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Introduced by Olive Shapley
' Good Cooking: The Magic Pumpkin,' by Mrs. Anthony Timms
Today's Guest: ‛A Year I Had Forgotten,' by Elizabeth Taylor
' A Children's Circus': Frank Coven has just visited Sweden Where he saw a circus at which the performers-acrobats, tumblers, minstrels, riders, dancers-were all children. They seemed, he says, to find this an enjoyable way of spending the leisure of school holidays
'This Is My Village': Cecilia Daniel talks about life in the Peak District of Derbyshire
Serial : Icedrome' by Frank Tilsley , abridged by the author. Read by Freda Falconer

Contributors

Introduced By:
Olive Shapley
Unknown:
Mrs. Anthony Timms
Unknown:
Elizabeth Taylor
Unknown:
Frank Coven
Talks:
Cecilia Daniel
Unknown:
Frank Tilsley
Read By:
Freda Falconer

An Ulster comedy by St. John Ervine
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by James Mageean

Scene: Donaghreagh, a small village in Northern Ireland

Contributors

Author:
St. John Ervine
Adapted by/Producer:
James Mageean
Andy Haveron, a young boy:
Mark Fisher
Andrew Boyd, a grocer:
R.H. McCandless
Agnes Boyd, his daughter:
Margaret D'Arcy
John Haslett, a newcomer to Donaghreagh:
John F. Tyrone
Miss McClurg:
Elizabeth Begley
Mrs McBratney:
Elizabeth McKeown
Mrs Clotworthy:
Sheila McGibbon
Miss Logan:
Jean Lundy
The Rev. Ernest Dunwoody, M.A., a young Presbyterian Minister:
Joseph Tomelty
William Henry Doak, a farmer:
Jack O'Malley
Carrie, the Boyds' maidservant:
Audrey Bell
The Rev. Arthur Patterson, Minister of Donaghreagh First Presbyterian Church:
W.R. Gordon

Round the British Isles with Top of the Form

Lionel GamIin and Robert MacDermot are the Question-Masters in this inter-country contest between representative teams from girls' and boys' schools in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Grove Park Grammar School for Girls, Wrexham v. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School for Boys, Carmarthen

Contributors

Question-master:
Lionel Gamlin
Question-master:
Robert MacDermot
Series devised by:
Joan Clark

Script by Alan Stranks
3—' The Case of the Sentimental Sergeant'
Produced by Vernon Harris

Contributors

Script By:
Alan Stranks
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
P C 49:
Brian Reece
Joan Carr:
Joy Shelton
Chief Inspector Wilson:
Leslie Perrins
Detective-Sgt Wright:
Eric Phillips
Bert Snell:
John Bentley
Sergeant Cole:
Sidney Monckton
Ethel:
Ruth Dunning
Dr Udel:
Oliver Burt
Tina:
Madeleine Burgess
Zaccharias:
Martin Benson

Singers:
Dorothy Squires
The Mitchell Maids
Comediennes:
Renee Houston
Joyce Golding
' Georgie and Georgina' played by Jeanne de Casalis and Lana Morris
Guest:
Michal Hambourg (piano)
Orchestra:
Ivy Benson and her Girls' Orchestra
Introduced by Sheila Stewart
Script by Godfrey Harrison and Alec Harrison
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont

Contributors

Singers:
Dorothy Squires
Unknown:
Renee Houston
Unknown:
Joyce Golding
Played By:
Jeanne de Casalis
Unknown:
Lana Morris
Piano:
Michal Hambourg
Unknown:
Ivy Benson
Introduced By:
Sheila Stewart
Script By:
Godfrey Harrison
Script By:
Alec Harrison
Produced By:
Leslie Bridgmont

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