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Before the broadcast of the Service of Remembrance from the Cenotaph, BRIAN Johnston , MC, talks to W. J. CHALMERS , CB. CBE, Director-General, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, about the impact these cemeteries Still make on young people as they travel abroad.

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
W. J. Chalmers

from The Cenotaph
11.0 The Silence The Last Post The Laying of Wreaths
A Short Service conducted by THE BISHOP OF LONDON
O God our help in ages past Prayer; The Lord's Prayer The Blessing; Reveille God Save The Queen
Before the Service the Massed Bands of the Guards Division will play Rule, Britannia; Heart of Oak; The Minstrel Boy; Men of Harlech; Flowers of the Forest; Isle of Beauty; David of the White Rock; Oft in the Stilly Night; The Skye Boat Song; Nimrod; Solemn Melody; and, during the Wreath Laying, Funeral March No 1, in B flat minor (attrib Johann Heinrich Walch)
Scene set by GODFREY TALBOT

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Heinrich Walch
Unknown:
Godfrey Talbot

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
Seat-Belts; the Australian law by DR GRAYSON-BROWN Of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons.
The Camping and Caravan Show: a report by PAT GREGORY The Hydrogen Motor: ARTHUR GARRATT explains this new motive power.
Eyes on the Road; a report on a recent conference.
Producer ARTHUR Phillips at 11.43* the latest traffic report

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Pat Gregory
Unknown:
Arthur Garratt
Producer:
Arthur Phillips

visits Northumberland
Members of the Stocksfleld and District Gardeners' Association put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD
(Repeated: Tuesday, 4.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Michael Barratt
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

Presented in Vienna in 1904, this sensitive play of delicate half-lights encouraged dramatists to write with greater subtlety and understatement. The Lonely Road by ARTHUR schnitzler , translated by RONALD ADAM with Michael Hordern
Coral Browne , Jennie Linden and Frank Barrie
' Do any of you men know how many children you have running about the world? At least I know that I never had one. Can you be certain? -
1 Even if I did know....
What? Have you really got one? Go on. You can tell me, Julian ...
Producer GUY VAESEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Schnitzler
Translated By:
Ronald Adam
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Unknown:
Coral Browne
Unknown:
Jennie Linden
Unknown:
Frank Barrie

Back to the Wild
Just over 50 years ago Leighton Moss was damp farmland on the edge of Morecambe Bay. Then the pump that drained the area was stopped and nature began to take over again.
Today's Radio Nature Trail explores the rich pattern of wildlife that is now there.
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer JOHN HARRISON. Series producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) (Repeated: Wednesday, 9.5 am. Wildlife: Monday, 10.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leighton Moss
Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison.
Producer:
Dilys Breese

A little while ago I used to lose my temper with frightening frequency. Things are note a little better but I'm afraid for my 7- and 4-year-old children if I should return to this situation. Is it usual for mothers to go through phases of seeming unreasonableness! One of the problems to be discussed by DR WENDY GREEN -GROSS, DR JAMES HEMMING and PAULINE CRABBE
Chairman Jean Metcalfe Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
(Repeated: Friday, 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Wendy Green
Unknown:
Dr James Hemming
Unknown:
Jean Metcalfe
Producer:
Susan Snailum

'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and Richard Murdoch. David Nixon Tune-twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch.
Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Written By:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock

Life - News - Religion - People Presenter Jeanine McMullen with the comments of a group of Christians listening-in at the home Of RALPH BALDRY in Gotders Green, north-west London. Producer ANGELA TILBY

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Ralph Baldry
Producer:
Angela Tilby

by WILKIE COLLINS : dramatised in six parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY with Angela Pleasence as Magdalen Vanstone and Frank Thornton as Captain Wragge
6: Suffering and Release
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH (Birmingham)
(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bradbury
Unknown:
Angela Pleasence
Unknown:
Magdalen Vanstone
Unknown:
Frank Thornton
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Narrator:
John Rowe
Mrs Drake:
Kathleen Helme
Maizey:
Graham Rigby
Admiral Bartram:
Frank Woodfield
George Bartram:
Darryl Kavann
Mr Loscombe:
George Woolley
Norah:
Carole Boyd
Mrs Ruddock:
Eileen Barry
Landlady:
Gillian Andrews
Captain Kirke:
John Flint
Dr Merrick:
Graham Rigby
Mrs Wragge:
Eileen Barry
Miss Garth:
Kathleen Helme
Mr Clare:
George Woolley

Reflections on the Great War 1914-18 by four survivors - Robert Graves. Lord Chandos, Henry Williamson and Brigadier Lucas-Phillips , with poems by Wilfred Owen. Siegfried Sassoon and others.
The reflections are those of old men who tell us what they remember. The poems are by young men. some of whom did not survive, who tell us what they could not forget.
Compiled by PETER HUNT and ROBERT CRADOCK
Readers hugh BURDEN
VALENTINE DYAI.L, PETER PACEY Producer ROBERT CRADOCK
(The contribution by the late Lord Chandos recorded in 1970)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Graves.
Unknown:
Henry Williamson
Unknown:
Brigadier Lucas-Phillips
Unknown:
Wilfred Owen.
Unknown:
Siegfried Sassoon
Unknown:
Peter Hunt
Readers:
Robert Cradock
Unknown:
Peter Pacey
Producer:
Robert Cradock

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