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Introduced by Roy HAY
FRANCES PERRY discusses plants of her choice and H. C. RUSSELL talks about the feeding of chrysanthemums
GEORGE GILLARD gives advice on the week's work
Produced by George Sigsworth

Contributors

Introduced By:
Roy Hay
Introduced By:
Frances Perry
Talks:
H. C. Russell
Unknown:
George Gillard
Produced By:
George Sigsworth

Two stories -by GEORGES SIMENON dramatised in twenty episodes by Paul Couster , combined with language practice for those who already know some French.
PIERRE VALMER as Maigret PAULETTE PRENEY as FGlicie
Félicie est la:part 8
Last week's broadcast (Study on 3)

Contributors

Stories By:
Georges Simenon
Unknown:
Paul Couster
Unknown:
Pierre Valmer
Unknown:
Maigret Paulette Preney

BILL HARTLEY introduces:
What the Adverts Say: a discussion on petrol advertising with TERRY BRAY of Esso and DENYS HODDER of Shell
JOHN MILES, Manager of the High Performance Course, on driver behaviour
CLEMENT FENNELL discussing pets on holiday together with topical news and at 12.23* the latest traffic report
Produced by Jim Pestridge

Contributors

Introduces:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Terry Bray
Unknown:
Denys Hodder
Unknown:
Clement Fennell
Produced By:
Jim Pestridge

A spontaneous discussion by C.A. JOYCE
THE RT. Hon. IAIN MACLEOD , M.P. MARGARET DRABBLE LORD SOPER
Chairman, DAVID JACOBS
Produced by Michael Bowen from Todmorden, Yorkshire
Last Friday's broadcast (.Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rt. Hon. Iain MacLeod
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Benefit of Clergy by Geoffrey Hubbard
Train robbers in the 1840s were scarcely commonplace. Since the robber appeared to be a clergy-man, Insp. Fudge did not anticipate any difficulty in solving the case.'
Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS
Broadcast on September 3. 1965

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Hubbard
Produced By:
Keith Williams
Lord Henry Tallow:
Hugh Manning
Carrier:
Harold Reese
P C Widgett:
John Baddeley
Inspector Fudge:
Will Leigiiton
The Rev Mr Simon Tallow:
Peter Tuddenham
Railway guard:
Douglas Blackwell
First Bath cabbie:
Christopher Hodge
Old lady:
Kathleen Helme
Tom Smith:
Alaric Cotter
Duke of Wellington:
George Curzon
Hansom cab driver:
Rex Robinson
Rates:
Rex Robinson
Maid to Canon Chapter:
Eva Haddon
Augusta, Dowager Countess of Wick:
Valerie Taylor
Canon Chapter of Wells:
Denys Blakelock

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
' A Degree of Defiance'
HARRIET CRAWLEY talks to JUDITH CHALMERS about her new book
Far and Wide a magazine of travel
The Silent Film
Kevin BROWNLOW and CHRIS VENNING
Women writers talking
MARGARET DRABBLE , MARY HOWARD , and DR. CATHERINE GAVIN. Chairman, Mollie Lee
ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY reads Dibs: In Search of Self by VIRGINIA M. AXLINE
Fourth of eleven instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Harriet Crawley
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Kevin Brownlow
Unknown:
Chris Venning
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
Mary Howard
Unknown:
Dr. Catherine Gavin.
Unknown:
Mollie Lee
Unknown:
Rosalie Crutchley
Unknown:
Virginia M. Axline

'twixt ISOBEL BARNETT ELEANOR Summerfield and Richard MURDOCH , David Nixon
Tune-twisters from Steve RACE
In the chair, Roy Plomley
Devised and written by Ian Messiter
Last Sunday's broadcast (Radio 2)

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Written By:
Ian Messiter

A play by Rex Rienits adapted from the novel by Josephine Tey
with Denys Hawthorne as Detective-Inspector Grant

'I felt so bad about it I came back. When I found she wasn't anywhere on the road. I thought she must still be on the beach. And then I saw the police car, and the ambulance...'
(Repeated: Monday, 3.15 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Rex Rienits
From the novel by:
Josephine Tey
Producer:
Betty Davies
Detective-Inspector Grant:
Denys Hawthorne
Sgt Lillis:
Nigel Anthony
PC:
Leroy Lingwood
Robin Tisdall:
Michael Deacon
Mrs Pitts:
Marjorie Westbury
Sgt Williams:
Bruce Beeby
Sir George Burgoyne:
Humphrey Morton
Erica Burgoyne:
Sian Davies
Morgan:
Nigel Clayton
Marta Hallard:
Beth Boyd
Lydia Keats:
Pauline Letts
Judy Sellers:
Valerie Kirkbright
Clement Clements:
Peter Bartlett
Lord Edward Champneis:
John Justin
Mr Erskine:
James Thomason
The Prior:
John Wyse
Owen Hughes:
Peter Baldwin

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