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Sound biographies tracing the lives and careers of the ' greats ' of the film world as chosen by listeners
7: Dirk Bogarde
Illustrated by excerpts from his important motion pictures
Compiled and introduced by PETER MATTHEWS
Produced by John Dyas

Contributors

Unknown:
Dirk Bogarde
Introduced By:
Peter Matthews
Produced By:
John Dyas

Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
A Job in the Big City: JUNE ROSE investigates hostel accommodation in London
Riding through Hungary: an impression from DAVID MORGAN REES of people, villages, and countryside
' No Child is Ineducable
S. S. SEGAL talks about his book to Anne Staden
An ever-changing view of the sea: ROSEMARY BREWIS talks about living on a yacht
Places to Visit: MICHAEL HARD-wick visits Uppark, a Georgian mansion in Sussex with romantic associations
ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY reads Two Flamboyant Fathers by NICOLETTE DEVAS
Seventh of eight instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
David Morgan
Talks:
S. S. Segal
Unknown:
Anne Staden
Talks:
Rosemary Brewis
Unknown:
Rosalie Crutchley

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specialty in mind, including: tThe Dale Saga : the 5,000th edition of The Dales is due next Tuesday. ANNE CATCHPOLE talks to the members of the cast, scriptwriters, and people behind the scenes about this long-running serial
The Great Fire of Salonica:
WILLIAM A. JOHNSON tells how he helped to fight the fire in August 1917 f Keeping Things Fresh:
GEORGE VILLIERS has some hints for the housewife
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Dale Saga
Talks:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
William A. Johnson
Unknown:
George Villiers
Introduced By:
Steve Race

Gulliver's Travels
The world-famous story by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Read in six parts by Max Adrian
6: The Houyhnhnms
This last of Gulliver's Travels is a very strange story indeed ... f Adapted and produced by DAVID A. TURNER from Northern Ireland

Contributors

Story By:
Jonathan Swift
Unknown:
Max Adrian
Produced By:
David A. Turner

A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd
With Teddy Johnson
Steve Gardiner is now certain that he knows the identity of the Kind Man, and he returns to the Morton household.
(Teddy Johnson is in "The Queen's Show" at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool; Jimmy Logan in "Wedding Fever" at the Metropole Theatre, Glasgow)

Contributors

Writer:
Edward Boyd
Producer:
Eddie Fraser
Steve Gardiner:
Teddy Johnson
Wilfred Morton:
Leonard Maguire
Romilly Foster:
Douglas Murchie
Lindy Marshall:
Hannah Gordon
Det-Insp Gordon:
Moultrie R. Kelsall
Jimmy Morton:
Jimmy Logan
Railway porter:
Eric Wightman

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER TAPLIN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome.
For very late letters you can ring (01) 580-4468. extension 3030. and dictate your message.

Contributors

Introduces:
Walter Taplin

A series of five talks from people who are working now on the innovations of the 1980s
4: Computers fit for Idiots by REX MALIK an adviser to SCAN, the first of Britain's computer ' utilities '
As the much-vaunted computer revolution begins to catch on, Rex Malik considers some of the systems we can expect to see by the 80s.,

Contributors

Unknown:
Rex Malik
Unknown:
Rex Malik

BBC Home Service Basic

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