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Introduced by MARIORIE ANDERSON
Guests of the Week: chosen from the New Year's Honours List
The Picture-Book Oasis:
MARY HAMPSON
The anti-cabbages: BRENDA PINOER and JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH on a Workers' Educational Association class. with a play-group
Try your luck: the competition game investigated by GORDON SNEI.L
'Well-packed,' 'Easy to make,' 'Good for social occasions': putting such descriptions of a product in the right order, and writing a catchy slogan, can win you prizes ranging from rocking-chairs to holidays in the Bahamas. Every year hundreds of competitions like this. as well as word games, picture quizzes, and anagrams, are used by manufacturers to help sell their products How are these competitions run, and what skills, if any. are needed to win them? Woman's Hour's answers to these questions may help you fill in your next coupon.
HUGH BURDEN reads Brideshead Revisited by EVELYN WAUGH
(third of fifteen instalments)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Mariorie Anderson
Unknown:
Mary Hampson
Unknown:
Brenda Pinoer
Unknown:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith
Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh

by Alan Downer and Jill Hyem

The cast this week:

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Downer
Writer:
Jill Hyem
Producer:
Glyn Dearman
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Mike Nash:
Edward Cast
Claire Nash:
Sally Home
Rusty Vaughan:
Nicholas Edmett
Tracey Dixon:
Rosalind Adams
Barbara Watling:
Heather Stoney
Stan Hickey:
Leslie Dwyer
Alice Hickey:
Hazel Coppen
Lynn Tyson:
Judy Franklin
Peter Tyson:
Basil Moss
Chris Wyatt:
Peter Baldwin
Stuart Fraser:
Fraser Kerr
Jamie Fraser:
Judy Bennett
Magda:
Olga Dickie
Clarence O'Dell:
Denys Blakelock
Mr Turner:
Will Leighton
Georgie Crockford:
Michael Robbins

Now You See Her
A spy thriller by EDDIE MAGUIRE
A fascinating and entertaining play about the inner workings of MI5 and Scotland Yard. Their job, in this instance, is to protect a foreign nuclear scientist who is coming over to England incognito. Needless to say. the job does not prove to be an easy one. Cast:
Produced by MARTIN JENKINS
(Repeated: Thursday. 3.30 pm. Radio 4. Rowland Davies is in ' Conduct Unbecoming ' at the Queen's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eddie Maguire
Produced By:
Martin Jenkins
Unknown:
Rowland Davies
Groom, an MI5 agent:
Leslie Heritage
Dinley, his colleague:
Jon Rollason
Sir George Roughton of Scotland Yard:
Peter Tuddenham
Parker, of Scotland Yard:
Nigel Lambert
Slater, a detective:
Rowland Davies
Phillips, a Foreign Office official:
Austin Trevor
Drew, a Foreign Office official:
Frederick Treves
A woman agent:
Judy Bennett

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