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Introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
6.50 Travel news, What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
VHF: Regional news, weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk; at 7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news
VHF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

9.30 Religious Service for Primary Schools
My Work. 2: Director of the London Planetarium, JOHN EBDON (Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 The World of Work
Unit II; Money. 6: Rainy Day written by JEFFREY SEGAL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Ebdon
Written By:
Jeffrey Segal

10.30 History in Focus
The Worker in the State 1870-1960. 1: written by JACK EMERY
10.45 Intermediate German Rosenmontag written by H. J. DAUS
Producer AL WOLFF
11.0 Movement and Music I by PENNY WHITTAM
Producer VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.20 Music Club presented by GARY TAYLOR
Producer ALBERT CHATTERLEY
11.40 Religion and Life
' You'll live ': a play by B. e. T. LAMB (VI Form series)

Contributors

Written By:
Jack Emery
Written By:
H. J. Daus
Producer:
Vera Gray
Presented By:
Gary Taylor
Producer:
Albert Chatterley
Play By:
B. E. T. Lamb

Presenter Nancy Wise
Home and Family. The Illiterates: it is known that unemployment among schoolleavers is high: less known that, after nine years at school, many jobless teenagers are illiterate. An enquiry by DES FAHY.
VHF South West: see Variations

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams
Derek Nimmo , Clement Freud Peter Jones try to talk for just a minute on this and that Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Thursday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

2.0 World History. Anne Frank written by MAUREEN OSBORNE
2.20 Geography
France: Fos-sur-Mer - a Southern Europort? by JONATHAN RADICE
2.40 Stories and Rhymes
The animal family by RANDALL JARRELL. 1: The hunter, the mermaid and the bear Producer MICHAEL ROLFE

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Frank
Written By:
Maureen Osborne
Unknown:
Jonathan Radice
Unknown:
Randall Jarrell.
Producer:
Michael Rolfe

by WINIFRED HOLTBY : adapted for radio in five instalments by OLIVE SHAPLEY
3: Midge Enjoys the Measles
Other parts played by CHRISTOPHER WILKINSON
OLIVE PENDLETON , HUGH WRIGHT JULIA LANG , ELIZABETH MCKENZIE Accompanist TREVOR HOLROYD Producer TREVOR HILL
(from the North of England: Sunday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Winifred Holtby
Unknown:
Olive Shapley
Played By:
Christopher Wilkinson
Played By:
Olive Pendleton
Unknown:
Hugh Wright
Unknown:
Julia Lang
Accompanist:
Elizabeth McKenzie
Accompanist:
Trevor Holroyd
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Narrator:
David Mahlowe
Alderman:
Anthony Snaith
Alderman:
Wilfred Harrison
Councillor Huggins:
Wilfred Pickles
Sarah Burton:
Anna Cropper
Robert Carne:
Nigel Davenport
Midge, his daughter:
Helen Worth
Gwynneth, her schoolfriend:
Marah Stohl
Dr Campbell:
Colin Edwynn
Alderman Mrs Beddows:
Ruth Dunning
Lydia Holly:
Susan Moverley
Mrs Holly:
Rosalie Williams
Madame Hubbard, the draper's Wife:
Daphne Oxenford
Mr Hubbard:
Jack Woolgar

in Hertfordshire
Members of the Welwyn Garden City Horticultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Michael Barratt
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

A panel game for four hands Leader of the pack and chairman is David Nixon who deals to June
Whitfield Patrick Moore , William Rushton Devised and shuffled by IAN MESSITER. Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX

Contributors

Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Whitfield Patrick Moore
Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Ian Messiter.
Unknown:
Richard Willcox

(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Malcolm Lynch
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian Bellamy:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joby Woodford:
George Woolley
Joe Grundy:
Reg Johnston
Angela Cooper:
Elizabeth Revill
Alan:
Raymond Skipp

Ring Robin Day to put your question in person to Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe, QC, MP, Minister for Trade and Consumer Affairs

To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed] (16 lines) will take them from 6.0 pm onward until the end of the programme.

Contributors

Presenter:
Robin Day
Guest:
Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe
Producer:
Walter Wallich

Your presence is requested at The Kit-Kat, The Embassy, The Café de Paris, The Ritz and The Bag 0' Nails.
Dress, formal. Sobriety, desirable but not essential. Those present include:
Kitty Black, Barbara Cartland Lord Donegall. Douglas Byng Geoffrey Kingston-Stewart and Tiny Winters
Written and introduced by Steve Race
Compiled and produced by MICHELL RAPER
(People: page 4)

Contributors

Produced By:
Michell Raper

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