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The order of Service is changed this week to include pupils' responses to the last four programmes on ' Word and Action '
Opening prayer
Pupils' responses, part 1
Be thou my vision (Tune, Slane-
C.H. 477)
Pupils' responses, part 2
Closing prayers written by pupils
Wednesday's broadcast

Every Friday this programme looks at educational opportunities for housewives and some of the possibilities for women returning to work
Presented by CAROLINE NICHOLSON and MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by Peter Jarvis

Contributors

Presented By:
Caroline Nicholson
Produced By:
Peter Jarvis

A series of dramatic encounters with the mysterious and the inexplicable
Dead on Time with Written by DAVID MATTHEWS
Produced by CHARLES MAXWELL

Contributors

Written By:
David Matthews
Produced By:
Charles Maxwell
Neal Haddon:
Jack Hedley
Mrs Elliot:
Enid Lorimer
Harry:
Brian Hayes
Old Pete:
Eric Anderson

A family magazine introduced from Scotland by HOWARD LOCKHART
Dyak Loons : a link between the jungle of Sarawak and the north-east of Scotland
Travelling Troupers:
BERTHA WADDELL talks about her Children's Theatre, which for forty years has entertained the young
Mexico Marathon:
DUNKY WRIGHT recalls his own Olympic Marathon of 1932, and looks for the reason why all five leading British prospects for this year's Marathon happen to be Scots
Fair Isle Nurse: impressions of a visit to the most isolated community in Britain

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Lockhart
Unknown:
Dyak Loons
Talks:
Bertha Waddell
Unknown:
Dunky Wright

The Flight of the Heron
The novel by D. K. Broster abridged for reading on radio in eight parts
5: The Third Meeting
' This is the third time we have met. If Old Angus is right, then we shall meet again and more than once. I hope it may be in happier circumstances.'
Storyteller, DAVID STEUART with BRYDEN MURDOCH as Ewen Cameron
IAN DEWAR as Keith Windham
John Shedden and Ian Halliburton reading all the other parts
Produced by IAN WISHART

Contributors

Novel By:
D. K. Broster
Unknown:
Old Angus
Unknown:
David Steuart
Unknown:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
Ewen Cameron
Unknown:
Ian Dewar
Unknown:
Keith Windham
Unknown:
John Shedden
Unknown:
Ian Halliburton
Produced By:
Ian Wishart

Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling-Weekend: what's on in the region -Sports Spot—FRED STREETER on Gardening
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit

Contributors

Unknown:
Fred Streeter
Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin

Contributors

Written By:
Edward J. Mason
Edited By:
Godfrey Baseley
Produced By:
Tony Shryane
Daniel Archer:
Monte Crick
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Anthony William Daniel Archer:
Colin Skipp
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Aunt Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Nelson Gabriel:
Jack May
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Dr Maclaren:
Henry Stamper
Fred Barratt:
Tommy Duggan
Roger Travers-Macy :
Jeremy Mason
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones

A panel game controlled(!) by NICHOLAS PARSONS in which I
RENÉE HOUSTON DEREK NIMMO CLEMENT FREUD BARBARA BLAKE try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by Ian Messiter
Produced by David Hatch
Pre-recorded at The Piccadilly. London. W.1,
Nicholas Parsons is in ' Uproar In the House at the Whitehall Theatre; Derek Nimmo in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre. London

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

A weekly magazine of discovery and invention
News and views of the men and women whose achievements are going to affect our daily life
Introduced by =PETER FAIRLEY Science Correspondent of the London Evening Standard A Science Unit production

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Fairley

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by COLIN VALDAR

Contributors

Unknown:
Colin Valdar

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