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Introduced by Michael Aspel
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 with a report from Hyderabad on the Second Test; at 8.45 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Aspel

Presenter Jeanine McMullen You and Your Time
Wilderness Camping: ERIC HEMERY takes his family to the wildest parts of Britain. He talks to NANCY WISE.
Food: today sees the start of a new monthly Food Column in which we hope to exchange views with you, the listener at home. Send your suggestions to You and Yours, BBC. Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Eric Hemery

Chairman ROBERT ROBINSON 6: Midlands (ii)
MRS JENNIFER CRACKNELL (Suffolk)
MRS BERYL LEATHAM THOMAS (Shropshire)
WALTER THORNE (Notts) assistant education officer
FRED ROBERTS (Notts): teacher Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
(Paperback, 35p: see page 66)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Jennifer Cracknell
Unknown:
Mrs Beryl Leatham
Unknown:
Walter Thorne
Unknown:
Fred Roberts
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
Martin Fisher

medium wave
Introduced by Judith Chalmers Guest Ronnie Corbett talks to
CAROLE STONE.
What the European papers say. A Year of My Life: reflections of an ex-prisoner and his wife.
Visiting the Tyrannosaurus Rex: JANICE DICKERSON finds out how to get the best out of museum visits.
Small Jobs in the Garden: seasonal tips from GEOFF AMOS Hearen Lies About Us from the autobiography of HOWARD SPRING abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE read by CLYN OWEN
(My Son, My Son: Sunday, 9.0)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Talks:
Guest Ronnie Corbett
Unknown:
Carole Stone.
Unknown:
Janice Dickerson
Abridged By:
Sally Skrimshire
Read By:
Clyn Owen

medium WAVE
Martin Muncaster introduces
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN With NIGEL LAMBERT , PAT KEEN and GARARD GREEN
Producer ELIZABETH ORNBO
4.5 Sportscene
Learn something about Judo from Olympic medallist DAVE STARBROOK : look back on the winter Test series with India's wicketkeeper-batsman FAROKH ENGINEER, and ahead to the final stages of the FA Cup. Introduced and produced by DON MOSEY
4.25 Postbag: some of your letters to 4th Dimension 'aired'
4.30 The Wouldbegoods
The book by E. NESBIT : abridged and read in six parts by DAVID DAVIS. 6: The Long-lost Producer GLYN DEARMAN
4.50 Meet ... Yehudi Menuhin talking to children from a London primary school
Producer ELIZABETH SMITH Editor GRAHAM GAULD
(Out and About People: page 5)

Contributors

Introduces:
Martin Muncaster
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Producer:
Elizabeth Ornbo
Unknown:
Dave Starbrook
Produced By:
Don Mosey
Book By:
E. Nesbit
Unknown:
David Davis.
Producer:
Glyn Dearman
Unknown:
Yehudi Menuhin
Producer:
Elizabeth Smith
Editor:
Graham Gauld

Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words, spoken by their descendants.
Composed and produced by Michael Mason under the direction of Asa Briggs. Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex.
(A series of 26 programmes)
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF (except London and SE): Regional news, weather

Contributors

Produced By:
Michael Mason
Unknown:
Asa Briggs.

Folly: a new radio play by MALCOLM STEWART
James Manners. mp, to further his political career, is running a campaign in the House and the Country to purify public life: though he and his fellow mp, Edward Stirling , are not above seeking their own pleasures when they wish.
The many other parts played by DIANA BISHOP , NIGEL GRAHAM
ANTHONY HALL , GAIL MACFARLANE JOHN SAMSON. WILLIAM SLEIGH London. 1900.
Producer CHARLES I.EFEAUX

Contributors

Play By:
Malcolm Stewart
Play By:
James Manners.
Unknown:
Edward Stirling
Played By:
Diana Bishop
Played By:
Nigel Graham
Played By:
Anthony Hall
Unknown:
Gail MacFarlane
Unknown:
John Samson.
Unknown:
William Sleigh
Producer:
Charles I.Efeaux
Hon Edward Stirling MP:
Richard Kay
James Manners, MP:
John Pullen
The Prime Minister:
William Fox
Lady Cynthia Douglas:
Katherine Parr
Sir Cyril Douglas:
Michael Kilgarriff
Fiona Douglas:
Fiona Walker
Sheila:
Jan Edwards
Madame X:
Sheila Grant
Louise:
Sandra Clark
Mr Stevens:
David Gooderson
Home Secretary:
Rolf Lefebvre

A late-evening conversation in Which PROFESSOR CLURE PALLEY, ELAINE MORGAN , GILLIAN REYNOLDS exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Elaine Morgan
Unknown:
Gillian Reynolds
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:
Paul Newman in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean and Robert Mitchum in Wrath of God. Introduced by JOHN BENTLEY Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Newman
Unknown:
Robert Mitchum
Introduced By:
John Bentley
Written By:
Marjorie Bilbow
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

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