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Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 70-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 8.30* Sportsdesk; at 8.45 Today's Papers
8.59 Weather

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad, starting with 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
BRIAN CONNELL reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by BRIAN EMPRINGHAM
9.45 Talking Politics
Steering the Economy: NORMAN HUNT looks at the pressures which operate on the Treasury Ministers whose decisions affect us all.
Narrator MARTIN MUNCASTER Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE , MARTIN COX

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Connell
Read By:
Brian Empringham
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Bernard Tate

Introduced by PETER JONES
Featuring League football in England and Scotland; Racing; Rugby Union and Rugby League; and a report from Madras on the first day's play in the Third Test.
Producer BOB BURROWS
(Sport on 2: from 2.0 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Jones
Producer:
Bob Burrows

A general knowledge contest between schools in England, Scotland, Wales and N Ireland.
Questionmasters John Ellison and Tim Gudgin

Tapton House School, Chesterfield, v County Girls Grammar School, Newbury
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)

12.55 Weather, programme news
VHF: Regional news, weather

Contributors

Questionmaster:
John Ellison
Questionmaster:
Tim Gudgin
Questions set by:
Roy Smith
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A spontaneous discussion by Lord Stokes. Robin Day Dame Margaret Miles
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from London
Listeners' views should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

A Mackerel Sky and Apple Green by BRIAN LEE with LIAM: Fr Collins is a vegetable-arian and he says you mustn'kill any animals - and the cook does. And he doesn'worship the sun, but he must if he's religious because God made the sun. And you should take your clothes off if you're a proper vegetable-arian.
BISHOP: Keep still in your seat. You'll have me liqueur over.
LIAM: But you're a Bishop. And you're eating animals!
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Lee
Producer:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Kevin Leroy:
T P McKenna
Fr Collins:
Jim Norton
Sara Leroy:
Kate Binchy
Liam Leroy:
J Bennett
Miss Dougan:
Heather Gibson
Cook:
Martin Friend
Bishop:
Ronald Herdman
Waiter:
Jim Norton

Introduced by Judith Chalmers Money 3: AUBREY WILSON , with HUMPHREY OLIVER , considers buying on credit
Entertainment Round-up: JUDITH CHALMERS
What the European papers say. Operation Wuthering Heights: DAVID MAHLOWE walks across the Haworth Moors to talk to ASHLEY JACKSON and a group of Barnsley schoolchildren who are restoring the farmhouse, Top
Withens Granny 's Home-Grown Cures: MAUREEN VINCENT remembers childhood remedies Snapshot of a Dog from The Thurber Carnival by JAMES THURBER read by BLAIN FAIRMAN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Aubrey Wilson
Unknown:
Humphrey Oliver
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
David Mahlowe
Unknown:
Haworth Moors
Unknown:
Withens Granny
Unknown:
Maureen Vincent
Unknown:
James Thurber
Read By:
Blain Fairman

Martin Muncaster introduces the Saturday show for young listeners
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN With NIGEL LAMBERT
PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
4.5 Dial a Scientist
Puzzled by unanswered questions from the world of science? Then send them on a postcard giving your name, age and telephone number to: 4th Dimension, BBC Broadcasting House. London W1A 4WW.
This week Geoffrey Pardoe. an expert on space travel, joins regulars Patrick Moore and Professor Eric Laithwaite who have answers to just about anything. In the chair Paddy Feeny. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT (Dial a Scientist again: 10 Feb. Young Scientists of the Year: Monday 6.45 pm on BBC1, and p 5)
4.30 Jennings at School by ANTHONY BUCKERIDGE 3: Jennings and the Farewell Gilt
Producer HERBERT SMITH Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
Martin Muncaster
Radio By:
Alexander Guyan
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Unknown:
Pat Keen
Unknown:
Garard Green
Producer:
Elizabeth Ornbo
Unknown:
Geoffrey Pardoe.
Unknown:
Patrick Moore
Unknown:
Professor Eric Laithwaite
Unknown:
Paddy Feeny.
Producer:
Herbert Smith
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Jennings:
Mark Hadfield
Darbishire:
Steven Jenkins
Mr Wilkins:
Anthony Buckeridge
Mr Carter:
John Daglish
Matron:
Juliet Cooke
Venables:
Nigel Makin
Temple:
Jonathan Carp
Atkinson:
Jeremy Clarkson

Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants.
16: True-born Britons: Everyman reacts to the ideas of the French Revolution
Composed and produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN under the direction of Gwyn Williams , Professor of History at York. (A series of 26 programmes)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF lexcept London and SE): Regional news, weather

Contributors

Produced By:
Daniel Snowman
Unknown:
Gwyn Williams

The Hot Tiara by JANET ALLEN
Cassidy was charming and attractive and very good-looking. He also had no business trespassing in Freda's sitting room ...
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Janet Allen
Producer:
Christopher Venning
Freda:
Isabel Dean
Freda:
Isabel Dean
Cassidy:
Peter Jeffrey
Mick:
Andrew Rivers
Bracken:
Manning Wilson
Kim:
Elspeth Charlton
Kitty:
Olive Lucius
Gregory:
John Samson
Detective:
Nigel Graham

A topical view of the cinema featuring the stars, the new films and the people who make them. including:
Sean Connery in The Offence and Ned Sherrin 's send-up of The Archers-The Cobblers of Umbridge.
Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Connery
Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Introduced By:
John Bentley
Written By:
Marjorie Bilbow
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

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