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7.10 South-East News
7.15 On Your Farm has breakfast with JOHN ALLEN who farms 3,000 acres of fell bordering Kirkstone Pass in the heart of the Lake District.
Arranged and introduced by ANTHONY PARKIN
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Outlook reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
John Allen
Introduced By:
Anthony Parkin

Introduced by ROY HAY
Christmas Gifts: GEORGE GILLARD recommends gardening tools and equipment and JOHN SAM -BROOK reviews recently published gardening books Easy Winter Flowers: F. R. MCQUOWN
Produced by GEORGE SIGSWORTH

Contributors

Introduced By:
Roy Hay
Unknown:
George Gillard
Unknown:
John Sam
Unknown:
F. R. McQuown
Produced By:
George Sigsworth

A course in Spanish based on some of the best known Spanish writers
9: Miguel de Cervantes :
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Three excerpts from one of the great works of world literature: the battle of the wine-skins, the adventure of the lions, and Sancho Panza's portrait of Dulcinea del Toboso.

Contributors

Unknown:
Miguel de Cervantes

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
The Careless Driver - a case for law reform: CHARLES DYER investigates
The Motor Trade Jungle: the tale of the Bottled-Up Buyer. by WALTER PRIEST
A Battery Break-through: ARTHUR GARRATT reports
Under the Influence of Drugs?: JOHN MILES comments on our taste for medicine together with topical news and at 12.24* the latest traffic report Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Charles Dyer
Unknown:
Arthur Garratt
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

A spontaneous discussion by NORMAN ST .JOHN-STEVAS MP MARGARET DRABBLE
CHRISTOPHER MAYHEW MP ,PETER HALL
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from University of Oxford Union

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman St .John-Stevas Mp
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
Christopher Mayhew Mp
Unknown:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Black is the Colour of My True Love's Hair A new play for radio by G. W. TARGET starring
Anthony Jackson as Stanley,
' Black is the colour of my true love's hair ... or blonde, she could just as easily be blonde ... or a red-head, perhaps ... or ...' Stanley inhabits a world of exotic fantasy, not only in his dreams but in his more humdrum workaday life - searching for the ideal object of his affections. with Kate Binchy as Mary Miriam Margolyes as Sheila Frances Jeater as Eileen and Peter Pratt as Mr Winter
HILDA KRISEMAN , PAULINE LETTS
GEOFFREY COLLINS , MICHAEL DEACON GARARD GREEN, NICEL LAMBERT Produced by JOHN POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Jackson
Unknown:
Kate Binchy
Unknown:
Mary Miriam Margolyes
Unknown:
Sheila Frances Jeater
Unknown:
Peter Pratt
Unknown:
Mr Winter
Unknown:
Hilda Kriseman
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Geoffrey Collins
Unknown:
Michael Deacon
Produced By:
John Powell

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Bookshelf: Childhood in Fiction - BA MASON reviews two recent novels
Cookery Club: tips on cake making. KATIE STEWART and PATRICIA DUNBAR with MOLLIE LEE
You can'sleep with a man ... says ANNE JONES
Not just for their beauty: MARTHA ANN HODGSON on Shell collecting
Living in Suburbia: JUNE ROSE reports
A Kind of Magic written and read by MOLLIE HARRIS
(Fourth of five excerpts)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Katie Stewart
Unknown:
Patricia Dunbar
Unknown:
Mollie Lee
Unknown:
Martha Ann Hodgson
Read By:
Mollie Harris

Tchaikovsky Overture: The Storm
PHILHARMONIA orchestra conducted by LOVRO VON MATACIC
4.15* Glazunov Concerto in E flat major, for saxophone and string orchestra VINCENT ABATO with orchestra conducted by NORMAN PICKERING
4.29* Borodin String Quartet No 2, in D major ITALIAN QUARTET
Paolo Borciani (violin) Elisa Pegreffi (violin) Piero Farulli (viola) Franco Rossi (cello)
4.58* Balakirev Oriental Fantasia: Islamey
JULIUS KATCHEN (piano)
5.7* Rimsky-Korsakov Sym phonic Suite: Sheherazade
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Lovro von Matacic
Unknown:
Vincent Abato
Conducted By:
Norman Pickering
Violin:
Elisa Pegreffi
Viola:
Piero Farulli
Cello:
Franco Rossi
Piano:
Julius Katchen
Piano:
Rimsky-Korsakov Sym
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

MARCUS DODS conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS with CAROLINE CRAWSHAW (soprano) STANLEY BLACK (piano)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON Produced by JOHN MELOY including
Bizet music from The Pearl Fishers
Harold music from Zampa
Stanley Black Variations on Three Blind Mice (A Ciicbé Concerto)

Contributors

Unknown:
Marcus Dods
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Soprano:
Caroline Crawshaw
Piano:
Stanley Black
Introduced By:
Roy Williamson
Produced By:
John Meloy

The Making of a Marchioness
A radio play by DIANA MORGAN from the novel (pub 1901) by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT with Andrew Cruickshank and Curigwen Lewis
The play is set in London, Yorkshire, and Gloucestershire in the closing years of the last century.
Characters in order of speaking
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Play By:
Diana Morgan
Unknown:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Unknown:
Andrew Cruickshank
Unknown:
Curigwen Lewis
Produced By:
David Davis
Lady Maria:
Margot Boyd
The Duchess of Merewold:
Grizelda Hervey
Lady Agatha:
Elizabeth Proud
Emily Fox-Seton:
Curigwen Lewis
Mrs Brooke:
Kathleen Helme
Cora Brooke, her daughter:
Elizabeth Proud
The Marquis of Walderhurst:
Andrew Cruickshank
Mrs Cupp:
Ella Milne
Jane Cupp, her daughter:
Patricia Gallimore
Captain Alec Osborn:
John Bentlet
Hester Osborn, his wife:
Margaret Wolfit
Ahmeena, Indian servant to Mrs Osborn:
Kathleen Helme
Dr Warren:
James Thomason
Mrs Warren:
Ella Milne

A late-evening conversation in which
JOAN BAKEWELL , NICHOLAS TOMALIH and TONY ECCLES freely exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas, and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Produced by JOHN MUSGRAVE

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Unknown:
Nicholas Tomalih
Unknown:
Tony Eccles
Produced By:
John Musgrave

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