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7.10 On Your Farm
Breakfast with a farm worker's family in Warwickshire where. 100 years ago. Joseph Arch addressed the famous meeting which led to the setting up of the first farm workers' union. Arranged and introduced by ANTHONY PARKIN
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
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
ANTHONY KING 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:
Anthony King
Read By:
David Broomfield
Narrator:
George Gardiner
Producers:
Kevin Ruane
Unknown:
Martin Cox.

A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners pomDete for this title.
Chairman Franklin Engelmann 1: London
WILLIAM T. BLUNDELL retired musician SIMON EVANS public relations officer ROBERT DIMMICK computer programmer
PERCY RICHER, articled clerk
Including ' Beat the Brains ' In which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Musician:
Simon Evans
Unknown:
Robert Dimmick
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson

A spontaneous discussion by Rt Hon Enoch Powell, MP Gillian Reynolds
Colin Welland Chairman Lord Willis DAVID JACOBS Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Liverpool
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers' should be sent to Any
Answers?. BBC, Bristol. BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Enoch Powell, Mp
Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
Unknown:
Colin Welland
Unknown:
Lord Willis
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

Introduced by Judith Chalmers What are we eating? - 4: DEREK COOPER looks at bread
A Working Partnership - 3: LEONARD and MARGARET BODEN. portrait painters, talk to JEAN GOODMAN
What the European papers say A Journey Through Madness: JUNE ROSE With MARY BARNES
Counter Check: NORMAN TOZER looks at cheap offers
Fit for a Duchess by MAVIS BUDD abridged by MADGE HART read by BARBARA MITCHELL (5)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Margaret Boden.
Unknown:
Jean Goodman
Unknown:
June Rose
Unknown:
Mary Barnes
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Mavis Budd
Abridged By:
Madge Hart
Read By:
Barbara Mitchell

presents
Tom Courtenay recalling his career on stage and screen and introducing his new film
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Courtenay
Unknown:
Ivan Denisovich
Introduced By:
John Bentley
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and bill MCGUFFIE at the piano look back at the week's news and illustrate the funny side Script by PETER SPENCE
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Script By:
Peter Spence

by David Spenser
with Gary Bond, Mary Morris and Kate Binchy
This is the second of two plays about Akhnaten whose reign as Pharaoh of Egypt (1371-56 BC) preceded that of Tutankhamen. Having broken with the old religion of Amon and established the new worship of Aten, the Pharaoh has left the ancient city of Thebes and built another capital - The City of the Horizon. He dreams of a different order of things, but his dreams inevitably come into conflict with the harsh facts of reality. Furthermore the Pharaoh's reason and his sight are beginning to fail...

Contributors

Writer:
David Spenser
Producer:
John Tydeman
Akhnaten, Pharaoh of Egypt:
Gary Bond
Nefertiti his wife:
Kate Binchy
Queen Tiy, his mother:
Mary Morris
Smenkhare, his half-brother:
David Valla
Tutankhamen, his half-brother:
Geoffrey Beevers
Meritaten his daughter:
Stephanie Turner
Ay, the Chief Counsellor:
Lockwood West
Horemheb, the Commander in Chief:
William Fox
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

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