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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
ANTHONY KING 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 MARTIN MUNCASTER Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony King
Read By:
Bryan Martin
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. 6: Midlands OAKHAM SCHOOL, Rutland v
PRINCE HENRY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Evesham
Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer MARTIN FISHER
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

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

Mrs McConaghy 's Money by HUGH QUINN : adapted for radio by STEWART PARKER
' You read in the papers of terrible times here and terrible times there. But there was always terrible times for the poor, only they never published it on the placards.
Producer DENYS HAWTHORNE (from Northern Ireland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs McConaghy
Unknown:
Hugh Quinn
Unknown:
Stewart Parker
Producer:
Denys Hawthorne
Mrs McConaghy:
Elizabeth Begley
Mickey McConaghy:
J G Devlin
Aggie:
Denise McKenna
DUCkSy:
Gerry McGuire
Mr Blaney:
Joe McPartland
Liza:
Gertrude Russell
Sam Meehan:
Charles Armstrong

Introduced by Judith Chalmers
Guest Deborah Kerr
What the European papers say. Life-Style in a Tent: BOB FORBES talks to RANDOLPH MAR-
RIOTT
For the Very Rich: MAEVE BINCHY, ANNE MAYBURY and ARTHUR MARSHALL sample three ultra-luxurious hotels
Small Jobs in the Garden: seasonal tips from GEOFF AMOS ALEXANDER JOHN reads
It Shouldn'Happen to a Vet by JAMES HERRIOT
(Sixth of nine instalments)
(Alexander John is in ' Canterbury Tales' at the Phoenix Theatre, London)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Deborah Kerr
Unknown:
Anne Maybury
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Geoff Amos
Unknown:
Alexander John
Unknown:
James Herriot
Unknown:
Alexander John

John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN
Another instalment in the dramatic life of Captain Radio with NIGEL LAMBERT
PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
4.5 Forecast!
The radio game devised bv IAN MESSITER Host Tony Blackburn
Special guest Michael Aspel with some Scouts and Guides Producer RICHARD WILLCOX
4.30 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The book by ROALD DAHL abridged in 6 episodes by NAOMI LEWIS
Told by ERIC THOMPSON. 3: Mr Wonka 's Chocolate Factory Producer IAN COTTERELL
4.50 Unsolved Mysteries
2: NORMAN TOZER investigates the stories about the lost continent of Atlantis.
Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Alexander Guyan
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Unknown:
Pat Keen
Unknown:
Garard Green
Producer:
Elizabeth Ornbo
Unknown:
Michael Aspel
Producer:
Richard Willcox
Book By:
Roald Dahl
Unknown:
Naomi Lewis
Told By:
Eric Thompson.
Told By:
Mr Wonka
Producer:
Ian Cotterell
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Producer:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith
Editor:
Graham Gauld

Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants.
9: London
Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Dr Valerie Pearl , Reader in History of London at University College, London (A series of 26 programmes)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Produced By:
Daniel Snowman
Reader:
Dr Valerie Pearl

Adapted by Val Gielgud from his novel of the same name

Gregory Pellew (once of New Scotland Yard) and Humphrey Clymping are on holiday on board ship. It is not long before events require professional investigation and for Pellew, at any rate, things become less like a holiday than they were intended to.

9.58 Weather

Contributors

Author/Adapted by:
Val Gielgud
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Gregory Pellew:
Allan Cuthbertson
Humphrey Clymping:
Charles Hodgson
George Spencer:
Nigel Graham
Mrs Ianthe Bushe:
Ella Milne
Nancy Roxburgh:
Patricia Gallimore
Lady Hannington:
Janet Burnell
Kate Clymping:
Dorit Welles
Barry Compayne:
Russell Napier
Mrs Compayne:
Margaret Robertson
Gerald Tuck:
Haydn Jones
Sheila Glazo:
Gail MacFarlane
Hilary Tate:
Douglas Blackwell
Alf Smith ('Daisy'):
Andrew Rivers

A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and those who make them, including Michael Winner's The Mechanic and Andrew Stone 's The Great Walt;.
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Stone
Introduced By:
John Bentley
Written By:
Marjorie Bilbow
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

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