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First of fifteen Instalments
Only one man could sare Gibraltar for the Allies. Everything hinged on Captain Tim Bailey, that insignificant junior officer, that glorified zoo-keeper, that nursemaid to a pack of apes.

Contributors

Writer:
Paul Gallico
Abridged by:
Neville Teller
Read by:
John Westbrook
Produced by:
John Cardy

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised as a seven-part serial by John Hale
with Patrick Troughton and Brian Jackson

from the South and West
(Broadcast on March 30, 1966)

Principal characters for the week: [see below]

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by:
John Hale
Producer:
Brandon Acton-Bond
Decimus Saxon:
Patrick Thoughton
Micah Clarke:
Brian Jackson
Reuben Lockarby:
David Jackson
Duke of Monmouth:
Brian Spink
Major Ouilvy:
Ronald Baddiley
Judge Jeffreys:
Patrick Barr
Others taking part:
Wilfred Babbage
Others taking part:
John Cater
Others taking part:
Peter French
Others taking part:
Brian Gear
Others taking part:
Michael Goldie
Others taking part:
Edgar Harrison
Others taking part:
Rex Holdsworth
Others taking part:
Dudley Jones
Others taking part:
Harold Kasket
Others taking part:
David Langford
Others taking part:
Geoffrey Matthews
Others taking part:
George Mattock
Others taking part:
Humphrey Morton
Others taking part:
Hubert Rees
Others taking part:
Esmond Hideout
Others taking part:
Jacqueline Rose
Others taking part:
Hector Ross
Others taking part:
Ronald Russell
Others taking part:
John Smith
Others taking part:
Norman Tyrrell
Others taking part:
Philip Weston

GORDON Gow introduces a Western: Chuka starring ROD TAYLOR
JOHN MILLS , LUCIANA PALUZZI and Louis HAYWARD adapted by Marjorie Bilbow
Produced by TONY LUKE
Broadcast June 23 (Light)

Contributors

Introduces:
Gordon Gow
Unknown:
Rod Taylor
Unknown:
John Mills
Unknown:
Luciana Paluzzi
Unknown:
Louis Hayward
Adapted By:
Marjorie Bilbow
Produced By:
Tony Luke

from Scotland
Introduced by NANCY MITCHELL
Caithness Class: J. S. Camp
BELL visits the new industry beside the Pentland Firth that is rivalling John o' Groats as a tourist attraction
Life with Lindwall: MIN RANKIN talks about domestic life with an eighteen-stone St. Bernard The Year of Jubilee: ELSIE RUSSELL , in the East Lothian Village of Longniddry where the first Scottish Women's Rural Institute was founded fifty years ago, talks with members, including two who joined in 1917 Cat on a hot slate roof: CHRIS-TINA Knox is a slater. She tells of the advantages and disadvantages for a woman in a male occupation
The Life and Death of a Village: the story of the Foyers community from the establishment of the British Aluminium Company there in 1896 to the rundown and closure of the works in February this year ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY reads Two Flamboyant Fathers by NICOLETTE DEVAS
Fourth of eight instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nancy Mitchell
Talks:
Min Rankin
Unknown:
Elsie Russell
Unknown:
Tina Knox
Unknown:
Rosalie Crutchley

Loyalties by John Galsworthy with Keith Michell and John Justin
' Look here De Levis! This isn'an Motel. It's the sort of thing that doesn'happen in a decent house. Are you sure you didn'have them stolen on the course? '
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
Saturday's broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
John Galsworthy
Unknown:
Keith Michell
Unknown:
John Justin
Produced By:
Betty Davies

including:
At Your Invitation:
DAVID DAVIS , former Head of Children's Hour, chosen by listeners to be their guest on the programme this month, answers questions put to him by Jack Singleton
In Search of Galsworthy:
J. B. H. PEEL takes his tape-recorder into Devon
Alfred the Great: IAN GRIMBLE takes a new look at the king who burnt the cakes and shows why he is the only British monarch to be dubbed the Great
Family Reunion: more prize-winning entries in the recent literary competition
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
David Davis
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Ian Grimble
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Uncle Remus or Mr. Fox, Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Terrapin by Joel Chandler Harris
A series of six readings by Edric Connor
3: Mr. Woll makes a failure
Mr. Fox tackles old man tarrypin The awful fate of Mr. Wolf Mr. Fox and the deceitful frogs
Mr. Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr.
Rabbit bags the game

Contributors

Unknown:
Joel Chandler Harris

Trevor Williams (violin) Jeffrey Wakefield (violin) Alan Dalziel (cello)
Margaret Price (soprano) Jean Allister (contralto) Robert Tear (tenor) Colin Wheatley (bass-baritone)
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader. Trevor Williams
Conducted by Mario Rossi
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1

Contributors

Violin:
Jeffrey Wakefield
Cello:
Alan Dalziel
Contralto:
Jean Allister
Bass-Baritone:
Colin Wheatley
Conducted By:
Mario Rossi
Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall

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