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Speaking and Writing
A series of ten programmes designed to help and encourage those who wish to express themselves more effectively or recapture old skills in the spoken and the written word.
2; Notices and Instructions
Written and introduced by GILBERT PHELPS
Produced by Peggy Bacon

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gilbert Phelps
Produced By:
Peggy Bacon

including:
Talking Theatre:
SIR CHARLES TENNYSON talks to JOANNA RICHARDSON about Henrv Irving. Ellen Terry , Sarah Bernhardt , and his grandfather's plays.
† Looking at Books: LIZ SEAGER compares undergraduate memories of Oxford in the 1920s by A. L Rowse and Louis MacNeice
Can You Tell Me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Talks:
Sir Charles Tennyson
Unknown:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
Henrv Irving.
Unknown:
Ellen Terry
Unknown:
Sarah Bernhardt
Unknown:
Liz Seager
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

The Stumpfs by John Onslow adapted as a four-part serial reading by HOWARD LOXTON
PART I
Other parts: Gwen Day Burroughs and LeRoy Lingwood
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
John Onslow
Reading By:
Howard Loxton
Unknown:
Gwen Day Burroughs
Unknown:
Leroy Lingwood
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Narrator:
Basil Jones
Mr Pettle:
Wilfred Babbage
Jane Simon Andrew:
Jean England
Stumpf:
Jonathan Scott
Cordelia:
Susan Maudslay

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
†Adapted for radio and produced by HALLAM TENNYSON to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings October 14. 1066
Music specially composed by ELIZABETH POSTON with Gabriel Woolf as Harold and Stephen Murray , Ernest Hilton and Beth Boyd Main characters m order of speaking:
Other parts: Clive Merrison Henry Manning , John Dearth
The music and singers conducted by DOUGLAS ROBINSON

Contributors

Produced By:
Hallam Tennyson
Composed By:
Elizabeth Poston
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Ernest Hilton
Unknown:
Beth Boyd
Unknown:
Clive Merrison
Unknown:
Henry Manning
Unknown:
John Dearth
Conducted By:
Douglas Robinson
AMwyth:
Jill Balcon
Morcar her brother, head of the house of Alfgar.:
John Dearth
Gurth, brother to Harold:
Nigel Graham
Sticand, Archbishop of Canterbury:
Humphrey Morton
Harold Earl of Wessex:
Gabriel Woolf
King Edward the Confessor:
Ernest Milton
Tostig Earl of Nortlmmbria brother to Harold.:
Henry Stampee
The Queen, wifa to Edward andsister to Harold:
Joan Matheson
Edith, ward to the King, betrothedto Harold:
Beth Boyd
Guy Count of Ponthieu:
Allan McCleliand
WiUiam Malet a Norman nobleman .:
Preston Lockwood
William, Count of Normandy:
Stephen Murray
Wulfnoth, younger brother toHarold:
.Henry Manning
Aldred, Archbishop of York:
Allan McClelland
Thane from Pevensey:
Preston Lockwood
Hugh Margot a Norman monk:
Henry Stamper

In Search of Wild Horses
In the tenth of twelve talks about life in Europe today
PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from France
For many years I have promised myself a sight of the white horses of the Camargue, the wild cheval bianc of the salt marshes, and the other day, finding myself nearby to Aries, I was able to keep my promise.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Duval Smith

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