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with two star problems provided by Anna Neagle (by permission of Robert Donat ), and Celia Lipton (by permission of Emile Littler )
Clive Richardson and Tony Lowry ' Four Hands in Harmony ' : ': three sound problems: two other problems provided by Eric Winstone and his Orchestra. Introduced by Ronald Waldman , and produced by Audrey Cameron , in aid of the Red Cross Penny-a-week Fund. (Result of February 16 Competition is on page 4)

Contributors

Provided By:
Anna Neagle
Unknown:
Robert Donat
Unknown:
Celia Lipton
Unknown:
Emile Littler
Unknown:
Clive Richardson
Unknown:
Tony Lowry
Provided By:
Eric Winstone
Introduced By:
Ronald Waldman
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron

Programme written and produced by Nesta Pain

Everybody would like to know the answer to the question. 'What is Man?' Many people can give you that answer from a purely specialist point of view. A surgeon can supply you with a catalogue of all the bones and organs that make up a man and tell you exactly what they look like. A chemist will startle you by the statement that you are sixty-six per cent water. And in the eyes of a physicist you practically disappear altogether, since the atom is as porous as the solar system.

But even when you have resolved man into his final particles, there still seems to be something missing - the thing that makes him a person, the thing that makes every man different from every other. For nobody has yet succeeded in isolating thought, feeling, or consciousness in matter. So you turn back to the whole man to find your answer. But even there the mystery remains, for he is a mass of contradictions. You can see him in love - and there are many kinds of love. You can see him as a creator or a destroyer, as a brute or a saint. He may be selfish and a grabber, or he may sacrifice his life for others.

This programme shows man from some of these different points of view, and in different moods and situations - dramatic, gay, exciting, and pathetic. But man still remains an enigma. (Nesta Pain)

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Nesta Pain
Photographer:
Heron Carvic
Man:
John Slater
Surgeon:
James McKechnie
Cytologist:
Richard Goolden
Physicist:
John Laurie
Radio-therapist:
Alan Wheatley
Idealist:
Dermot Cathie
Cynic:
David Ward
Leo O'Hagen:
Philip Wade
William Sewell:
Richard Williams

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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