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Nancy Spain talking about launching a crane
From Peking to Leningrad: Anne Lambert describes a journey
Vacancy Column: Patricia Brent Investigates some jobs that badly need filling. 3-Making a home for people: matrons and house parents
Beauty Box: queries about make-up, including one from a blind listener, are answered by Joan Thornycroft and Joane Edmunds
How can we let off steam A psychiatrist talks about understanding and expressing one's anger.
Serial: 'Ladies' Delight' by Emile Zola
April Fitzlyon 's translation of ' Le Bonheur des Dames '
Abridged by Becky Cocking
Read by Howard Marion-Crawford The seventh of thirteen instalments
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson
News Summary at 2.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Spain
Unknown:
Emile Zola
Unknown:
April Fitzlyon
Abridged By:
Becky Cocking
Read By:
Howard Marion-Crawford
Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

Devised and written by John P. Wynn
Franklin Engelmann is the chairman of this general knowledge contest in which listeners from all over the British Isles compete for the title' Brain of Britain 1958 '
6-North of England
The contestants representing the North of England are:
Mrs. Florence Roberts
(Lancashire)
Housewife
Mrs. Margaret Owen (Yorkshire)
Housewife
Howard Stobbs (Yorkshire)
Estimating clerk
John Brown (Northumberland)
Journalist
(Continued in next column)
The programme also Includes:
What Do You Want to Know
Listeners' questions answered by well-known authorities
This week:
Professor Tolansky, D.SC., F.R.S. answers questions on light and sound including
" How does sound get into a gramophone record? '
Produced by Joan Clark

Contributors

Written By:
John P. Wynn
Written By:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Mrs. Florence Roberts
Unknown:
Mrs. Margaret Owen
Unknown:
Howard Stobbs
Unknown:
John Brown
Produced By:
Joan Clark

with Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe Spike Milligan
The Ray Ellington Quartet
Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott
Announcer. Wallace Greenslade
Script by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Production by Charles Chilton

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Sellers
Unknown:
Harry Secombe
Unknown:
Spike Milligan
Unknown:
Max Geldray
Conducted By:
Wally Stott
Script By:
Spike Milligan
Script By:
Larry Stephens
Production By:
Charles Chilton

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