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Music of two worlds played by THE RADIO ORCHESTRA
Leader. Julien Gaillard
Conductor,
MALCOLM LOCKYER featuring
DOREEN HUME
THE NIGEL BROOKS SINGERS and BARRY KENT who also introduces the programme

Contributors

Leader:
Julien Gaillard
Conductor:
Malcolm Lockyer
Unknown:
Doreen Hume
Singers:
Nigel Brooks
Singers:
Barry Kent

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Forever England:
DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE , RICCARDO ARAGNO , KIRSTEEN HUTCHESON , who Works with the I'm Backing Britain campaign. Sir Winston Churchill, and William Shakespeare
The Five Senses: 2-Hearing
ANTHONY SMITH introduces excerpts from his book The Body Reading Your Letters
'The Play's the Thing ':
AUDREY RUSSELL talks to teachers, children, and others about how Shakespeare is taught in schools
GERALDINE MCEWAN reads The Towers of Trebizond by ROSE MACAULAY
Sixth of eleven instalments followed by an interlude

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Unknown:
Riccardo Aragno
Unknown:
Kirsteen Hutcheson
Introduces:
Anthony Smith
Talks:
Audrey Russell
Unknown:
Geraldine McEwan

A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Second Round featuring each week three winners from the first round of the contest
Chairman: FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
1: London and Home Counties
C. W. PAUL-JONES, London Technical Editor
RALPH RABY , London Stockbroker
PAUL BRIDLE , Buckinghamshire Lecturer
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants
Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Produced by Joan Clark
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Ralph Raby
Unknown:
Paul Bridle
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

by Lawrie Wyman with Derek Francis and Frank Thornton
Being a chronicle of events in and around Her Bhtannic Majesty 's Embassy to the Kingdom of Tratvia
Announcer, MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Produced by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Lawrie Wyman
Unknown:
Derek Francis
Unknown:
Frank Thornton
Unknown:
Bhtannic Majesty
Announcer:
Michael de Morgan
Produced By:
Alastair Scott Johnston
H.E. Sir Jeremy Crighton Buller,K C M G , British Ambassador to Tratvia:
Derek Francis
Henry Petticrew, First Secretary British Embassy.:
Frank Thornton
H M King Hildebrande III of Tratvia:
Francis de Wolff
Lady Daphne Crighton Buller:
Charlotte Mitchell
Mr Simpkins Third Secretary British Embassy:
Michael Spice
Mr. Proudfoot, Comptroller. British Ambassador's Household:
Peter Stephens

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