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

Contributors

Producer:
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
(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 Talking Politics The Agency Business
First of two programmes in which TREVOR SMITH looks at the work of constituency agents and party officials at the local level.
1: The Labour Party Narrator PETER BARKER
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE and MARTIN COX

Contributors

Read By:
David Broomfield
Unknown:
Trevor Smith
Narrator:
Peter Barker

H. Arnall Bloxham , a Cardiff hypnotist, believes that we have all lived many times - perhaps a quarter of a million times before. He has more than 300 tape recordings in which subjects under deep hypnosis recall in detail events from previous incarnations.
GORDON CLOUGH-in a former life a romantically inclined 18th-century coach-builder - investigates Mr Bloxham 's remarkable claims.
Producer ROGER FRAZER

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Arnall Bloxham
Unknown:
Gordon Clough-In
Unknown:
Mr Bloxham
Producer:
Roger Frazer

A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services in Cyprus and Malta.
The Panel: Nan Winton, Ted Moult, Neil Durden-Smith v Army, Dhekelia in Cyprus: Captain Barbara Pope, Major Neil Barclay, Sergeant Tony Eastwell, Warrant Officer II Dave Picton
Question Master Alun Williams
Questions set and programme produced by Michael Tuke-Hastings

12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
Sergeant Tony Eastwell
Question Master:
Alun Williams
Produced By:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Cyril Fletcher
Unknown:
McDonald Hobley
Unknown:
Graham Hill
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Producer:
Edward Taylor

Taking Leave by SUSAN HILL with Richard Hurndall
' It's funny why she's taken it into her head to send him, all of a sudden, after all these years. Never any letters, never a visit, and then bang, on the 6 o'clock train, and the whole house at odds. He's a complete stranger. A nephew, their nephew, but he's a complete stranger.'
Producer JANE GRAHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Hill
Unknown:
Richard Hurndall
Producer:
Jane Graham
Joseph Marchant:
Richard Hurndall
Dolphin:
Wilfrid Carter
Zoe:
Pat Keen
Irene:
Pauline Letts
Mrs Dolphin:
Cécile Chevreau
Sam:
Stephen Bone

Introduced by Judith Chalmers
My Week: DIANA GRAVES
Entertainment Round-up: JUDITH CHALMERS
Anything to Declare?: KAY EVANS goes through the customs
Role Reversal: ROBERT GODFREY now runs the house Silky with Feathers by MICHAEL BALDWIN abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN read by JAMES MCMANUS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Kay Evans
Unknown:
Robert Godfrey
Unknown:
Michael Baldwin
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin
Read By:
James McManus

presents
Richard Chamberlain in person and in scenes from his films, including The Music Lovers.
Introduced by DAVID GEARY Written by LYN FAIRHURST
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Chamberlain
Introduced By:
David Geary
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock

From the novel Inspector West Makes Haste by JOHN CREASEY dramatised as a serial in six parts by MAURICE TRAVERS with and 1: Old Coppers never die
Holiday time for Chief Insp West and his wife Janet, but a chance encounter at Victoria Station starts a chain of events leading from ordinary robbery to more serious crime.
Producer JOHN BROWELL
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
John Creasey
Unknown:
Maurice Travers
Producer:
John Browell
Chief Inspector Roger West:
Patrick Allen
his wife Janet:
Sarah Lawson
Det-Insp Jim Peel:
Drew Wood
Mike O'Leary:
Rio Fanning
The ' Blower:
Nigel Lambert
Jack Maitland:
Garard Green
Billy Mulcaster:
Clive Merrison
Joly Fewster:
Ronald Herdman

The Sociological Aspect - 1909 with PETER REEVES , JOHN GOWER
PAT WHITMORE , CHARLES YOUNG 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:
John Gower
Unknown:
Pat Whitmore
Unknown:
Charles Young
Directed By:
Charles Young
Conducted By:
Alfred Ralston
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Written By:
Charles Chilton
Producers:
Charles Chilton
Producers:
Richard Willcox

by Elaine Morgan
with Philip Madoc as Harry, Ray Smith as George, Margaret John as Stella

'My wife knows me inside out. She understands my liver and my duodenum; she knows when I am in danger of getting constipated; she knows what kind of woollen mixture is kind to my skin. She understands me right up to the eyebrows - and who could be churlish enough to expect a wife to go higher than that?'
(from Wales)
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
Elaine Morgan
Producer:
Lorraine Davies
Harry:
Philip Madoc
George:
Ray Smith
Stella:
Margaret John
Alison:
Olwen Rees
Doctor:
Dillwyn Owen
Mrs Randall:
Nesta Harries
Banyard:
Ray Hardy
Bill:
Frank Lincoln

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