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7.10 South-East News
7.15 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Produced by ANTHONY PARKIN 1
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Outlook reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Produced By:
Anthony Parkin

A Gloucestershire Village in the Eighties by PROFESSOR A. M. D. HUGHES ' Two hundred souls lived on or near its single street and if a stranger came along they would say Whoever's that? " ' (From the BBC Sound Archives)
8.59 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
A. M. D. Hughes

Introduced by JOHN STREET
FRED WHITSEY talks about his choice of garden; MARNY MACINTOSH gives her selection of double flowers: CLEMENT FENNELI. gives a warning about the dangers of fungicides and insecticides to domestic animals.
Week's Work: GEORGE GILLARD
Produced by GEORGE SIGSWORTH

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Street
Talks:
Fred Whitsey
Unknown:
Clement Fenneli.
Produced By:
George Sigsworth

Introduced by JIM PESTRIDGE
The Motor Trade in 1970: a forecast by MICHAEL BRADSTOCK , President, Motor Agents' Assoc Car Radio - advice on buying and fitting. 1: Choosing a set by PETER BURLINGTON
Brighter Lights: developments in electric lamps for car, by a major manufacturer.
Last Year's Crop of Hazards: MARTYN WATKINS looks at the lighter side together with topical news and at 12.23' the latest traffic report Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jim Pestridge
Unknown:
Michael Bradstock
Unknown:
Martyn Watkins
Produced By:
Arthur Phillips

1970
A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title chairman
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
1: London
MRS OLGA EVANS
BEN BARTLE computer programmer THOMAS STOCK, lecturer RICHARD RUSSELL-SMITH hostel warden
The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Produced by JOAN CLARK
(Pre-recorded at The Paris, Lower Regent Street, London, SW1. Rptd.: Friday, 7.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Ben Bartle
Unknown:
Richard Russell-Smith
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

A spontaneous discussion by SIR EDWIN LEATHER, LORD ROBENS CLIVE JENKINS , OLGA FRANKLIN Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Llanrhwmney Community Centre, near Cardiff

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Jenkins
Unknown:
Olga Franklin
Unknown:
Chairman David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Death Takes a Lifetime by PETER RUSSELL with John Ronane and Julian Glover Lockwood West
Who has murdered Eve Prescott? Her husband, her lover, or a stranger - Inspector Fisher sets out to investigate. His findings are, to say the least, intriguing.
Produced by MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Russell
Unknown:
John Ronane
Unknown:
Julian Glover
Unknown:
Inspector Fisher
Produced By:
Martin Jenkins
Eve Prescott:
Barbara Bliss
Mike Prescott:
John Ronane
David Waddington:
Julian Glover
Bobbie Dobson:
Frances Jeater
Mrs Crawford:
Margot Boyd
Dr Selby:
Godfrey Kenton
Robert Fisher:
Lockwood West
Stanley Burrel:
Sean Barrett

Introduced by JUDITH CHALMERS The Sky Side of Life: DAVID SCOTT BLACKHALL
Watchdog: for those who receive goods and services
Tiger in the Rice: IAN HARRIS Bookshelf. A Bomb in the Collection? : PETER ROSS talks to ROMA FAIRLEY about her new book
Winter Break: LYN MACDONALD suggests ideas for weekends away - at home and abroad Rough Husbandry by PATRICK CAMPBELL abridged by CRISTINA SELLORS read by KENNETH HORNE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
David Scott Blackhall
Unknown:
Ian Harris
Talks:
Peter Ross
Unknown:
Roma Fairley
Unknown:
Lyn MacDonald
Unknown:
Patrick Campbell
Abridged By:
Cristina Sellors
Read By:
Kenneth Horne

Arensky Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
4.17* Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor
HENRYK SZERYNG LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
4.49' Stravinsky Ballet: The Rite of Spring
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli
Unknown:
Henryk Szeryng
Conducted By:
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Conducted By:
Herbert von Karajan

A radio competition for bands Round 1: Programme 2 British Ropes
Excelsior Works Band conductor HAYDN WHITE v
Kinneil Colliery Silver Band conductor JOHN KIRKWOOD
Adjudicators j. H. HOWE VILEM TAUSKY , FRANK WRIGHT Introduced by DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by WILLIAM RELTON

Contributors

Conductor:
Haydn White
Conductor:
John Kirkwood
Unknown:
J. H. Howe
Unknown:
Vilem Tausky
Unknown:
Frank Wright
Introduced By:
Douglas Smith
Produced By:
William Relton

ALBERT ROSEN conducts the BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BACON with VACLAV HUDECEK (violin)
Introduced by IWAN THOMAS
Produced by MOELFRYN HARRIES The programme includes
Dvorak Romance, for violin and orchestra
Smetana Scherzo (Triumph Symphony)
Ravel Tzigane, for violin and orchestra
(Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, Llandaff)

Contributors

Unknown:
Albert Rosen
Leader:
John Bacon
Violin:
Vaclav Hudecek
Introduced By:
Iwan Thomas
Produced By:
Moelfryn Harries

Adam's Apple
A Victorian fairy tale by N. C. HUNTER with Henry Blessington is standing for Parliament for the first time when he eats an apple off a venerable and rather mysterious tree in his garden. The result is most unusual
Produced by BRIAN MILLER (Repeated: Monday, 3.15 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
N. C. Hunter
Unknown:
Henry Blessington
Produced By:
Brian Miller
Henry Blessington:
Moray Watson
Philippa Blessington:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Penelope:
Yvonne Antrobus
Goodbody:
Harry Carter
Stephen Binns:
Trevor Danby
Lady Parkes:
Joan Hickson
Horace Parkes:
Stephen Thorne
Sir Edward Parkes MP:
Hector Ross
Dr Cathorne-Wetherby:
Ronald Russell
Arthur Medlicott:
Rex Holdsworth

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