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Marjorie Anderson introduces:
A First Visit to Hospital: a nursing sister and some parents talk it over.

Give a Car a Bad Name: Nancy Spain tells what happened to hers.

For Amusement Only: How down to earth are you? A character test with Lady Georgina Coleridge, Ann Kingsbury, and Greta Lamb.

Flick Knives: a mother talks about this menace.

(BBC recording)

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Speaker (A First Visit to Hospital):
A nursing sister [name uncredited]
Speaker (Give a Car a Bad Name):
Nancy Spain
Panellist (For Amusement Only):
Lady Georgina Coleridge
Panellist (For Amusement Only):
Ann Kingsbury
Panellist (For Amusement Only):
Greta Lamb
Speaker (Flick Knives):
A mother [name uncredited]

Alec Robertson introduces Your Concert Choice
A request programme of records.

Prelude: Tristan and Isolde (Wagner); Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler
Cello solos played by Casals.

Movements from Suite, Pelleas and Melisande (Sibelius); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt.

Contributors

Presenter:
Alec Robertson
Musicians:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra conducted by:
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Cellist:
[Pablo] Casals
Musicians:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra conducted by:
Sir Thomas Beecham

Conducted by Paul Dehn.
Art: Robert Furneaux Jordan
Film: Roger Manvell
Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace
Radio: H. A. L. Craig
Book: Elspeth Huxley
(BBC recording)
To be repeated on Thursday at 4.15

Contributors

Chairman:
Paul Dehn
Art critic:
Robert Furneaux Jordan
Film critic:
Roger Manvell
Theatre critic:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Radio critic:
H. A. L. Craig
Book critic:
Elspeth Huxley

The Young Pioneers: 1: The Wagons Roll
A new production of the three-part serial by Edward Boyd.
This is the story of the Sutherlands, a Scots family who have been settled in Illinois for four years but who decide to follow other emigrants on the long arduous journey to Oregon.

A Scottish Ballad: Sir Patrick Spens

(BBC recording)

Contributors

Writer (The Young Pioneers):
Edward Boyd
Reader (A Scottish Ballad):
Bryden Murdoch
Producer:
Kathleen Garscadden
Kenneth Sutherland:
Gordon Jackson
Morag Sutherland, his sister:
Moira Pedersen
Hugh Sutherland, their father:
Bill Crichton
Agnes Sutherland, their mother:
Jessie Morton
The Pike, a mystery man:
Bryden Murdoch
Dermot Breen:
W.H.D. Joss
The Hon. Francis Selwyn-Gore:
Arthur Boland
Bruno Haggersack, a German emigrant:
Henry Donald
Magda, his wife:
Effie Morrison
Fritz, their grandson:
Robin Grieve

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A series of dramatised true stories
Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim in ALL FOR THREE DAYS '
Written by Giles Cooper
Produced by Alan Burgess
In 1956 the revolution in Hungary burst into the news, and the reverberations of those memorable and tragic days are still felt in many places throughout the world.
This is the story of the revolution seen through the eyes of two young students who lived through all the turbulent days of fighting and siege in Budapest, and then, seeing that all was lost, set out to try to escape to the West.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Attenborough
Unknown:
Sheila Sim
Written By:
Giles Cooper
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

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