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Raspberries and currants: suggestions from Barbara Brew
Out of the News: Two speakers take up a topic of interest
Reading Your Letters: expressing the listeners' point of view
In a Summer Mood: Greta Lamb puts questions to Ailsa Garland on fashion and Eleanor Macdonald on beauty. Judy Lewis , a housewife, asks for advice.
How far it was: Dinah Day describes hitchhiking to India and back
Serial: 'Time Walked' by Vera Panova
Abridged by Lorna Pegram
Read by Robert Eddison
The first of five instalments
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Brew
Unknown:
Greta Lamb
Unknown:
Ailsa Garland
Unknown:
Judy Lewis
Unknown:
Vera Panova
Abridged By:
Lorna Pegram
Read By:
Robert Eddison
Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

Ivor took Joanna to his home for the weekend. It was not a success. Mrs. Freeman tried to speak at the Protest Meeting, but the meeting was broken up by a gang of youths. Mrs. Freeman-was rescued by Jimmy Parsons. Mrs. Leathers asked Mrs. Dale to talk to Mrs. Maggs and to persuade her to let Renee come back to Parkwood Hill. Mrs. Dale refused to interfere. Sally had dinner with Gerard Kingsley , who told her he was in love with her.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Parsons.
Unknown:
Gerard Kingsley

A general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for the title "Brain of Britain".

Alfred Arnold (Belfast)
David Kenneth (Ballymena)
Rosemary A.G. Watson (Belfast)
Ernest Wood (Belfast)
The programme also includes:
"What Do You Want To Know?"
This week's guest experts:
Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann

(BBC recording)

Contributors

Contestant:
Alfred Arnold
Contestant:
David Kenneth
Contestant:
Rosemary A.G. Watson
Contestant:
Ernest Wood
Guest Expert:
Frank Muir
Guest Expert:
Denis Norden
Chairman:
Franklin Engelmann
Writer:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
Joan Clark

A play in five episodes by Stella Margetson
1-Romantic Castle'
Sylvia Raymond tells the story of the castle on her bracelet
Prince Heinrich: 'The castle Lauenstein stands high with a view of all the mountain peaks and the valleys lying deep in the forest-and there a man can find peace ..."
Production by Audrey Cameron

Contributors

Unknown:
Stella Margetson
Unknown:
Sylvia Raymond
Production By:
Audrey Cameron
Sylvia Raymond:
Mary Wimbush
Richard:
Simon Lack
Jennifer:
Elizabeth London
Prince von Lauenstein:
Denis Goacher
Princess von Lauenstein:
Joan Clement Scott

The adventures of a hotel porter
Resident Cabaret Artists:
The Coronets with Bryan Rodwell (piano and organ)
Bill Le Sage (vibraphone)
Bob Duffy (bass); Bob Turner (drums)
Written by Frank Roscoe and Ken Platt
Produced by John Ammonds

Contributors

Piano:
Bryan Rodwell
Bass:
Bob Duffy
Bass:
Bob Turner
Written By:
Frank Roscoe
Written By:
Ken Platt
Produced By:
John Ammonds
Junior Porter:
Ken Platt
Head Porter:
Dick Emery
Daisy the Chambermaid:
Betty Alberge
Hoo Flung Soo the Laundrvman:
Geoffrey Banks
Two Suspicious Characters:
Dick Emery
Two Suspicious Characters:
Geoffrey Banks
Dozy Dan:
Dick Emery

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