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C. A. Joyce
In 1943 the Cotswold Home Office School opened with C. A. Joyce as headmaster. For twenty years he ran this experiment in educating and helping teenage delinquents. Some of his methods were unorthodox and not always approved of, but his success with the boys made this the most significant period of his life.
Produced by Helen Fry
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
A. Joyce
Unknown:
C. A. Joyce
Produced By:
Helen Fry

A family magazine introduced from the Midlands by David Stevens and including:
Away from it all?: TOM COYNE offers a few thoughts on a different kind of holiday in the very heart of the industrial Midlands
Merrie England?: rural history recalls many a tale of feuding squires arid long quarrels between the landed gentry. Such antagonism has also characterised some ordinary country folk.... as HARRY SOAN shows in a fragment of history from the village of Tutson

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stevens
Unknown:
Tom Coyne

Knaves or Fools?
A series by Margaret Potter on people who assumed various roles or were presumed to be of higher tilth and rank
3: The Apothecary's Apprentice
Narrative spoken by GEOFFREY Banks who also portrays the various characters
Produced by Trevor Hill

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Spoken By:
Geoffrey Banks
Produced By:
Trevor Hill

Repeated: Monday, 1.30 p.m.

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville

Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan in The Last Tram The actual last journey of a London Tram inspired this never-to-be-forgotten Goon Saga with MAX GELDRAY
THE RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET and WALLY STOTT AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Announcer, WALLACE GREENSLADE
Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN and ERIC SYKES Produced by Peter ETON
Broadcast on November 23. 1954

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Secombe
Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
Max Geldray
Unknown:
The Ray Ellington
Unknown:
Wally Stott
Announcer:
Wallace Greenslade
Script By:
Spike Milligan
Produced By:
Peter Eton

General Walter Warlimont was standing a few feet away from Hitler when the bomb attempt on his life was made by Count Stauffenberg, in the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's secret H.Q. in East Prussia, on July 20, 1944. He tells Terence Prittie , Diplomatic Correspondent of The Guardian, exactly what it felt like
Broadcast on March 23. 1967

Contributors

Unknown:
General Walter Warlimont
Unknown:
Terence Prittie

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