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Framed for Hanging
The novel by Guy Cullingford adapted for broadcasting by BARBARA SLEIGH
'The natives make a sort of flour from the tuber of the mandioca. In its natural state the stuff is full of poison-prussic acid.'
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Novel By:
Guy Cullingford
Produced By:
David Davis

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind
In today's edition:
Special Guest: Cyril Fletcher
Argument: another in the series of conversations on an issue of the day
Question Time: DR.GILLET deals with the problem of keeping out the cold
Join in and Sing: STEVE BENBOW with his guitar
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Steve Benbow
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame arranged for broadcasting by May Jenkin
5: Toad's Adventures
'When Toad found himself shut in a dank and noisesome dungeon he abandoned himself to dark despair.'
Produced by MARGARET LYFORD-PIKE

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame
Produced By:
Margaret Lyford-Pike
Storyteller:
David Steuart
Toad:
Leonard Maguire
The Gaoler's Daughter:
Sheila Donald
The Engine Driver:
John Shedden

by William Shakespeare starring
John Neville with David March , Peter Pratt and Norman Wynne

(Valentine Dyall is in "Son of Oblomov" at the Comedy Theatre: Peter Pratt In "A Month in the Country" at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
(See facing page)

Contributors

Playwright:
William Shakespeare
Producer:
R.D. Smith
Chorus:
David March
Canterbury:
Preston Lockwood
Ely:
Basil Jones
Westmoreland:
Stephen Thorne
Henry V:
John Neville
Exeter/Erpingham:
Wilfred Babbage
French Ambassador:
Patrick Barr
Bedford/Williams:
Hamlyn Benson
Scroop:
Tim Seely
Cambridge:
Gordon Gardner
Grey/Court:
Wilfrid Carter
Bardolph/Bates:
John Dearth
Nym:
Henry Webb
Pistol:
Peter Pratt
Mistress Quickly:
Joan Newell
Boy to the Three:
Brian Hewlett
French King:
Walter Fitzgerald
Dolphin:
Harold Lang
Constable of France:
Bruce Beeby
Bourbon:
Patrick Barr
Fluellen, governor:
Norman Wynne
Captain Gower:
Stephen Thorne
Captain Jamy:
Nigel Graham
Captain Macmorris:
Rio Fanning
Harfleur:
Eric Anderson
Princess Katharine:
Elizabeth Morgan
Alice/Queen Isabel:
Evelyne Volney
Montjoy, the French Herald:
Valentine Dyall
Orleans:
Brian Hewlett
Gloucester:
Eric Anderson
French Soldier:
Peter Marinker

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