39. Wales part 1

Broadcast on 15th June 2010
The first in our Welsh trilogy - a land that hasn't featured too much yet but which we will now address.

Children Talking


English With A Dialect - and Irish, Scottish and Welsh Accents
BBC Records, 1971


The Mabinogion extracts from the four branches.
read by Gwyn Jones
A Welsh Arts Council Oriel Record, 1976

Pryderi Lost and Found
The Sorrows of Branwen
Catching a Mouse
Lleu and the Flower-Bride

Not all these stories are played in this episode but I'll work out which was and update this page eventually.

Poets of Wales John Ormond, Raymond Garlick
Argo, 1971
 
I played some of the Raymond Garlick poems only from this disk.

38. Peter Scott part 3.

Broadcast on 8th June 2010
Probably the last Peter Scott programme based on a collection of 7" singles that accompanied a children's encyclopedia.

Animal Sounds
Commentary by Peter Scott, script by Cathy Jarman.
Produced for Purnell's Encyclopedia of Animal Life and MacDonald Junior Reference Library by Procaudio Ltd.
BPC, 1970

5 7" records
Birds
Insects
Amphibians and Reptiles
Mammals
Fishes (see episode 43 for this record after the Ancient Mariner)

37. Wildlife In Danger

Broadcast on 1st June 2010
Voices from the conservation bodies as well as recordings by some of the greats such as Ludwig Koch, Eric Simms and the like of many species which were endangered in the 20th Century, some of which are doubtless now extinct.

Wildlife In Danger BBC Wildlifre Series No.8
BBC Records, 1971

One of the excellent records in the BBC Wildlife Series produced by Eric Simms.

36. Peter Scott part 2 - Sounds of the Serengeti

Broadcast on 18th May 2010

Grahame Dangerfeild brings you Sounds of the Serengeti Incredible live recordings of wild life from the heart of Africa. Narration by Peter Scott.
Music For Pleasure, 1970

35. Peter Scott part 1

Broadcast on 11th May 2010.
The first of three, possibly four programmes featuring the voice of Peter Scott and many of his colleagues and feathered friends. I can heartily recommend his autobiography The Eye of the Wind Hodder, Stoughton & Brockhampton, London, Leicester 1961-77.

Sounds of My Life Peter Scott talks about his eventful life.
 

34. Horror 3 Arch Obelor presents...

Broadcast on 4th May 2010
Arch Obelor presents two weird 50s horror/terror stories that take you right back to the 1950s and the fear of total atomic destruction so characteristic of the period.

Arch Obelor's Lights Out Everybody
Nostalgia Lane Inc, 1978

Oxychloride X (The Ultimate Hole).
Rocket From Manhattan (The play that anticipated the Sputnik).

33. Horror 2 Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre

Broadcast on 27th April 2010

Suspense Bela Lugosi, with narrative introduction by Bela Lugosi jr.
Mark56, 1973
 

Peter Lorre, Master of mystery and suspense
The Queen of Spades
Nostalgia Lane Inc, 1978