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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
HONOR BALFOUR 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 Peter Barker
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX, BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Read By:
David Broomfield
Narrator:
Peter Barker

Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Latest news and prospects of a big day's sport including:
Soccer - Watney Cup Final; Cricket: Yachting - Admiral's Cup: The Lions in New Zealand; Golf - Classic International Tournament; Racing from Redcar and Newmarket; Swimming - National Championships at Leeds.
Producer JACOB DE VRIES
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam

The three finalists from this year's contest: MRS HILDA DAVIES RICHARD CONDON , FRED MORGAN v a team of Members of Parliament:
TIMOTHY RAISON, DAVID STEEL ROY HATTERSLEY
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Hilda Davies
Unknown:
Richard Condon
Unknown:
David Steel
Unknown:
Roy Hattersley
Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Written By:
John Fawcett Wilson

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray Tommy Trinder
Cardew Robinson
In the chair MCDONALD HOBLEY from an idea by Jimmy EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Tommy Trinder
Unknown:
Cardew Robinson
Unknown:
McDonald Hobley
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Producer:
Edward Taylor

The novel by ANTHONY POWELL adapted by MATTHEW WALTERS with James Bolam , Kate Coleridge Betty Huntley-Wright and Prunella Scales
A portrait painter determines to find room at the top in between-the-wars society.
Producer R. D. SMITH

Contributors

Novel By:
Anthony Powell
Adapted By:
Matthew Walters
Unknown:
James Bolam
Unknown:
Kate Coleridge
Unknown:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Unknown:
Prunella Scales
Producer:
R. D. Smith
Mary Passenger:
Kate Coleridge
Betty Passenger:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Arthur:
Zouch Jamesbolam
Dawkins:
John Ruddock
Major Fosdick:
Anthony Jacobs
Joanna Brandon:
Prunella Scales
Jasper Fosdick:
Sean Arnold
Torquil Fosdick:
Ian Lubrock
Mrs Brandon:
Grizelda Hervey
Mrs Dadds:
Lynn Carson
Mrs Passenger:
Diana Robson
Vernon Passenger:
William Fox
Bianca:
Saba Sarol
Mrs Fosdick:
Eva Stuart
Fischbein:
Reg Lever
Hetty:
Sheila Grant
Capt McGurk:
Garard Green

Introduced by Judith Chalmers My Week: ISOBEL BARNETT
The Restoration of York Minster: SHIRLEY TAYLOR looks round
Three Cornered Heart: ANNE FREMANTLE talks about her book of family memoirs
This is my own, my native land - does patriotism still exist? SHEILA YEADON investigates. Blue Print by GWYN THOMAS abridged by ANN THOMAS read by ALARIC COTTER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Shirley Taylor
Abridged By:
Ann Thomas
Read By:
Alaric Cotter

presents Ned Sherrin - from BBC tv's TWTWTW to film producer of Up Pompeii!, Every Home Should Have One, and the new comedy Girl stroke Boy starring JOAN GREEN-WOOD and MICHAEL HORDERN. Introduced by DAVID GEARY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Michael Hordern.
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
Margaret Govan has been initiated as a white witch. and has suggested an experiment. 4: Black Midsummer
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY † (Repeated: Tuesday, 3.30 pm)
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Farrar
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Patricia Gallimore
Unknown:
Margaret Govan
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Bridget Williams:
Eva Stuart
Peter Brent:
Martin Jarvis
Sgt George Blake:
Sean Arnold
Dr Carl Ewing:
Haydn Jones
Donald Williams:
Fraser Kerr
Margaret Govan:
Patricia Gallimore
Susan Platt:
Margaret Robertson
Rex Andrews:
Antony Higginson
Professor:
Jessup Lewisstringer
Bill:
Alan Reid
Joe Gurney:
Douglas Blackwell
Reuben Fairfax:
Patrick Tull
L/Cpl Davis:
Roger Gale

A Night at The Oxford - 1861 with PETER REEVES. PAT WHITMORE JOHN GOWER , 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:
Pat Whitmore
Unknown:
John Gower
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 GUY VAESEN from the novel by SUSAN HILL with Fay Compton Cathleen Nesbitt Pauline Letts and Lockwood West
Mountsea, where people retire to enjoy the excitements, upheavals and passions of their old age.
Producer guy VAESEN
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Novel By:
Susan Hill
Unknown:
Fay Compton
Unknown:
Cathleen Nesbitt
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Major:
Carpenter Lockwoodwest
Mrs Carpenter:
Fay Compton
Mrs Oddicott:
Cathleen Nesbitt
Deirdre Fount:
Pauline Letts
Aubrey Fount:
Nigel Anthony
James Fount:
Rufus Frampton
Miss Prug:
Margot Boyd
Mrs Christie:
Betty Baskcomb
Ralph Porlock:
Sean Barrett
Mrs Momus:
Katherine Parr
Nurse:
Jane Knowles

plays some of his favourite records and explains why they ' make me starry-eyed.' His choice was made with the proviso (his) that not a jot of opera would appear. Not even a bar or two of an operatic overture steals into his selection which ranges from Brahms to Jake Thackray.
Producer HELEN FRY †

Contributors

Unknown:
Jake Thackray.

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