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The Cool Generation
In the third of twelve talks about life in Europe today PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from Warsaw
In January 1945 the Russians entered Warsaw, and any Pole turning twenty-one this year has lived his entire life under Communism. Meeting these young people in the capital, Peter Duval Smith found them not restless under oppression but cynical and indifferent. They have a word for themselves, zimny or ' cool.'
Next Wednesday: Berlin

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Peter Duval

by Kenneth Grahame arranged for broadcasting in eight instalments by May Jenkin
7: Plots and Counterplots
' Now I'm going to tell you a great secret. There is an underground passage that leads from
. the River Bank right into the middle of Toad Hall. '
Broadcast in Story Time on November 8, 1965

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Grahame
Unknown:
Toad Hall.

The true story of the Atlantic Wall in Normandy and the plot to destroy it adapted in eleven parts from Richard COLLIER 'S book Ten Thousand Eyes by ROBERT BARR with Rupert Davies as The Storyteller
7: A Change of Plan
Other parts played by Andrew Sachs , Frederick Treves and Rosemary Miller
Produced by CHARLES Maxwell
Broadcast on May 22 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Collier
Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Rupert Davies
Played By:
Andrew Sachs
Played By:
Frederick Treves
Played By:
Rosemary Miller
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell
Marcel Girard:
Davib Netthelm
Eugène Meslin:
John Gabriel
Dr Sustendal:
Barry Letts

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Showpiece: a monthly glance at the world of entertainment
Check Those References: ANN HALES-TOOKE tells of an occasion when she failed to do so In Search of Folk Music: JAMES McNEISH describes a recent visit to Czechoslovakia
My ' Sunday Best ':
MOLLY WEIR recalls her childhood attitude to clothes
By Hovercraft to Calais: ANNE GREGG makes the trip Pig in the Middle written and read by DAVID TREE
Second of five instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Ann Hales-Tooke
Unknown:
James McNeish
Unknown:
Molly Weir
Unknown:
Anne Gregg
Read By:
David Tree

by Joan O'Connor

'I've decided to send him with the group going to the Welsh mountains. Going there will help him to become a man instead of a namby-pamby.'

Cast in order of speaking: [see below]

(Robert Powell is in 'Ubu Roi' at The Royal Court Theatre. London)

Contributors

Writer:
Joan O'Connor
Producer:
Graham Gauld
Walter Camden:
John Dearth
Hilda Camden:
Grizelda Hervey
Bill Rootes:
Brian Hewlett
Hank Carey:
Robert Powell
Marna Cook:
Carol March
Alexander Camden:
Hugh Janes
George Tilly:
Nigel Anthony
Headmaster:
Michael Kilgarriff
Miss Hickey:
Eva Haddon
Leonard Parker:
Anthony Hall
Sgt -Major Tilly:
Godfrey Kenton
Peter Rayner:
Paul Greenhalgh
Meg Jones:
Barbara Mitchell
Gwillim Jones:
Keith Banks
Hetty Jones:
Gudrun Ure

of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Votive) from the Carmelite Church, Kensington. London
Celebrant.
FR. ANSELM COONEY, O.D.C. who also introduces the service sung by the Choir of the Carmelite priory
Psalm 147: Lauda Jerusalem
(Monteverdi)
Hymn: Ave Maris Stella
(Monteverdi)
Magnificat (Palestrima)
Motet: Assumpta est Maria
(Palestrma)
Musical director, John McCarthy
Organist, Christine Parker

Contributors

Unknown:
Virgin Mary
Unknown:
Maris Stella
Organist:
John McCarthy
Organist:
Christine Parker

A magazine of interest to all. with older listeners specialty in mind, including:
' I Travel the World ':
STEVE BENBOW sings songs about animals from his collection
Is there a boarder in the house?: MOIRA HENRY turns landlady and recalls some of her exotic paying guests
Off the Beat: Memories of an ex-London bobby by WILLIAM A. JOHNSON
1 Date with a Doctor
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Benbow
Unknown:
Moira Henry
Unknown:
William A. Johnson
Introduced By:
Steve Race

The Regent
Arnold Bennett 's sequel to
The Card dramatised as an eight-part serial by OLIVIA MANNING with The Card, in need of a change. visits London to look at the site of a proposed new theatre. As a result of a bet made on the journey he stays at the most exclusive hotel in London.
3:Wilkins's
Other parts played by Barrie Fletcher. Stephen Hancock George Woolley , Jack Butcher and Charles Butter
Produced by Guy VAF .SEN in the BBC's Midland studios

Contributors

Unknown:
Arnold Bennett
Unknown:
Olivia Manning
Played By:
Barrie Fletcher.
Played By:
Stephen Hancock
Played By:
George Woolley
Played By:
Jack Butcher
Produced By:
Guy Vaf
Denry Machin:
Graham Armitage
Joseph:
Alan Devereux
Rose Euclid:
Marigold Sharman
Elsie April:
Sheila Hammond
Countess of Chell:
Janet Whiteside
Bryany:
Brian Kent
Seven Sachs:
Harry Towb
Marrier:
Tim Seely
Carlo Trent:
Norman Cockin

Written and narrated by Edgar Lustgarten
Principal characters:

See facing page

Contributors

Writer/Narrator:
Edgar Lustgarten
Producer:
Joe Burroughs
Bridget:
Eileen Colgan
Lizzie Borden:
Grizelda Hervey
Emma Borden:
Mary Wimbush
Alice Russell:
Ann Murray
Counsellor for the Prosecution:
Alan Tilvern
Governor Robinson, for the Defence:
Carleton Hobbs
Other parts played by:
Mary O'Farrell
Other parts played by:
Douglas Hankin
Other parts played by:
Stephen Jack.
Other parts played by:
Harold Kasket
Other parts played by:
Preston Lockwood
Other parts played by:
Humphrey Morton

Cancer of the cervix can be prevented. This is well known to the medical profession.
Nearly 3000 women a year die ot cancer of the cervix. This is an inescapable fact.
MARIGOLD LAWTON asks members of the medical profession, the Minister of Health, and others concerned how both these statements can be true
Produced by Helen Fry from the Midlands
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Marigold Lawton
Produced By:
Helen Fry

BBC Home Service Basic

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