for the deaf and hard of hearing
A look at the news of the week.
A History of Disillusion 1918-1933
Written by Correlli Barnett and Ronald Blythe.
Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave.
And the voices of David Bauer, Peter Bridgmont, Anton Diffring, Felix Felton, Walter Hertner, Carl Jaffe, Murray Kash, Cyril Luckham, Alec Mango, Bill Nagy.
With Jim Snowball, Unemployed ex-Naval man; Andrew Kippie, Unemployed shipyard engineer; Jack Jones, C.B.E., Trades Union Official and miner during the 1920s; Dr. Maud Menzies, Doctor in Glasgow during the Depression; Mrs. Betty Stevenson, Daughter of an unemployed craftsman; Charles Simmons, Member of Ramsay MacDonald's Government; Wal Hannington, National Organiser of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement; Dr. Ernst F. Hanfstaengl, Adolf Hitler's Press Adviser; Alex Natan, German journalist
Series produced by Tony Essex in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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A duel of words and wit between Jimmy Edwards with Pauline Devaney, Edwin Apps and Patrick Campbell with Pixie Weir, Vasco Lazzolo.
Referee, Joe Melia
(Jimmy Edwards is appearing in "Big Bad Mouse" at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London)
Personal reflections on great paintings.
Sir Hugh Casson talks about The Travelling Companion by Augustus Egg in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
A journey through the modern drama written by Michael Elliott and Casper Wrede who introduce their programme about the reasons why the theatre has become anti-theatre in an article on page 12
In scenes from plays by Buchner, Strindberg, Chekhov, O'Neill, Ibsen, Genet, Brecht, Beckett and other dramatists.
rounds off the weekend
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.