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Twice Twenty
A magazine for older women.

Jon Pertwee quizzes new friends about old times, and songs are provided by request.

Richard Ogden looks at other people's treasures: Joan Higgens's cabinet of curios

Jon again - telling a story

Focus on Flowers
from the Royal Horticultural Society's Autumn Show, with Percy Thrower, John Crutchfield, H.G. Mills, and Julia Clements.

Talk It Over
Arranged and introduced by the Rev. Gladys Smith

Contributors

Presenter:
Jon Pertwee
Presenter (Other People's Treasures):
Richard Ogden
Guest (Other People's Treasures):
Joan Higgens
Presenter (Focus on Flowers):
Percy Thrower
Presenter (Focus on Flowers):
John Crutchfield
Presenter (Focus on Flowers):
H.G. Mills
Presenter (Focus on Flowers):
Julia Clements
Producer:
Richard Gilbert
Presenter/Arranged by (Talk It Over):
The Rev. Gladys Smith

A serial in six parts from the book by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Adapted and produced by Joy Harington.
Dramatisation by Kenneth Anderson.
Period: 1752

(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on December 2, 1956)

Contributors

Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Adapted by/Producer:
Joy Harington
Dramatisation:
Kenneth Anderson
Film Sequences - Cameraman:
Peter Sargent
Film Sequences - Editor:
Ron de Mattos
Designer:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Alan Breck:
Patrick Troughton
David Balfour:
Leo Maguire
A maid:
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Mr. Rankeiller:
John Rae
Torrence:
Kenneth McClellan
Ebenezer Balfour:
John Laurie

The final Beauty Box from the Television Theatre where Patricia Lewis introduces a lighthearted entertainment including Val Doonican, Iris Villiers, Arthur English, Rosalie Ashford, The Blonde Toppers, The Brunette Toppers, Nat Temple and his Orchestra.

Contributors

Presenter:
Patricia Lewis
Singer:
Val Doonican
Singer:
Iris Villiers
TV Producer (sketch):
Arthur English
BBC Secretary (sketch):
Rosalie Ashford
Dancers:
The Blonde Toppers
Dancers:
The Brunette Toppers
Musicians:
Nat Temple and his Orchestra
Dance direction:
Larry Gordon
Musical arrangements:
Ken Thorne
Produced and directed by:
Richard Afton

Six stories from Soho by Berkely Mather.

Contributors

Writer:
Berkely Mather
Producer:
Peter Lambert
Designer:
Fanny Taylor
Detective Chief Inspector Charlesworth:
Wensley Pithey
P.C. Wrothbury:
Edward Higgins
Sgt. Spence:
Nigel Davenport
Alice Charlesworth:
Anna Burden
Koser:
Derek Briggs
Ragger Tighe:
Keith Smith
Bootblack:
David Grahame
Pellergree:
Ben Simons
Miss Drew:
Jean Marlow
Purdon:
John Dunbar
Ablard:
Peter Lewiston
Screecher:
John Tucker
The dancer:
Ian Ainsley
Other parts played by:
Charles Hersee
Other parts played by:
Alan Davidson
Other parts played by:
Angela Vale

Glyn Daniel and Professor Max Mallowan discuss a film made by the Film Centre and the Iraq Petroleum Film Unit, which records highlights of the great Sumerian and Arab civilisations which grew up on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates.
The film 'Rivers of Time' was directed by William Novik and written and produced by Sinclair Road with music composed by Edward Williams.

Contributors

Presenter:
Glyn Daniel
Guest:
Professor Max Mallowan
Director (Rivers of Time):
William Novik
Writer/producer (Rivers of Time):
Sinclair Road
Music composed by (Rivers of Time):
Edward Williams
The programme presented by:
Paul Johnstone

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