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A daily programme for women at home
Introduced by Mary Hill
' I Married a Rat-Catcher': talk by Doris Dalton.
' What's Going On ': spotlight on current affairs
' If You're New to Gardening,' by Gordon Forsyth. 5—' Trees and Shrubs for the Small Garden.' A series of talks designed to help gardening beginners
' Just the Other Day': taking you to events and introducing you to people
Serial : ' A Town Like Alice,' by NevU Shute. Abridged by Brenda Markham. Read by Ronald Simpson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Mary Hill
Talk By:
Doris Dalton.
Unknown:
Gordon Forsyth.
Unknown:
Nevu Shute.
Abridged By:
Brenda Markham.
Read By:
Ronald Simpson

A new tale of the days of Nelson by John Keir Cross 4-' At the Chateau '
Produced by Lionel Gamlin

Contributors

Unknown:
John Keir Cross
Produced By:
Lionel Gamlin
Tom Cathro:
Bryan Forbes
Harry de Rohan:
Brian Roper
Lieutenant Butterfield, R N:
Wilfred Babbage
The Chevalier de Rohan:
Peter Creswell
Mignonne de Barbaroux:
Dorothy Gordon
Habbakuk McGuffle:
Jack Lambert
Louis Kabal:
Alexander Archdale
Blue Nose:
Wyndham Milligan
Blackadder:
Reginald Beckwith

with Kitty Bluett
Patricia Hayes
Fred Yule
Peter Sellers
Leslie Perrins
Bob Pearson
and Alf Pearson
The Beaux and the Belles
Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra
Script by Eddie Maguire and Ted Ray

Contributors

Unknown:
Kitty Bluett
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Fred Yule
Unknown:
Peter Sellers
Unknown:
Leslie Perrins
Unknown:
Bob Pearson
Unknown:
Alf Pearson
Unknown:
Stanley Black
Script By:
Eddie Maguire
Script By:
Ted Ray

Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by: Ralph Wightman
R. H. S. Crossman, M.P .
Quintin Hogg
(Viscount Hailsham)
Dr. J. Bronowski
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
From the Victoria Rooms, Bristol
Produced by Nicholas Crocker
(Home)
Ralph Wightman, born in Dorset, is a frequent member of The * Any Questions? ' team. He is a well-known broadcaster on matters dealing with agriculture and the countryside.
R. H. S. Crossman, Member of Parliament (Labour) for Coventry East, was educated at Winchester and Oxford. He has been Assistant Editor of The New Statesman and Nation since 1938. During the war he organised psychological warfare against Germany, and was one of the BBC's leading speakers in German.
Quintin Hogg, who recently succeeded his father Lord Hailsham, was Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Oxford. Educated at Eton and Oxford, where he was President of the Union, he was later called to the Bar. In the last weeks of the Coalition he was appointed Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Air, a post which he also held in the ' Care-taker ' Government. His books deal with legal and political affairs.
Dr. J. B. Bronowski, educated at Jesus
College, Cambridge, started his career as a Lecturer in Mathematics at University College, Hull. During the war he worked as head of a series of mathematical and statistical units planning atomic bombing. Since 1947 he has been engaged in applying statistical research to the economics of industry, and is at present the Director of the Central Research Establishment of the National Coal Board. He has broadcast frequently and his latest contribu'ion to radio, a play dealing with the manifestations and motives of violence in modern society, was broadcast on Monday in the Home Service.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Wightman
Unknown:
R. H. S. Crossman, M.P
Unknown:
Quintin Hogg
Unknown:
Dr. J. Bronowski
Produced By:
Nicholas Crocker

by Daphne du Maurier
Adapted for broadcasting by Rex Rienits
4—' Invasion '
(Continued in next column)
Produced by David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne du Maurier
Broadcasting By:
Rex Rienits
Produced By:
David H. Godfrey
Honor Harris:
Rita Vale
Matty:
Molly Rankin
Gartred Grenvile:
Joyce Heron
Sir Richard Grenvile:
Malcolm Hayes
Mary Rashleigh:
Isabel Dean
Jonathan Rashleigh:
Peter Bathurst
John Rashleigh:
Allan Cuthbertson
Joan Rashleigh:
Betty Baskcomb
Dick Grenvile:
Hugh Munro
Herbert Ashley:
Heron Carvic
Joe Grenvile:
David Peel
Lord Robartes:
Howieson Culff
Narrator:
John Bentley

Light Programme

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