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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

Plymouth, Jack de Manio presents some of the personalities at the Observer Single-[ed Transatlantic
Yacht Race.
From London, TROMPETTO in the Today kitchen and FRED STREETER in the garden
(The bandleader who's going solo - across the Atlantic: p 3)
8.45 Today's Papers

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Fred Streeter

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
BRIAN CONNELL reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by ROY WILLIAMSON
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ALAN WATKINS
Narrator DOUGLAS SMITH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Connell
Read By:
Roy Williamson
Narrator:
Alan Watkins
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Martin Cox

Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM Producer JOHN FENTON
Latest' news and prospects of a big afternoon's sport including: Athletics from Meadowbank. Racing from York, Tennis from Wimbledon and Bristol, Bowls from Worthing, and County Cricket.
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam
Producer:
John Fenton

Second Round: featuring each week three winners from the first round of the contest Chairman IAN GILLIES
6: North of England and Scotland
STEPHEN PAYNE (Yorkshire) computer programmer MRS LUCY STEWART
(Renfrewshire): schoolteacher FLYING OFFICER TONY MILLS, RAF (Fife)
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 (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Gillies
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson

Introduced by Judith Chalmers Tarzan and all that: personal reflections from DENIS NORDEN. Out for the Day: JANICE DICKER. son takes to the Shropshire hills
What the European papers say. Universal but Unique: DOREEN FORSYTII looks at the international work of the Red Cross in Geneva
JOHN BRYNING reads
Six Came Flying by MARQUIS MACSWINEY OF MASHANAGLASS (4)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Denis Norden.
Unknown:
Janice Dicker.
Unknown:
Doreen Forsytii

presents a round-up of releases including
Connecting Rooms Vampire Circus
Under Milk Wood The Boy Friend
Introduced bv JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRBURST Producer BOBBY JAYE :

Contributors

Written By:
Lyn Fairburst
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

to me. says
Elizabeth Longford
In conversation with ROBIN RAY she describes, with illustrations. what makes her laugh, and admits a preference for irony and satire
Producer PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
(Nextweek: Michael Parkinson )
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Longford
Unknown:
Robin Ray
Producer:
Pamela Howe
Unknown:
Michael Parkinson

House of Regrets by PETER USTINOV adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Pauline Letts , Maurice Denham and John Ruddock
The outbreak of the Second World War revives poignant memories for a Russian emigre family living in London - but it also provides occasion for some intense family squabbling.
Piano michael kii.garriff Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Unknown:
Peggy Wells
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
John Ruddock
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Mme Barinova (Olga Andreievna):
Pauline Letts
Tamara Timofeeva, her daugher:
Kate Binchy
Marina, her younger daughter:
Helen Worth
Paul Barinov, her son:
David Horovitch
General Cherevenko (Andrei Kuzmich), her father:
Maurice Denham
Strukhov, his batman:
William Fox
Dr Tansmann (Grigori Capitonovitch):
Malcolm Hayes
Admiral Papanin (Konstantin Konstantinovich):
John Ruddock
Sergei Timofeev Tamara's husband:
Manning Wilson
Mme Samina (Glafira Ivanovna):
Sylva Langova
Mme Krohne (Natalia Carlovna):
Katherine Parr
June Downey:
Liza Ross

A late-evening conversation in Which ANGUS MAUDE , MP, DR A. H. HALSEY and GILLIAN TINDALL exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN
(A Word in Edgeways will be back in the autumn)

Contributors

Unknown:
Angus Maude
Unknown:
Dr A. H. Halsey
Unknown:
Gillian Tindall
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Michael Green

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