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Home for the Holidays
Mum, I'm bored - what can I do now?
Whether they're three or 13, at home or on holiday, you'll be dreading that question during the summer months. Why not ask the advice of Lin Poulton , co-ordinator of Scope. a project for parents and children, and Jean Davis , children's author and broadcaster, who can suggest ways of occupying, amusing and entertaining your children safely at all times and in all kinds of weather.
In the Chair Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Lin Poulton
Unknown:
Jean Davis
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
An American School in London: JEFF AGHJAYAN studies there and DAVID HAWKSWORTH spent a day with him.
2.0-2.2 News
Worth a Detour: JENNIFER MAT visits a little known collection. Peterborough Museum houses articles of bone and straw made by prisoners of war. Reading Your Letters.
Taxing Ages - 4: MAVIS MOULLIN with advice for the married couple with children.
Come Hell or High Water by CLARE FRANCIS
Read by JUDITH COKE (6)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Jeff Aghjayan
Unknown:
David Hawksworth
Unknown:
Jennifer Mat
Unknown:
Mavis Moullin
Unknown:
Clare Francis
Read By:
Judith Coke

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 is murdered by a hunchback and Clarence is drowned
in a barrel of wine.

Directed by Gerry Jones
(Peggy Ashcroft and Norman Rodway are members of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Shakespeare and the Histories, R3, 9.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
William Shakespeare
Adapter:
Martin Jenkins
Music By:
Christopher Whelen
Directed By:
Gerry Jones
Narrator:
Richard Burton
Henry VI:
James Laurenson
Queen Margaret:
Peggy Ashcroft
Edward IV:
Ian Ogilvy
Prince of Wales:
Christopher Guard
Oxford:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Somerset:
Michael Harbour
Gloucester, later Richard III:
Norman Rodway
Duke of Clarence:
Geoffrey Collins
Brackenbury:
Bruce Beeby
Lady Anne:
Jane Knowles
Rivers:
Walter Hall
Grey:
Peter Craze
Queen Elizabeth:
Susan Engel
Buckingham:
Derek Godfrey
Derby:
Colin Douglas
Hastings:
Christopher Benjamin
Catesby:
Kerry Francis
First Murderer:
Philip Locke
Second Murderer:
John Bennett

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

Contributors

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

But when the melancholy ftt shall fall
Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,
And hides the green hill in an April shroud;
Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose,
Or on the rainbow of the salt sand-wave,
Or on the wealth of globed peonies ;
Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,
Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave,
And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes.
(From Ode on Melancholy by JOHN KEATS )
A weekly series of poetry programmes compiled and presented by Patric Dickinson Poems read by ELIZABETH BELL and SEAN BARRETT Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keats
Presented By:
Patric Dickinson
Read By:
Elizabeth Bell
Read By:
Sean Barrett
Producer:
Christopher Venning

Another chance to hear a selected edition from this series.
(First broadcast in February 1967)

Contributors

Writer:
Barry Took
Writer:
Marty Feldman
Producer:
John Simmonds
Performer:
Kenneth Horne
Performer:
Kenneth Williams
Performer:
Hugh Paddick
Performer:
Betty Marsden
Performer:
Bill Pertwee
Performer:
Fraser Hayes
Performer:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith

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