Programme Index

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Slant on Beauty: Gracie La Rondle describes the way to use a wax depilatory

Children at School: 3: What is the value of examinations? Some comments from listeners on the recent discussion between school-teachers

Behind the Headlines: a weekly feature to fill in the background to some recent news events

Kaye Webb continues her diary

Serial: 'Trial by Sasswood' by Esther Warner
Abridged by Terry Gomperti
Read by Grizelda Hervey
The fourth of fifteen instalments

Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Presenter:
Jean Metcalfe
Speaker (Slant on Beauty):
Gracie La Rondle
Speaker:
Kaye Webb
Author (Trial by Sasswood):
Esther Warner
Abridged by (Trial by Sasswood):
Terry Gomperti
Reader (Trial by Sasswood):
Grizelda Hervey

A radio serial in four parts adapted from the soundtrack of the Disney film with additional material from the original novel by Jules Verne
Narrator,
Howard Marion-Crawford
1 — ' The Avenging Monster'
Sound-track Characters:
Additional dialogue
Radio adaptation and additional dialogue by Gordon Gow
Produced by Trafford Whitelock

Contributors

Novel By:
Jules Verne
Narrator:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Dialogue By:
Gordon Gow
Produced By:
Trafford Whitelock
Professor Aronnax:
Paul Lukas
Conseil:
Peter Lorre
Ned:
Kirk Douglas
Casey:
Fred Graham
Billy J:
J M Kerrigan
Captain Farragut:
Ted de Corsia
Professor Aronnax:
John Cazabon
Conseil:
David Jacobs
Captain Anderson:
Manning Wilson
Mr Howard:
Stuart Nichol
Mr Baker:
John Cazabon
Reporter:
Bruce Beeby

with Margery Manners
Harry Levaine
Clarence Wright
Horace Mashford
Jock Walker
Chairman, Rob Currie
The Palace of Varieties Chorus and the BBC Variety Orchestra
The show produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe

Contributors

Unknown:
Margery Manners
Unknown:
Harry Levaine
Unknown:
Clarence Wright
Unknown:
Horace Mashford
Unknown:
Jock Walker
Unknown:
Rob Currie
Conducted By:
Ernest Longstaffe

Alan Melville recommends books which have pleased and interested him
' The Rigoville Match' by David E. Walker
A description of the farcical occurrences that took place when English hockey was introduced to a French village near Dieppe
' A Grand Man ' by Catherine Cookson
The study of a small Tyneside girt and her championship of her drunken father
' Dead of Summer ' by Dana Moseley
A hair-raising story of sinister occurrences during a three-day heatwave
Cast:
Denise Bryer , Isla Cameron
Bessie Love , Peter Claughton
Ian Sadler , Ivan Samson
David Peel , and Manning Wilson
Dramatic excerpts produced by Eileen Molony

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Melville
Unknown:
David E. Walker
Unknown:
Catherine Cookson
Unknown:
Dana Moseley
Unknown:
Denise Bryer
Unknown:
Isla Cameron
Unknown:
Bessie Love
Unknown:
Peter Claughton
Unknown:
Ian Sadler
Unknown:
Ivan Samson
Unknown:
David Peel
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Produced By:
Eileen Molony

Written by Eddie Maguire
' Superstitions '
Produced by Peter Eton
Joe Huggett doesn't believe in superstitions but when Jane gets into bad company it is a superstition about pins that helps Joe solve a local mystery.

Contributors

Written By:
Eddie Maguire
Produced By:
Peter Eton
Joe Huggett:
Jack Warner
Ethel Huggett:
Kathleen Harrison
Bobby:
Anthony Green
Jane:
Valerie Jene
Taffy:
Kenneth Connor
Fred Stebblngs:
Charles Leno
Frank Miles:
Malcolm Hayes

Light Programme

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About this data

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