Programme Index

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Alley or Aristocrat: Kit Wilson discusses some different breeds to be considered before you decide on your kitten

Ways and Means - 4: £10-£15. Introducing the wives of a coal miner and a dispensing optician

Personally Speaking: the second of six monthly talks by Godfrey Winn

Looking at the News: a review of some of the happenings of the week

Serial: 'Queen in Waiting' by Norah Lofts
Abridged by Becky Cocking
Read by Richard Hurndall
The fourth of fifteen instalments

Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Godfrey Winn
Abridged By:
Becky Cocking
Read By:
Richard Hurndall
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

A message of comfort and cheer for all in trouble, sorrow, need. sickness, or any other adversity'
The speaker is Professor William Hobson. He is introduced by Stuart Hibberd
Listeners' letters are very welcome, as they give real help in planning these talks. Send them to Stuart Hibberd, c/o Silver Lining, Broadcasting House, London, W.i. Listeners will realise that speakers cannot reply personally, but will try to deal with their problems in the talks.

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor William Hobson.
Introduced By:
Stuart Hibberd

Read any good books lately?
Virginia Raphael and John Cohen Introduce a recent cheap reprint of an early Agatha Christie thriller
' The Secret Adversary and put questions about books to Daniel George , critic and author
In the chair, Michael Flanders who gives the results of Competition No. 4 and sets another
Listeners under twenty-one are invited to send their entries on a postcard to Younger Generation Competition, BBC, London, W.I, to arrive by Wednesday, November 16

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cohen
Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Unknown:
Daniel George
Unknown:
Michael Flanders

2—' The Hundred Pound Quiz' with Barbara Lyon , Richard Lyon
Horace Percival , Doris Rogers Molly Weir , Richard Bellaers
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet
Written by Bob Block
Ronnie Hanbury , and Bebe Daniels
Production by Tom Ronald

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Lyon
Unknown:
Richard Lyon
Unknown:
Horace Percival
Unknown:
Doris Rogers
Unknown:
Molly Weir
Conducted By:
Paul Fenoulhet
Written By:
Bob Block
Written By:
Ronnie Hanbury
Written By:
Bebe Daniels
Production By:
Tom Ronald

Dramatised for radio as a serial in eight parts by Howard Agg
3— ' A Social Occasion'Production by Martyn C. Webster

Contributors

Production By:
Martyn C. Webster
Mr Dersingham:
Richard Williams
Mrs Dersingham:
Avice Landone
Agnes:
Mairhi Russell
Mr Pearson:
John Gabriel
Mrs Pearson:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Mr Golspie:
James Hayter
Miss Verever:
Grizelda Hervey
Mrs Trape:
Gladys Spencer
Major Trape:
Simon Lack
Lena Golspie:
Daphne Maddox
Narrator:
Hamilton Dyce

Sixth of a series of programmes devised and written by Richard and Alma Jones
The Players: Belle Chrystall
Tsanne Churchman, Michael Collins
Denis Goacher , James Thomason
The Singers:
Helen Watts , William Herbert
Arthur Sandford (piano)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
London Theatre Orchestra
Conducted by Mark Lubbock
Programme produced by Michael North

Contributors

Unknown:
Alma Jones
Unknown:
Michael Collins
Unknown:
Denis Goacher
Unknown:
James Thomason
Singers:
Helen Watts
Singers:
William Herbert
Piano:
Arthur Sandford
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Conducted By:
Mark Lubbock
Produced By:
Michael North

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