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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by tim MATTHEWS
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
I'd like to put that right WILLIAM DRUMMOND
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Matthews
Unknown:
William Drummond

Sir Walford Davies
DEREK PARKER introduces a portrait of the famous music teacher, organist, choirmaster, and populariser of music, with GEORGE DIXON , SIDNEY HARRISON , and the recorded voice of SIR WALFORD DAVIES
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Walford Davies
Introduces:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
George Dixon
Unknown:
Sidney Harrison
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

A story of international research into the first virus found in a human cancer told by DR DEMis BURKiTT , who identified the cancer in Africa; PROFESSOR ANTHONY EPSTEIN , Who discovered the virus; DRS WERNER AND BRIGITTE HENLE from Philadelphia, who associated the same virus with glandular fever; DR PETER BIGGS , who helped to establish a similar virus as the cause of a cancer in chickens; and PROFESSOR GEORGE KLEIN from Stockholm, who studies how the virus changes human cells
Introduced and produced by RICHARD KEEN

Contributors

Told By:
Dr Demis Burkitt
Unknown:
Professor Anthony Epstein
Unknown:
Drs Werner
Unknown:
Brigitte Henle
Unknown:
Dr Peter Biggs
Unknown:
George Klein
Produced By:
Richard Keen

by SAMUEL SELVON
A series of seven half-hour plavs by the West Indian writer who has adapted them for radio from his book The Lonely Londoners. They tell of the progress, and lack of it, of a Trinidadian, Moses Aloetta, who after living in London for many years, decides he wants to go home again to the sun
He is surrounded by a group of fellow-immigrants from Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Nigeria who constantly take advantage of his good nature and frustrate his plans with Horace James as Moses 1: Sir Galahad Arrives
Big City NICHOLAS EDMETT Cap FEMIEUBA Harris
KENNETH GARDNIER TolroY KEEFE WEST
Reporter HAYDN JONES Ma MONA HAMMOND
Tanty MYRTLE ROBINSON
Galahad RUDOLPH WALKER
Other parts DAVID BRIERLEY and KEEFE WEST
Produced by KEITH Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Selvon
Unknown:
Horace James
Unknown:
Nicholas Edmett
Unknown:
Kenneth Gardnier
Unknown:
Keefe West
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Ma Mona Hammond
Unknown:
Myrtle Robinson
Unknown:
Rudolph Walker
Unknown:
David Brierley
Unknown:
Keefe West
Produced By:
Keith Williams

In Easter week, just before the British Trade Fair opened, Avril Mollison was in Brazil concerned to bring back with her not an account of commercial interest but a portrait of SAo Paulo seen through the eyes of some of its English-speaking citizens
Produced by Patrick Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Avril Mollison
Produced By:
Patrick Harvey

I, Said the Sparrow by JAMES BRYANT
A stab in the back doesn'necessarily need a knife, just a temptation with Eileen Atkins and Geoffrey Matthews
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER

Contributors

Unknown:
James Bryant
Unknown:
Eileen Atkins
Unknown:
Geoffrey Matthews
Produced By:
David A. Turner

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including: I wanted a hundred pounds: NANCY MITFORD at her home in Versailles tells ANNE SUTER how she became a writer and went to France
Home and Dry: MICHAEL MEECH meets one of Shelter's success stories
Go peel a prawn: ZENA SKINNER gives a recipe to make a few prawns go a long way Your letters

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Mitford
Unknown:
Anne Suter
Unknown:
Michael Meech
Unknown:
Zena Skinner

Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENÉE HOUSTON MARY STOCKS, ISOBEL BARNETT KATHARINE WHITEHORN
In the chair ANONA WINN Devised by ANONA winn and IAN MESSITER
Produced bv CHRISTOPHER SERLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Katharine Whitehorn
Unknown:
Christopher Serle

Bruce Beeby as Robert Schumann
Bernard Keeffe as Narrator
Other parts: FRANK HENDERSON ELIZABETH PROUD
HUMPHREY MORTON
Written and compiled by BERNARD KEEFFE
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Bruce Beeby
Unknown:
Robert Schumann
Unknown:
Bernard Keeffe
Unknown:
Frank Henderson
Unknown:
Humphrey Morton
Produced By:
David Davis

as kept by LEWIS HOLLAND THOMAS 1842-46
Sybil Thorndike reads extracts from the journal of the schooner Laura Ann on a round voyage from England to the South Pacific islands (via Cape Horn) kept by her Master, who was the grandfather of Sir Lewis Casson. The Master's wife accompanied him on the voyage, and their daughter Laura Ann named after the ship, was born in Peru. The journal was written to tell her about her mother, who died soon after their return to England
Arranged for radio and produced by GRAHAM gauld

Contributors

Unknown:
Lewis Holland Thomas
Unknown:
Laura Ann
Unknown:
Sir Lewis Casson.
Unknown:
Laura Ann
Produced By:
Graham Gauld

Commuted Sentence
Tonight's balance sheet on the way we handle community problems deals with diabetes. It is an insidious illness which can attack a new-born child or a man in the prime of life. It was a killer disease until insulin, but now it can be lived with. provided you stick to the rules. And that is where the difficulties can begin, or be ended....
Narrator CARLETON HOBBS
Script J. S. CAMPBELL
Producer ARCHIE p. LEE

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