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DESMOND CARRINGTON is in STUDIO 53 to recall personalities and events from the World of Entertainment including:
ALEC GUINNESS. LUPINO LANE
NANCY PRICE. and PETER USTINOV
Written and compiled by Desmond Carrington
Produced by John Powell

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Carrington
Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Unknown:
Desmond Carrington
Produced By:
John Powell

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A gallery of portraits in close-up Ada Wheeler foster mother
' A child's a child no matter what it is. I don't care if it's black as ink, it doesn't matter to me. It's another little creature that God has made, isn't it? *
Script and narration by EDWARD SCOBIE
Edited and produced by Maurice Brown
Recorded broadcast of August 2. 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
Ada Wheeler
Unknown:
Edward Scobie
Produced By:
Maurice Brown

Hedgehog by FREDERICK BRADNUM with Stephen Murray and Muriel Pavlow
The one big thing Stephen Tomlinson believed in was the right of his family and himself to live their lives isolated from the course of the present world. Farming in a quiet northern county had made this possible for many years. Then, as chance would have it, the long fingers of the past reached out....
Other parts played by Kenneth Dight , Andrew Irvine and members of the cast
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Recorded broadcast of Oct. 2, 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Muriel Pavlow
Unknown:
Stephen Tomlinson
Played By:
Kenneth Dight
Played By:
Andrew Irvine
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Stephen Tomlinson:
Stephen Murray
Anna, his wife:
Muriel Pavlow
Peter, Anna's brother:
Paul Hansard
Young Stephen:
David Palmer
Young Anna:
Nadine Hanwell
Mr Lightboys:
Will Leighton
Mrs Lightboys:
Grizelda Hervey
Cyclist:
Anthony Viccars
Derek Smith:
Nigel Anthony
Deering:
Wilfred Babbage
King:
Philip Morant
Retired civil servant:
Donald McKillop
Krotkin:
Julian Somers
Policeman:
John Pullen

Advice and entertainment for retired and older people, and a meeting place on the air for those concerned for their welfare
Competition Results: A selection from the contributions sent by listeners
LearninG to Read: Clara Hahn looks back
Loneliness: Some views
Over the Bridge: A reading by Gary Watson from Richard
Church's book
Presented by John Dunn
The second and last items are recorded

Contributors

Unknown:
Clara Hahn
Reading By:
Gary Watson
Presented By:
John Dunn

A programme for the fives to eights
The Adventures of Pinocchio
The story by CARLO COLLODI adapted in thirteen parts by Barbara Sleigh
2: The Talking Cricket
When Geppetto had finished teaching his wooden puppet how to walk, the first thing Pinocchio did was to run away!
Produced by David Davis

Contributors

Story By:
Carlo Collodi
Unknown:
Barbara Sleigh
Produced By:
David Davis
Pinocchio:
Patricia Hayes
Geppetto:
Harry Hutchinson
Talking Cricket:
Preston Lockwood
Storyteller:
Mary O'Farrell

Chaconne (Platee) (Rameau)
Lamoureux Chamber Orchestra Conducted by Louis de Froment
Harp Concerto in C major
(Boieldieu)
Nicanor Zabaleta (harp)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Ernst Marzendorfer on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Louis de Froment
Conducted By:
Ernst Marzendorfer

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