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A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
Students before patients?: HELEN Hodgson , chairman of the Patients Association, discusses with a Hospital Consultant whether teaching hospitals are unfair to patients
Specialist in the studio: a chiropodist answers listeners' questions
Produced by Thena Heshel

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Unknown:
Helen Hodgson
Produced By:
Thena Heshel

1892-1969
A tribute by DEREK PARKER who introduces recordings from the BBC Sound Archives of Dame Edith Sitwell and others including the voice of Sir Osbert Sitwell reading his own prose and poetry
Derek Parker also talks to JOHN LEHMANN about Sir Osbert's life and work
Produced by Denys Gueroult
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Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Dame Edith Sitwell
Unknown:
Sir Osbert Sitwell
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
John Lehmann
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

Give Me a Little Kiss by Edward Crowley
Being the story of Vi's stormy courtship with Arthur-a man who feels he's cut out for greater things in life than marriage.
Produced by ALAN AVCKBOURN
Wednesday's broadcast (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Crowley
Produced By:
Alan Avckbourn

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
At Your Invitation:
Patrick Moore , of The Sky at Night, chosen by listeners as this month's guest, answers questions
My First Hamlet: J. R. GREG -SON'S first Hamlet was a woman
The wind on the heath: EVIE GARRATT meets VOSCO VAN BLOMESTEIN flying his kite on Parliament Hill
Your letters
We are amused: today's contribution to National Laughter Week

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Unknown:
J. R. Greg
Unknown:
Vosco Van

Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sixth of seven selected excerpts: Pont de Montvert rouses memories of the Camisards and comparisons with the Scottish Covenanters.
Reader, HOWARD M. LOCKHART
Produced by Stewart Conn
Broadcast on August 4. 1968
(Radio 4: Scottish)

Contributors

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

A musical and factual account of the British coal-miner from the eighteenth to the twentieth century
Singers: NEILSON TAYLOR, CHARLES WEST, PAT WHITMORE, CHARLES YOUNG, RITA WILLIAMS SINGERS
BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader, John Bradbury Conducted by GILBERT VINTER
Narrators: CHARLES CHILTON, KEVIN FLOOD, HARRY LANDIS, ANN MURRAY, CHARLES WEST
Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
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Contributors

Singers:
Neilson Taylor
Singers:
Charles West
Singers:
Pat Whitmore
Singers:
Charles Young
Singers:
Charles West
Singers:
Rita Williams Singers
Leader:
John Bradbury
Conducted By:
Gilbert Vinter
Narrators:
Charles Chilton
Narrators:
Kevin Flood
Narrators:
Harry Landis
Narrators:
Ann Murray
Narrators:
Charles West
Produced By:
Charles Chilton

Introduced by RICHARD Hoggart
A. S. BYATT on The Achievement of Walter Scott by A. 0. J. Cockshut
ERIC RHODE on The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
J. M. RICHARDS on The Character of Towns by Roy Worskett , and John Russell 's study of Ben Nicholson (an exhibition of his paintings opens today in London at the Tate Gallery)
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Richard Hoggart
Introduced By:
A. S. Byatt
Unknown:
Walter Scott
Unknown:
John Fowles
Unknown:
J. M. Richards
Unknown:
Roy Worskett
Unknown:
John Russell
Unknown:
Ben Nicholson
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson

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