Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 278,110 playable programmes from the BBC

including:
Guest of the Week: Roberta Leigh
Worth Saving For: Ellen Bliss describes how she saved up to go and visit a pen friend in Canada
Reading Your Letters: the latest selection from the mailbag
Marie Bracie opens her diary
(Continued in next column)
Serial:
'The Semi-Detached House' by Emily Eden
Abridged by Audrey Lucas
Read by Richard Hurndall
The eighth of ten instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Roberta Leigh
Unknown:
Emily Eden
Abridged By:
Audrey Lucas
Read By:
Richard Hurndall
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

at Newmarket
The Cesarewitch Stakes
A handicap for three-year-olds and upwards, run over two-and-a-quarter miles
Commentators: Raymond Glendenning, with Tom E. Webster as race-reader, at the Grand Stand, and Peter O'Sullevan at a point down the Course

Contributors

Commentators:
Raymond Glendenning
Unknown:
Tom E. Webster
Unknown:
Peter O'Sullevan

Young people discussing the current films, books, plays, and tunes they like
Thrills in Fact and Fiction
This week Norma Ellis (Chairman). Phyl Weir. Peter Deitch , and Conway Vogel , with Francis Cammaerts as guest critic, review:
' The Green Scarf directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring
, Michael Redgrave. Leo Genn , and Ann Todd (generally released)
' The White Rabbit ' : a British agent's adventures in France by Bruce Marshall and the week's choice from the new gramophone records
All Yours
Michael Flanders gives the results of last week's competition and sets another one

Contributors

Unknown:
Norma Ellis
Unknown:
Phyl Weir.
Unknown:
Peter Deitch
Unknown:
Conway Vogel
Unknown:
Francis Cammaerts
Directed By:
George More O'Ferrall
Unknown:
Michael Redgrave.
Unknown:
Leo Genn
Unknown:
Ann Todd
Unknown:
Bruce Marshall

The best of today's popular music played by the Stanley Black
Concert Orchestra and sung by Dick James
Alma Warren , Martin Moreno
The Keynotes featuring
The British tune of the week
Your requests in ' Mail Call'
Stanley Black at the piano
Top Score's ' Top Four '
Introduced by Jimmy Kingsbury
Producer, Jimmy Grant

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Black
Sung By:
Dick James
Sung By:
Alma Warren
Sung By:
Martin Moreno
Unknown:
Stanley Black
Introduced By:
Jimmy Kingsbury
Unknown:
Jimmy Grant

A play for radio by Lester Powell
Cast in order of speaking:
(Continued in next column)
Pianist, Cicely Hoye
Time: The present
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
Lester Powell
Pianist:
Cicely Hoye
Produced By:
Archie Campbell
Johnny Galloway who tells the story:
Derek Farr
Leonora Brandow:
Sulwen Morgan
Charles, a barman:
John Ruddock
Washington Cash, Leonora's guardian:
Godfrey Kenton
Paul Emmett, his lawyer:
Derek Birch
Secretary:
Janet Burnell
Flight Controller:
George Hagan
Husskinson, an airline pilot:
Richard Bebb
Timberley, an hotel porter:
George Merritt
Adrian Goldini:
John Carol
Joe Bradninch, Detective-Sergeant, C I D:
T St John Barry
Mac:
Ian Sadler
Police Officer:
Michael Turner
Belling, another pilot:
Richard Waring
Zug:
Ian Sadler

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