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The News
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by John Timpson
Deputy editor ALASTAIROSRORNE Editor MARSHALL STEWART
7.4t Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Marshall Stewart

by Evelyn Waugh, abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by Hugh Burden

When Hitler's war came, Guy Crouchback threw aside the life of shrivelled seclusion he had endured since the breakup of his marriage. At last here was a crusade - something to live for, to die for if necessary. The Halberdiers opened their exclusive doors, a soldier's life beckoned. War was grim, war was earnest - so Guy believed. How was he to know it could also be so disillusioning and so downright funny?

First of 20 instalments

Contributors

Author:
Evelyn Waugh
Abridged by:
Donald Bancroft
Reader:
Hugh Burden
Producer:
John Cardy

Zena Skinner , Gordon Clyde George Luce and who knows who take a livelv look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Produced by susan ERLBECK
DENNIS LOWER . JACK SINGLETON and ELIZABETH SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Unknown:
Gordon Clyde
Unknown:
George Luce
Produced By:
Susan Erlbeck
Produced By:
Dennis Lower
Produced By:
Jack Singleton
Produced By:
Elizabeth Smith

For Sweetie and Bundles by ARCHIE HILL
The first of five morning plays about loneliness
I shouldn'have come, I could have stayed at home and got a doctor's note; they wouldn'have known; they might have forgotten about it . .
Produced by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN (Harold Kasket is in ' 1776 ' at the New Theatre, London)

Contributors

Produced By:
Michael Heffernan
Annie:
Nora Nicholson
Landlord:
Harold Kasket
Detective:
Brian Hewlett
Solicitor:
John Gabriel
Magistrate:
James Thomason
Court official:
Alan Barry

A series of eleven programmes in which great short stories (sometimes abridged) are read by leading artists.
3: The Way Up to Heaven by ROALD DAHL
Read by PETER MARINKER
Produced by TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Roald Dahl
Read By:
Peter Marinker
Produced By:
Terence Tiller

Holiday in Spala by ROYCE RYTON adapted for radio by ALISON PLOHDEN with Rachel Gurney , Noel Johnson and Patricia Gallimore
The action of the play takes place in the hall of Spala, the Tsar's small shooting lodge in Poland, where the Imperial family would go for a quiet holiday. It is October 1912. Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Royce Ryton
Unknown:
Alison Plohden
Unknown:
Rachel Gurney
Unknown:
Noel Johnson
Unknown:
Patricia Gallimore
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Grand Duchess Marie Nico taevna:
Rita Staines
Grand Duchess Tatiana N-ico laevna (Tania):
Elizabeth Proud
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (Papa. Nicky):
Noel Johnson
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nico laevna:
Deborah Dallas
Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, lady-in-waiting to the Tsarina:
Sonia Fraser
Grand Duchess Olga Nico-laevna:
Patricia Gallimore
Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna (Alix, Mama, Sunny):
Rachel Gurney
Grand DukeAlexei Nicolaevich:
Jo Manning Wilson
Count Fredericks Chamberlain to the Tsar:
Clifford Norgate
Dr Botkin:
George Raistrick
Crown Princess Marie of Rumania (MiSSy):
Hadi Hedd
Prince Carol of Rumania, her Son:
John Rye
Princess Radziwill:
Hilda Krisemak
Prince Nicholas Youssoupoff:
James Thomason
Dowager Empress Marie of Russia (Motherdear, Mama), mother to the Tsar:
Margot Boyd
Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (Sandroi, brother-in-law and cousin to the Tsar:
Hector Ross

A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur The novel by MARKTWAIN abridged in eight parts and read by Marvin Kane Part 1
This is the classic confrontation of the Old World and the New.
Produced by R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Read By:
Marvin Kane
Produced By:
R. D. Smith

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening. including the latest news. the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented bv David Jessel and Derek Cooper
Deputy editor DEREK LEWIS Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.50 Weather; programme news
5.55South-East News

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Derek Lewis
Unknown:
Editor Andrew Boyle

A lighthearted look at life in which Al airs the views of the silent majority on the subject of The Housing Problem
Vocal reflections by JULIE ROGERS
Musical illustrations by MAX HARRIS AND HIS AMAZING DANCING BAND
Written by RONNIE TAYLOR
Produced bv JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Julie Rogers
Illustrations By:
Max Harris
Written By:
Ronnie Taylor
Unknown:
John Browell

from the novel
A Beauty for Inspector West by JOHN CREASEY dramatised as a serial in seven parts by MAURICE travers Patrick Allen as Chief Inspector Roger West Sarah Lawson as his wife. Janet
The murder pattern emerges. The victims are Beauty Queens. and the prime suspect has also been murdered.
3: Heal Seven - Hammersmith
Produced by JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Creasey
Unknown:
Maurice Travers
Unknown:
Patrick Allen
Unknown:
Roger West
Unknown:
Sarah Lawson
Produced By:
John Browell
Det-Insp Turnbull:
Patrick Westwood
Sgt Dalby:
George Layton
Gina Howard:
Jan Edwards
Talbot:
Michael McClain
Dickerson:
Garard Green
Osborn:
John Forrest

The game that turns the pages of show biz history with WENDY CRAIG , RICHARD MURDOCH ARTHUR LOWE , JIM DALE Chairman JACK WATSON
Programme devised and compiled by DENIS GIFFORD Produced by JOHN DYAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Wendy Craig
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Arthur Lowe
Unknown:
Jim Dale
Unknown:
Chairman Jack Watson
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Produced By:
John Dyas

A chronicle play on the trial and execution of Charles I by c. v. WEDGWOOD
Narrator BASIL JONES
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
9.5S Weather

Contributors

Narrator:
Basil Jones
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker
Charles I:
Richard Pasco
Cromwell:
Jack May
Citizens of London:
John Wyse
Citizens of London:
Garard Green
Citizens of London:
Frank Henderson
Thomas Herbert, attendant on the King:
Nigel Anthony
Col Tomlinson:
Nigel Clayton
Hugh Peter, an army chaplain:
Haydn Jones
Thomas Harrison:
Basil Jones
Algernon Sidney:
Victor Lucas
Thomas Lord Fairfax:
David Brierley
John Bradshaw:
Denis McCarthy
Henrv Marten, MP:
Peter Baldwin
Commissary General Henrv Ireton, Cromwell's son-in-law:
Paul Harris
Lady Fairfax:
Pauline Letts
Clerk of the Court:
Francis de Wolff
John Cook, Solicitor-General:
Geoffrey Wincott
William Juxon, Bishop of London:
Alan Dudley
A citizen's wife:
Hilda Schroder
John Downes, MP:
Bill Horsley
Princess Elizabeth:
Pauline Letts
Henry, Duke of Gloucester:
Simon Turner

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