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From the Midlands
Living in a White Elephant: Barbara Fleming describes her family's enjoyment in moving into an old vicarage in Herefordshire
On Not Being a Little Woman 1: by Jenny Hardstone
Home from Australia: Joan Broadbent talks to Elizabeth Malin of Temple Grafton, Warwickshire, and to her sister, Mildred Stephens , who has just returned to this country after forty-six years.
Matthew Arnold in Oxfordshire:
Robert Waller introduces, and Frank Shelley reads, some well-known poems with a local setting A Novel Experience: or What it's like to be an author, by Mary Cecil The Pantomime Cat: Gerry Lee , animal impersonator, discusses this difficult art with Eric Roberts
Introduced by Helen May
Serial: Mary Wakefield ' by Mazo de la Roche : ninth instalment
News Summary at 2.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Fleming
Unknown:
Jenny Hardstone
Talks:
Joan Broadbent
Unknown:
Elizabeth Malin
Unknown:
Mildred Stephens
Unknown:
Matthew Arnold
Introduces:
Robert Waller
Introduces:
Frank Shelley
Unknown:
Mary Cecil
Unknown:
Gerry Lee
Unknown:
Eric Roberts
Introduced By:
Helen May
Unknown:
Mary Wakefield
Unknown:
Mazo de la Roche

Music for everyone
News, views, and interviews
The latest and the best of recordings
Your host tonight is
Ken Sykora
This edition includes
Roundabout's singer of the week
Pat Whitmore
Looking for a Job:
Catherine Avent
Six-fifteen Spin
Science Spot
6.29 Weather and News Headlines
followed by Tonight's Topic by Brian Groombridge Teenage Talking Point
Dennis Wilson at the piano Produced by Jack Singleton
Shipping Forecast at 6.58 on 1,500 m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Whitmore
Unknown:
Brian Groombridge
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Produced By:
Jack Singleton

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 1959 '
2-Home Counties
The contestants representing the Home Counties are:
Mrs. Hilda Duveen (Middlesex)
Housewife
Brian Southby (Kent) Ship Management Clerk
J. Duncan Braithwaite (Essex)
Forester
David Wickham (Kent)
Schoolboy
The programme also includes
' Hear! Hear! '
A test of memory for listeners at home and in the audience
Devised and written by John P. Wynn
Produced by Joan Clark

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Mrs. Hilda Duveen
Unknown:
Brian Southby
Unknown:
J. Duncan Braithwaite
Unknown:
David Wickham
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

A new production of the serial by Francis Durbridge
4—' Boulevard Seminaire '
Produced by Martyn C. Webster

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Durbridge
Produced By:
Martyn C. Webster
Paul Temple:
Peter Coke
Steve:
Marjorie Westbury
Sir Graham Forbes:
Richard Williams
Philip Droste:
Simon Lack
Bill McCall:
John Scott
Vanessa Droste:
Grizelda Hervey
Charles Marett:
John Bryning
Newsvendor:
Rolf Lefebvre
Luke:
.Jon Farrell
TelephQne Operator:
Betty Baskcomb
Receptionist:
Beatrice Ormonde
Waiter:
David March

Light Programme

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