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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
NORMAN HUNT reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by DOUGLAS SMITH
9.45 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
Narrator STUART FORSYTE
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX. BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Read By:
Douglas Smith
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Martin Cox.

Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM Producer JOHN HASLAM
Latest news and prospects of a big afternoon's sport, including: Soccer. Wales v England and N Ireland v Scotland; Racing from Newbury; Golf, The Sumrie Tournament and The English Amateur Stroke-play Championship: Rugby League, The .Championship Final: Cricket. mcc v The Australians and all Benson and Hedges Cup matches.
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam
Producer:
John Haslam

Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN 2: Home Counties and South of England
MRS JEAN BOOTH (Hertfordshire) housewife
ERIC YOUNG, (Hampshire) schoolteacher
ROBERT ECCLES (Oxford) musical instrument repairer Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson

Rt Hon Ernest Marples , MP Roy Hattersley , mp
Judith Listowel , Larry Adler Chairman DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD from Hartlepool. Co Durham
Listeners' views for use in Any Answerst should be sent to Any
Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Ernest Marples
Unknown:
Roy Hattersley
Unknown:
Judith Listowel
Unknown:
Larry Adler
Unknown:
Chairman David Jacobs
Producer:
Roy Hayward

Introduced by Judith Chalmers What the European papers say. Secret Places of Childhood: recalled by DORA SAINT , EDWARD BLISHEN and MARGARET YORKE
A Sixth Sense?: HAROLD LEA-WILSON tells PEGGY CAIRD how he finds water by map-reading. Matrimonial Property Rights: MARY REDCUFFE reports on a recent conference
Love and Music by STAN BARSTOW abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN read by TIMOTHY WEST

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Recalled By:
Dora Saint
Recalled By:
Edward Blishen
Recalled By:
Margaret Yorke
Unknown:
Peggy Caird
Music By:
Stan Barstow
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin
Read By:
Timothy West

of Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
The Reception in Paris and the State Banquet; A night at the Ballet and an Equestrian Display: Visits to Avignon and the Camargue: An afternoon at the Races: The -Departure from Rouen in the Royal Yacht Britannia.
Some of the highlights of the visit as seen by AUDREY RUSSELL. JOHN ANTHONY , RONALD ALLISON Producer ARTHUR PHILLIPS

Contributors

Unknown:
Audrey Russell.
Unknown:
John Anthony
Unknown:
Ronald Allison
Producer:
Arthur Phillips

In which travellers on the Southern Region pass their time like Chaucer's pilgrims. The Scriptwriter's Tale.
Written by Mary Edwards
(First Prize-winner in the Commuters' Tales competition) and told by Francis Matthews to Kate Binchy, Robin Browne and John Samson.
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Writer:
Mary Edwards
Story told by:
Francis Matthews
[Actress]:
Kate Binchy
[Actor]:
Robin Browne
{Actor]:
John Samson

Billie Whitelaw in Love on the Dole by RONALD GOW and WALTER GREENWOOD adapted from the novel by WALTER GREENWOOD with Avis Bunnage , James Bolam Roy Kinnear , Bert Palmer
Sally Hardcastle has a struggle to support her mother, father and younger brother during the dark days of the Depression. She dreams of getting away for a fresh start, but ... With TOM HARRISON
PHILIP WESTON. RALPH BROOKS NORA WIGGLESWORTH
CHARLES WALKER. JO GRAYSON EILEEN SMITH. ROBERT WALLACE Adapted for radio and produced by VIVIAN A. DANIELS
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Billie Whitelaw
Unknown:
Ronald Gow
Unknown:
Walter Greenwood
Novel By:
Walter Greenwood
Unknown:
Avis Bunnage
Unknown:
James Bolam
Unknown:
Roy Kinnear
Unknown:
Bert Palmer
Unknown:
Sally Hardcastle
Unknown:
Tom Harrison
Unknown:
Philip Weston.
Unknown:
Ralph Brooks
Unknown:
Nora Wigglesworth
Unknown:
Charles Walker.
Unknown:
Jo Grayson
Unknown:
Eileen Smith.
Unknown:
Robert Wallace
Produced By:
Vivian A. Daniels
Sally Hardcastle:
Billie Whitelaw
Mr Hardcastle:
Bert Palmer
Mrs Hardcastle:
Avis Bunnage
Johnny Hardcastle:
Warren Claru
Larry Meath:
James Bolam
Sam Grundy:
Roy Kinnear
Mrs Dorbell:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Mrs Jike:
Hilda Fenemore
Mrs Bull:
Alison Bayley
Helen Hawkins:
Maureen Dormor

A late-evening conversation in Which ANTHONY SAMPSON ROSE DUGDALE and PROFESSOR GRAEME MOODIE exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices With BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Sampson
Unknown:
Rose Dugdale
Unknown:
Professor Graeme Moodie
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Michael Green

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