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The Catch by STEWART CONN Read by Paul Young
' I had done all I could to get the fishing permit, but with no luck ... then after I'd caught the two fish the two men had caught me, and they wanted to mete out what they called " summary justice " !
Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland

Contributors

Read By:
Paul Young
Producer:
Allan G. Rogers
Source: Radio Times
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Introduced by Sue MaeGregor
Twenty-one Days for Twelfth Night: NICK HUGHES joins a young people's drama course, with fencing, make-up and dance on the timetable.
2.0-2.2 News
Collectors and their Enthusiasm: BRYAN ETCHES plays his music boxes to TONY BARNFIELD. Mavis's Club: MAVIS ISAACS tells GWYN Richards about her club for homely and dumpy people in Bristol.
Sea Wyf and Biscuit (4)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue Maegregor
Unknown:
Nick Hughes
Unknown:
Tony Barnfield.
Unknown:
Mavis Isaacs
Unknown:
Gwyn Richards
Source: Radio Times
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by Sarah Maxwell
Elaine Stritch
NEW YORK - the mid 1930s. Vaudeville is on the way out, and with it that top of the bill double act Arty and Bridget, Then Hattie turns up with a proposal...
But who wants to appear on radio? Certainly not Bridget, However, Bridget has a weakness - and Hattie has an idea,

Contributors

Writer:
Sarah Maxwell
Directed by:
Glyn Dearman
Arty:
Harry Towb
Bridget:
Norma Ronald
Joey:
Peter Whitman
Hattie:
Elaine Stritch
Belle:
Liza Ross
Source: Radio Times
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... the happy knack of makingunexpectedanddelightfuldiscoveries - applied each Thursday by Fritz Spiegl in his A-Z of Musical Curios
M is for Mnemonics and Mathematics
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional News; weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Andrew Mussett
Source: Radio Times
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A second chance to hear the late and much-loved Bing Crosby talking to DEREK JONES about the great enthusiasm he had throughout his life for wildlife and wildfowlingj Producer JOHN BURTON BBC Bristol

Contributors

Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Burton
Source: Radio Times
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The River Shannon, like so many things in Ireland, springs from a myth. It also springs from a silver pool on a mountain slope and flows 214 miles to where, in the words of Spenser, ' it expands into an ecean.' Frank Delaney takes a journey through time and the Irish countryside along the River Shannon from the source to the sea.
Producer VIRGINIA HARDY BBC Northern Ireland

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Source: Radio Times
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Geoffrey Best, Professor of History in the School of European Studies, University of Sussex, continues his reflections on some notable modern attitudes to war and peace. 3: Communist Approaches
* Our search for the place of war and peace in the outlooks ef the 20th-century Communist leaders, Lenin, Mae Tse-tung , Khrushchev and Brezhnev, is best begun with a glance at where they first got it from: in the 19th-century writings of Marx and Engels

Contributors

Unknown:
Mae Tse-Tung
Source: Radio Times

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