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Songs, sung by Iris Bourne (soprano) with Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Voici le printemps
Le roi s en va-t'ein ehasse
La belle est au jarddn d'amour II est quelqu'un sur terre Eho! Eho!
Quand j'étais chez mon père

Contributors

Soprano:
Iris Bourne
Piano:
Clifton Helliwell

Introduced by Maxwell Knight
GRAYLING ANI) CHAR
The salmon family includes well-known sporting fish like grayling and char and several others that are very rarely seen or caught.
NIALL CAMPBELL , WINIFRED FROST , and FRANK SAWYER discuss these country cousins of the noble salmon and trout.
Produced by Bruce Campbell
The recorded broadcast of May 21

Contributors

Introduced By:
Maxwell Knight
Unknown:
Niall Campbell
Unknown:
Winifred Frost
Unknown:
Frank Sawyer
Produced By:
Bruce Campbell

Grand Finale
Franklin Engelmann is the chairman of thds general knowledge contest in. which the three finalists, who have won through from the fifty-six contestants representing all parts of the United Kingdom, compete for the final title
' Brain of Britain 1961 '
Mrs. Irene Thomas , London
Singer
Mrs. Joan Taylor ,
Newcastle upon Tyne Lecturer
Mrs. Dorothy Burrell , Pembrokeshire
The programme devised and written by John P. Wynn Produced by Joan Clark
The recorded broadcast of July 13. in t.he Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Mrs. Irene Thomas
Singer:
Mrs. Joan Taylor
Unknown:
Mrs. Dorothy Burrell
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in A Picture of Autumn by N. C. HUNTER adapted for radio by Mollie Greenhalgh
The action takes place at Winton Manor, Wiltshire, the home of the Denhams, in 1961 Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX Saturday's recorded broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Sybil Thorndike
Unknown:
Lewis Casson
Unknown:
N. C. Hunter
Unknown:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Lady Margaret Denham:
Sybil Thorndike
Sir Charles Denham:
Lewis Caston
Nurse:
Mary O'Farrell
Harry Denham:
Philip Ray
Elizabeth Denham:
Rachel Gurney
Robert Denham:
Haydn Jones
Felicity:
Tracy Rogers
Frank Denham:
Nigel Stock
Mr Pargeter:
Godfrey Kenton
John:
John Pullen

Advice and entertainment for retired people and older people generally, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their weJfare
Time for Discussion
Gwenda Hollander
Grace Stuart
Father St. John. B. Groser
Kenneth Walker talk about subjects of interest to older people
Presented by Elizabeth Wilmer

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwenda Hollander
Unknown:
Grace Stuart
Unknown:
St. John. B. Groser
Unknown:
Kenneth Walker
Presented By:
Elizabeth Wilmer

A programme for the fives to eights Another series of programmes about
THE BIG POND
Written by Bertha Lonsdale
2: A Picnic on the Shore
Incidental music for the flute written by Bernard Herrmann and played by Peter Lloyd Produced by Herbert Smith

Contributors

Written By:
Bertha Lonsdale
Written By:
Bernard Herrmann
Played By:
Peter Lloyd
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Storyteller:
Jean Telfer
Nicholas:
Kanal Gardiner
Alibert:
Brian Trueman
Gamekeeper:
Joseph Hancock
Michael:
Graham Roberts

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