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3: Dover-Calais
SYLVIE NICKELS and HAROLD Rogers travel on the Townsend ferry m.s. Free Enterprise I from Dover to Calais and describe the two cities and the journey
Script by Sylvie Nickels
Produced by Harold Rogers

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Rogers
Script By:
Sylvie Nickels
Produced By:
Harold Rogers

by Richard Gordon adapted for radio in thirteen episodes by Ray Cooney starring
Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow with Geoffrey Sumner as Sir Lancelot Spratt
Episode 2: The S.S. Lotus
RAY Cooney as Jock Hornbeam EDWARD CAST as Taffy Evans
Guest star:
Peter Jones as Easter
Produced by DAVID HATCH
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse.
Northumberland Avenue. London. W.C.2
Richard Briers is in Cat Among the Pigeon.s! ' at the Prince of Wales Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Gordon
Unknown:
Ray Cooney
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Simon Sparrow
Unknown:
Geoffrey Sumner
Unknown:
Sir Lancelot Spratt
Unknown:
Ray Cooney
Unknown:
Jock Hornbeam
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Richard Briers

Highlights from the Sunday show including:
Guest of the week, Michael Caine and scenes from Otley starring Tom Courtenay
Romy SCHNEIDER , JAMES VILLIERS FREDDIE JONES , and LEONARD Ross iter adaptation by Marjorie Bilbow
Introduced by PETER HAIGH
Written and produced by Lyn Fairhurst
Shortened version of Sunday's broadcast (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Caine
Unknown:
Tom Courtenay
Unknown:
Romy Schneider
Unknown:
James Villiers
Unknown:
Freddie Jones
Unknown:
Leonard Ross
Unknown:
Marjorie Bilbow
Introduced By:
Peter Haigh
Produced By:
Lyn Fairhurst

A family magazine introduced by Ken Sykora and including:
Mahalia Jackson: John Dunn talks to the celebrated soul-singer about her career and beliefs.
Teaching butlers to buttle: Samuel Bretson, sixty-six years in service, talks to Nigel Rees about passing on the art.
A nourish of strokes: Kenneth Gregory picks out a few of the cricketers in his autograph book.
Your letters.
We are amused: today's contribution to National Laughter Week.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Mahalia Jackson
Talks:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Samuel Bretson
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Kenneth Gregory

Theatricals
Memoirs and reminiscences of the theatrical profession compiled by DEREK PARKER
1: Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi clown, 1779-1837 edited by CHARLES DICKENS
Reader, MICHAEL SPICE
Life is a game we are bound to play-
The wise enjoy it, fools grow sick of it;
Losers, we find, have the stakes to pay,
That winners may laugh, for that's the trick of it.
J. GRIMALDI
Produced by John Powell
See page 38

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Joseph Grimaldi
Edited By:
Charles Dickens
Produced By:
John Powell

1939-1945
Crucial events in the War at Sea reconstructed in thirteen episodes
7: Bismarck
Part 2: The sinking of the battleship Bismarck
Narrated by MICHAEL FLANDERS with Eric Francis and Wilfrid Carter. Michael Deacon John Gabriel , Michael Spice Frederick Treves members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Naval Historical Adviser, Lt.-Cmdr. Peter Kemp O.B.E., R.N. Ret.
Written and produced by JOHN BRIDGES

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Francis
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter.
Unknown:
Michael Deacon
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Unknown:
Dr. Peter Kemp
Produced By:
John Bridges

A series of general knowledge quiz contests between schools taking part in a sixth-form Hellenic Cruise last December aboard the S.S. Uganda and recorded as she sailed to and through the Mediterranean Chairman, STEVE RACE
THE FINAL
The Radcliffe School, Wolverton, Bucks v.
Minchenden School, London
Produced by David Allan

Contributors

Produced By:
David Allan

bringing you each week voices of people concerned with the topics and troubles of today THE HOSPITALS
How satisfactory are working conditions for the nurses and house physicians in Britain's hospitals? Are they, as some claim, underpaid, overworked and over-disciplined? What could be the outcome of the present state of discontent? Narrator: JEAN METCALFE
Produced by Michell Raper

Contributors

Narrator:
Jean Metcalfe
Produced By:
Michell Raper

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