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The fourth of six programmes. Rene Cutforth looks back on an Italian, Tonini del Furia. ' I was an Intelligence Officer in Ethiopia at the time, and Tonini had been taken prisoner by some of my men who were threatening his virility. And I thought in my English way, we can't have that.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Rene Cutforth

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor from Caernarvon
As the UK prepares to celebrate Jubilee Day, Woman's Hour visits the ancient town of Caernarvon to meet some of the people who live and work there and to remember July 1969 and the Investiture of HRH The Prince of Wales.
Presented before an invited audience.
BBC Wales
Stories of The Nightwatchman by w. w. JACOBS abridged in nine parts by MONICA GREY Read by John hollis The Unknown
(Final instalment)
2.0-2.2 News

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Read By:
John Hollis

Jack Warner in Jubilee A celebration for radio by VICTOR PEMBERTON With Irene Stucliffe and Derek Seaton
What's in a name? On the eve of HM The Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations that seems a vital question to members of a certain Club.
Time: Summer 1897 and 1977
Winston Churchill , Joseph Sta lin, Lassie, and others played by FRANK SINGUINEAU , ALARIC COTTER and mensbers of the cast. Pianist MARY NASH
Produced and directed by JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Warner
Unknown:
Victor Pemberton
Unknown:
Irene Stucliffe
Unknown:
Derek Seaton
Unknown:
Winston Churchill
Unknown:
Joseph Sta
Played By:
Frank Singuineau
Played By:
Alaric Cotter
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Oltiver Edginton:
Jack Warner
Madge Smythe:
Irene Sutcliffe
Ben Murray:
Derek Seaton
Susie:
Jo Manning Wilson
Joyce:
Penelope Reynolds
The Editor:
Neville Jason
Major Rodney Harrington:
Peter Howell
Clark Gable:
Leonard Fenton
Rudolf Valentino:
Timothy Bateson
Marilyn Monroe:
Shirley Dixon
Clara BOW:
Joan Matheson
Anna Pavlova:
Elizabeth Bell
Air India _:
Valerie Murray
Yuri Gagarin:
Amos Pizzey

A Review Revue with words and lyrics by ALAN MELVILLE and music by PETER GREENWELL The fourth of a series of seven entertainments with Aubrey Woods
Peter Woodthorpe Norma Ronald. and Alan Melville
Guest singers: THE NIGEL brooks BARBERSHOP FOUR
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(Aubrey Woods is in ' Lionet' at the New London Theatre)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Melville
Music By:
Peter Greenwell
Unknown:
Aubrey Woods
Unknown:
Peter Woodthorpe
Unknown:
Norma Ronald.
Producer:
John Tydeman
Unknown:
Aubrey Woods

Gulliver's Travels by JONATHAN SWIFT abridged in ten parts by EVANGELINE BANKS
Read by FRANK DUNCAN (10) Producer GRAHAM GAULD
(Starting on Monday: Castle Dor by Sir Arthur Quillet Couch, read by Alan Moore )

Contributors

Read By:
Frank Duncan
Producer:
Graham Gauld
Unknown:
Sir Arthur Quillet
Read By:
Alan Moore

A spontaneous discussion by Esther Rantzen. Lord Jacobson Graham Dowson and Austin Mitchell, mp Chairman David Jacobs from Hertfordshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Saturday 1.15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Esther Rantzen.
Unknown:
Lord Jacobson Graham Dowson
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

Buried Alive by ARNOLD BENNETT abridged in 15 parts by JOY OSBORNE
Read by TONY BRITTON (15)
Producer BERNARD KRICHEFSKI '
(Starting next Monday: A Bullet in the Ballet by Caryl Brahms and S. U. Simon , abridged and read by Gabriel Woolf )

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Read By:
Tony Britton
Producer:
Bernard Krichefski
Unknown:
Caryl Brahms
Unknown:
S. U. Simon
Read By:
Gabriel Woolf

David Jason , Bill Wallis , David Tate and Bill McGuffie at the piano take a late-night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and ALASTAIR BEATON , with ANDY HAMILTON , BARRY PILTON and others.
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
(David Jason is in ' A Bedfull of Foreigners ' at the Duke of York's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Script By:
Alastair Beaton
Unknown:
Andy Hamilton
Unknown:
Barry Pilton
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins
Unknown:
David Jason

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