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from Birmingham
Introduced by JOAN HARPER
Women's Day at the Zoo in Saudi Arabia
JUDITH ALLEN
Furniture on Request
SHEILA BAILEY investigates a new Shrewsbury scheme
Fifty Years of the Forestry Commission
HARRY SOAN reports from the Commission's Museum near Ludlow
Behind every Successful Man....
KAY DOTRICE , DOREEN HUNT , and MARGARET CANTWELL With SONIA BEESLEY
The Lady with the Dog by CHEKHOV abridged by Virginia Browne-Wilkinson read by JILL BALCON
First of two Instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Harper
Unknown:
Sheila Bailey
Unknown:
Kay Dotrice
Unknown:
Doreen Hunt
Unknown:
Margaret Cantwell
Unknown:
Sonia Beesley
Abridged By:
Virginia Browne-Wilkinson
Read By:
Jill Balcon

Radio spans the world to link the cities of Sydney, Wellington, Toronto, and London in a series of General Knowledge Contests between schoolchildren in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom

Toronto team: Angelo Melino, Brian Gallaugher, Ed Reed
Question-Master, Bruce Rogers

Wellington team: Rosalind Salas, Leslie Galler, David Barton
Question-Master, Lyell Boyes

Producer in Toronto, Peter Lacombe
Producer in Wellington, Graeme Ross

Also broadcast on the networks of A.B.C. Australia, N.Z.B.C. New Zealand, and C.B.C. Canada

Contributors

Question-master (Toronto):
Bruce Rogers
Contestant (Toronto):
Angelo Melino
Contestant (Toronto):
Brian Gallaugher
Contestant (Toronto):
Ed Reed
Question-master (Wellington):
Lyell Boyes
Contestant (Wellington):
Rosalind Salas
Contestant (Wellington):
Leslie Galler
Contestant (Wellington):
David Barton
Questions set by:
Roy Smith
Producer (Toronto):
Peter Lacombe
Producer (Wellington):
Graeme Ross
Executive Producer:
Joan Clark

Fifty years after the end of the Great War a film unit moved into Brighton and in the following six months, with the aid of songs, battles, and a few jokes, recreated the ever popular war game. In this evening's programme Richard Attenborough, who directed Oh, What a Lovely War, talks to Brian Matthew about his career and this film.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Richard Attenborough
Interviewer:
Brian Matthew
Producer:
John Knight

Written by JOHNNIE MORTIMER and BRIAN COOKE , and MYLES RUDGE starring Kenneth Williams Hugh Paddick , Joan Sims
THE MAX HARRIS GROUP
Announcer, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by John Simmonds
Sunday's broadcast

Contributors

Written By:
Johnnie Mortimer
Written By:
Brian Cooke
Written By:
Myles Rudge
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
The Max Harris
Produced By:
John Simmonds

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