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Presented by DUNCAN CARSE Britain's major cities *are in the throes of planning and building urban motorways which involve the destruction of thousands of houses, the loss of amenities, and. for many individuals, the anguish of being ousted from their home. Will the motorways really provide fast-moving urban motoring or will they simply generate extra traffic?
Compiled by TERENCE BENDIXSON Planning correspondent of The Guardian
Produced by Keith Hindell
Broadcast on June 10 in the series
Radio 4 Reports ...

Contributors

Presented By:
Duncan Carse
Unknown:
Terence Bendixson
Produced By:
Keith Hindell

presenting BILL MCCUE in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest,
PATRICIA LAMBERT and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Ian Tyre
Conducted by ARTHUR BLAKE
Produced by Eddie Fraser

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill McCue
Unknown:
Patricia Lambert
Leader:
Ian Tyre
Conducted By:
Arthur Blake
Produced By:
Eddie Fraser

by Richard Gordon adapted for radio in thirteen episodes by RAY COONEY starring with Episode 7: Mozambique
Guest star:
Peter Jones as Easter
Produced by David HATCH
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse.
Northumberland Ave... London. W.C. 2
Repeated: Thursday, 7.0 p.m.
Richard Briers is in ' Cat Among the Pigeons ' at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Gordon
Unknown:
Ray Cooney
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Simon Sparrow:
Richard Briers
Captain Spratt:
Geoffrey Sumner
Jock Hornbeam:
Ray Cooney
Maria:
Marjorie Westbury
Matilde:
Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Hawkins:
Ann Murray
Rosa:
Madi Hedd

JOHNNY MORRIS , BETTY JAMES , and BRIAN WALDEN m.p., take a present-day look at some sounds and statements from the past preserved in the BBC Archives
Introduced by LESLIE DUNN
Produced by Richard Maddock

Contributors

Unknown:
Johnny Morris
Unknown:
Betty James
Introduced By:
Leslie Dunn
Produced By:
Richard Maddock

A family magazine introduced by TIM GUDGIN and including:
Stately Co-op: MICHAEL GILLIAM visits Loseley House near Guild-ford where the employees work within a profit sharing system In Praise of Albert: STEVE RACE enthuses on a much maligned memorial
What do You do on Sundays?: CONSTANCE LEA gives her answer to the question raised in a previous broadcast
Holiday with a Helicopter: JUDY TURNER describes a family holiday in west Wales ... with an unusual twist
Your letters

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Michael Gilliam
Unknown:
Constance Lea
Unknown:
Judy Turner

Memoirs and reminiscences of the theatrical profession, compiled by DEREK PARKER
5: The Life and Adventures of Edmund Kean by J. FITZGERALD MOLLOY
' Rehearse! I'm not going to rehearse!—I'm going to sleep! ' ' Have you any instructions? ' ' Instructions? No! Tell 'em to keep at a good arm's length away from me and do their damned worst.'
Reader, PETER PRATT
Produced by John Powell

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
J. Fitzgerald Molloy
Reader:
Peter Pratt
Produced By:
John Powell

Crucial events in the War at Sea reconstructed in thirteen episodes
12: Convoy
Defeat of the U-boats
Narrated by MICHAEL FLANDERS with Eric Francis and John Bentley , Kerry Francis Peter Tuddenham Lockwood West 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 Bentley
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Unknown:
Peter Tuddenham
Unknown:
Lockwood West
Unknown:
Dr. Peter Kemp
Produced By:
John Bridges

A musical wander through the decade, and a word or two about some of the outstanding events
The records recall many of the world's all-time standards of popular music-the shows, the films, the radio performances, the million sellers
Written and produced by BOB HOLNESS
Additional research by Bill Sullivan
Produced by Mark White
Broadcast on Dec. 26. 1968

Contributors

Produced By:
Bob Holness
Unknown:
Bill Sullivan
Produced By:
Mark White

TONY VAN DEN BERGH spent a week with. a leading north-country consultant earlier this year. He accompanied the surgeon on his rounds, into the lecture room, out-patients, and operating theatre. From his recordings he has built up a picture of the various facets of a surgeon's life
Produced by Alan Burgess
New version of the broadcast on May 9

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony van Den Bergh
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

An occasional series of programmes illustrating the means by which personal initiative may redress legal injustice
The Archer-Shee Case
1910: A Naval cadet, dismissed for alleged theft, is vindicated by Petition of Right
Written and narrated by VINCENT BROME with Peter Bartlett , Nicholas Edmett Denis Goacher , Madi Hedd
Norman Shelley , Charles Simon James Thomason , Ralph Truman
Produced by TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Vincent Brome
Unknown:
Peter Bartlett
Unknown:
Nicholas Edmett
Unknown:
Denis Goacher
Unknown:
Madi Hedd
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Charles Simon
Unknown:
James Thomason
Unknown:
Ralph Truman
Produced By:
Terence Tiller

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