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COUNTERPOINT
Variations on matters musical arranged and introduced by John Amis
4: Hatch, Match, and Despatch with Lotte Lehmann , Osian Ellis Gian-Carlo Menotti
Stan Kenton , Jascha Heifetz and the Choir, Organ, and Drums of St. Jude's Methodist Church, Ebutemeta
Produced by John Powell

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Amis
Unknown:
Lotte Lehmann
Unknown:
Osian Ellis
Unknown:
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Unknown:
Stan Kenton
Unknown:
Jascha Heifetz
Produced By:
John Powell

Introduced by Maxwell Knight
PROTECTING WILD LIFE
How do our voluntary efforts to protect animals, plants, and where they live compare with those in a single American state? Maxwell KNIGHT introduces recordings to illustrate the work of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and discusses them with Philip BROWN and A. E. SMITH.
Produced by Bruce Campbell
The recorded broadcast of Jan. 22

Contributors

Introduced By:
Maxwell Knight
Unknown:
Philip Brown
Unknown:
A. E. Smith.
Produced By:
Bruce Campbell

Franklin Engelmann is the Chairman of this general knowledge contest in which listeners from all over the British Isles compete for the title' Brain of Britain 1961 '
SCOTLAND:2
Mrs. Helen Morris , Angus Lecturer
Tom Sinclair , Glasgow Civil servant
W. J. Strachan , Angus Retired headmaster
The programme also includes
'Hear! Hear!' a test of memory for listeners at home and in the audience
The programme devised and written by John P. Wynn
Produced by Joan Clark
Recorded broadcast of May 25, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Mrs. Helen Morris
Unknown:
Tom Sinclair
Unknown:
W. J. Strachan
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

Dinner with the Family by JEAN ANOUILH
Adapted for radio and produced by Hugh Stewart with Tony Britton as Georges Delachaume
From the BBC's Midland studios
Saturday's recorded broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Anouilh
Produced By:
Hugh Stewart
Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
Georges Delachaume

Advice and entertainment tor retired people and older people generaHy, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
What's in a name?: Eunice Spencer thinks there is a good deal
The Incomparable Max: Maisie Murray recalls her distinguished neighbour
Presented, by John Dunn
The second item is recorded

Contributors

Unknown:
Eunice Spencer
Unknown:
Maisie Murray
Presented By:
John Dunn

A programme for the fives to eights THE RIVER BANDIT
Another adventure of tihe Deep Woodlanders written, for broadcasting by Ellestom Trevor
4: The Victory
Produced by Trevor Hill

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Ellestom Trevor
Old Stmipe, the Badger:
Graham Roberts
Potter, the Otter:
Norman Somers
Digger Mole:
Herbert Smith
Woo Owl:
Tom Harrison
The Bandar:
Graham Tennant

A monthly science magazine
8: Solid Electronics
ARTHUR GARRATT finds out about transistors. He talks to the men and women who make them and the scientists who are improving them. He also discusses the uses of transistors in satellites with PROFESSOR SIR HARRIE MASSEY.

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Garratt
Unknown:
Sir Harrie Massey.

BERTHE GROSSBARD , who is such a woman, suggests that women of this age, who were conscious of events before the First World War but took no part in it at all, grew up to play a particularly interesting part in the movement of women toward * parity of esteem' with men in the practical world.

Contributors

Unknown:
Berthe Grossbard

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