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including:
Rehabilitated Robins: Ruth Drew likes making her own Christmas cards and describes how she contrives her greetings from cut-out pictures
Starting Something New: Eileen Devlin describes how she became an actress at fifty-one
My Landladies: a West African student, who is living here, recounts some experiences
Portrait of a Listener: Where do you live? What is your family like? What are your special problems, your plans, your fads and fancies? Barbara Crowther introduces Mrs. Muriel Norman
(Continued in next column)
Serial:
' Adam Bede ' by George Eliot
Abridged by Terry Gompertz
Read by Gladys Young
The second of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Drew
Unknown:
Eileen Devlin
Introduces:
Barbara Crowther
Unknown:
Mrs. Muriel Norman
Unknown:
Adam Bede
Unknown:
George Eliot
Abridged By:
Terry Gompertz
Read By:
Gladys Young
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

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A magazine programme presented for family listening by members of the Younger Generation
Hands that speak and see
Michael Simpson takes a trip to Southend-on-Sea with a party of deaf-blind and some ofxhe Red Cross cadets who have taught themselves conversation by touch
Folk Dancing with a Difference
Carole Allen joins members at the Harrow Green Folk Dance Group and learns how to dance a Russian Karapjet
Top of the Ladder in Industry
Twenty-two years ago George H. Dowty rented a small workshop and began his own business. Under his guidance it prospered until today it has an annual turnover of more than £ 13.000.000. Ian Cowell, a young apprentice, interviews him about the way to success in industry
Passed To You
Parade invites you to share the problems of the Barnard family. Opinions, on a postcard please, to Parade, BBC. London, W.l.
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The original tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised for radio by John Keir Cross
[Starring] John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by:
John Keir Cross
Director:
Martyn C. Webster
Producer:
Harry Alan Towers
Sherlock Holmes:
John Gielgud
Dr Watson:
Ralph Richardson
Culverton Smith:
Anthony Jacobs
Mrs Hudson:
Elizabeth Maude
Cabby:
Frank Atkinson
Inspector Morton:
Hugh Manning

Being a chronicle of the life and misadventures of Anthony Hancock, the celebrated waif.
[Starring] Tony Hancock
with Moira Lister, Bill Kerr and Sidney James
Written and adapted from the 'Junior Goldfish Keepers Weekly' by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Simpson
Writer:
Ray Galton
The 'Hancock Theme' and other incidental music composed by:
Wally Stott Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
Tony:
Tony Hancock
Moira:
Moira Lister
Bill:
Bill Kerr
Sid:
Sidney James

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More