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Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 60-minute worldwide look at the weekend.
7.50 Travel news and What's on VHF: Regional news. weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.20 TROMPETTO on food: at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at
8.45 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

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 DOUGLAS SMITH
9.45 Conference Special
The Liberal Party Assembly
Delegates and observers look back at the week's events in Margate and discuss the likely impact of the Assembly's discussions and deliberations on Liberal Party policy and strategy. Presenter NORMAN HUNT
Narrator BRIAN HUDSON
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
SUSAN SNAILUM , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerard Evans
Read By:
Douglas Smith
Narrator:
Norman Hunt
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Susan Snailum

10.30 Value for Money Four programmes on the consumer movement
4: Does Britain need a Naderf Presented by GRAHAM TAYAR
(Repeated: Wed 7.0 pm, R3)
11.0 Workface
A 20-part case study in industrial relations 20: Family Problem
11.30 Key to Music by PETER WISHART 12: Codas
(Publication, 90p: page 56)
(Look, Listen, Learn: pp 33-36)

Contributors

Presented By:
Graham Tayar
Music By:
Peter Wishart

A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in Hong Kong. Masirah and Gan.
Panel: NAN WINTON ,TED MOULT NEIL DURDBN-SMITH V RAF Masirah:
CHARLES DONOVAN. BRIAN BANFORD DAVID DECKER , ' SCOTTIE ' SCOT
Questionmaster ALUN Williams
Questions set by the producer MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
(By arrangement with BFBS) (Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather: programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
Ted Moult
Unknown:
Neil Durdbn-Smith
Unknown:
Charles Donovan.
Unknown:
Brian Banford
Unknown:
David Decker
Unknown:
Scottie ' Scot
Unknown:
Alun Williams
Producer:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

starring Wilfrid Brambell Harry H. Corbett
Pat Coombs. Patricia Hayes
With MARGOT BOYD. SHEILA GRANT
KATHERINE PARR , EDWARD KELSEY and MARTIN FRIEND And Afterwards .4t
Written and adapted for radio by RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfrid Brambell
Unknown:
Harry H. Corbett
Unknown:
Pat Coombs.
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
With Margot Boyd.
Unknown:
Sheila Grant
Unknown:
Katherine Parr
Unknown:
Edward Kelsey
Unknown:
Ray Galton
Unknown:
Alan Simpson
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

The 1861 Whitby Lifeboat Disaster by PETER TERSON with and Written for the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, the play investigates the real-life disaster of 1861 and the myths and stories surrounding it.
Singer RAY FISHER
Harmonium MARY NASH
Concertina JIMMY ROBERTSON Adapted and produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Terson
Singer:
Ray Fisher
Unknown:
Mary Nash
Concertina:
Jimmy Robertson
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Francis Haydn Williams:
Stephen Murray
Mrs Tattersfield:
Barbara Lott
Henry Freeman:
David March
Mr Buchanan:
Brian Haines
Mrs Agar:
Kathleen Helme
Canon Austen:
John Rowe
Mrs Williams:
Sheila Grant
Mr Marwood:
David Gooderson
Dr Hingston:
Brian Haines
John Leadley:
David March
Effie Dobson:
Jill Lidstone
Mrs Dobson:
Kathleen Helme
Mr Home:
John Samson
Capt Martin:
Douglas Blackwell
William Dixon:
David Gooderson
Edward Tyreman:
John Rowe
Lop Naylor:
John Samson
Harbourmaster Tose:
Ronald Herdman
Mrs Storr:
Kathleen Helme
Sir Charles Strickland:
Rolf Lefebvre

Introduced by Judith Chalmers More for your Money - 2:
BETTY NICHOLLS , bank manager Entertainment Round-Up: JUDITH CHALMERS
What the European papers say. Of Current Concern: a discussion of topics in the news ' Faithful and True ' from Tales of the West Riding by PHYLLIS BENTLEY abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Michael SPICE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Betty Nicholls
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Phyllis Bentley
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin
Read By:
Michael Spice

presents
Richard Burton in person and in scenes from his films, including his screen debut in The Last Days of Dolxvyn, his latest role in The Assassination of Trotsky, and Hammersmith Is Out
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by LYN FAIRHURST Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Burton
Introduced By:
John Bentley
Written By:
Lyn Fairhurst
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

The game that turns the pages of showbiz history with Dick Emery. Anne Shelton Joe Henderson , Jon Curie Chairman Jack Watson Programme devised and compiled by DENIS GIFFORD Producer JOHN DYAS
5.55 Weather, programme news VIlF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Dick Emery.
Unknown:
Anne Shelton
Unknown:
Joe Henderson
Unknown:
Jon Curie
Unknown:
Jack Watson
Unknown:
Denis Gifford
Producer:
John Dyas

by H.R.F. Keating
with Michael Harbour, Frances Jeater and Geoffrey Wincott

The year 1860. A story of East End low-life, an artfully planned robbery and its startling consequence.

(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
H.R.F. Keating
Producer:
Norman Wright
Val:
Michael Harbour
Janey:
Frances Jeater
Sproggs:
Geoffrey Wincott
Mrs Christopher:
Katherine Parr
The Master:
John Rowe
The Mistress:
Betty Baskcomb
Frederick:
Jo Manning Wilson
Eileen:
Jan Edwards
Old Henry:
Leonard Fenton
The Manchester Man:
John Samson
Cook:
Sheila Mitchell
Charlie:
William Eedle
Mr Burch:
James Thomason
Rosa:
Sheila Grant
Maggie:
Olwen Griffiths

A late-evening conversation in which
CHRISTOPHER DRIVER
PROFESSOR LIAM HUDSON and DR RHODES BOYSON exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Liam Hudson
Unknown:
Dr Rhodes Boyson

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