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Janet Baker (contralto) Josephine Lee (piano)
Robin Harrison (piano)
The Wigmore Ensemble
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute and piccolo) Terence McDonagh
(oboe and cor anglais)
-Frederick Riddle (viola) f Anthony Pini (cello) with Robert Masters (violin)
Produced by John Manduell

Contributors

Contralto:
Janet Baker
Piano:
Josephine Lee
Piano:
Robin Harrison
Flute:
Geoffrey Gilbert
Oboe:
Terence McDonagh
Viola:
Frederick Riddle
Cello:
Anthony Pini
Violin:
Robert Masters
Produced By:
John Manduell

by THOMAS HARDY adapted for broadcasting by John Keir Cross
1—How the Dragoons Came to Overcombe Down
Produced by BRANDON ACTON BOND
Recorded broadcast of March 13, 1960

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Produced By:
Brandon Acton Bond
Storyteller:
Harold Reese
Sergieant Stannard:
Frank Shelley
Anne Garland:
Angela Brooking
Mrs Garland:
Ruby Luscombe
John Loveday:
John Drake
Miller Loveday:
Basil Jones
Fesitus Derriman:
Hugh David
Squire Derriman:
George Holloway
Corporal Tullidge:
Norman Tyrrell
Anthony Cripplestraw:
Stephen Jack
Voices:
Norman Tyrrell
Voices:
Stephen Jack
Voices:
Clive Batchelor

Bud Flanagan recalls a lifetime of Show Business
His early days in the East End of London, in America, Australia, and South Africa, his adventures In the First World War, and his days as music-hall comic in London and the provinces, and the beginnings of the Crazy Gang.
LAURENCE GILLIAM introduces these personal memories of one of the great comedians of our time.
Edited and produced, by John Bridges
A shortened version of the recorded broadcast of December 26, 1960
See page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Bud Flanagan
Introduces:
Laurence Gilliam
Produced By:
John Bridges

Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers
(Rossini) conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Dance of the water-nymphs (Lorely)
(Catalani) conducted by Alceo Galliera
Ballet Suites 1 and 2: The Three-Cornered Hat (Falla) conducted by Carlo-Maria Giulini on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan
Conducted By:
Alceo Galliera
Conducted By:
Carlo-Maria Giulini

Ivor Nnvello in his, comedy adapted for radio by Mollie Greenihalgh with Vanessa Lee andIvy St. Helier Produced. by HUGH STEWART
Saturday's recorded broadcast: originally broadcast in 1950 followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivor Nnvello
Unknown:
Mollie Greenihalgh
Unknown:
Vanessa Lee
Unknown:
Ivy St. Helier
Produced By:
Hugh Stewart

Advice and entertainment for retired and older people, and a meeting-place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
The Eager Cow: William Ramsay 's encounter with a beast of the field
Easter far away and long ago: Anne Jordan describes traditional celebrations in Poland
Presented by John Dunn The first item is recorded

Contributors

Unknown:
William Ramsay
Unknown:
Anne Jordan
Presented By:
John Dunn

JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
The Lost Axe
A play for broadcasting in two parts freely based on an old fable by Elspeth Whitaker
Produced by Herbert Smith
5.15 MOSTLY JAZZ
Traditional jazz has many styles. Some of them are introduced on records by Ken Sykora
5.30 HOW?
A monthly science magazine
4: Survival
C. L. Boltz talks to
Dr. 0. G Edholm and Wing Cdr. Peter Whittingham about how much the human body can stand
5.50 Presenting this Week
Review of forthcoming programmes

Contributors

Unknown:
Elspeth Whitaker
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Unknown:
Ken Sykora
Talks:
L. Boltz
Unknown:
Dr. 0. G Edholm
Unknown:
Peter Whittingham
Hans, a poor woodcutter:
Graham Roberts
Gretchen his wife:
Rosalie Williams
The Spirit of the River:
Doris Gambell
Two more woodcutters:Ulric:
John Bioadbent
Two more woodcutters:Carl:
Tom Harrison

by Jean MORRIS
Part 2
The Stone Lion
The play is 'concerned with the sequel to the Battle of Arginusae, one of the last of the Athenian victories, after which the victorious Athenian admirals were tried for having failed to rescue some of their drowning crews.
Continued in next column
Production by VAL GIELGUD
See page 23

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Morris
Production By:
Val Gielgud
Diophon, a Mitylenian:
Nigel Anthony
Leon, an Athenian seaman:
Keith Buckley
Athenian citizens:Pasion:
Godfrey Kenlon
Athenian citizens:Eteocles:
Wilfred Babbage
Ismenos, Captain of the Assembly Police:
David Spenser
Pericles, Grand Admiral of Athens:
Kenneth Dight
Socrates, President of the Assembly:
Geoffrey Staines
Euiyptolemus:
Norman Claridge
Kallixenus:
Derek Birch
Theramenes:
Peter Claughton
Critias:
Philip Leaver
An Archer:
Haydn Jones

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