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The trial scene from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens read by Derek Hart in three instalments adapted by Robert Goodyear
1: Serjeant Buzfuz, for Mrs. Bardell, addresses the jury with deep emotion
(Broadcast in May 1961)

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Reader:
Derek Hart
Adapted by:
Robert Goodyear

Raymond Huntley with George Merritt and Denys Hawthorne in The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham
Dramatised by HOWARD AGG
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Huntley
Unknown:
George Merritt
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Dramatised By:
Howard Agg
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster

For retired and older people and those concerned with their welfare Dread of Debt: CHARLES HALL
I Killed Him Dead: MAY HANKEY Monkey Parade: A. H. Ches -
WORTH A Lame Dog: an extract from
S. Macnaughtan's book read byANTHONY HALL
Introduced by JOHN DUNN

Contributors

Unknown:
May Hankey
Unknown:
A. H. Ches
Read By:
Anthony Hall
Introduced By:
John Dunn

A Toytown Play by S. G. HULME BEAMAN Produced by CLAIRE CHOVIL

Contributors

Play By:
S. G. Hulme Beaman
Produced By:
Claire Chovil
Larry the Lamb:
Derek McCulloch
Narrator:
Derek McCulloch
Ernest the Policeman:
Peter Claughton
Mr Growser:
John Glyn-Jones
The Mayor of Toytown:
Felix Felton
The Mayor of Arkville:
Wilfred Babbage
The Magician:
Norman Shelley
Captain Higgins:
Norman Shelley
The Inventor:
Ivan Samson

KIT THORNTON and BOB JONES invite you to join their set and find out about
Five Thousand Miles in an Ambulance
Grants for
University Students Sub-Aqua Diving and spotlighting
The K.T. Trad Lads Produced by SHIRLEY FRANKLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Kit Thornton
Unknown:
Bob Jones
Produced By:
Shirley Franklin

Introduced and conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Led by Frederick Parrington
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR
JOHN CAMERON (baritone)
DESMOND BRADLEY (violin)
THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Directed by JOHN MCCARTHY
Produced by ALAN ABBOTT
Jeannette Sinclair broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Cover.Garden, Ltd.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Unknown:
Frederick Parrington
Unknown:
Jeannette Sinclair
Baritone:
John Cameron
Violin:
Desmond Bradley
Directed By:
John McCarthy
Produced By:
Alan Abbott
Produced By:
Jeannette Sinclair

John Gielgud with Joan Plowright in Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles translated by C. A. TRYPANIS
Chorus:
Philip Cunningham Godfrey Kenton Will Leighton
Duncan McIntyre Edgar Norfolk
Frank Partington Robert Sansom
Music specially composed and conducted by JOHN HOTCHKIS
Chorus directed by Colette King
Produced by VAL GIELGUD Broadcast on March 17, 1950, in the Third Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Joan Plowright
Translated By:
C. A. Trypanis
Unknown:
Philip Cunningham
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Unknown:
Will Leighton
Unknown:
Duncan McIntyre
Unknown:
Edgar Norfolk
Unknown:
Frank Partington
Unknown:
Robert Sansom
Conducted By:
John Hotchkis
Directed By:
Colette King
Produced By:
Val Gielgud
Oedipus:
John Gielgud
Antigone:
Joan Plowright
Stranger:
Norman Claridge
Ismene:
Judy Bailey
Theseus:
William Devlin
Creon:
Malcolm Keen
Polyneices:
Malcolm Hayes
Messenger:
Gabriel Woolf
Chorus Leader:
Carleton Hobbs

The Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa, August 26, is the culmination of a great pilgrimage which for centuries has come from all parts of Poland to the monastery that enshrines the old painting of Virgin and Child-Czestochowa is the spiritual capital of Poland
The programme, illustrated by recordings made in 1960 among 400,000 pilgrims, is about the history and significance of the famous painting and the pilgrimage with ALAN BARRY , NIGEL CLAYTON
DENIS GOACHER
BLAISE WYNDHAM
Introduced by JAMES McNEISH Produced by DAVID THOMSON First broadcast on Aug. 24

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Barry
Unknown:
Nigel Clayton
Unknown:
Denis Goacher
Unknown:
Blaise Wyndham
Introduced By:
James McNeish
Produced By:
David Thomson

A Grue of Ice by GEOFFREY JENKINS abridged by Neville Teller read by RICHARD HURNDALL Sixth of fifteen instaiments
Richard Hurndall Is appearing in ' The New Men ' at the Strand Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Jenkins
Abridged By:
Neville Teller
Read By:
Richard Hurndall
Unknown:
Richard Hurndall

Concerto Grosso No. 5, in C minor (Geminiani)
I Musici
Harpsichord Concerto, in B flat major (Durante)
RUGGERO GERLIN (harpsichord) Oiseau-Lyre
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE conducted by Louis DE Froment on gramophone records

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Ruggero Gerlin
Conducted By:
Louis de Froment

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