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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Cooking with herbs
CLEMENT FREUD MOLLIE LEE
Children and bad language
DEREK MILLER and JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH
The day our central heating was put in: Kaye LUTY '
Women writers talking
MARGARET DRABBLE MARY HOWARD and DR. CATHERINE GAVIN
In the chair, MOLLIE LEE
Hugh BURDEN reads
Nicholas and Alexandra by ROBERT K. MASSIE
Seventh of ten instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Mollie Lee
Unknown:
Derek Miller
Unknown:
Kaye Luty
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
Mary Howard
Unknown:
Mollie Lee
Unknown:
Robert K. Massie

1969
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
6: Scotland
MRS. CHRISTINE DALE , Renfrewshire
T. D. THOMSON, Berwickshire Retired District Commissioner
ARCHIE CAMPBELL , Renfrewshire Professional man
Including 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:
Mrs. Christine Dale
Unknown:
Archie Campbell
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

A science-fiction thriller in six parts
Written by Maurice Travers from the novel by JOHN BLACKBURN with From a vast cordoned-off area in Russia a frightful, horrific catastrophe threatens civilisation. A specimen has arrived in Britain ...
3: The wind from the East
Produced by JOHN BROWELL
Part 4: Thursday, 8.15 p.m.

Contributors

Written By:
Maurice Travers
Novel By:
John Blackburn
Produced By:
John Browell
Tony Heath:
Alan Browning
Marcia:
Isobel Black
General Kirk:
Norman Claridge
Dr Hearn:
Garard Green
Trubenoff:
Donald Pickering
Mrs Baker:
Pauline Letts

featuring Roy Hudd with SHEILA BERNETTE and NORMAN PERCIVAL AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Announcer, PAT DOODY
Written by David Nobbs , Eddie Foxall Chic Jacob and Les Lilley
David Streek , Bernard Cranwell Eric Davidson
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Unknown:
Sheila Bernette
Unknown:
Norman Percival
Written By:
David Nobbs
Written By:
Eddie Foxall
Written By:
Chic Jacob
Written By:
Les Lilley
Unknown:
David Streek
Unknown:
Bernard Cranwell
Unknown:
Eric Davidson
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

Joseph Cooper introduces listeners' requests played by the BBC Concert Orchestra Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, Marcus Dods with RAE WOODLAND (soprano)
KENNETH MACDONALD (tenor)
SEMPRINI
BBC CHORUS
and this week's guest personality: Dame Sybil Thorndike
Produced by Barry S. Knight
A BBC World Service production
(Kenneth Macdonald broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)

Contributors

Introduces:
Joseph Cooper
Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Tenor:
Kenneth MacDonald
Unknown:
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Produced By:
Barry S. Knight
Unknown:
Kenneth MacDonald

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