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9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Revised edition: Tues 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World JOHN TUSA reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by DOUGLAS SMITH f
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ALAN WATKINS
Narrator Peter Barker Producers
PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tusa
Read By:
Douglas Smith
Narrator:
Alan Watkins
Unknown:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Martin Cox
Unknown:
Bernard Tate

Introduced by PETER JONES
Latest news and prospects of a big afternoon's sport including:
Gillette Cup six-match round-up: Home International Soccer Championships - Ireland v England and Wales v Scotland; Racing from Lingfield; Rugby League Cup Final from Wembley; the British Lions in Australia.
Produced by JACOB DE VRIES (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Jones
Produced By:
Jacob de Vries

Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Second Round: featuring each week three winners from the first round of the contest 4: Midlands and North of England
DAVID SMITH (Worcestershire) publicity executive
FRANK BLAKESLEY (Chester) civil servant
DICK HOLMES (Yorkshire) tailor's cutter
Including Beat the Brains Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN. Produced by JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Dick Holmes
Written By:
John P. Wynn.
Produced By:
John Fawcett Wilson

A spontaneous discussion by BRYAN FORBES
RT HON HAROLD LEVER, MP THE DEAN OF ST PAUL 'S
MERVYN PIKE, MP
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from London

Contributors

Unknown:
Bryan Forbes
Unknown:
St Paul
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

Part 1: Death of an Earl
The 22nd Earl of Gwaine has died, his only likely heir his cousin Miss Llewellyn. But this old title cannot be inherited by a woman. The family solicitor leaves no stone unturned in his attempt to trace any likely male heir. \
Produced by GUY VAESEN

Contributors

Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
Miss Llewellyn:
Fabia Drake
Geoffrey Farthingale:
Bruce Beeby
Willis:
John Ruddock
Miss Pullen jo:
Manning Wilson
May Blotten:
Eva Stuart
Ted Blotten:
Trevor Martin
Owen Blotten:
Barry Justice
Bun ty:
Patricia Gallimore
Mrs Danvers:
Margot Boyd
Mrs Polder:
Olwen Griffiths
Constable:
Michael Kilgarriff

Introduced by Judith Chalmers
My Week: MARY WIMBUSH
Car maintenance for Women: SHEILA MACDONNELL talks to TERESA MCGONAGLE
Guest Frank Windsor
Five Points of Women's Liberation - 3: ISOBEL ALLEN and GEOFFREY GOODMAN diSCUSS women in top jobs
MOLLY WEIR reads from her book Shoes Were for Sunday (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Talks:
Sheila MacDonnell
Unknown:
Isobel Allen
Unknown:
Geoffrey Goodman
Unknown:
Molly Weir

presents
George C. Scott : a self-portrait of the Academy Award-winning star of Patton.
Introduced by TONY BILBOW Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
George C. Scott
Introduced By:
Tony Bilbow
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

A thriller serial in seven parts by DAVID ELLIS with Frederick Jaeger
Part 7: ' 'I'm going 50-50 with the law. My share will be the Flints' loot, theirs'll be enough evidence to convict Roy and Eddie.'
Produced by ROGER PINE
(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.30 pm)
5.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
David Ellis
Unknown:
Frederick Jaeger
Produced By:
Roger Pine
Counsel:
Martin Friend
Peter Scott:
Frederick Jaeger
Hardy:
Antony Higginson
Flemyng:
Patrick Tull
Roy Flint:
Trevor Martin
Eddie Flint:
Michael Kilgarriff
Rene:
Eva Haddon
Joyce Hardy:
Mary Quinn
Dawson:
Julian Fox

'twixt ISOBEL BARNETT
ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD and RICHARD MURDOCH , DAVID NIXON Tune twisters from STEVE RACE In the chair ROY PLOMLEY Devised and written by IAN MESSITER
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE (Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
David Nixon
Written By:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Peter Titheradge

The novel by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM dramatised by DONALD TOSH with George Baker , Peter Pratt and Lydia Sherwood
A Trollopian comedy of manners set in Edwardian London in which Canon Spratte, son of the late Lord Chancellor and brother to Earl Spratte , is determined to obtain a Bishopric. The path to his promotion is far from smooth.
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Donald Tosh
Unknown:
George Baker
Unknown:
Peter Pratt
Unknown:
Lydia Sherwood
Unknown:
Earl Spratte
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Canon Theodore Spratte:
George Baker
Lord Spratte:
Peter Pratt
Lady Sophia Spratte:
Lydia Sherwood
Winifred Spratte:
Pat Pleasance
Lionel Spratte:
John Rye
Lord Wroxham:
Geoffrey Beevers
Mrs Railting:
Norah Blaney
Louise Railing:
Jo Manning Wilson
Bertram Railing:
Michael Spice
Lord Stonehenge:
Noel Iliff
Lady Patricia:
Ursula Hirst
Sir John Durant:
Martin Friend
Gwendolyn Durant:
Sheila Grant
Ponsonby:
Denis McCarthy
Mrs Fitzherbert:
Betty Baskcomb
Mrs Caudle:
Marjorie Forsyth
BiShOp POOle:
Leslie Heritage

A late-evening conversation in which PROFESSOR HUGH THOMAS ANGUS MAUDE , MP, and PROFESSOR GRAEME MOODIE exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Produced by MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Hugh Thomas
Unknown:
Angus Maude
Unknown:
Professor Graeme Moodie
Produced By:
Michael Green

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