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including
Learned from Life: reflections by Maura Laverty.
For Your Information: A barrister explains the present law about premiums, key money, and ' furniture and fittings ' charges
A Cottage and No Money: Val Weeden talks about a winter of economies.
House to House: Jean Metcalfe calls on Jeanne de Casalis
Serial: The Warden ' by Trollope Abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by Derek Hart
The fourth of twelve instalments
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
News Summary at 2.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Maura Laverty.
Talks:
Val Weeden
Unknown:
Jean Metcalfe
Unknown:
Trollope Abridged
Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Derek Hart
Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

Repeated on Friday at 11.15 a.m.
Characters:
Mrs. Dale (Ellis Powell ); Dr. Dale (James Dale ); Mrs. Freeman (Dorothy Lane ); Sally (Margaret Ward); Richard (David March); Mrs. Maggs (Grace Allardyce); Maggs (Jack Howarth ); Grandfather Dale (Jack Shaw ); Guen (Eva Huszar ): Daz id (Rohin Lloyd); Mrs. Owen (Hilda Bayley ); Fickling (Robert Webber ); Mrs. Mount-ford (Vivicnne Chatterton); Briggs (Charles Leno ); Sam Odgers (Victor Platt ); Dr. Claughlon (Molly Rankin ); Isabel Fielding (Thea Wells ); Maud French (Gwen Day Burroughs); Kate (Anne McGrath )
Other parts played by Will Leighton , Catherine Salkeld
Una Venning , Sylvia Coleridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Ellis Powell
Unknown:
James Dale
Unknown:
Dorothy Lane
Unknown:
Jack Howarth
Unknown:
Jack Shaw
Unknown:
Eva Huszar
Unknown:
Hilda Bayley
Unknown:
Robert Webber
Unknown:
Charles Leno
Unknown:
Sam Odgers
Unknown:
Victor Platt
Unknown:
Molly Rankin
Unknown:
Thea Wells
Unknown:
Anne McGrath
Played By:
Will Leighton
Played By:
Catherine Salkeld
Played By:
Una Venning
Played By:
Sylvia Coleridge

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:
Jimmy Young Crosby Cameo
Looking for a Job?
Fred Hubert has a suggestion
Six-fifteen Spin:
Music of the Argentine
Science Spot
6.29 Weather and News Headline* followed by Tonight's Topic
Teenage Talking Point
Dennis Wilson at the piano
Produced by Jack Singleton
Shipping Forecast at 5.58 on 1,500 ra.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Jimmy Young
Unknown:
Crosby Cameo
Unknown:
Fred Hubert
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'
6-North of England
The contestants representing the North of England are:
Dr. Reginald Webster (Lanes)
Medical Officer of Health
Thomas Graham (Cumberland)
Bank clerk
Keith Scott (Northumberland)
Student
Nigel Sanders (Yorks) Assistant works manager
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:
Dr. Reginald Webster
Unknown:
Thomas Graham
Unknown:
Keith Scott
Unknown:
Nigel Sanders
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

A new production of the serial by Francis Durbridge
8—' Presenting Mr. Vandyke '
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
Terry Palmer:
Peter Wilde
Bill McCall:
John Scott
Philip Droste:
Simon Lack
Roger Shelly:
Richard Hurndall
Marion Faber:
Betty Hardy
Charlie:
James Beattie
A porter:
James Thomason

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More