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Youth Employment Careers Desk with Terry Collins , Principal Careers Officer of Wiltshire, and Margaret Korving , Radio 4's Careers Adviser
The range of possible careers for school and college leavers seems almost limitless. But how can the best use be made of qualifications and abilities? How do you match qualifications to career? What grants are available for training or further education? Above all, with the present high level of unemployment, where are the best opportunities, which career will suit you?
In the Chair Judith Chalmerf Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Collins
Unknown:
Margaret Korving
Unknown:
Judith Chalmerf

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 10: Midlands II
JOHN AKROYD <West Midlands), schoolmaster
TONY MERCER (Leicester), dentist ELISABETH coxon (Northants)
DAVID FARNCOMBE (Shropshire), schoolteacher
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN , who, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions.
Producer JOHN bridges
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Tony Mercer
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
BARBARA DALY, Britain's top freelance make-up lady, talks about how you set about a career in the world of film and television make-up, and gives some advice about skin care and developments in beauty aids.
2.0-2.2 News
Something We don't Talk About: VALERIE BETHELL finds out what help is available for the incontinent.
Entertainment Round-Up: GORDON gow reporting.
Know-How: NORMAN TOZER with more ideas to make light of running your home.
Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure
Written and read by Joyce Grenfell abridged by JANET QUIGLEY (Final instalment)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Introduced By:
Barbara Daly
Unknown:
Valerie Bethell
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Read By:
Joyci Grenfell
Abridged By:
Janet Quigley

A dramatic chronicle of the English Crown through 200 years of its history by the Elizabethan playwrights Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries, adapted in 26 parts by Martin Jenkins
Music by Christopher Whelen
The story is told by Richard Burton and Paul Scofield as The Chorus

In which Falstaff is rejected and a French challenge is accepted.

Produced and directed by Gerry Jones.

Contributors

Writer:
William Shakespeare
Adapter:
Martin Jenkins
Music By:
Christopher Whelen
Directed By:
Gerry Jones
Narrator:
Richard Burton
Chorus:
Paul Scofield
Henry V:
Martin Jarvis
Falstaff:
Anthony Quayle
Justice Shallow:
Roy Dotrice
Davy:
James Thomson
Warwick:
Alan Rowe
Lord Chief Justice:
Robert Harris
Prince John:
Colin Baker
Gloucester:
Bernard Hepton
Clarence:
Geoffrey Collins
Justice Silence:
Richard Goolden
Bardolph:
Timothy Bateson
Pistol:
John Hollis
Archbishop of Canterbury:
Cyril Shaps
Exeter:
Brian Haines
Westmoreland:
David Graham
French Ambassador:
William Eedle
Nym:
Malcolm Hayes
Mistress Quickly:
June Whitfield
Falstaff's Page:
Crispin Gillzard

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the Chair Steve Race
Questions compiled by STEVE RACE BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden

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