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Home Dressmaking
Some tips, please, for avoiding that home-made look. No pattern seems to be just right for me - how can I adapt itt How can I stop my collar curling at the edges* Have you any advice for working with man-made fibres? What is the easiest way to set in a sleeve
Put your questions to sewing adviser Betty Foster
In the Chair Jill Burridge Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Burridge

I Liked You Telling Me Things by JOHN ALBERY
Read by Jim McManus
' Deborah was easily the best-looking and classiest girl in the neighbourhood. We all wanted to go out with her, but she knew her own value and had remained aloof.'

Contributors

Unknown:
John Albery
Read By:
Jim McManus

Second Round
Chairman Robert Robinson 17: London
LANCE HAWARD, solicitor
OLCA EVANS: WILLIAM WILCOX. picture restorer
JOHN CROWN , security officer
The programme includes Beat the Brains. Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN who also, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF (exc London and SE)
Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
William Wilcox.
Unknown:
John Crown
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
At the Old Bailey: ANNE CATCHPOLE meets some of the people who work at Britain's most famous criminal court.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Ensnared by Flowers and Enchanted by Music: HELEN PALMER reports on the International Festival of Flowers and Music to be held at Westminster Cathedral.
WINIFRED BEAUMONT , author Of our last serial, A Detail on the Burma Front, talks about her life before and after the war. Amy Foster by JOSEPH CONRAD abridged in five parts by IAN LOMAS. Read by Gerald Cross (1) ' He was so different from the mankind around that, with his freedom of movement, his olive complexion and graceful bearing, his humanity suggested to me the nature of a woodland creature ... He was a castaway. A poor emigrant from Central Europe and washed ashore here in a storm.'
(Music: Alwyn's 5th Symphony)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Music:
Helen Palmer
Unknown:
Winifred Beaumont
Unknown:
Amy Foster
Unknown:
Joseph Conrad
Unknown:
Ian Lomas.
Read By:
Gerald Cross

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

In which Henry retain.s the crown, but York is crowned by Margaret.

Directed by Martin Jenkins.
(Peggy Ashcroft and Norman Rodway are members of the RSC)

Contributors

Writer:
William Shakespeare
Adapter:
Martin Jenkins
Music By:
Christopher Whelen
Directed By:
Martin Jenkins
Narrator:
Richard Burton
Henry:
VI James Laurenson
Queen Margaret:
Peggy Ashcroft
York:
Peter Jeffrey
Edward:
Ian Ogilvy
George:
Geoffrey Collins
Richard:
Norman Rodway
Rutland:
Crispian Thorne
Old Clifford:
Hector Ross
Young Clifford:
Peter Marinker
Somerset:
David Buck
Warwick:
Charles Gray
Northumberland:
Neville Jason
Exeter:
Brian Haines
Prince of Wales:
Christopher Guard
Messenger:
Rod Beacham

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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