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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
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World j. w. M. THOMPSON 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 TERENCE LANCASTER
Narrator BRIAN HUDSON
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
M. Thompson
Read By:
Roy Williamson
Narrator:
Terence Lancaster
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Martin Cox

Presenter John Edmunds You and Your Time
It's not a hobby - it's a religion. It's not cheap and it's often hard to find a course. Nevertheless, with an increase of conversions to the faith of 10-15 every year, Golf has become one of the country's fastest growing sports.
And, of course, your letters.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Edmunds

A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland. Questionmasters:
JOHN ELLISON and TIM GUDGIN First Round. 2: Scotland (ii)
BEARSDEN ACADEMY, Dunbartonshire v MUSSELBURGH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, Midlothian
Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Roy Smith
Producer:
Martin Fisher

The World of Simenon: November adapted by ALICK ROWE from the novel by GEORGES SIMENON with FATHER: It's not right, Laure. You're my daughter; it's not right that you should -
LAURE: Your private life's no concern of mine. If that's what you wanted. Look, I just want to know what's happened, and where she is now.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Adapted By:
Alick Rowe
Novel By:
Georges Simenon
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Laure:
Jane Knowles
Father:
Frank Duncan
Mother:
Betty Baskcomb
Oiivier:
Peter Craze
Manuela:
Julia Vidler
Shimek:
Haydn Jones
LedOUX:
William Sleigh
Gilles Ropart:
Sean Barrett
Madame Rorive:
Eva Stuart
Josselin:
Brian Haines

Introduced by Judith Chalmers What the European papers say. Family Footsteps: ANNA MASSEY talks to SUE MACGREGOR about the pros and cons of being the actress daughter of Adrienne Allen and Raymond Massey
Small jobs in the garden: seasonal tips from GEOFF AMOS.
Poetry on a theme: BA MASON chooses poems about dogs.
Inland Spas: YVONNE ADAMSON takes a weekend at Buxton. ALEXANDER JOHN reads
It Shouldn'Happen to a Vet by JAMES HERRIOT
(Alexander John is in ' Canterbury Tales ' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Talks:
Anna Massey
Unknown:
Adrienne Allen
Unknown:
Raymond Massey
Unknown:
Geoff Amos.
Unknown:
Yvonne Adamson
Unknown:
James Herriot
Unknown:
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
with NIGEL LAMBERT, PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN
Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO

4.5 Forecast
The radio game devised by Ian Messiter
Host Tony Blackburn
Special guest Ed Stewart
with some Scouts and Guides

4.30 Shadow of the Pharaoh: 5: Into Battle
A thriller play in six episodes set in Ancient Egypt
Written by Victor Pemberton and David Spenser

Play produced and programme edited by Graham Gauld

Contributors

Presenter:
John Dunn
Writer (Rex Radio):
Alexander Guyan
Producer (Rex Radio):
Elizabeth Ornbo
[Actor]:
Nigel Lambert
[Actress]:
Pat Keen
[Actor]:
Garard Green
Devised by (Forecast):
Ian Messiter
Presenter (Forecast):
Tony Blackburn
Guest (Forecast):
Ed Stewart
Producer (Forecast):
Richard Willcox
Writer (Shadow of the Pharaoh):
Victor Pemberton
Writer (Shadow of the Pharaoh):
David Spenser
Producer (Shadow of the Pharaoh)/Programme Editor:
Graham Gauld
Ahmose:
Sean Barrett
Kem:
David Valla
Peten-Ra:
John Bentley
Hamabari:
Betty Baskcomb
Karu:
John Westbrook
Nefertari:
Sheila Grant
Senmut:
Rolf Lefebvre
Honimon:
Lewis Stringer
Hyksos Captain:
Andrew Rivers

Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, sppken by their descendants.
5: Village Church - the medieval village seen through the eyes of its clerics, its ' clerks.' Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Paul Hyams , Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford.
(A series of 26 programmes)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Produced By:
Daniel Snowman
Unknown:
Paul Hyams

Dorothy Tutin in The Barretts of Wimpole Street by RUDOLF BESIER with Paul Rogers and Jeremy Brett The action takes place in Elizabeth Barrett 's bed-sitting room in Wimpole Street, London: 1845.
Producer ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy Tutin
Unknown:
Rudolf Besier
Unknown:
Paul Rogers
Unknown:
Jeremy Brett
Unknown:
Elizabeth Barrett
Producer:
Archie Campbell
Edward Moulton-Barrett:
Paul Rogers
His children: Alfred:
William Eedle
His children: George:
John Rowe
His children: Charles:
John Samson
His children: Henry:
Robin Browne
His children: Septimus:
David Valla
His children: Octavius:
Christopher Good
His children: Arabel:
Kate Binchy
His children: Henrietta:
Jane Knowles
His children: Elizabeth:
Dorothy Tutin
His children: Robert Browning:
Jeremy Brett
Captain Surtees Cook:
Michael Kilgarriff
Henry Bevan:
Kenneth Fortescue
Dr Chambers:
Rolf Lefebvre
Dr Ford-Waterlow:
John Ruddock
Bella Hedley:
Helen Worth
Wilson:
Sheila Grant

A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and the people who make them, including Alain Delon and scenes fom Pope Joan. Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Alain Delon
Unknown:
Pope Joan.
Introduced By:
John Bentley
Written By:
Marjorie Bilbow
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

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