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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) (' ... worth a whole life's work '; pages 6-7)
9.30 The Weekly World j. w. M. THOMPSON reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by BRYAN MARTIN
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with TERENCE LANCASTER
Narrator DAVID WILLMOTT Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX. BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
M. Thompson
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Narrator:
David Willmott
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Martin Cox.

A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland Questionmasters John Ellison and Tim Gudgin
First Round. 1: Scotland (i) Irvine Royal Academy v Beath High School, Cowdenbeath
Questions set by Roy Smith
Producer Martin Fisher
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Questions set by:
Roy Smith
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A spontaneous discussion by Ted Moult , Lady Barnett Lord George-Brown Robert Kee
Chairman David Jacobs from Derby
Listeners' views for use In Any Answersr should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Moult
Unknown:
David Jacobs

medium wave
Introduced by Judith Chalmers
Inland Spas: JANICE DICKERSON takes a weekend at Malvern.
What the European papers say. Entertainment Round-Up: JUDITH CHALMERS
Guest: Campbell Adamson, Director-General of the CBI
It Shouldn' Happen to a Vet by JAMES HERRIOT abridged by DELIA PATON Read by Alexander John
(who is in ' Canterbury Tales at the Phoenix Theatre, London) (First of nine instalments)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Janice Dickerson
Unknown:
Campbell Adamson
Written By:
James Herriot
Abridged By:
Delia Paton
Read By:
Alexander John

John Dunn introduces the new Saturday show for young listeners
Rex Radio by Alexander Guyan
More extraordinary adventures of Capt Radio and Passionflower versus archfiend Krakov
4.5 Time Well Spent
Things to do, Things to make, Things to collect
With Barbara McDonald
4.25 Postbag
Your letters read over the air
4.30 Shadow of the Pharaoh: 4: The Eye of the Sky-God
A thriller play in six episodes written by Victor Pemberton and David Spenser

Contributors

Presenter:
John Dunn
Writer (Rex Radio):
Alexander Guyan
Producer (Rex Radio):
Elizabeth Ornbo
Writer(Shadow of the Pharaoh):
Victor Pemberton
Writer (Shadow of the Pharaoh):
David Spenser
[Actor]:
Nigel Lambert
[Actress]:
Pat Keen
[Actor]:
Garard Green
Presenter (Time Well Spent):
Barbara McDonald
Producer (Time Well Spent):
Gillian Hush
Producer(Shadow of the Pharaoh)/Programme Editor:
Graham Gauld
Ahmose:
Sean Barrett
Kem:
David Valla
Peten-Ra:
John Bentley
Nefertari:
Sheila Grant
Hamabari:
Betty Baskcomb
Karu:
John Westbrook
Senmut:
Rolf Lefebvre
Honimon:
Lewis Stringer
Soldier:
Haydn Jones

Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants. 4: Horsemen
The medieval knight
Composed and produced by MICHAEL MASON under the direction of Maurice Keen. Fellow and Tutor of Medieval History, University of Oxford,
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Produced By:
Michael Mason

Mr Campion's Falcon

A mystery by Youngman Carter dramatised for radio by Eddie Joy with William Fox and Felix Felton.

Albert Campion, that unflappable sleuth. while investigating a case of industrial espionage, plunges into an intricate Chinese-box puzzle involving murder, impersonation, kidnapping and a hoard of diamonds.

(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Youngman Carter
Dramatised by:
Eddie Joy, William Fox and Felix Felton
Producer:
John Theocharis
Albert Campion:
William Fox
Claude Porteous:
Felix Felton
Anthea Peregrine:
Caroline John
Miss Devenish:
Katherine Parr
Francis Makepeace:
Edward Kelsey
Lewis Corkran:
Rolf Lefebvre
Morris Jay:
William Eedle
Lampeter:
David Neal
Max Newgate:
Brian Haines
Scott:
Martin Friend
Collins:
Martin Friend
Appleyard:
Peter Tuddenham

A late-evening conversation in which
JOHN GARNETT. ENID MUMFORD and PROFESSOR HAROLD PERKIN exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN

Contributors

Unknown:
John Garnett.
Unknown:
Enid Mumford
Unknown:
Harold Perkin
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Michael Green

A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and the people who make them. Including this week Kathryn Grayson , star of MGM musicals, and Henry Geddes , executive producer of the Children's Film Foundation. Introduced by John Bentley

Contributors

Guest:
Kathryn Grayson
Guest:
Henry Geddes
Introduced by:
John Bentley
Writer:
Lyn Fairhurst
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

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