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Sam Pollock talking to Edna Smith : Summer School for Retirement How much do we know about
Cataractr: AN OPHTHALMIC
SURGEON
Opportunity Missed: EUNICE SPENCER ' The Night-Watchman ': extracts from W. W. Jacobs 's short stories
4: ' Keeping Watch ' read by DEREK BIRCH
Introduced by JOHN DUNN

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Pollock
Unknown:
Edna Smith
Unknown:
Eunice Spencer
Unknown:
W. W. Jacobs
Read By:
Derek Birch
Introduced By:
John Dunn

A serial play in six episodes by DAVID SCOTT DANIELL
Polly and Oliver, with the little Prince Luis whom they have rescued from the bandits, come across a deserted encampment. Suddenly the owners of the camp return. Polly and Oliver hide but the little Prince runs straight towards the gypsies. 5:The Raree Show Produced by PEGGY BACON

Contributors

Unknown:
David Scott Daniell
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon
Sergeant Trott:
Jack Holloway
Private Pilchard:
Michael Shaw
Polly Trott:
Mary Chester
Drummer Oliver Crowe:
Timothy Harley
H R H Prince Luis of Spain:
Josefina Ray
Abel Perkins:
Wilfred Babbage
Betsy Perkins:
Gwen Berryman

by George Farquhar adapted for radio by Raymond Raikes
with Pauline Jameson, Wendy Craig, John Glen, John Humphry

Cast in order of speaking:
Music composed by STEPHEN DODGSON played by SINFONIA OF LONDON Conducted by JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH
Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
(Fourth broadcast)

Contributors

Author:
George Farquhar
Adapted by/Producer:
Raymond Raikes
Music composed by:
Stephen Dodgson
Music played by:
Sinfonia of London
Conductor:
John Hollingsworth
Boniface, landlord of the inn:
Hamlyn Benson
Cherry, his daughter:
Barbara Mitchell
Two gentlemen of broken for tunes, the first master, as servant:
Tom Aimwell: John Glen
Two gentlemen of broken for tunes, the first master, as servant:
Frank Archer: John Humphry
Dorinda, Lady Bountiful's daughter:
Wendy Craig
Mrs. Sullen, Lady Bountiful's:
Pauline Jameson
Squire Sullen, a country block-head, brutal to his wife:
George Hagan
Scrub, his servant:
Hugh Dickson
Gibbet, a highwayman:
William Eedle
Gipsy, maid to the ladies:
Gudrun Ure
A countrywoman:
Gladys Spencer
Lady Bountiful, a country gentlewoman, foolishly fond of her son, Sullen:
June Tobin
Companions of Gibbet - Hounslow:
Stanley Lebor
Companions of Gibbet - Bagshot:
Haydn Jones
Sir Charles Freeman, a gentleman from London:
Philip Leaver

The Satan Bug by IAN STUART abridged by Jane Bowness read by RICHARD HURNDALL First of fifteen instalments
The lonely research station in Wiltshire is guarded with every conceivable device, for hidden deep in its centre, behind great walls of steel and concrete, is a new toxin of terrifying possibilities-and yet a killer has got in and the thing called ' The Satan Bug' has disappeared.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Stuart
Abridged By:
Jane Bowness
Read By:
Richard Hurndall

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