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A light-hearted miscellany of post-Christmas fare, served up by John Walters and Carol Thatcher, with contributions from Father Christmas in Lapland, Jeffrey Bernard in Soho, Mollie Harris in Ambridge and Peter Hobday at a health farm.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Walters
Presenter:
Carol Thatcher
Unknown:
Jeffrey Bernard
Unknown:
Mollie Harris
Unknown:
Peter Hobday
Producer:
David France

Another chance to hear four classic comedy favourites.
1: I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again or Dr Zhivago and His Magic Tramp
Starring Tim Brooke -Taylor, John Cleese ,
Graeme Garden , David Hatch , Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie , with The Dave Lee Group. Producers David Hatch and Edward Taylor
(First broadcast in 1970)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke
Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Jo Kendall
Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Producers:
David Hatch
Producers:
Edward Taylor

Introit: Wolcum Yole !; Up! Good Christian Folk, and Listen; I John 4, w 7-16 (18); Nativity Carol
(Rutter); God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr Willcocks).
Director of Music
Stephen Layton. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Wolcum Yole
Unknown:
Stephen Layton.

Six programmes in which John Cleese and his former psychiatrist, Dr Robin Skynner , discuss how relationships are formed and how to sustain and develop them.
3: Mothering and Paranoia With the help of the residents of Brookside and John Masefield.
Producers Rachel Yorke and Jonathan James-Moore . Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Dr Robin Skynner
Unknown:
John Masefield.
Producers:
Rachel Yorke
Producers:
Jonathan James-Moore

In the second of two programmes, environmentalist
Jonathon Porritt presents his selection of favourite poetry and prose.
Readers Diana Quick and Andrew Sachs.
Producer Kate Whitehead. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathon Porritt
Readers:
Diana Quick
Readers:
Andrew Sachs.
Producer:
Kate Whitehead.

Kenneth Grahame 's
The Wind in the Willows dramatised by A A Milne, with the original
Fraser-Simpson music.
Music arranged by Peter Hope
Director Martin Jenkins
(First broadcast in 1973) 0 CHILDREN: page 24

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame
Arranged By:
Peter Hope
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Marigold:
Tina Heath
Nurse:
Diana Bishop
Mole:
Richard Goolden
Rat:
Bernard Cribbins
Badger:
Cyril Luckham
Toad:
Derek Smith
Alfred:
Brian Haines
Chief Weasel:
William Fox
Chief Stoat:
Fraser Kerr
Judge:
Hugh Paddick
Usher:
Terry Scully
Policeman:
Ronald Herdman
Phoebe:
Kate Binchy
Washerwoman:
Jo Manning Wilson
Wild Wooders:
Sam Dastor
Actor:
Nigel Graham
Jurors:
John Forrest
Jurors:
Andrew Rivers

The stars of one of MGM's most popular musicals - Gene Kelly ,
Donald O'Connor , Debbie Reynolds - together with directors, producers and other Hollywood veterans, recall memories of a film set in the period when the silent era lurched into the talkies.
Presenter Nigel Andrews. Producer Rosemary Hart. Stereo

Contributors

Musicals:
Gene Kelly
Unknown:
Donald O'Connor
Unknown:
Debbie Reynolds
Presenter:
Nigel Andrews.
Producer:
Rosemary Hart.

2: The Two Little Pigs Reporters Neil Walker and David Clayton capture the tension and excitement as they attend Warwickshire's Rare
Breeds Annual Show with Liz and Brian Eeles and their two Berkshire pigs. (R)

Contributors

Reporters:
Neil Walker
Reporters:
David Clayton
Reporters:
Brian Eeles

2: The guitarist
John Williams talks to
June Knox-Mawer about his career, and introduces part of Paul Hart 's
Concerto for guitar and jazz orchestra and the whole of Rodrigo's
Concierto de Aranjuez. Stereo (R)

Contributors

Talks:
John Williams
Unknown:
Paul Hart

All the Globe's a Stage Six days a week the Globe Theatre wakes up at
10.00am and prepares for that day's performance of Ayckbourn's Man of the Moment. Lights are checked, sound rehearsed,the swimming-pool cleaned all ready for curtain-up.
Jeremy Front follows the build-up to a performance. Producer John Boundy Stereo (R)

Contributors

Producer:
John Boundy

Robert Sandall looks at the changing nature of the pop industry over the last 30 years, with contributions from the people who were there at the making of some of the most influential pop records of our time.
Producer Chris Paling. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Sandall
Producer:
Chris Paling.

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