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A special edition for those who, through illness, are alone and indoors. See page 8
Bringing outdoors indoors: John Hillaby talks about bird-watching in bed, and Margaret Spencer-Smith about gardening
A man alone and at home: a soliloquy by Walter Webb
Help from outside: Campbell Fraser tells you about some organisations that exist to help people who are confined indoors
Ways out and about: Gladys Bird 's own story
Gladys Bird first took part in Woman's Hour in 1949 from her home in Wanstead, where she had been bedridden for nine years.
Wilfred Pickles reads a poem
Serial:
' They Do it with Mirrors' by Agatha Christie
(to be read in fourteen instalments)
Abridged by Eve Howland
Read by Mary Wimbush
5—' The Rumpus in the Study '
Programme introduced by Gladys Bird

Contributors

Talks:
John Hillaby
Talks:
Margaret Spencer-Smith
Unknown:
Walter Webb
Unknown:
Campbell Fraser
Unknown:
Gladys Bird
Unknown:
Gladys Bird
Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Abridged By:
Eve Howland
Read By:
Mary Wimbush

A blend of melody and rhythm introducing
Revolving Bandstand
Contrasts in modern music
Thank Your Lucky Star:
A front-page story by Jerry Dawson
It's Magic:
Ken Frith and his Rhythm
Your Request:
The music you've asked for Curtain Call: Guest singers
BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Norman George )
Directed by Alyn Ainsworth Introduced by Roger Moffat
Shipping Forecast on 1.500 m. at 5.58-6.0

Contributors

Story By:
Jerry Dawson
Unknown:
Ken Frith
Leader:
Norman George
Directed By:
Alyn Ainsworth
Introduced By:
Roger Moffat

The story of a school seen through the eyes of the head-master and his wife by Warren Chetham-Strode
Episode 13
Production by Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Unknown:
Warren Chetham-Strode
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Robert Barlowe:
Patrick Barr
Kate Barlowe:
Pauline Jameson
John Tooling:
David Enders
Nigel Rankin:
John Glen
Dennis Crewe:
Ronald Simpson
Jefferson:
Desmond Llewelyn
Mr Stockfield:
Gilbert Davies
Doggert:
Geoffrey Wincott
Lord Playden:
Norman Shelley
Lady Plavden:
Mary O'Farrell
Nettlefold:
Colin Gibson
Abercromhie:
Reay MacKay
Johnson:
Henry Davies

Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by Ralph Wightman
Dingle Foot
Ted Leather M.P. ,
Barbara Castle, M.P.
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Michael Bowen
From the R.A. Drill Hall,
Falmouth, Cornwall
Repeated on Tuesday at 1.10 (Home) Comments on this programme for use in ' Any Answers? ' , should be sent to the BBC,
Bristol, and should arrive on Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Wightman
Unknown:
Dingle Foot
Unknown:
Ted Leather M.P.
Unknown:
Barbara Castle, M.P.
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Light music for everybody played this week by London Theatre Orchestra
(Leader, Sidney Sax )
Conducted by Sidney Torch with Vanessa Lee
Band of the Scots Guards
Conducted by Lieut.-Col. S. Rhodes , M.B.E.
Director of Music
Stanley Riley
BBC Men's Chorus
Conducted by Cyril Gell
Introduced by Robin Boyle
Produced by John Tylee
Given before an invited audience at the Camden Theatre. London

Contributors

Leader:
Sidney Sax
Conducted By:
Sidney Torch
Unknown:
Vanessa Lee
Unknown:
Col. S. Rhodes
Conducted By:
Cyril Gell
Introduced By:
Robin Boyle
Produced By:
John Tylee

Light Programme

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