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Story: Skimbleshanks, The Railway Cat
Written by T. S. ELIOT Presenters this week
Julie Stevens , Fred Harris
Pianist WILLIAM BLEZARD Designer ALAN SPALDING
Written and directed by ROBIN HALDANE Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

Contributors

Written By:
T. S. Eliot
Unknown:
Julie Stevens
Pianist:
Fred Harris
Pianist:
William Blezard
Designer:
Alan Spalding
Directed By:
Robin Haldane
Producer:
Anne Gobey
Producer:
Cynthia Felgate

A series of ten programmes 8: Watercolours
Have you ever said to yourself I wish I could paint? IAN SIMPSON shows you how to begin.
Director TERRY DOYLE
Producer VICTOR POOLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Simpson
Director:
Terry Doyle
Producer:
Victor Poole

Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinions, with Richard Kershaw and David Sells Newsreader Kenneth Kendall
Assistant editors
PETER IBBOTSON , MIKE BROADBENT Editor TONY CRABB

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Charlton
Unknown:
Charles Wheeler
Unknown:
Richard Kershaw
Unknown:
David Sells
Unknown:
Kenneth Kendall
Unknown:
Peter Ibbotson
Unknown:
Mike Broadbent
Editor:
Tony Crabb

The lyrics of IRA GERSHWIN set to music by GEORGE GERSHWIN ,
HAROLD ARLEN , VERNON DUKE , JEROME KERN , BURTON LANE and KURT WEILL.
Presented by Millicent Martin , Julia McKenzie
David Kernan and Derek Griffiths
Introduced by Ned Sherrin
Gershwin medleys arranged by CARYL BRAHMS and PETER GREENWELL Additional material NEIL SHAND Musical associate TIM HIGGS
Orchestration and musical director
PETER KNIGHT
Special staging IRVING DAVIES Sound LEN SHOREY
Lighting BILL MILLAR
Designer IAN RAWNSLEY Producer NED SHERRIN
Director BRIAN WHITEHOUSE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ira Gershwin
Music By:
George Gershwin
Music By:
Harold Arlen
Music By:
Vernon Duke
Music By:
Jerome Kern
Unknown:
Burton Lane
Unknown:
Kurt Weill.
Presented By:
Millicent Martin
Presented By:
Julia McKenzie
Presented By:
David Kernan
Presented By:
Derek Griffiths
Introduced By:
Ned Sherrin
Arranged By:
Caryl Brahms
Arranged By:
Peter Greenwell
Unknown:
Neil Shand
Unknown:
Tim Higgs
Unknown:
Peter Knight
Unknown:
Irving Davies
Unknown:
Len Shorey
Unknown:
Bill Millar
Designer:
Ian Rawnsley
Producer:
Ned Sherrin
Director:
Brian Whitehouse

by Wilfred Greatorex
A series in eight episodes.
Starring Edward Woodward, Barbara Kellermann and Robert Lang
with George Murcell, Tony Doyle, Clifton Jones
with guest star Donald Gee
'We don't make laws, we only carry them out.'
(Part 3: next Monday)

Contributors

Writer:
Wilfred Greatorex
Series devised by:
Wilfred Greatorex
Designer:
Judy Steele
Producer:
Prudence Fitzgerald
Director:
David Sullivan Proudfoot
Jim Kyle:
Edward Woodward
Delly Lomas:
Barbara Kellermann
Herbert Skardon:
Robert Lang
Greaves:
George Murcell
Dave Brett:
Tony Doyle
Henry Tasker:
Clifton Jones
Dr Vickers:
Donald Gee
Henry Duncan:
Reginald Jessup
First emigration officer:
Mike Hall
Second emigration officer:
David Rowley
Chairperson:
Gillian Raine
Nichols:
Michael Napier Brown
Faceless:
Paul Hardwick
Dan Mellor:
John Savident
Norton:
John Hamill
Randall:
Paul Chapman
PCD Man:
Stacy Davies
Ian Cursley:
Peter Attard
Tommy Pearce:
Mathias Kilroy
Carol Harper:
Alix Kirsta

Presented by Ronald Eyre
1: Three Hundred and Thirty Million Gods
In tonight's programme we go to Benares where millions of Hindu pilgrims come to bathe in the Holy Ganges, and to Bhith Bhagwanpur a remote village in the northern state of Bihar.
Photography JOHN ELSE
Sound recordist MALCOLM WEBBERLEY
Film editor DAVID thomas
Associate producers MISCHA SCORER
JONATHAN STEDALL
Producer PETER MONTAGNON
(The Long Search Continues. Radio 3, Thursday.Abookaboutthetwoseries will be published shortly)

Contributors

Presented By:
Ronald Eyre
Unknown:
Bhith Bhagwanpur
Unknown:
Malcolm Webberley
Unknown:
Jonathan Stedall
Producer:
Peter Montagnon

The programme in which the BBC hands over air-time to the public. Tonight
Radical Alternatives to Prison
'RAP' was started seven years ago by a group of ex-prisoners and other people disenchanted with the prison reform movement. They believe that prisons should be abolished, which poses fundamental questions about crime, the criminal and the society we live in.' Made by RAP with the help of the BBC'S Community Programme Unit.

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