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Written and narrated by JOANNA RICHARDSON
Joanna Richardson asks if Victorian children's books were all precepts and no pictures. with YSANNE CHURCHMAN
JOAN MATHESON
GLYN DEARMAN , GEORGE MERRITT
JOAN HART , MARY O'FARRELL
HILDA KRISEMAN
NORMAN SHELLEY
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER Shortened version of the programme broadcast on August 11

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
Ysanne Churchman
Unknown:
Joan Matheson
Unknown:
Glyn Dearman
Unknown:
George Merritt
Unknown:
Joan Hart
Unknown:
Mary O'Farrell
Unknown:
Hilda Kriseman
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Produced By:
Dorothy Baker

Coco the Clown (Nicolai Poliakoff, O.B.E.) discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the eight records he would take to a desert island.

(Coco is appearing at Bertram Mills' Circus, Olympia, London)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Nicolai Poliakoff (Coco the Clown)
Producer:
Monica Chapman

My Dearest Angel by R. F. Delderfield with Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Andrew Sachs
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT Saturday's broadcast
Barbara Leigh-Hunt is in A Severed Head ' at the Criterion Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
R. F. Delderfield
Unknown:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Unknown:
Andrew Sachs
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Unknown:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt

For retired and older people and for those concerned with their welfare Pantomime: ARNOLD RIDLEY Keeping Pantomime Ponies:
RUBY VINNING talks to KEN PRAGNELL
Keeping fit in later years: 5-What to eat. by the Medical Officer of Health, Dagenham A Young Helper: LESLEY How-
LETT, aged sixteen, talks to LESLIE SMITH
Alone at Christmas: Listeners' letters
Introduced by SAM POLLOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Ridley
Unknown:
Leslie Smith
Introduced By:
Sam Pollock

The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan with Fay Compton , Baliol Holloway Fenella Fielding, Gwen Cherrell Hugh Burden , Anthony Jacobs
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Anne Prime , Leigh Crutchlev and Norman Wynne
Produced by R. D. SMITH Broadcast on April 27, 1962. in the Third Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Unknown:
Fay Compton
Unknown:
Gwen Cherrell
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Unknown:
Anthony Jacobs
Played By:
Anne Prime
Played By:
Leigh Crutchlev
Played By:
Norman Wynne
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Presenter:
Leigh Crutchlet
Fag:
John Dearth
Thomas:
John Hollis
Lucy:
Lynn Carson
Lydia Languish:
Fenella Fielding
Julia:
Gwen Cherrell
Mrs Malaprop:
Fay Compton
Sir:
Anthony Absolute
Actor:
Baliol Holloway
Captain Absolute:
Hugh Burden
Faulkland:
Anthony Jacobs
Bob Acres:
Jeffrey Gardiner
Sir:
Lucius O'Trigger
David:
Jon Rollason

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