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7.10 On Your Farm: a weekly review of the agricultural scene Produced by ANTHONY PARKIN from Birmingham)
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Produced By:
Anthony Parkin

Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad, starting with 9.5 From Our Own
Correspondent contributed by the BBC's Foreign News Staff
9.30 The Weekly World
HONOR BALFOUR reviews what the weeklies have to say. with illustrations read by RONALD FLETCHER
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
Narrator David Broomfield Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX. BERNARD TATE
(A revised edition of ' From Our Own Correspondent ' can be heard next Tuesday, 9.5 am)

Contributors

Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Narrator:
David Broomfield
Unknown:
Bernard Tate

Rendez vous a Chaviray A second-year French course of 25 lessons: programme 4
11.0 Starting German: Reisebiiro Atlas
A 30-lesson course in simple colloquial German for beginners 4: Im Warenhaus. Fraulein Koch goes shopping in her lunch hour.
(LastTuesday's broadcast: R3)
11.30 Europe and The Indies
4: The Course of Trade

Contributors

Unknown:
Reisebiiro Atlas
Unknown:
Fraulein Koch

A general knowledge contest between girls' and boys' schools in England, Scotland. Wales, and Northern Ireland
Question-masters John Ellison and Tim Gudgin

Alun School, Mold (Boys) v. Sandfields Comprehensive School, Port Talbot (Girls)

(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)

12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Question-master:
John Ellison
Question-master:
Tim Gudgin
Questions set by:
Roy Smith
Production Assistant:
Geraldine Church
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A spontaneous discussion by RT HON RICHARD CROSSMAN , MP RT HON ERNEST MARPLES , MP SHEILA HANCOCK
HENRY PLUMB
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN (from Warwick)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be sent to Any
Answers?, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Crossman
Unknown:
Ernest Marples
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

by SAMUEL SELVON
A story of the Indians of Trinidad with Horace James , Yolande Fermin Nadia Cattouse Rudolph Walker
' I don'want no white man for my daughter. I don'care if he is the King of England. When she married she got to married Indian like sheself '
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Selvon
Unknown:
Horace James
Unknown:
Yolande Fermin
Unknown:
Nadia Cattouse
Unknown:
Rudolph Walker
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Johnny:
Horace James
Lalla:
Tommy Eytle
Gopaul:
Frank Singuineau
Jean:
Mona Hammond
Taj:
Gordon Woolford
Mary:
Nadia Cattouse
Julia:
Yolande Fermin
Govind:
Rudolph Walker
Dr Wilkins:
Sean Barrett

Introduced by Judith Chalmers
Managing Your Money: MARGARET ALLEN on Unit Trusts
A Good Read: This week, TED MOUI.recommends a book he couldn'put down
What the money used for? - 3: a working wife and mother with two part-time jobs
A Tonic for the House: GEORG-INA COLERIDGE, VICTORIA REILLY , ANTHONY HODGETTS
Woman Bites Dog: ANNE SUTER David March reads Another Self by JAMES LEES-MILNE abridged by MOLLIE HARDWICK First of tive instalments

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Margaret Allen
Unknown:
Victoria Reilly
Unknown:
James Lees-Milne
Abridged By:
Mollie Hardwick

TONY BILBOW discusses the problem of the increasing violence on screen with actors and directors, including
CLINT EASTWOOD , TONY CURTIS
WILLIAM HOLDEN ,CHARLTON HESTON ROBERT RYAN , and CORNEL WILDE Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Bilbow
Unknown:
Clint Eastwood
Unknown:
Tony Curtis
Unknown:
William Holden
Unknown:
Charlton Heston
Unknown:
Robert Ryan
Unknown:
Cornel Wilde
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

Chosen from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV during the past seven days Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Editor NANCY WISE
Research JEAN STROUD
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Shortened version of last Friday's broadcast)

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Ellison
Produced By:
Phyllis Robinson

by ROBERT BARR
A sequel to The Dark Island, in six parts, wherein Jim Nicholson follows a new trail of espionage and adventure from Whitehall to the lonely Cornish coast starring Edward de Souza John Graham and Richard Caldicot 5: The Courier
Produced by PETER TITHERADOE +
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Jim Nicholson
Unknown:
Edward de Souza
Unknown:
John Graham
Produced By:
Peter Titheradoe
Jim Nicholson,EDWARD:
De Souza
Miller:
John Graham
Commander Blair:
Richard Caldicot
Bettv Conlow:
Colette O'Neil
Haggerty:
Fraser Kerr
Barman:
Richard Griffiths
Hotel receptionist:
Sara Coward

A radio biography in six parts Written by LESLIE RALLY
6: Yeomen, Gondoliers, and the Carpet
Other parts played by MARJORIE WESTBURY , PETER PRATT ELLA MILNE. HUMPHREY MORTON The narrator HUGH BURDEN
Excerpts from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas taken from long-playing gramophone records Produced by VERNON HARRIS

Contributors

Written By:
Leslie Rally
Played By:
Marjorie Westbury
Played By:
Peter Pratt
Played By:
Ella Milne.
Played By:
Humphrey Morton
Produced By:
Vernon Harris
W S Gilbert:
Clive Morton
Arthur Sullivan:
Richard Hurndall
Richard D'Oylv Carte:
Alan Wheatley

by R.C. Sherriff, adapted by Peter Watts
With Martin Jarvis as Captain Stanhope

This is probably the most famous and successful war play of all time. It is set in a dug-out in the British front line in March, 1918.

9.58 Weather

Contributors

Author:
R.C. Sherriff
Adapted by:
Peter Watts
Producer:
Christopher Venning
Captain Stanhope:
Martin Jarvis
Osborne:
Garard Green
Trotter:
Kevin Brennan
Hibbert:
Michael Harbour
Raleigh:
Derek Seaton
Colonel:
Richard Hurndall
Sergeant Major:
John Bentley
Mason:
Malcolm Hayes
Hardy:
John Graham
German soldier:
Patrick Tull

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