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An end-of-the-year edition in which some regular contributors to the programme look back over 1964 and discuss what seems to them the most interesting work in their particular fields
Chairman, ROBERT ROBINSON
Theatre: J. W. LAMBERT
Art: DAVID SYLVESTER
Television: T. C. WORSLEY
Book: KARL MILLER
Film: DILYS POWELL
Repeated on Thursday at 3.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
J. W. Lambert
Unknown:
T. C. Worsley
Unknown:
Karl Miller
Unknown:
Dilys Powell

by Henry Cecil adapted as a play for radio by the author from his novel of the same name.
with Cecil Parker and Naunton Wayne
Major Claude Buttonstep has two sons who fall in love with a Judge's attractive twin daughters. one of whom is a barrister and the other a solicitor. But Major Buttonstep, normally mild, kindly, rural squire, has a pathological aversion to lawyers ...
Other parts played by members of the cast
Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
Broadcast on September 2. 1961

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Cecil
Unknown:
Cecil Parker
Unknown:
Naunton Wayne
Unknown:
Major Claude Buttonstep
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuin
Major Claude Buttonstep:
Cecil Parker
Archie Randall:
Antony Viccars
Digby Buttonstep:
John Pullen
Prunella Coombe:
Gudrun Ure
Jane Coombe:
Diana Olsson
John Buttonstep:
William Eedle
Mr Justice Coombe:
Will Leighton
Mr Trotter:
Naunton Wayne
P C Glossop:
Peter Claughton
Mr Dealtry:
Malcolm Hayes
Mr Larpent:
Rolf Lefebvre
Judge Smoothe:
Philip Leaver
Lord Justice Crewe:
Haydn Jones
Lord Justice Blake:
Derek Birch

Christmas Round-Up
C. D. Deane (N. Ireland), Dick Bagnall-Oakeley (E.Anglia) and Tony Soper (South-West) compare notes on what is happening in the countryside at this time of year
Introduced by Bruce Campbell

Contributors

Speaker:
C. D. Deane
Speaker:
Dick Bagnall-Oakeley
Speaker:
Tony Soper
Presenter:
Bruce Campbell
Producer:
Richard Brock

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

by George Moore, dramatised as a serial in five episodes by Jonquil Antony
Esther decides to keep her baby with her, but finds she can get no work; at last, completely destitute, she is forced to go with the baby into Lambeth workhouse.
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Repeated on Tuesday at 3.0

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonquil Antony
Produced By:
David Davis
Esther:
With June Tobin
William Latch:
John Slater
Mrs Holmes:
Mary Wimbush
Secretary:
Isabel Rennie
Margaret:
Patricia Leventon
Miss Rice:
Betty Hardy
Fred Parsons:
Fraser Kerr
Gabby:
Stephen Jack
Mrs Lewis:
Mary Wimbush
Jackie:
Patricia Leventon

Written and compiled by Leslie Baily with the voices of The Countess of Oxford and Asquith, Lt. Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks, Admiral Sir William Goodenough, J.B. Priestley, Claude Graham-White, Phyllis Monkman, Gwendoline Brogden, Charles Brewer, Dr Josef Seewald, Mrs Dorothy Foster, Mr Oscar Anderson, Mr A.E. Webb, Mr F.G. Hyde and Geoffrey Lewis, Olive Gregg, Dudley Rolph, Joan Sterndale Bennett, Barbara Leigh, Benny Lee and Ian Frost.
The Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Alan Paul who also arranged the music.
Broadcast on November 11

Contributors

Writer/ compiler:
Leslie Baily
Narrator:
Ian Frost
Conductor:
Alan Paul
Producer:
Vernon Harris
Contributor:
Sir Brian Horrocks
Contributor:
Sir William Goodenough
Contributor:
J. B. Priestley
Contributor:
Claude Grahame-White
Contributor:
Phyllis Monkman
Contributor:
Gwendoline Brogden
Contributor:
Charles Brewer
Contributor:
Dr. Josef Seewald
Contributor:
Mrs. Dorothy Foster
Contributor:
Mr. Oscar Anderson
Contributor:
Mr. A. E. Webb
Contributor:
Mr. F. G. Hyde
Contributor:
Geoffrey Lewis
Contributor:
Olive Gregg
Contributor:
Dudley Rolph
Contributor:
Joan Sterndale Bennett
Contributor:
Barbara Leigh
Contributor:
Benny Lee

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