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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 8.30* Sportsdesk; at 8.45 Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

medium wave
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
9.30 The Weekly World
MICHAEL MOLYNEUX reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by MARTIN MUNCASTER
9.45 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with TERENCE LANCASTER
Narrator BRYAN martin
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Molyneux
Read By:
Martin Muncaster
Narrator:
Terence Lancaster
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Martin Cox

Chairman ROBERT ROBINSON 8: North of England (ii)
MISS MARGARET TODD (Yorkshire) retired lecturer
EDWARD BEDDARD (Westmorland) headmaster
KEITH ROBINSON (Liverpool) computer programmer
MICHAEL POTTER (Lancashire) company secretary
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Miss Margaret Todd
Unknown:
Edward Beddard
Unknown:
Keith Robinson
Unknown:
Michael Potter
Producer:
Martin Fisher

by Susan Hill
with Pauline Letts, Lewis Stringer
'When Maurice dies.... We shall both be free.'
'Free? Don'we have all we want here? I don't want to go anywhere.'
'I wasn't talking of going. I have never wanted more than this. You. This place. The work I do. There's nothing more I could possibly want.'
(medium wave)

Contributors

Writer:
Susan Hill
Producer:
Guy Vaesen
Bernard:
Lewis Stringer
Molly:
Pauline Letts

medium wave
Introduced from Manchester by Judith Chalmers
Chester at Home: BARBARA PASSEY describes a new tourist attraction.
What the European papers say. Heart-throb: PETER WYNGARDE talks to CAROLE STONE.
Feeling Guilty: Susan Hill reflects on our priorities.
In and Out of the Houses by ELIZABETH TAYLOR abridged by HILDA SCHRODER Read by MONICA GREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Talks:
Peter Wyngarde
Unknown:
Carole Stone.
Unknown:
Susan Hill
Unknown:
Elizabeth Taylor
Abridged By:
Hilda Schroder
Read By:
Monica Grey

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Martin Muncaster introduces the Saturday show for young listeners

Adventures of the Incredible Dr McLoon
A cartoon series by BRIAN THOMPSON about the ace inventor and international genius: with JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS and CAROLE HAYMAN
Producer TONY CLIFF

4.5 Rex Radio Tape Recording Competition
Roy Hayward gives the results and plays the winning entries. Judges ELIZABETH ORNBO, producer of Rex Radio, and NIGEL LAMBERT, who took the part of Capt Radio

4.30 Kick Off
A six-part serial by Noel Streatfeild about a young northern footballer and his family. 2: Titch
Producer TREVOR HILL Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
Martin Muncaster
Unknown:
Brian Thompson
Unknown:
John Franklyn
Unknown:
Robbins Hayman
Unknown:
Carole Hayman
Producer:
Tony Cliff
Unknown:
Elizabeth Ornbo
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Mrs Bean:
Hope Johnstone
Mr Bean:
Graham Roberts
Anne:
Maggie Peacock
Charles:
Andrew Harrison
Velma:
Helen Worth
Bourcer:
Jack Carr
Physio:
John Linstrum
Mr Neil:
Graham Tennant
Georgie:
Peter Landon
Helen:
Nichola Bradbury

A second chance to hear Michael Hordern as Samuel Pepys London, 1666: Saw the fire grow in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. It made me weep to see it .. - Pepys's account is the best we have of the Great Fire which in September 1666 destroyed four.fifths of the city of London. The previous year there had been the Plague.
In this adaptation of volumes 6 and 7 in the new definitive edition of the Diary we see the private and the public Pepys at the centre of these momentous events.
Narrator GABRIEL WOOLF
Adaptation by BARRY CARMAN Producer ALAN HAYDOCK followed by an interlude of 17th-century music: on records
5.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Barry Carman
Producer:
Alan Haydock

A comedy by Louis d'Alton freely adapted for radio by Denys Hawthorne
"I'll give no blessing - I'll give what money is needed."
"Coming from you that's as good as a blessing. You do the paying and I'll do the blessing. Every man to his trade."
...And every woman to her calling.
Producer R.D. smith
(from Northern Ireland)
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)

9.58 Weather

Contributors

Author:
Louis d'Alton
Adapted by:
Denys Hawthorne
Producer:
R.D. Smith
Mrs Kinchella:
Elizabeth Begley
Mick Kenirons:
J.G. Devlin
Harvey Mannion:
John Keenan
Norah Mannion:
Denise McKenna
Tom Mannion, their father:
Harold Goldblatt
John Murtagh:
John McBride
Fr Maher:
J.J. Murphy
Michael Harney:
Nigel Anthony
Phillip Mannion:
Louis Rolston
Veronica Hogan, Tom's daughter:
Margaret D'Arcy

A late-evening conversation in Which JOHN BARNES. PROFESSOR JOHN COHEN. PROFESSOR ROYDEN HARRISON exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices With BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)
(Password, a new television game for punsters and crossworders. with Brian Redhead in the chair: BBC2 tonight. 8.30)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Barnes.
Unknown:
John Cohen.
Unknown:
Professor Royden Harrison
Unknown:
Brian Redhead

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