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1: Breakdown by Derek Wellman
For the passengers on a long-distance coach journey a breakdown is merely an annoying delay. But for one girl it could make a vital difference to her whole future. and Produced by GUY VAESEN in the BBC's Midland studios
See below

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Wellman
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
Vera Crookes:
Janet Whiteside
Annie Barrett:
Joyce Latham
Driver:
Bill Maynard
Pat Fairclough:
Patricia Gallimore
Bill Mitehell:
Graham Armitage
Passengers:
George Woolley
Passengers:
Ysanne Churchman

with Wilfred Pickles visits the borough of Cowbridge, Glamorgan with MABEL at ' the Table '
HARRY HUDSON at the piano
Produced by Stephen Williams
Broadcast on March 1 (Light)

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Unknown:
Harry Hudson
Produced By:
Stephen Williams

Friday's broadcast (Light)

Contributors

Writer:
Edward J. Mason
Producer:
Tony Shryane
Editor:
Godfrey Baseley
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Grenville:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Polly Mead:
Hilary Newcombe
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Roger Patillo:
Jeremy Mason
Ronnie Beddoes:
Harry Littlewood
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Also appearing:
Mary MacDonell

Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Thoughts on a Theme: ANNE BATT , HONOR WYATT, and ARTHUR MARSHALL react to music
Shop Cakes: DORA TAYLOR 'S views
Reading Your Letters
The Holy Experiment: RONA RANDALL visited the Amish community in America
Widows' Pensions:
ELIZABETH MITCHELL talks about the different categories and allowances for those over sixty
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Fourteenth of eighteen instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pamela Creighton
Unknown:
Anne Batt
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Dora Taylor
Unknown:
Rona Randall
Talks:
Elizabeth Mitchell
Unknown:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Charles Dickens

Nefertiti's Daughter
A play by T. B. Morris with Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Play By:
T. B. Morris
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
as Tutankhamun, King of Egypt:
Leroy Lingwood
as Ankhsenamun, Queen of Egypt:
Elizabeth Proud
as Ay, Chamberlain:
Norman Shelley
as Nechtamun High Priest:
Heron Carwic

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
' Clarky ': PETER NOBLE talks to CLARKSON ROSE about his career on the stage
Looking at Books: OLIVE SHAP-
LEY has some suggestions for your library list
Can You Tell Me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by POLLY ELWES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

The Queen's Music
The book by Margaret J. Miller adapted for radio in four parts by IAN WISHART
Part 1: ' They '
' I'd better explain to you about Them ... They're our relations, of course, but quite, quite different. That's why we left Them. That's why we came to live here.'
Produced by MARGARET LYFORD-PIKE

Contributors

Book By:
Margaret J. Miller
Produced By:
Margaret Lyford-Pike
Storyteller:
David Steuart
Mother:
Sheila Donald
Barbara:
Gwyneth Guthrie
Gavin:
Michael Elder
Boomer:
Bryden Murdoch

Part 2
Symphony

At the Proms: The Great C major Symphony
Schubert was ill and poverty-stricken in 1828 when he entered that last creative spell which produced The Shepherd on the Rock, the wonderful late piano sonatas, the quintet, Op. 163, and his last symphony, called the Great r mainr-nnt only to distinguish it from the little C major, but because it is great. This work is no diary-entry or personal statement, however: rather, it conjures up an ideal sunlit world of men living at peace in nature. All its bounding outdoor energy lay buried for a decade after Schubert's death: discovered by Schumann, first performed by Mendelssohn in 1839, this symphony which-like Beethoven's Ninth-fairly shouts 'Be ye embraced, ye millions,' was rejected by its first English orchestral players with contemptuous laughter.
And it is still the object of some condescension. Schumann's ' heavenly length ' epithet is quoted almost as if it were ironical rather than delighted and admiring; occasionally an exceptionally stupid voice will utter that Schubert simply 'couldn't stop' - an idiotic insult to any artist thus to suggest that he has so little control over his material.
The truth of it is that it was Schubert's intention to cover a vast canvas, and that he succeeded. 'What size is a symphony?' is a question without meaning. The dimensions here are an integral part of the idea, and the grandeur of them is revealed with the opening horn-call, and in every subsequent bar until it reaches its warmest, most blithe, height in the sublimely galloping, irresistible finale.

(Hugh Wood)

The Real Greece
In the sixth of twelve talks about life in Europe today
PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from Athens
Returning to the Greek islands where he once lived, Peter Duvai Smith found the place infested by tourists and trippers. He had to travel to remoter parts to discover the real Greece he knew twenty years ago.
Last Wednesday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith
Unknown:
Peter Duvai

BBC Home Service Basic

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