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7.10 On Your Farm visits Marlborough. Wiltshire, for breakfast with the General Manager of English Farms Ltd, FRASER GALE.
Introduced by ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50 Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anthony Parkin

Introduced by JACOB DE VRIES
News and prospects including: Cricket: scores and flashes Racing from Newcastle
Wimbledon: The Lawn Tennis Championships
RAC Tourist Trophy: by ROBIN RICHARDS from Silverstone Produced by KENNETH PRAGNELL
(Sport on 2: 2.30-5.45 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jacob De
Unknown:
Robin Richards
Produced By:
Kenneth Pragnell

A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Semi-Final (iii)
CHARLES GRAY, Perthshire student
rosemary james , Denbighshire schoolteacher
WILLIAM TAYLOR , Belfast civil servant
THE REV DR M. W. DEWAR Co Down
Including Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Produced by JOAN CLARK
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Rosemary James
Unknown:
William Taylor
Unknown:
Dr M. W. Dewar
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

A spontaneous discussion by MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE
LADY ANTONIA FRASER
LORD KEARTON BAMBER GASCOIGNE
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Hastings
Listeners' views for use in Any,Answers' should be addressed to the BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR, marked Any Answers?

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Unknown:
Lady Antonia Fraser
Unknown:
Lord Kearton Bamber Gascoigne
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

by RONALD JOHNSTON adapted for radio by STEPHEN MULRINE
A giant super-tanker on the last stage of her maiden voyage is in collision at Dungeness. Her Captain was due to retire. Now he faces an official inquiry and the accusation that he was drunk.
Produced by GORDON EMSLIE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Johnston
Unknown:
Stephen Mulrine
Produced By:
Gordon Emslie
Bruce:
James Grant
Penman:
Paul Young
Herald:
Callum Mill
Thomson:
Clem Ashby
Albery:
Arthur Boland
Emery:
Paul KermacK
Grace:
Sandra Buchan
Carmichael:
Martin Heller
Deering:
John Shedden

Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Guest The Rev Arthur Morton Director of the NSPCC
The Comedians: PADDY FEENY looks at some Liverpool comics ' The boy stood on the burning deck ... ': ANTONIA RIDGE tells his true story
Bookshelf: PEGGY ARCHER talks to R. F. DELDERFIELD about his autobiography Overture for Beginners
My Religion: CAROLINE ROBSON , a Quaker, talks to PAMELA GILLHAM DUNCAN CARSE reads Myself a Mandarin by AUSTIN COATES (Fifth of 10 instalments)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Arthur Morton
Talks:
Peggy Archer
Unknown:
R. F. Delderfield
Unknown:
Caroline Robson
Unknown:
Pamela Gillham

TONY BILBOW looks at the changing image of the Beatles from A Hard Day's Night to Let It Be with director Richard LESTER and comments from JOHN,PAUL, GEORGE, and RINGO.
Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE (Repeated: Wed, 7.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Bilbow
Director:
Richard Lester
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

JEANINE MCMULLEN introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues Please write to: Listening Post, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. Or telephone
([number removed]
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduces:
Jeanine McMullen

FYFE ROBERTSON and BARBARA MURRAY play
CYRIL FLETCHER and JUDY INNES Chairman robin RAY who devised the game Questions supplied by PETER MOORE
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Fyfe Robertson
Unknown:
Barbara Murray
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Judy Innes
Unknown:
Robin Ray
Unknown:
Peter Moore
Produced By:
Edward Taylor

with Ken Dodd
This week: Rubbish, at a price you can afford featuring PETER GOODWRIGHT and TALFRYN THOMAS
COLIN EDWYNN , BARBARA MULLANEY DODDY'S DIDDY ORCHESTRA directed by GEOFF ALDERSON
Devised and written by KEN DODD with additional material by GORDON PLEASANT, EDDIE FOXALL and GEORGE MOFFAT
Produced by BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Dodd
Unknown:
Peter Goodwright
Unknown:
Talfryn Thomas
Unknown:
Colin Edwynn
Unknown:
Barbara Mullaney
Directed By:
Geoff Alderson
Written By:
Ken Dodd
Unknown:
Eddie Foxall
Unknown:
George Moffat
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
With Wilfred Pickles, Ruth Dunning, Fiona Walker

"Round here love's a word for lavatory walls. A wedding's a joke and one night in a bed. One night - and then weddings and love have finished and you're married."
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Keith Waterhouse
Writer:
Willis Hall
Producer:
Alfred Bradley
Eric Fawcett:
Wilfred Pickles
Terry Fawcett:
Neville Smith
Edith Fawcett:
Ruth Dunning
Vera Fawcett:
Fiona Walker
Brian Hudson:
Geoffrey Hinsliff
Frank Monoghan:
Alun Armstrong
Ivy Monoghan:
Rosalie Williams

The trouble with Roberts A is that he's 100 years / ahead of his time.
Archbishop
Thomas Roberts sj talks to HELEN FRY on the events and results of his occupation of the See of Bombay 1937-1950
Produced by HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Roberts
Unknown:
Helen Fry
Produced By:
Helen Fry

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