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9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
WALTER TAPLIN 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 GEORGE GARDINER
Narrator Douglas SMITH Producers KEVIN RUANE
MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Taplin
Read By:
David Broomfield
Narrator:
George Gardiner
Narrator:
Douglas Smith
Producers:
Kevin Ruane
Producers:
Martin Cox
Producers:
Bernard Tate
Source: Radio Times
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A spontaneous discussion by Baroness Wootton Russell Braddon
Lord David Cecil , Anthony Lewis Chairman DAVID JACOBS from Swanage, Dorset

Contributors

Unknown:
Baroness Wootton Russell Braddon
Unknown:
Lord David Cecil
Unknown:
Anthony Lewis
Unknown:
Chairman David Jacobs
Source: Radio Times
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(Tony Britton is in Move Over Mrs Markham at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Kay Evans
Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Frank Hauser
Unknown:
Katharine White-Horn
Horn:
Thora Hird
Horn:
Jean Metcalfe
Unknown:
Barbara Mitchell
Unknown:
Mavis Budd
Producer:
Bridget Marrow
Source: Radio Times
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presents a round-up of releases including:
Dulcima, Klute, The Last Run and Carnal Knowledge
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Bentley
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Producer:
Bobby Jaye
Source: Radio Times
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The City of the Horizon by DAVID SPENSER with Gary Bond , Mary Morris and Kate Binchy
This is the first of two specialty commissioned plays based on the life and times of the Pharaoh Akhnaten whose reign in Egypt (1371-1356 BC) preceded that of Tutankhamen. A poet, a heretic and a visionary. he established a new religion and hoped for a new world. 1: The Dream and Producer JOHN TYDEMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Spenser
Unknown:
Gary Bond
Unknown:
Mary Morris
Unknown:
Kate Binchy
Unknown:
Pharaoh Akhnaten
Producer:
John Tydeman
Akhnaten (Amenhotep IV). Pharaoh of Egypt:
Gary Bond
Nefertiti, his wife:
Kate Binchy
Queen Tiy, his mother:
Mary Morris
Smenkhare and Tutankhamen, his half-brothers:
David Valla
Smenkhare and Tutankhamen, his half-brothers:
Geoffrey Beevers
Meritaten, his daughter:
Stephanie Turner
Ay, the Chief Counsellor:
Lockwood West
Horemheb, the Commander in Chief:
William Fox
Ptahmose (later Ramose), the High Priest:
Rolf Lefebvre
Bek, the architect:
David Spenser
Tutmose, the sculptor:
Robin Browne
Rib-Addi, Ruler of Byblos:
Leslie Heritage
Aziru, Prince of the Amorites:
Lewis Stringer
Source: Radio Times
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A late-evening conversation in which
DAVID NAPLEY
WALTER BIRMINGHAM
JOHN SELWYN GUMMER , MP exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Napley
Unknown:
Walter Birmingham
Unknown:
John Selwyn Gummer
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Michael Green
Source: Radio Times

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