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with Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, explorer
Liz Fraser, actress
Douglas Botting, travel writer
Who would expect to find deep beneath their feet an ice-making machine, a telephone exchange, a waterfall, two frozen turbots, and a Prime Minister's bedroom?
This is the dark nether-world in which the Under London Expedition takes a light-hearted look at the strange, complex labyrinth of tunnels and sewers, railways and shelters, vaults, crypts and caves, which are as remote to the world above as the farthest reaches of Patagonia - and as full of surprises.
(Taking the lid off London's underground: pp 17. 19)
The famous Spanish soprano sings some of the operatic roles with which she is particularly associated and is interviewed by Bernard Levin.
with Keith Erwen
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Leader Carlos Villa
Conducted by Reynald Giovaninetti
by Ivan Turgenev
Dramatised in four parts by Denis Constanduros
Arkady has taken a letter to Anna, and is staying with her and Katya. Pavel has challenged Bazarov to a duel because he considers Bazarov has compromised Fenichka.
from the Talk of the Town
Introduced by Roy Hudd
with Arthur Askey, The Dallas Boys, Neville King, Alan Randall, Desmond and Marks
Tony Mansell's Coffee Set
Burt Rhodes and his Orchestra
(Neville King is in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the Hippodrome, Bristol)
(Radio Times People: page 4)
by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver at the National Portrait Gallery
For the same sentimental reason that we carry around with us photos of loved ones, the wealthy Elizabethan - 400 years ago - might be wearing a small jewelled locket. Inside it, a tiny portrait painted in water colours. Two of these exquisite little pictures came up for auction earlier this year. Roy Strong bid over £60,000 of the tax-payers' money to acquire them for the National Portrait Gallery and, he believes, it was money well spent.
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An ordinary human person with three eyes looks back over his week.