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Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Eighth housemaid: MADGE HART talks to ETHEL
Safety and Fire: SALLY HOLLO-WAY, and JOHN CUNNINGHAM , Chief Fire Prevention Officer of the London Fire Brigade
One in four of the fires attended by the London Fire Brigade is in the home. Some houses are at greater risk than others - but everyone can be safer if they know the risks, the precautions, and the right action to take if a fire starts.
Reading your letters
False Start: SONIA BEESLEY considers why some University students don'make the grade MARJORIE WESTBURY reads Still Glides the Stream by FLORA THOMPSON
Seventh of ten instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Talks:
Madge Hart
Talks:
John Cunningham
Unknown:
Sonia Beesley

with Gale Pedrick
A sound, a melody, even a word - all these evoke memories. In this programme listeners play a major part as they share their personal and favourite recollections - of people, places and things

Contributors

Presenter:
Gale Pedrick
Research:
Jean Stroud
Producer:
Sheila Anderson

Born in Winchester on October 12, 1948 (John Arlott was a member of the team); devised by the then Head of West Regional Programmes, Frank Gillard, as a stop-gap for a limited run of six programmes in the South and West, Any Questions? comes of age this week with its 800th programme. It now has a different chairman and a new policy of visits all over the country (and even abroad), and a continuing blend of newcomers and old favourites in the teams
Today's team: JOHN ARLOTT
BARONESS STOCKS
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
BRYAN FORBES
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN
from Wallington Public Hall, Sutton, Surrey
(Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be addressed to the [address removed], marked Any Answers?)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
John Arlott
Unknown:
Baroness Stocks
Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Unknown:
Bryan Forbes
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Introduced by Jimmy Kingsbury From the stage of the Camden Theatre, London
SIDNEY TORCH conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS
Friday Night's star singers
ELAINE BLIGHTON , JOHN LAWRENSON
THE FRIDAY KNIGHTS directed by JOHN MCCARTHY WILLIAM DAVIES (piano)
BAND OF THE ROYAL MARINES SCHOOL OF music (Deal) conducted by MAJOR PAUL NEVILLE Principal Director of Music
Produced by WILLIAM RELTON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jimmy Kingsbury
Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Singers:
Elaine Blighton
Singers:
John Lawrenson
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Piano:
William Davies
Conducted By:
Major Paul Neville
Produced By:
William Relton

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