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Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Born under Virgo: SUE MAC GREGOR and RUSSELL HARTY discuss with NORMAN TOZER the qualities attributed to their birth sign.
2.0-2.2 News
Mind Matters: TONY BUZAN with news of some current developments in psychology.
Lifting the Veil: AMINA SAID talks to ANNE CATCHPOLE about the events that led to the emancipation of women in Egypt. Milk and Honey (8)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Sue Mac Gregor
Unknown:
Russell Harty
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Tony Buzan
Talks:
Amina Said
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole

Free for All by ALMA CULLEN
Imagine being back in Edinburgh, Queenie: two hardened old nomads like us. And at Festival time. Where else in the world do you find precisely that quahty of tension? Brooding savagery just held in check by puritan wakefulness.'
Directed by GORDON EMSLIE BBC Scotland

Contributors

Unknown:
Alma Cullen
Directed By:
Gordon Emslie
Queenle:
Eileen McCallum
Gordon:
David McKail
Alison:
Tammy Ustinov
Mrs McBrWe:
Anne Scott-Jones
Doctor:
Sheila Latimer
Lady:
Jean Faulds
Girl:
June Andrews

Take a Sparkling Pair
Peter Pratt with a collection and recollection of Gilbert and Sullivan. Producer RONALD COOK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Pratt
Producer:
Ronald Cook

Written by KEITH MILES
(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Written By:
Keith Miles
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Aldridge:
Angela Piper
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly PerkS:
Hilary Newcombe
Ken Pound:
Garard Green
Mary Pound:
Ysanne Churchman
Barbara Drury:
Ann Pilgrim
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Sheila Fergusson:
Linda Polan

by JAMES FOLLETT
A series of four true stories of German pows who escaped from British camps between 1940 and 1947. 1: The Ten Day Terror
A dramatisation of the mass breakout from the notorious Island Farm Camp in South Wales which led to the biggest police and army manhunt ever mounted in Britain. With and Directed by MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Unknown:
James Follett
Directed By:
Margaret Etall
Supt Bill May:
Robert Lang
Reising MICHAEL:
Tudor Barnes
Klein:
Neville Jason
Memmers:
David Ashford
Brandt:
Alaric Cotter
Kaumann:
Peter Wickham
Lt-Col Darling:
Anthony Newlands
Jones:
Henry Knowles
Jones:
Joan Matheson,
Jones:
Heather Bell,
Jones:
Christopher Jenkinson,
Jones:
Siôn Probert,
Jones:
John Green,
Jones:
Carl Forgione
Jones:
Brian Hewlett
Jones:
Gerald Crossman (accordion)

'Who, he [Lord Norman-brook] wondered, would or could replace Hugh Greene if, for any reason, he should go? ... ' How about Charles Curran ? ' I asked. He looked mildly shocked. ' Curran? Certainly not. Curran wouldn't do at all. We should never have a Roman Catholic at the head of the BBC. 7 SIR ROBERT LUSTY , former Vice-Chairman of the BBC in his book
Bound to be Read
Moyra Bremner talks to Sir Charles Curran. who retires as Director-General of the BBC at the end of this month, about the difficulties he has faced as a Roman Catholic running the BBC at a time of increasing permissiveness.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Greene
Unknown:
Charles Curran
Unknown:
Sir Robert Lusty
Talks:
Moyra Bremner
Unknown:
Charles Curran.
Producer:
Ian Gardhouse

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