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Joan Robins suggests a practical dietary for those suffering from stomach troubles.
Recipe of the week:
Fruit Sponge Meringue
1 large apple or other suitable fruit
2 tablespoons water
1 dessertspoon caster sugar
1 small sponge cake or 2 finger biscuits
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
1 dessertspoon sugar for meringue
Stew apple with water and sugar until reduced to a pulp and put in the bottom of a small greased pie dish. Cut sponge cake or finger biscuits in slices and place them on top. Separate yolk from white of egg. Beat up yolk in a basin with the milk and pour over sponge cake. Let the pudding stand for a few minutes and then bake in a moderate oven for about ten minutes until custard is set. Have white of egg beaten to a stiff froth, add dessertspoon of sugar and pile it on top of pudding. Return to oven until the white is set and very lightly brown; lift out and sprinkle with sugar. (Joan Robins)

Contributors

Cook/presenter:
Joan Robins
Producer:
S.E. Reynolds

A serial in eight parts adapted for television from the book by E. Nesbit and produced by Dorothea Brooking.

Cast in order of appearance: [see below]

The action of the serial takes place in the year 1906.

(to 18.00)

Contributors

Author:
E. Nesbit
Adapted by/Producer:
Dorothea Brooking
Settings:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Bobbie:
Marian Chapman
Peter:
Michael Croudeon
Phyllis:
Carole Lorimer
Mother:
Jean Anderson
The Stationmaster:
David Duncan
Perks, the porter:
Michael Harding

The story of an explosives factory by Denis Constanduros.
The action takes place 'somewhere in the south of England' in February 1942.

Contributors

Writer:
Denis Constanduros
Producer:
Douglas Allen
Settings Designer:
Stephen Bundy
A Ministry official:
Spencer Hale
Vera, switchboard operator:
Iris Williams
Cliff Whatley, foreman:
Robert Brown
Miss Lister, company secretary:
Rachel Gurney
Mr. Mason, Managing Director:
Julien Mitchell
Peggy Armitage, welfare officer:
Mary Matthews
Tom Stevenson, production manager:
John Justin
Perce Prangle, shop steward:
Kenneth Connor
Pansy, factory hand:
Elizabeth Maude
Sid Bonner, foreman engineer:
Stanley Baker
A Ministry inspector:
Geoffrey Denys
Factory hand:
Evelyn Moore
Factory hand:
Patricia Field
Factory hand:
Joyce Gregg
Factory hand:
Alexis Milne
Factory hand:
Barbara Trevor
Factory hand:
Roy Nightingale
Factory hand:
James E. Thompson
Factory hand:
John Byrne
Factory hand:
Edward Fairbrother
Factory hand:
Anthony Bateman
Factory hand:
Charles Hammond
Factory hand:
Harry Hearne

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