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An 'incomplete' word game
In a display of unparalleled lexicological dexterity, words are built up letter by letter and the two teams accuse each other of inadvertently completing words or of having no word to complete.
In a return match
Ray Alan, Rosemary Nicols, Tony Eccles
encounter
John Junkin, Juliet Harmer, Prof W. H. Cockcroft
In the chair Brian Redhead
(from Manchester)

Contributors

Panellist:
Ray Alan
Panellist:
Rosemary Nicols
Panellist:
Tony Eccles
Panellist:
John Junkin
Panellist:
Juliet Harmer
Panellist:
Prof W. H. Cockcroft
Chairman:
Brian Redhead
Director:
John C. Miller
Devised and produced by:
Vivian A. Daniels

Dramatised by Hugo Charteris
[Starring] Eileen Atkins as Leslie Crosbie, Andre Morell as George Joyce, Peter Bowles as Robert Crosbie, Eric Young as Ong Chi Seng

At the Crosbie bungalow one night the only sound is the noise of the generator and cicadas. Suddenly two shots ring out. Hammond, mortally wounded, staggers through to the verandah and collapses. Leslie Crosbie stands over his body and empties the revolver into him...
(Colour) [Repeat]
(Christopher Morahan received one of the SFTA awards for his direction of "The Letter" and Verity Lambert for the production of this series.)

Contributors

Author:
W. Somerset Maugham
Dramatised by:
Hugo Charteris
Title music composed by:
Wilfred Josephs
Lighting:
Ken McGregor
Script Editor:
Andrew Brown
Designer:
Richard Henry
Producer:
Verity Lambert
Director:
Christopher Morahan
Leslie Crosbie:
Eileen Atkins
George Joyce:
Andre Morell
Robert Crosbie:
Peter Bowles
Ong Chi Seng:
Eric Young
Geoffrey Hammond:
Gary Watson
Houseboy:
Kim Kee Lim
Houseboy:
John A. Tinn
Houseboy:
Tu Kwee Tong
Ayah:
Gowri Gunasekara
A.D.O.:
Graham James
Prison Governor:
Jim Collier
Clark:
Howard Lang
Smith:
Eric Longworth
Storekeeper:
Ching Looi
Chinese man:
Wellington Lee
Chinese boy:
Daryll Lwin
Chinese woman:
Mary Ten Pow
Mrs Joyce:
Doreen Mantle

at The Ronnie Scott Club
Presenting each week some of the international jazz stars recorded at Europe's Top Jazz Club.

Tonight Ronnie Scott introduces The Thelonious Monk Quartet, The Stephane Grappelly Quartet, The Clarke-Boland Big Band
(All artists appear by arrangement with Harold Davison Ltd)

Contributors

Presenter:
Ronnie Scott
Musicians:
The Thelonious Monk Quartet
Musicians:
The Stephane Grappelly Quartet
Musicians:
The Clarke-Boland Big Band
Title Music:
Francy Boland
Production:
Terry Henebery

BBC Two England

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