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The Sutton Hoo Burial Ship
Introduced by Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities,
British Museum
Speakers:
C. W. Phillips
Director of the Sutton Hoo Excavation
Harold Plenderleith
Keeper of the Research Laboratory at the British Museum
Rosemary Cramp
Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology in the University of Durham
Christopher Hawkes
Professor of European Archaeology in the University of Oxford
In 1939 a Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk revealed a remarkable collection of grave goods which set archaeologists many interesting problems of preservation and interpretation.
Produced by John Irving

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Produced By:
John Irving

Piano music in contrasting styles played by Clive Lythgoe (concert pianist)
Winifred Scott and Robin Wood
(two pianos)
Monia Liter
(Latin-American music)
The Johnny Pearson Quartet
(rhythmic piano music)
Introduced by Alan Dell
Produced by Jimmy Grant

Contributors

Played By:
Clive Lythgoe
Pianist:
Winifred Scott
Pianist:
Robin Wood
Pianos:
Monia Liter
Unknown:
Johnny Pearson
Introduced By:
Alan Dell
Produced By:
Jimmy Grant

A radio play by John Keir Cross from the novel by John Dickson Carr
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the cast
Production by Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Play By:
John Keir Cross
Novel By:
John Dickson Carr
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
The Presenter:
Lionel Marson
Superintendent John Cheviot:
Richard Hurndall
Taximan:
William Eedle
Cabbie:
Harold Reese
Flora Drayton:
June Tobin
Colonel Rowan:
Baliol Holloway
Mr Richard Mayne:
James Thomason
Mr Alan Henley:
John Graham
Margaret Renfrew:
Joan Matheson
Freddie Debbitt:
Charles Hodgson
Captain Hogben:
David March
Lady Cork:
Gladys Young
Lieutenant Wentworth:
Peter Wilde
Mr Robert Peel:
Godfrey Kenton
Vulcan:
Norman Shelley
Sergeant Bulmer:
Ronald Baddiley
Manton:
Jeffrey Segal
Sergeant Boyce:
Harold Reese

Said the Cat to the Dog '
A series of plays about Mompty and Peckham and the Jackson family written for Children's Hour by Martin Armstrong
1-' Kidneys for Breakfast'
Production by Claire Chovil
Many of you will remember Mompty the Cat and Peckham the Dog, who live with the Jackson family-Mum, Dad, Diana, and Ronnie-at the Laurels. (Or perhaps it would be truer to say that Mompty and Peckham graciously allow the Jacksons to live with them.)
5.30 For Older Children
Now showing in London
A review by Eric Gillett of some of the new films and plays
5.50 The week's programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Armstrong
Production By:
Claire Chovil
Review By:
Eric Gillett
Mum:
Mary O'Farrell
Dad:
Wilfred Babbage
Diana:
Rosamond Barnes
Ronnie:
Sam Jephcott
Elsie:
Norma Griffin
Mompty the Cat:
Vivienne Chatterton
Peckham the Dog:
Stephen Jack
Narrator:
Lewis Stringer

by Henry James adapted for radio by Richard Bebb
Pianist, Arthur Dulay
Produced by Robin Midgley

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry James
Radio By:
Richard Bebb
Pianist:
Arthur Dulay
Produced By:
Robin Midgley
Baroness Munster:
Irene Worth
Felix Young:
Robert Eddison
Gertrude Wentworth:
Margaret Wedlake
Charlotte Wentworth:
Lois McLean
Mr Brand:
John Graham
Mr Wentworth:
Russell Napier
Clifford Wentworth:
Michael Bryant
Robert Acton:
William Sylvester
Lizzie Acton:
Beryl Calder

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