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The Sunday supplement to Woman's Hour
' See How they Run': Frank Lane talks about the speed of animals
Gordon Gow reviews some recent films
Cecil Woodham-Smith talks on the evolution of Army nursing
' On Your Own ': the first of four talks addressed to business girls by Phyllis Cradock
Cecil Beaton reads from his book
' The Glass of Fashion '
Compere, Nancy Spain

Contributors

Talks:
Frank Lane
Unknown:
Gordon Gow
Unknown:
Phyllis Cradock
Unknown:
Cecil Beaton
Unknown:
Nancy Spain

books that have pleased and interested him:
The Captain's Table,' by Richard Gordon : a hilarious account of what happens when the inexperienced captain of a passenger ship is confronted with a dishonest purser, a flirtatious ship's officer, an infuriated company shareholder, and a collection of ill-assorted and dissatisfied passengers
' Tents Against the Sky,' by Robert Ekvall : the moving story , of a Tibetan monk who enters the Lamassery at the age of seven, but later escapes once more to the life of the tribes
I How To Be Topp,' by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle : the curse of St. Custard's gives authoritative advice on how to survive in a boys' boarding school inhabited, one can only suppose, by the brothers of St. Trinian's young ladies
Dramatised scenes from the books acted bv: Ella Milne , Felix Felton
Colin Gordon , Charles Hawtrey Duncan Mclntyre , Ivan Samson

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Gordon
Unknown:
Robert Ekvall
Unknown:
Geoffrey Willans
Unknown:
Ronald Searle
Unknown:
Ella Milne
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Colin Gordon
Unknown:
Charles Hawtrey
Unknown:
Duncan McLntyre
Unknown:
Ivan Samson

with Anne Shelton and Elton Hayes , Herbert C. Walton
Stella Moray
Top of her Town
Irene Hilda (Paris)
Woolf Phillips and his Concert Orchestra
Programme based on an idea by Terry-Thomas
Script by Sid Colin and Jimmy Grafton
Produced by Bill Gates

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Shelton
Unknown:
Elton Hayes
Unknown:
Herbert C. Walton
Unknown:
Stella Moray
Unknown:
Irene Hilda
Unknown:
Woolf Phillips
Script By:
Sid Colin
Script By:
Jimmy Grafton
Produced By:
Bill Gates

Community hymn-singing for Remembrance Day, from the chapel of Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School, Chester
Hymns introduced by the Chaplain-General, Canon V. J. Pike Conductor, Major J. W. M. Purcell ,
M.B.E.
Organist. Officer Cadet Whitehouse
Let saints on earth in concert sing
(Tune, Dundee)
God of our fathers (Tune, Melita)
0 valiant hearts (Tune, Supreme
Sacrifice)
The Lord's my shepherd (Tune,
Crimond)
I vow to thee, my country (Tune,
Thaxted)
0 God, our help in ages past (Tune,
St. Anne)
Onward. Christian soldiers (Tune, St.
Gertrude)
Rise up. 0 men of God (Tune,
Carlisle)

Contributors

Unknown:
W. M. Purcell

Light Programme

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