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Background to Musical Form
Twentieth of twenty-seven programmes about the structure of music and its composition Speaker, ALAN RIDOUT
Produced by Peter Dodd
Broadcast on May 12 (Third Net.)
A booklet is available

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Ridout
Produced By:
Peter Dodd

Six programmes on new developments in education mainly for teachers and parents 3: Can You Teach Religionf Speakers:
AGNES KRETOWICZ, JOAN Low PROFESSOR W. R. NIBLETT PETER BANDER
Introduced by Tony GIBSON
Broadcast on November 5, 1964

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Low
Unknown:
Professor W. R. Niblett
Unknown:
Peter Bander
Introduced By:
Tony Gibson

† Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Help!: When the unexpected happens. JUDITH DELL describes what she did in an emergency Facing the Emergency: some advice from John Gott , Chief Constable of Northamptonshire, and winner of the 1965 International Police Rally
Eyes on the Road: by Mary Noble , S.R.N., A.R.S.H., Information Officer of the Eye Care Information Bureau
Using a Car on Business: JOHN GASELEE. Editor of The Insurance Record, explains the insurance implications
Latest read traffic information

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bill Hartley
Unknown:
John Gott
Unknown:
Mary Noble
Unknown:
John Gaselee.

Five characters in search of the authors-
BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN starring
Kenneth Horne with KENNETH Williams
HUGH PADDICK
BETTY MARSDEN
BILL PERTWEE
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR EDWIN BRADEN and THE HORN BLOWERS
Announcer, Douglas SMITH
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Marty Feldman
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Fraser Hayes
Unknown:
Edwin Braden
Announcer:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
John Simmonds

Harry Corbett, creator of Sooty, discusses with Roy Plomley, in a recorded programme devised by him, the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Broadcast last Monday)
(Harry Corbett is in 'Sooty's Holiday Show' at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Harry Corbett
Producer:
Monica Chapman

The Promised Land by Ray Butler with Rosalie Crutchley and Cyril Shaps
In a conflict of where does a man's duty lie? To his friends? To a long-cherished dream? Or to the woman he loves?
The action takes place in Hackney in the East End premises of a small private firm and in Dido's flat above the offices.
His friends:
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Butler
Unknown:
Rosalie Crutchley
Unknown:
Cyril Shaps
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Bella, a typist:
Cécile Chevreau
Dido, an executive:
Rosalie Crutchley
Tom, an office-boy:
Fraser Kerr
Achim, an employee:
Cyril Shaps
JJosche:
Gabriel Woolf
Chaim:
Howard Goorney

Elaine Blighton (soprano) Yvonne Minton (contralto) Richard Lewis (tenor)
John Cameron (baritone) Owen Brannigan (bass)
BBC Chorus
Royal Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra Led by Norman Nelson
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Gilbert and Sullivan
Part 1: music from
PRINCESS IDA
7.54* RUDDIGORE
8.7' THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

Contributors

Soprano:
Elaine Blighton
Contralto:
Yvonne Minton
Tenor:
Richard Lewis
Baritone:
John Cameron
Bass:
Owen Brannigan
Unknown:
Norman Nelson
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm Sargent
Unknown:
Albert Hall

Mrs. Thompson by Mollie Hardwick with Margaret Wolfit and William Eedle
The love story of Nelson and Lady Hamilton
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company The Singers:
BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT and GORDON FAITH
JOHN BECKETT (harpsichord)
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Mollie Hardwick
Unknown:
Margaret Wolfit
Unknown:
William Eedle
Singers:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Singers:
Gordon Faith
Harpsichord:
John Beckett
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Mrs. Mary Cadogan, Emma Hamilton's mother:
Ella Milne
Emma, Lady Hamilton:
Margaret Wolfit
Nancy, her maid:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Sir William Hamilton:
Carleton Hobbs
Whyte, the butler:
Alan Haines
Horatio, Viscount Nelson:
William Eedle
Phyllis:
Jane Wenham
George Matcham:
Wilfrid Carter
Kitty Matcham, Nelson's sister:
Joan Matheson
The Rev. William Nelson,Nelson's brother:
Peter Claughton
Sarah Nelson, his wife:
Gillian Maude
Dr Parrett:
Gordon Faith
Horatia Nelson Thompson. daughter of Nelson and Emma:
Josefina Ray
Captain Blackwood:
Allan McClelland

Crime and the Police
C. H. ROLPH on Jack the Ripper and several recent books about the police, with TOM CULLEN talking about his Autumn of Terror and BEN WHITAXER about Police and Government
NEVILLE BRAYBROOKE on Teilhard de Chardin GEORGE MELLY on two memories of an English childhood
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
Produced by Joseph Hone

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Rolph
Unknown:
Tom Cullen
Unknown:
Ben Whitaxer
Unknown:
Neville Braybrooke
Unknown:
George Melly
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes
Produced By:
Joseph Hone

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