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by GEORGE ELIOT abridged by Eileen Capel Read by ALEC MCCOWEN
Produced by John Cardy
First of twenty instalments: originally broadcast in 1967 Silas fell on his knees to examine the marvel; it was a sleeping child —a round, fair thing, with soft yellow rings all over its head. Was it a dream? Throwing some sticks onto the fire, he raised a flame. But the flame did not disperse the vision: it only lit up more distinctly the little round form of the child and its shabby clothes.

Contributors

Unknown:
George Eliot
Abridged By:
Eileen Capel
Read By:
Alec McCowen
Produced By:
John Cardy

tBBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Leader. Arthur Leavins Conductor. MARCUS DODS
EMILE NOBLOT AND HIS ORCHESTRA PAUL BONNEAU AND HIS ORCHESTRA RAYMOND CHEVREUX AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Recording made available by courtesy of French Radio

Contributors

Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Conductor:
Emile Noblot
Unknown:
Paul Bonneau
Unknown:
Raymond Chevreux

A family magazine introduced by Tim GUDGIN and including:
Trinity House: CORAL HADDON meets some of the men whose prime concern is the safety of all mariners round our coast through lighthouses, lightships, buoys, and pilotage
'The Salzburg Connection' and All That: HELEN MACINNES , who writes suspense stories set against a background of contemporary history, talks to Jack Singleton about her life and work
My Family of 1,200: CYRIL GRACE , curator of Dudley Zoo , describes to St. John Howell how he set about collecting animals in Africa
A Room Without a View: JOYCE ROBERTSON replies to a lighting development manager- who says ' Life would be simpler if there were no windows '

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Helen MacInnes
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Cyril Grace
Unknown:
Dudley Zoo
Unknown:
John Howell
Unknown:
Joyce Robertson

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe abridged by NEVILLE TELLER as an eight-part reading
Read by NORMAN RODWAY
Part 5: In which, having won for myself a companion in my man Friday, we suffer a further visitation from the savages.
Produced by Ronald Mason
Broadcast on Sept. 16. 1965

Contributors

Unknown:
Robinson Crusoe
Unknown:
Daniel Defoe
Abridged By:
Neville Teller
Read By:
Norman Rodway
Produced By:
Ronald Mason

ANONA WINN, JOY
ADAMSON NORMAN HACKFORTH , PETER GLAZE with a mystery guest and DAVID FRANKLIN in the chair
Produced by Bobby Jaye
Pre-recorded at The Paris. Lower
Regent Street, London. S.W.I

Contributors

Unknown:
Adamson Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
David Franklin
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

from the Royal Albert Hall London
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral
Society
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Directed by Neville Marriner (violin)
London Philharmonic
Orchestra
Leader. Rodney Friend Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1: Mendelssohn and Berkeley

Contributors

Violin:
Neville Marriner
Conducted By:
Sir Adrian Boult

tA series of ten programmes about some of the composers and performers represented in this year's Promenade Concerts
2: Lennox Berkeley talks about his life and compositions to John Amis
Friday: Charles Rosen

Contributors

Talks:
Lennox Berkeley
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Charles Rosen

After a longand on the whole painful period of readjustment to the changed realities of the world and its own circumstances, Britain is now examining ways of cutting its diplomatic coat according to its financial and influential cloth. In this series of five programmes Peter Jenkins , political columnist of The Guardian, talks to past members of the Foreign and Commonwealth Service and to commentators on foreign policy about what the shape of that coat should be, and how the pattern should be arrived at.
1: Moving into the second rank
Sir Denis GREENHILL. , K.C.M.G.,
Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, talks to PETER JENKINS about the Duncan Report (in which Britain is newly defined as * major power of the second order ') and how its implementation would affect the formulation and execution of our foreign policy.

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Jenkins
Unknown:
Sir Denis Greenhill.
Unknown:
Peter Jenkins

A Very Quiet Place by ANDREW GARVE abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by BRUCE BEEBY
Produced by John Cardy
First of fifteen instalments
When Debbie Sheldon was woken in the early hours by thieves breaking into the jewellery store opposite her flat, she did two things : she dialled 999, a very sensible thing to do: she then took a flashlight photograph of the raiders in their yetaway car....

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Garve
Abridged By:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Bruce Beeby
Produced By:
John Cardy
Unknown:
Debbie Sheldon

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