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The Story of the Passion
Six talks for Holy Week
by THE REV.
C. KINGSLEY BARRETT , D.D. Professor of Divinity in the University of Durham
1: What happened
The talks will be published on March 21 as a booklet. price 3s. 6d. This may be ordered through your bookseller or by sending postal order for 4s. 2d. (including postage, packing) to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
C. Kingsley Barrett

A story of the Island of Mull abridged from the book by CAMPBELL K. FINLAY
Readers, BRYDEN MURDOCH
STUART HENRY , MARY RIGGANS
1: Invitation
John Macinnes is happy in his life as an island shepherd until his
Uncle Donald writes from New Zealand, inviting John to join him.
Produced by Ian Wishart
Broadcast on March 17. 1966

Contributors

Readers:
Campbell K. Finlay
Readers:
Bryden Murdoch
Readers:
Stuart Henry
Unknown:
John MacInnes
Produced By:
Ian Wishart

A programme about widowhood compiled and introduced by JOAN YORKE
It may be that our society is unkind to widows, both in not helping them sufficiently with practical problems and by contributing to their feelings of loss of identity, inferiority, and of having no role
Ili life.
Several widows and a widower give their views, and so does an anthropologist who has worked in Nigeria
Produced by Madge Hart

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Produced By:
Madge Hart

Friday evening's broadcast

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denls Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Archer:
Angela Piper
Lilian Archer:
Elizaberh Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill Payne
Paddy Redmond:
John Bott
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Roger Patillo:
Jeremy Mason
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville

ALAN DELL introduces songs from two film musicals starring
Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jeurdan
Cole Porter 's
Can Can with FRANK SINATRA and SHIRLEY MACLAINE and Lerner and Loewe's
Gigi with LESLIE CARON and HERMIONE GINGOLD
Produced, with records, by Derek Chinnery

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Chevalier
Unknown:
Louis Jeurdan
Unknown:
Cole Porter
Unknown:
Frank Sinatra
Unknown:
Shirley MacLaine
Unknown:
Leslie Caron
Unknown:
Hermione Gingold
Unknown:
Derek Chinnery

The Game and the Candle
Adapted by JOAN O'CONNOR from the novel Glenoon by KATHLEEN BALBERNlE with Cudrun Ure and Frank Duncan
' Some people have power over others, and this person has power over me.'
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Adapted By:
Joan O'Connor
Unknown:
Kathleen Balbernle
Unknown:
Cudrun Ure
Unknown:
Frank Duncan
Produced By:
Betty Davies

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including
A Weekly Date: BARBARA LOTT pays a return visit to the town where she once played in ' Rep ' and meets an old friend
For Your Library List: GILBERT
PHELPS suggests some new books
Argument: another in the series of conversations on an issue of the day
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Lott
Introduced By:
Ken Sykora

At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald adapted as a dramatised reading in six parts
2: How Diamond got to the back of the North Wind
' When he reached her, Diamond put out his hand, but there was nothing there save an intense cold. Then all grew white about him, and the cold stung him like fire.'
Produced by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Unknown:
George MacDonald
Produced By:
Ian Wishart
Storyteller:
Michael Elder
North Wind:
Eileen McCallum
Diamond:
Margaret Love
Nanny:
Jean Hastings

Dame Sybil stars in some of her favourite plays
The Potting Shed by Graham Greene adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Robert Harris
' ... The pottinK shed? Something awful happened there once.'
The characters:
The action of the play takes place in the Callifers' house, 'Wild Grove.' in what was once the country; in James Callifer 's lodgings in Nottingham; and in Fr. Callifer's presbytery somewhere in East Angiia.
Produced by JOHN POWELL
See facing page

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Greene
Radio By:
Peggy Wells
Unknown:
Robert Harris
Unknown:
James Callifer
Produced By:
John Powell
Mrs Mary Callifer, wife of H C Callifer:
Sybil Thorndine
John Callifer, her eldest son:
John Justin
Anne Callifer, John's daughter:
Chrys Salt
James Callifer, brother of John:
Robert Harris
Sara Callifer, James's former wife:
Jill Balcon
Father William Califer, uncle of John and James:
Henry Stamper
Dr. Frederick Baston, an old friend of the family and fellow-worker of H C Callifer:
Ronald Herdman
Dr Kreuzer, James's doctor:
Harold Kasket
Corner, James's fellow-lodger:
Brian Hewlett
Mrs Potter, widow of the Callifers' gardener:
Marjorie Forsyth
Miss Connolly, housekeeper to Fr. Callifer:
Anna Burden

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