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Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Planning for the Car: a report on the Birmingham University Traffic Engineering Department Survey by GEOFFREY HANCOCK
The Specialist: air and oil filters by DICK WATSON
Looking for a Used Car: some helpful advice by MICHAEL POLLARD Last Friday's broadcast in Network Three

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
Geoffrey Hancock
Unknown:
Dick Watson
Unknown:
Michael Pollard

A sort of radio show written by Eric Merriman with Kenneth Home
KENNETH WILLIAMS , HUGH PADDICK
BETTY MARSDEN , BILL PERTWEE
THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
EILEEN GOURLAY
BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conductor. PAUL FENOULHET
Sort-of-announcer, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS Broadcast on December 27 in the Light Programme

Contributors

Written By:
Eric Merriman
Unknown:
Kenneth Home
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Eileen Gourlay
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

The Secret Metal by Norman Edwards freely adapted from
DESMOND CORY 'S novel ' The Phoenix Sings '
Adam Vane , a former British Intelligence Officer. is approached in Antwerp by Hans Brunet who asks him to take on a dangerous mission ... Produced by David H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Edwards
Unknown:
Desmond Cory
Unknown:
Adam Vane
Unknown:
Hans Brunet
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Adam Vane:
Timothy West
Crete:
Jenny Warhurst
Hans Brunet:
Hamilton Dyce
Countess Fabienne van der Velde:
Elizabeth London
Mr Collyer:
Stuart Nichol
Mr Witney:
Ralph Hallett
Inspector BOSSUET:
Lee Fox
Customer:
Alan Reid
Announcer:
Donald McKillop
Anna Cammaerts:
Jo Manning Wilson
Max:
Duser Gordon Faith

adapted by MARGARET POTTER from three of her original stories concerning The Adventures of Samuel Poppleton
1: The Sacred Beetle Produced by TREVOR HILL

Contributors

Adapted By:
Margaret Potter
Unknown:
Samuel Poppleton
Produced By:
Trevor Hill
Old Mr Poppleton, the antique dealer:
Herbert Smith
Elizabeth:
Gabrielle O'Mahoney
Peter:
John Thornley
Young Samuel Poppleton as a cabin boy:
Martin Ewart
Captain John Doyle:
Graham Tennant
Mr Edwards, the First Mate:
Frank Poynter
Professor Cartland, an archae ologist:
David Mahlowe
Sir Kenneth Simpson:
Norman Shelley
Chen Yung, a dealer in Oriental Curi- osities:
Norman Shelley
Inspector Robinson of the Liverpool CI.D:
Jim Wiggins
Ian Tulliver, a young ship's stoker:
David Webster
Dr Abel Meyers:
Geoffrey Banks

HARRY DAVIDSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Introduced by IVAN SAMSON Master of Ceremonies, CHARLES CRATHORN
Produced by JAMES DUFOUR
The dances: Marine Fourstep; Waltz; Progressive Barn Dance; Dream Saunter; Square Tango; Lilac Waltz; Melody Twostep: Dinkie Onestep
Tickets for this programme are available on application to [address removed]enclosing stamped addressed envelope

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ivan Samson
Produced By:
James Dufour

Introduced by Vic Oliver
The singers
Jean Allister
Robert Thomas
First broadcast
Robert Coleman
Violin played by Derek Collier
Comedy from June Whitfield
Leslie Crowther
Ronnie Barker
Playhouse Theatre
Paul Daneman
BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VIC OLIVER
Script by Carey Edwards ,
Leslie Crowther. George Evans and Derek Collyer Produced by GEOFFREY OWEN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Vic Oliver
Singers:
Jean Allister
Singers:
Robert Thomas
Violin:
Robert Coleman
Played By:
Derek Collier
Unknown:
Leslie Crowther
Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Paul Daneman
Conducted By:
Vic Oliver
Script By:
Carey Edwards
Script By:
Leslie Crowther.
Unknown:
George Evans
Unknown:
Derek Collyer
Produced By:
Geoffrey Owen

Fire, Burn!
A radio play by John Keir Cross from the novel by JOHN DICKSON CARR
Fifth in the series
Murder For Pleasure with Gladys Young
Richard Hurndall
June Tobin
This is the story of an impossible crime, affecting a woman; and of an impossible situation, affecting a man.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
A new production of the play first broadcast in July 1958

Contributors

Play By:
John Keir Cross
Novel By:
John Dickson Carr
Unknown:
Gladys Young
Unknown:
Richard Hurndall
Unknown:
June Tobin
Produced By:
Audrey Cameron
The Presenter:
Austin Trevor
Supt John Cheviot:
Richard Hurnpall
Taximan:
Andrew Sachs
Cabbie:
Donald McKillop
Flora Drayton:
June Tobin
Colonel ROWAN:
John Ruddock
Mr Richard Mayne:
James Thomason
Mr Alan Henley:
John Graham
Margaret Renfrew:
Gudrun Ure
Freddie Debbitt:
Charles Hodgson
Captain Hogben:
David March
Lady Cork:
Gladys Young
Lieutenant Wentworth:
Michael Deacon
Mr Robert Peel:
Norman Claridge
Vulcan:
Norman Shelley
Sergeant Bulmer:
Timothy West
Manton:
John Baddeley
Sergeant Boyce:
Donald McKillop

Glazunov
Quartet No. 4, in A minor
Les chanteurs de Noël (Jour de fete) MACGIBBON STRING QUARTET
Margot Macgibbon (violin) Lorraine du Val (violin) Anatole Mines (viola) Lilly Phillips (cello)
Fourth of twelve programmes including Russian chamber music
Glazunov's Quarret No. 3, in G major (Slavonic)

Contributors

Violin:
Margot MacGibbon

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