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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

9.5 Frisch Begonnen ... German for Beginners 19: In Miinchen written by STEPHEN KANOCZ (a radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.30 Foreign Correspondent
9.45 Music Workshop: Stage 1
Final preparation for a play with music about Aesop: script and libretto by WILLIAM MURPHY Music arranged by IAN HUMPHRIS and NICOS SKALKOTTAS

Contributors

Unknown:
Frisch Begonnen
Written By:
Stephen Kanocz
Unknown:
William Murphy
Arranged By:
Ian Humphris

10.30 Voix de France. French VI 19: L'affaire Calas written by JACQUES BRUNIUS
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY Threes and Fours
11.0 Quest. Making friends by JAMES DODDING
11.20 Listening and Writing A Kestrel for a Knave by BARRY HINES : 3. Producer DICKON REED (from Leeds)
11.40 Prospect
Science in the Service of Mankind. 4: The Social and Political Role of the Scientist
Introduced by JAMES BURKE

Contributors

Written By:
Jacques Brunius
Unknown:
James Dodding
Unknown:
Barry Hines
Introduced By:
James Burke

Presenter Jeanine McMuIlen You and the Law
Whose Welfare? LAURIE SAPPER , continuing his series about Welfare State benefits to which you may be entitled, considers retirement pensions.
MIKE HARTLEY-BREWER continues his enquiry into the best way of changing your car. Today: Selling.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMuilen
Unknown:
Laurie Sapper
Unknown:
Mike Hartley-Brewer

2.0 Let's Join In. Snow White trad, adapted by ANITA HEWETT
2.20 Christian Focus. Who is Jesus? by PADDY FEENY
2.35 Interlude
2.40 Guitar School (29) presented by MICHAEL JESSETT

Contributors

Adapted By:
Anita Hewett
Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Presented By:
Michael Jessett

Selected for Friday Two Tudor Stories
1: The Killing at Kirk O'Field
An account of events in Scotland between March 1566 and June 1567.
The murder of Henry Stewart Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, remains one of the most controversial ' whodunnits ' of history. This programme tells the story as it appeared to those who watched it happen.
Compiled from contemporary sources and produced by ALISON PLOWDEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Kirk O'Field
Unknown:
Henry Stewart
Produced By:
Alison Plowden
Sir William Drury:
John Bryning
Thomas Randolph:
Peter Pratt
Mary Queen of Scots:
Kathleen Helme
Darnley:
Nigel Lambert
Philibert du Croc:
David March
Guzman de Silva:
Roger Delgado
Maitland of Lethington:
John Graham
Thomas Crawford:
Malcolm Hayes
Queen Elizabeth:
Pauline Letts
Archbishop Beaton:
Peter Pratt
Kirkaldy of Grange:
Duncan McIntyre
Narrator:
Richard Hurndall

(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Brian Hayles
Written By:
Bruno Milna
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Joe Grundy:
Reg Johnston
Angela Cooper:
Elizabeth Revill
Alan:
Raymond Skipp
Haydn Evans:
Charles Williams
Colin Drury:
John Baddeley

A spontaneous discussion by Ann Mallalieu
The Dean of St Paul's Tom King, mp
Arthur Marshall
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Preston. Devon (Repeated: Saturday, 1.15 pm)
Listeners' views for use in Any Answersi, should be addressed to Any Answers?. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Mallalieu
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and Illustrate the funny side. Script by PETER SPENCE and CHRIS MILLER
Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN FAWCETT WILSON
(David Jason is in ' No Sex Please.... We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Peter Spence
Script By:
Chris Miller
Producers:
Simon Brett
Producers:
John Fawcett Wilson
Unknown:
David Jason

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