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A novel of the days of Roman Britain by Rosemary Sutcliff abridged for radio in six parts by DAVID SCOTT DANIELL
Readers, GABRIEL WOOLF
NIGEL GRAHAM. JOAN MATHESON
When a Roman ship was wrecked off the south-west coast of Britain, the only survivor was a baby. He was taken by British foster-parents, who named him Beric and reared him as their own son. But Merddyn the Druid had prophesied that the presence of a Roman boy would bring disaster on the clan.
2: Cast Out
Broadcast on May 26

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Sutcliff
Readers:
David Scott Daniell
Readers:
Gabriel Woolf
Readers:
Nigel Graham.
Unknown:
Joan Matheson

Contributors

Written By:
John Keir Cross
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Anthony William Daniel Archer:
Philip Owen
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Mabel Larkin:
Kay Hudson
Carol Grenville:
Anne Cullen
Harvey Grenville:
Ronald Baddiley
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Mead:
Hilary Newcombe
Waiter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Betty Barratt:
Brenda Dunrich
Fred Barratt:
Tommy Duggan
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville

from Leeds
Introduced by OLIVE SHAPLEY
Northern Guest of the Week:
MAUREEN SMITH , winner of the BBC Violin Competition
Killers in the Home: RONALD LLOYD visits the Leeds Poison Bureau
Summer in the Dales: WALTER FLESHER with a talk on the countryside
Families in Trouble:
PAMELA HOWE goes to the Elizabeth Fry Home, York, where mothers who cannot cope are given help and training
On being a Sea Cook: a talk by PEGGY JONES
Ideas in the Air: JOHN BRAINE and PATRICK NUTTGENS PATIENCE COLLIER reads
All the Days of Minnie Sue by SUSAN BELL
Sixth of ten instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
Maureen Smith
Unknown:
Ronald Lloyd
Unknown:
Walter Flesher
Unknown:
Pamela Howe
Talk By:
Peggy Jones
Unknown:
John Braine
Unknown:
Patrick Nuttgens
Unknown:
Minnie Sue
Unknown:
Susan Bell

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to HARRIET COHEN, C.B.E.
For Your Library List: some suggestions from EDWARD GREENFIELD
Can you tell me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Talks:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Harriet Cohen
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

More about Paddington by Michael Bond adapted as a three-part dramatised reading by BARBARA SLEIGH
2: The Bonfire and Trouble
Being a bear. Paddington doesn't get many letters, only an occasional picture postcard from his Aunt Lucy in Peru. But one morning a letter arrives marked 'Urgent and Strictly Personal.'
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Bond
Reading By:
Barbara Sleigh
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Storyteller:
David Davis
Paddington:
Keith Banks
Mr Gruber:
Gordon Gardner
Mrs Brown:
June Spencer
Mr Brown:
Alan Barry
Mr Curry:
Brian Hewlett
Jonathan:
Nicholas Charles
Judy:
Jennifer Ellison

by Bernard Shaw with Robert Hardy
Fenella Fielding, J. G. Devlin and Moira Redmond
'Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. Which shall use up the other? that is the issue between them.'
England and Spain in the year 1901

Contributors

Produced by:
Charles Lefeaux
Narrator:
Godfrey Kenton
Parlourmaid:
Elizabeth Proud
Roebuck Ramsden:
Walter Fitzgerald
Octavius Robinson:
Gordon Gardner
John Tanner:
Robert Hardy
Ann Whitefield:
Fenella Fielding
Mrs Whitefield, her mother:
Joan Matheson
Miss Ramsden, Ramsden's sister:
Mary Wimbush
Violet Robinson, Octavius'sister:
Moira Redmond
Henry Straker, Tanner's chauffeur:
Hector Ross
Hector Malone:
Nigel Graham
Mr Malone, his father:
J. G. Devlin

Piano Trio No. 1, in G major
(Haydn)
JEAN FOURNIER (violin) ANTONIO JANIGRO (cello)
PAUL BADURA-SKODA (piano)
11.32* Fantasia upon one note
(Purcell)
YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) ROBERT MASTERS (violin) CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) WALTER GERHARD (viola) DEREK SIMPSON (cello)
11.35* Piano Trio No. 17, In E flat major (Haydn)
JEAN Fournier (violin) ANTONIO JANIGRO (cello)
PAUL BADURA-SKODA (piano) on gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Jean Fournier
Violin:
Yehudi Menuhin
Viola:
Cecil Aronowitz
Cello:
Derek Simpson
Violin:
Jean Fournier

BBC Home Service Basic

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