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Who will deny the beneficial influence which civilisation will experience when voices of dear friends and relatives long departed, the utterances of great men and women who have lived centuries before ... can be heard and reheard in every well-jurnished parlour
(EMILE BERLINER: 1888)
Jerrold Northrop Moore narrates a short history of the gramophone in England during its 75 years among us.
With recordings by Caruso, Chaliapin, Clara Butt , Gigli, Melba, Elgar and others, and reminiscences by MRS ARTHUR GIBBS , ISABELLA WALLICH and DAVID BICKNELL.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerrold Northrop Moore
Unknown:
Clara Butt
Unknown:
Mrs Arthur Gibbs
Unknown:
Isabella Wallich
Unknown:
David Bicknell.

by PETER GRAFTON
Lyle, the village tearaway, whose motorcycle is the bête noire of Vaughn, the school-master, and Miss Aycock, the local gossip, discovers how to make them immortalise him....
Producer BRIAN MILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Grafton
Producer:
Brian Miller
Lyle:
David Gooderson
Doug Saunders:
Douglas Leach
Miss Aycock:
Angela Brooking
Mrs Best:
Gillie Gratham
Vaughn:
Rolf Lefebvre

Presenter Joan Yorke Home and Family
Backward Child? There are several reasons why a child labelled ' backward ' might be of perfectly normal, even high, intelligence. A paediatrician and an educationist tell you what you should do.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? VHF South West: see Variations

Contributors

Presenter:
Joan Yorke

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo. Clement Freud
Andrée Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo.
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

bv COMPTON MACKENZIE dramatised for radio in six parts by DENIS CONSTANDUROS Parti: Boyhood. The late 1880s.

Contributors

Unknown:
Compton MacKenzie
Unknown:
Denis Constanduros
Narrator:
Manning Wilson
Nurse:
Katherine Parr
Michael:
Stephen Bone
Mrs Fane:
Heather Chasen
COOK:
Betty Baskcomb
Prescott:
Esmond Rideout
Miss Carthew:
Valerie Newman
Stella:
Jane Knowles
Stella:
Janeknowles
Capt Ross:
William Sleigh
Alan Merivale:
Mark Rogers
Dora:
Christine Figg
Winnie:
Jane Knowles
Lord Saxby:
Adrian Cairns

or Your Favourite Spike
A series of uncorrected mishaps, mistakes and misdeeds perpetrated by Spike Milligan misaligned with JOHN BLUTHAL , VILMA HOLLINGBERY ALAN CLARE and his QUARTET Guest singer Friday Brown
Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN , PETER SPENCE and CHRISTOPHER LANGHAM Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Vilma Hollingbery is in ' The Man Most Likely To at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Bluthal
Unknown:
Vilma Hollingbery
Unknown:
Alan Clare
Script By:
Spike Milligan
Script By:
Peter Spence
Script By:
Christopher Langham
Producer:
John Browell
Unknown:
Vilma Hollingbery

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Ring Robin Day to put your shopping problems in person to
Edward McClean , Managing Director of Selfridges, one of London's biggest department stores.
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm onward Producer WALTER WALLICH

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward McClean
Producer:
Walter Wallich

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Fathers and sons discuss the virtues and problems of being in the same profession - and the changes that have taken place in that profession over the years.
2: The Bankers
Rennie Hoare in conversation with his son Henry Hoare. Both are managing partners of one of the oldest banking firms in the City.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rennie Hoare
Unknown:
Henry Hoare.

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