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Welsh Edition
Introduced by Nan Davies

'Those Elusive Eggs': Marion Roberts, a farmer's wife from Merionethshire, wonders whether it may not be simpler to buy her ration of eggs over the counter

'The Great Arctic Highway': Marjorie Wynn-Williams recalls a few incidents experienced during a mail-bus trip on the Lapland highway

'The Cupboard was Bare': Nesta Evans describes the food problems of Welsh housewives two hundred years ago

'Harp and Voice': Enid Parry introduces Welsh folk songs, sung by Sassie Rees to harp accompaniment by Osian Ellis

'Harvest of the Seashore': Laver bread - made from a special type of seaweed - and cockles are two very popular items in the menus of many South Walians. In this recorded interview Alun Williams discusses their work with a few of the cockle and laver-bread sellers at Swansea Market

Short story: 'Old Age' by Kate Roberts, translated by Wyn Griffith. Read by Nesta Harries

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nan Davies
Unknown:
Marion Roberts
Unknown:
Marjorie Wynn-Williams
Unknown:
Nesta Evans
Introduces:
Enid Parry
Sung By:
Sassie Rees
Harp:
Osian Ellis
Unknown:
Alun Williams
Unknown:
Kate Roberts
Translated By:
Wyn Griffith.
Read By:
Nesta Harries

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Arranged as a serial for broadcasting by R. J. B. Sellar
8—' Death in the Wilderness'
Produced by James Crampsey in the BBC's Scottish studios

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Broadcasting By:
R. J. B. Sellar
Produced By:
James Crampsey
James Dune, Master of Ballantrae:
Moultrie R Kelsall
Henry Durie:
Bryden Murdoch
Alison:
Denise Edwards
Ephraim Mackellar:
George Davies
Secundra Dase:
Balfour Brown
Captain Harris:
Robert Sherwood
Sir William Johnston:
Laurence Hardy
John Mountain:
Tom Fleming
Hastie:
Archie Henry

1951 Edition with Hilda Meacham
George Betton Kathleen West
Terry Wilson
Maudie Edwards
Jock Walker
Chairman, George Street
Supported by Billy Howard. Connie
Fraser Harry Loman. Richard Pasquale with the Palace of Varieties Chorus and the BBC Variety Orchestra
Show produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe

Contributors

Unknown:
Hilda Meacham
Unknown:
George Betton
Unknown:
Kathleen West
Unknown:
Terry Wilson
Unknown:
Maudie Edwards
Unknown:
Jock Walker
Unknown:
Billy Howard.
Unknown:
Fraser Harry Loman.
Unknown:
Richard Pasquale
Conducted By:
Ernest Longstaffe

Dr. Charles Hill is the Member of Parliament for Luton. He was until recently Secretary of the British Medical Association.
Ian Mikardo is the Member of Parliament for Reading South. He is an industrial consultant and an authority on industrial organisation and management, on which he has written a number of books. A prominent trade unionist, he is Chairman of the Society of Socialist Managers and Technicians and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.
This programme is also bedng televised

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Wightman
Unknown:
Lord Elton
Unknown:
Dr. Charles Hill M.P.
Unknown:
Ian Mlkardo M.P
Produced By:
Nicholas Crocker
Unknown:
Dr. Charles Hill
Unknown:
Ian Mikardo

. A romance of the Great Exhibition of 1851 by Dorothy Hewlett
Adapted for broadcasting in eight episodes by Jon Manchip White
1—' Amber House '
Pianist. Arthur Dulay
Production by David H. Godfrey

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy Hewlett
Unknown:
Jon Manchip White
Pianist:
Arthur Dulay
Production By:
David H. Godfrey
William:
Ivan Samson
William as a boy:
David Peel
Mr Pratt:
Ralph Truman
Mrs Pratt:
Gladys Spencer
Adelaide:
Beryl Calder
Charlotte:
Anne Cullen
Victoria:
Ursula Hirst
Mary:
Joan Duan
Alice:
Dorothy Gordon
Albert:
Ysanne Churchman
Nurse Emmett:
Ella Milne
Hoskin:
John Turnbull

Light Programme

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