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Paraplegics, Plonkers or People?
With the increase in medical skills and a similar increase in the number of accidents, the paralysed are becoming a larger and more conspicuous part of the population. ALEX MACINTOSH has been finding out how life looks from a wheelchair
Shortened version of the programme broadcast on November 8, 1968

Contributors

Unknown:
Alex MacIntosh

presenting BILL MCCUE in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest, MARIAN DAVIES and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Leader,lan Tyre
Conductor, lAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by Eddie Fraser

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill McCue
Unknown:
Marian Davies
Produced By:
Eddie Fraser

by Richard Gordon adapted for radio in thirteen episodes by RAY COONEY starring
Episode 5: Farewell Las Palmas RAY Cooney as Jock Hornbeam
NORMA RONALD as Wendy Swithinbank
DENNIS RAMSDEN as Colonel Swithinbank PATSY ROWLANDS as Miss Bottomley
Guest star:
Peter Jones as Easter
Produced by DAVID HATCH tPre-recorded at The Playhouse,
Northumberland Ave... London. W.C. 2
Richard Briers is in ' Cat Among the Pigeons' at the Prince of Wales Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Gordon
Unknown:
Ray Cooney
Unknown:
Las Palmas
Unknown:
Ray Cooney
Unknown:
Jock Hornbeam
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Wendy Swithinbank
Unknown:
Dennis Ramsden
Unknown:
Colonel Swithinbank
Unknown:
Patsy Rowlands
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Produced By:
David Hatch
Simon Sparrow:
Richard Briers
Captain Spratt:
Geoffrey Sumner

by William De Morgan dramatised for radio in thirteen parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM with Norman Shelley , Brian Hewlett and John Hollis
10: The Explosion
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Brian Hewlett
Unknown:
John Hollis
Produced By:
Norman Wright

JOHN ARLOTT , WENDY COOPER , and THE PROVOST OF COVENTRY take a present-day look at some sounds and statements from the past preserved in the BBC Sound Archives
Introduced by LESLIE DUNN
Produced by Richard Maddock

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Wendy Cooper
Introduced By:
Leslie Dunn
Produced By:
Richard Maddock

A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWES and including:
My very first celebrity was Alfred, Lord Tennyson: MAISIE WARD, writer, publisher, and propagandist, talks to Jack Singleton about her early life, including memories of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc
Through streets broad and narrow: FRANCES BERTHELSEN visits the cockle sheds at Old Leigh, Essex
Great White Doctor: CHARLES ALLEN suggests from his own experience that all Westerners in primitive places are, willynilly, looked on as 'medicos'
Your letters

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
G. K. Chesterton
Unknown:
Hilaire Belloc
Unknown:
Frances Berthelsen
Unknown:
Charles Allen

Theatricals
Memoirs and reminiscences of the theatrical profession compiled by DEREK PARKER
3: An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber written by himself
'This work. I say, shall not only contain the various impressions of my mind.... but shall likewise include with them the theatrical history of my own time. from my first appearance on the stage to my last exit.'
Reader, PETER BALDWIN
Produced by John Powell

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Mr. Colley Cibber
Reader:
Peter Baldwin
Produced By:
John Powell

Crucial events in the War at Sea reconstructed in thirteen episodes
10: Clean Away
Escape of the battle-cruiser Scharnhorst: part 2
Narrated by MICHAEL FLANDERS with Eric Francis and John Baddeley , Wilfrid Carter Michael Deacon , John Gabriel 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:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter
Unknown:
Michael Deacon
Unknown:
John Gabriel
Unknown:
Frederick Treves
Unknown:
Peter Kemp
Produced By:
John Bridges

The Church of England and the Methodist Church will this evening have made one of the most momentous decisions in their history, and indeed in the history of Christendom since the Reformation-whether or not to reunite.
DOUGLAS BROWN conducts a live enquiry on the outcome from Westminster, where the Convocations of Canterbury and York have been meeting, and from Birmingham, the meeting-place of the Methodist Conference
Producer, Ronald Allison

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Brown
Producer:
Ronald Allison

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