards
Produced By:
Francis Dillon

Sally Trench as a teenager went to live among and care for the meths-drinkers at the London bombsites, the ultimate outcasts of the Welfare State. Eventually she left them to go to university and to marry; but last year she visited America for some months and chose to spend her time there, too, with the outcasts of the Great Society: the slum-dwellers of Harlem and the derelicts of Skid Row.
In this conversation with LESLIE SMITH she talks about her experiences

Contributors

Unknown:
Sally Trench
Unknown:
Leslie Smith

Introduced by RICHARD HOGGART
GLYN DANIEL on The Bog People by P. V. Glob
STUART HALL on The God Botherers by Philip Oakes and The Allingham Case-Book
PAT WILLIAMS on The Children by Jan de Hartog
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Hoggart
Introduced By:
Glyn Daniel
Unknown:
Philip Oakes
Unknown:
Allingham Case-Book
Unknown:
Pat Williams
Unknown:
Jan de Hartog
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

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