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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
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
NORMAN HUNT 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 TERENCE LANCASTER
Narrator Douglas Smith
Producers ELIZABETH SMITH
MICHAEL GILLIAM , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Read By:
David Broomfield
Producers:
Elizabeth Smith
Unknown:
Michael Gilliam

Incontri in Italia
5: Una cura dimagrante
(Rptd: Tuesday 6.30 pm, R3)
10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see column 5
11.0 Help Yourself to English
1: The Brief Case
(Rptd: Wed 7.0 pm. R3)
11.30 Perspective A series on the arts
Dancers in Dialogue
(Publications: see page 10)

Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Latest news and prospects of a big day's sport including:
Motor Racing - The Woolmark British Grand Prix: Racing-Timeform Meeting at Doncaster; County Cricket: Athletics-Women's AAA Championships at Crystal Palace; The Lions in New Zealand; Golf - French Open Championship.
Produced by JACOB DE VRIES (Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam
Produced By:
Jacob de Vries

of this general knowledge contest in which the three finalists compete for the title:
MRS HILDA DAVIES (Glamorgan) farmer's wife
FRED MORGAN (Northumberland) insurance official
RICHARD CONDON (Birmingham) lecturer
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Hilda Davies
Unknown:
Richard Condon
Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guest Sheila Hancock from an idea by jimmy EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Producer:
Edward Taylor

A radio play by ARTHUR SWINSON The attacks made by the Vicar of St Luke 's upon his parishioners during his sermons, of which he is quite unaware. cause great concern in the diocese. The solution links the days of the Roman occupation of Britain with the present.
Producer JOE BURROUGHS

Contributors

Play By:
Arthur Swinson
Unknown:
St Luke
Producer:
Joe Burroughs
Rev Michael Grant:
John Pullen
Betty Grant:
Jan Edwards
Gordon Talbot:
Malcolm Hayes
The Bishop:
Carleton Hobbs
Janet:
Marjorie Westbury
Rev Henry King DENIS:
Is McCarthy
James Neill:
Basil Jones
Jill Harrison:
Eva Haddon
Julia Stringer:
Gretta Gouriet
Miss Appleby:
Betty Hardy
Canon Quintus Francis:
De Wolff

Introduced by Judith Chalmers
My Week: EIRLYS ROBERTS
Entertainment Round-Up: JUDITH CHALMERS
Moving House without Tears: MADGE HART enquires
A House to Visit: -3: BRIAN GEAR at Stourhead Good Night, Julius by GWYN THOMAS abridged by ANN THOMAS read by ALARIC COTTER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Madge Hart
Abridged By:
Ann Thomas
Read By:
Alaric Cotter

presents Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton in the new Wuthering Heights and looks at other remakes of cinema classics.
Introduced by DAVID GEARY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Calder-Marshall
Unknown:
Timothy Dalton
Introduced By:
David Geary
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

A serial for radio in six parts by STEWART FARRAR with Martin Jarvis and Patricia Gallimore
'Just think what you have here. Biodar - the first radar in the world, so far as we know. that can pick up sentient life and locate it exactly ...' 1: The Black Arc
(For cast see Tues. 3.30 pm)
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Farrar
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Patricia Gallimore

A Night at the Canterbury - 1856
With PETER REEVES
BENNY LEE , CHARLES YOUNG
PAT WHITMORE , VERNON MIDGLEY MUSIC-HALL SINGERS directed by CHARLES YOUNG Orchestra conducted by ALFRED RALSTON
Chairman Roy Hudd
Written by CHARLES CHILTON Producers CHARLES chilton and RICHARD WILLCOX
(Roy Hudd is in ' Danny La Rue at the Palace' at the Palace Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Reeves
Unknown:
Benny Lee
Unknown:
Charles Young
Unknown:
Pat Whitmore
Unknown:
Vernon Midgley
Directed By:
Charles Young
Conducted By:
Alfred Ralston
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Written By:
Charles Chilton
Producers:
Charles Chilton
Producers:
Richard Willcox
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Unknown:
Danny La Rue

by N.C. Hunter
adapted for radio by Mollie Hardwick
with Coral Browne and Virginia Maskell
"Most of us spend all our time trying not to hope for what is quite unattainable, trying to be content with what we have. It's not kind to make us dream of the waters of the moon, of all kinds of happiness that are out of reach..."
(For cast see Mon, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Author:
N.C. Hunter
Adapted for radio by:
Mollie Hardwick
[Actress]:
Coral Browne
[Actress]:
Virginia Maskell

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