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Introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 mediu?n wave only Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and programme news at 6.55 and 7.55.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson

Prize Chump by PAUL FEAKES Read by Deryck Guyler
I am the sort of chap women expect to get up fuel, bang up blown-down fences, mow lawns ...My convalescence from flu was regretfully nearing its end. Unless ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Read By:
Deryck Guyler
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Virginia Woolf
It was done; it was finished. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.
DEREK PARKER discusses with MICHAEL HOLROYD the writer whose work between the wars was widely acclaimed for its originality.
Producer SHEILA ANDERSON
(Nextweek: Dame Edith Sitwell )

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Michael Holroyd
Producer:
Sheila Anderson
Unknown:
Dame Edith Sitwell

Sylvia Coleridge as Miss Grant Lewis Stringer as Donald Fell in Footprints: a short play for radio by ROBIN SMYTH
The play is set in a seaside hospital for the mentally sick in which the patients vary considerably in character and social background. One thing they have in common, however: the longing to find the love and friendship of a kindred spirit.
Other parts KATHLEEN HELME DIANA BISHOP and JOHN BULL Producer DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Sylvia Coleridge
Unknown:
Miss Grant Lewis Stringer
Unknown:
Robin Smyth
Unknown:
Kathleen Helme
Unknown:
Diana Bishop
Producer:
David H. Godfrey

from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor Guest of the week: Dame Ngaio Marsh
2.8-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Letter to Another Woman - 2: ELISABETH BERESFORD With some thoughts for her daughter. Answer and comment.
Shroud for a Nightingale by P. D. JAMES abridged by JANET QUIGLEY read by MARY WIMBUSH
Living off violent crime: page 4

Contributors

Unknown:
Elisabeth Beresford
Unknown:
P. D. James
Abridged By:
Janet Quigley
Read By:
Mary Wimbush

A Chance in Autumn by JOHN CANON
' I'm old enough to be your father.'
' I haven' got a father, so you can be that if you like. I just don' mind. I like being with you, and I care about you. What other people may think is entirely their concern.'
Producer MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Canon
Producer:
Margaret Etall
Tom:
Alan Rowe
Penny:
Carole Boyd
Ben:
Michael Shannon
Mrs Benuti:
Diana Bishop
GarlO:
Judy Bennett
Joan:
Julie Hallam
Mrs Law:
Hilda Schroder

The change from silent to talking pictures recalled by some of those who worked in the film industry when it was revolutionised in 1927. including
SIR MICHAEL BALCON
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR
ALFRED HITCHCOCK. BESSIE LOVE
MARY PICKFORD , GLORIA SWANSON And the voices from soundtrack Of GRETA GARBO. JOHN GILBERT
AL JOLSON. LAYTON AND JOHNSTONE Script and narration by MICHAEL FREEDLAND
ProducerJOHN bridges

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Michael Balcon
Unknown:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Unknown:
Alfred Hitchcock.
Unknown:
Bessie Love
Unknown:
Mary Pickford
Unknown:
Gloria Swanson
Unknown:
Greta Garbo.
Unknown:
John Gilbert
Unknown:
Al Jolson.
Unknown:
Michael Freedland
Producer:
John Bridges

with Anona Winn. Joy
Adamsen Norman Hackforth , Nigel Rees with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn.
Unknown:
Adamsen Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Producer:
John Cassels

Burl Ives - strolling player and troubadour who was born under a wandering star.
For more than half a century Burl Ives has been a modern troubadour. He has wandered in his own country, the United States, and round most of the rest of the world, singing of love and war. work and play. Introduced by STEVE RACE Producer JOHN BRIDGES

Contributors

Unknown:
Burl Ives
Unknown:
Burl Ives
Introduced By:
Steve Race
Producer:
John Bridges

A series of Father Brown stories.
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)
Next Father Brown story, The Queer Feet: 5 June

Contributors

Stories by:
G. K. Chesterton
Adapted by:
Archie Campbell
Producer:
Christopher Venning
Fr Brown:
Leslie French
G K Chesterton:
William Rushton
Flambeau:
Francis de Wolff
Insp Valentin:
Neville Jason
Asst Commissioner:
Brian Haines
Shop assistant:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Italian waiter:
William Sleigh
Restaurant proprietor:
Stephen Thorne
Police constable:
Hugh Ross
Police inspector:
Leslie Heritage
Cockney waiter:
Eric Allan

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