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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
GERARD EVANS reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by DAVID BROOMFIELD
9.45 The Week in Westminster ROBERT CARVEL introduces coverage on this week's special parliamentary debates on Northern Ireland, and TREVOR smith looks at other aspects of the political scene
Narrator PETER BARKER
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX and BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard Evans
Read By:
David Broomfield
Introduces:
Robert Carvel
Introduces:
Trevor Smith
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Martin Cox
Unknown:
Bernard Tate

10.30-12.0 VHF Open University: see column 2
10.30 Incontri in Italia
14: Uno studioso del passato
11.0 Help Yourself to English 10: You're early this morning
11.30 Stranger than Truth
Science fiction as literature, as speculative science, as satire and as fantasy. 4: Psychospace
J. G. BALLARD talks about his own book The Drowned World as a forerunner of ' inner space ' science fiction. (Publications: page 14)

Contributors

Talks:
J. G. Ballard

A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services in Cyprus and Malta.
Panel: Nan Winton, Ted Moult, Neil Durden-Smith
v. RAF Luqa, in Malta: Sq Ldr Bill Mulvenney, Chief Techn Alasdair McLain, Flight Sgt Terry Donegan, Flight Lt Derek Soar
Question-master Alun Williams
Questions set and programme produced by Michael Tuke-Hastings
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)

12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
Alasdair McLain
Unknown:
Terry Donegan
Unknown:
Derek Soar
Question-Master:
Alun Williams
Produced By:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

A spontaneous discussion by DAVID FRANKLIN , LORD MANCROFT RT HON RICHARD MARSH
JACKY GILLOTT
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Tewkesbury
Listeners' views for use in Any Answerst should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol, BS8 2L.R

Contributors

Unknown:
David Franklin
Unknown:
Richard Marsh
Unknown:
Jacky Gillott
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

The Hundred Lamps by BARBARA FOXE with and My world will light its hundred different lamps with thy flame and place them before the altar of thy temple (Tagore)
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Foxe
Producer:
Roger Pine
Helen:
Anna Cropper
John:
Geoffrey Beevers
Arthur:
Haydn Jones
Frank:
Frederick Treves
Harry:
Robin Browne
Barrett:
Denis McCarthy

Introduced by Judith Chalmers
My Week: CHRISTIANNA BRAND
Entertainment Round-up: JUDITH CHALMERS takes a look at what is happening in the world of entertainment
Guest: THE REV NICOLAS STACEY
The press-how free?: Tom BAISTOW With PEREGRINE WORSTHORNE
Murder by Jury by MICHAEL GILBERT abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS read by DENIS MCCARTHY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Nicolas Stacey
Unknown:
Michael Gilbert
Abridged By:
Evangeline Banks
Read By:
Denis McCarthy

from the novel "Inspector West Makes Haste" by John Creasey dramatised as a serial in six parts by Maurice Travers
with Patrick Allen as Chief Insp Roger West and Sarah Lawson as his wife, Janet

Roger West's vital witness has been shot and it looks as though his investigations are getting too close for someone's comfort.

5.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Author:
John Creasey
Dramatised by:
Maurice Travers
Producer:
John Browell
Chief Insp Roger West:
Patrick Allen
Janet:
Sarah Lawson
Det-Insp Jim Peel:
Drew Wood
Rosie Mulcaster:
Dilys Watling
Billy:
Clive Merrison
'The Blower ':
Nigel Lambert
Philip Selby:
John Brand
Barbara Denning:
Rosalyn Slater

The Political and Imperialistic Aspi With PETER REEVES 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:
Pat Whitmore
Directed By:
Charles Young
Conducted By:
Alfred Ralston
Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Written By:
Charles Chilton
Producers:
Charles Chilton
Producers:
Richard Willcox

The Religious Body
Adapted from CATHERINE AIRD 'S novel by ALISON PLOWDEN
If the tranquil life of the Convent of St Anselm's had been all it seemed on the surface, why had Inspector Sloan been sent for so urgently?
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Catherine Aird
Novel By:
Alison Plowden
Producer:
Christopher Venning
Narrator:
Antony Higginson
Insp Sloan:
Alan Rowe
Constable Crosby:
Nigel Anthony
Prioress:
Kathleen Michael
Sister Gertrude:
Patricia Moore
Sister LUCY:
Rosalind Adams
Sister Peter:
Jane Knowles
Sister Radigund:
Pamela Binns
Sister Polycarp:
Winefrioe Madigan
Supt Lees:
Edward Kelsey
Fr Macauley:
John Watts
Dr Dabbe:
Nigel Lambert
Sister St Bernard:
Jean Rogers
Hobbett:
Ronald Herdman
Harold Cartwright:
Michael McClain
Martin Ramsay:
Douglas Blackwell
PC Jenkins:
Antony Higginson
Celia Faine:
Jane Knowles
Wiliam Tewn:
Brian Hewlett
Bullen:
Nigel Anthony
Parker:
Ronald Herdman
Woman Sgt Perkins:
Jean Rogers

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