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A light-hearted look at the advertising world Michael Medwin as Michael Lightfoot an account executive
Eleanor Summerfield as Maggie, a TV executive Fenella Fielding as Janet
Secretary to Michael Lightfoot Sheila Hancock as Shirley, a shorthand typist Nicholas Phipps as Adrian Beales , copywriter Warren Mitchell as most other characters
Script by Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Recorded broadcast of January 29. in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Medwin
Unknown:
Michael Lightfoot
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Michael Lightfoot
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Nicholas Phipps
Unknown:
Adrian Beales
Unknown:
Warren Mitchell
Script By:
Myles Rudge
Script By:
Ronnie Wolfe
Produced By:
John Simmonds

Past, Present, and Future
This famous formation is approaching the biggest and perhaps the last crisis in its history, for events in Algeria may lead to its disbandment.
To disentangle legend from fact about the Legion, to find out what it has really accomplished and to discover what it is today, David Woodward has been in France and in Algeria, talking to past and present officers and men of the Legion.
Narrator. LEIGH CRUTCHLEY
Programme written and produced by DAVID WOODWARD
Recorded broadcast of February 20

Contributors

Unknown:
David Woodward
Produced By:
David Woodward

Order to View by SYLVIA LEWIN
When Margot Weston took her fiance, Richard, down to meet Aunt Dora, she looked forward to a quiet afternoon in the country. But an agent's mistake involved her in a chapter of misunderstandings-and one very odd complication indeed....
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Betty Davies

Contributors

Unknown:
Sylvia Lewin
Unknown:
Margot Weston
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Margot Weston:
Dorit Welles
Richard:
John Pullen
Miss Rivers:
Vivienne Chatterton
Aunt Dora:
Ella Milne
Della Jarvis:
Myrtle Reed
Mrs Newbury:
Joan Matheson

from Ely Cathedral Preces (Hunt)
Psalms for the thirteenth evening First Lesson: Wisdom 9
Office hymn: Beata nobis gaudia
(E.H. 151)
Magnificat (Blow in G major)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 3
Nunc dimittis (Blow in G major) Creed
Lesser Litany (Westminster Use) The Lord's Prayer
Responses (Westminster Use) Collects
Anthem: 0 where shall wisdom be found (Boyce)
Prayers
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Arthur Wills
Assistant Organist, Michael Dudman

Contributors

Organist:
Michael Dudman

The book by ALICK HAYES adapted as a radio play in three episodes by Bertha Lonsdale
1: Fate Hangs in the Balance
Produced by HERBERT SMITH

Contributors

Book By:
Alick Hayes
Unknown:
Bertha Lonsdale
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Pam Fairleigh:
Bridget Plummer
Mr Lewis:
Tom Harrison
Mrs Lewis:
Ella Atkinson
Mr Pattison:
Robert Wallace
Aunt Angela:
Betty Hardy
Kay Simpson:
Heather Simons
Mr Roberts:
Jack Woolgar
Miss Robson:
Mary Griffiths
Miss Karlin:
Thelma Falls-Hand
The Telegraph Boy:
Peter Campbell
Charlie Pemberton:
Brian Trueman
Mr Taplow:
John Broadbent

Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train , Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Kenneth Home knows some of the answers
Produced by C. F. MEEHAN
Repeated on Thursday at 1.10
'Twenty Questions' is broadcast by arrangement with the late Maurice Winnick Tickets for this series are available on application to [address removed], enclosing stamped addressed envelope.

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Joy Adamson
Unknown:
Jack Train
Unknown:
Richard Dimbleby
Produced By:
C. F. Meehan
Unknown:
Maurice Winnick

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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