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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
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
JOHN TUSA reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by DAVID BROOMFIELD
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ALAN WATKINS
Narrator Douglas Smith Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

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

1S92-194S
A musical portrait including memories from his widow DIANA NAPIER TAUBER LEA SEIDL and JOSEF KRIPS Written and introduced by CHARLES OSBORNE
Produced, with gramophone records, by ANNA INSTONE

Contributors

Unknown:
Diana Napier Tauber
Unknown:
Lea Seidl
Introduced By:
Charles Osborne

in Sir Patrick Spens Rides Again or The Great Round-Britain Poetry Race of 1971 Beirtg a new and revolutionary poetry programme: featuring
DOUGLAS BLACKWELL , ROBIN HOLMES PETER TUDDENHAM , JAMES URQUHART with music, refreshments and litter, a Chinese choir and pianist, and The Harmonie de la Fosse Brass Band of France
Written and produced by ROBERT CRADOCK
(Repeated: Tuesday, 8.30 pm) (Radio Times People: page 4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Patrick Spens
Unknown:
Douglas Blackwell
Unknown:
Robin Holmes
Unknown:
Peter Tuddenham
Unknown:
James Urquhart
Produced By:
Robert Cradock

Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Latest news and prospects of a big day's sport including:
The Lions Tour of New Zealand: Tennis from Paris: Racing from Kempton Parkr Cricket from Cardiff. Old Trafford and Worcester.
Produced by JOHN FENTON (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam
Produced By:
John Fenton

A spontaneous discussion by RUSSELL 8RADDON
LADY RACHEL BILLINGTON
KENNETH ALLSOP
LORI) DAVID CECIL
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN from Weymouth, Dorset

Contributors

Unknown:
Lady Rachel Billington
Unknown:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
David Cecil
Unknown:
Chairman David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

A new trilogy by A. R. RAWLINSON
Part 3: The Merlin Stone
The two contestants for the Gwaine inheritance - the late Earl Gwaine 's elderly cousin, Miss Llewellyn, and Owen Blotten , student son of a London greengrocer - meet for the first time in the solicitor's office
Produced by GUY VAESEN

Contributors

Unknown:
A. R. Rawlinson
Unknown:
Earl Gwaine
Unknown:
Owen Blotten
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
Farthingale:
Bruce Beeby
Miss Pullen:
Jo Manning Wilson
Owen:
Barry Justice
Miss Llewellyn:
Fabia Drake
May Blotten:
Eva Stuart
Bunty:
Patricia Gallimore
Imogen Llewellyn:
Chrys Salt
Bertie:
Leslie Heritage
Groom:
Clifford Norgate
Willis:
John Ruddock
Gen Mainwaring:
Gerald Cross
Mrs Mainwaring:
Margot Boyd

Introduced by Judith Chalmers
My Week: IRENE THOMAS
Guest: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Can It Be True?: LESLEY SAXBY on the evolution of the woman's magazine story
The Five Points of Women's Liberation - 5: Free abortion and contraception on demand. AUDREY BATTERSBY and DR MARGARET WHITE discuss the pros and cons with JOAN YORKE Shoes Were for Sunday written and read by MOLLY WEIR abridged by DOREEN ESTALL

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Lesley Saxby
Unknown:
Audrey Battersby
Unknown:
Dr Margaret White
Unknown:
Joan Yorke
Read By:
Molly Weir
Abridged By:
Doreen Estall

presents
Maurice Chevalier recalling highlights from his screen career.
Introduced by TONY BILBOW Written by LYN FAIRHURST
Produced by BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Chevalier
Introduced By:
Tony Bilbow
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Produced By:
Bobby Jaye

'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 celebrated comedy by Joseph Kesselring
Starring Sybil Thorndike and Athene Seyler.
With Prunella Scales, Dinsdale Landen and Desmond Walter-Ellis.

Scene: The living-room of the Brewster home in Brooklyn
Time: The present

(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
(9.58 Weather)

Contributors

Writer:
Joseph Kesselring
Producer:
Graham Cauld
Abby Brewster:
Sybil Thorndike
Teddy Brewster:
Desmond Walter-Ellis
Dr Harper:
Lewis Stringer
Officer Brophy:
David Valla
Officer Klein:
John Rye
Martha Brewster:
Athene Seyler
Elaine Harper:
Prunella Scales
Mortimer Brewster:
Dinsdale Landen
Jonathan Brewster:
Heron Carvic
Dr Einstein:
Gerald Cross
Officer O'Hara:
Alaric Cotter
Lieut Rooney:
Edward Kelsey
Mr Witherspoon:
Lockwood West

A late-evening conversation in which JACK DOMINIAN MARGARET DRABBLE and NICHOLAS STACEY exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Produced by MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Dominian
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Unknown:
Nicholas Stacey
Produced By:
Michael Green

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