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Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4s 60.minute worldwide look at the weekend.
7.51) medium wave Travel news and What's on 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
NORMAN HUNT reviews what the weeklies have to say. with illustrations read by ROY WILLIAMSON
9.45 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
Narrator BRIAN empringham Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX, BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Read By:
Roy Williamson

Presenter George Luce You and Your Time
The Ever-open Eye: JEANINE MCMULLEN meets some members of Watch, the new children's club that does a job for us all. This year's target: Trees and Noise.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
George Luce
Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen

Chairman ROBERT ROBINSON 10: Scotland (ii)
SIR ALISTAIR DENNV (Fife)
NICHOLAS DENNIS (Ayrshire) market researcher
BRIAN dishon (Edinburgh) electrical engineer
NEIL BUTTERWORTH (Edinburgh) music lecturer
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. wvnn Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
12.55 medium ivave Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Sir Alistair Dennv
Unknown:
Neil Butterworth
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A spontaneous discussion by Alastair Burnel
Roy Hattersley , mp
Sally Oppenheim , mp Anthony Howard
Chairman David Jacobs from Rochdale, Lancashire

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair Burnel
Unknown:
Roy Hattersley
Unknown:
Sally Oppenheim
Unknown:
Anthony Howard
Unknown:
David Jacobs

died 26 March 1973
Afternoon Theatre (med wave) His comedy of the 1920s Fallen Angels adapted for radio by IAN COTTERELL with Isabel Dean and Mary Wimbush
JULIA: It isn'as if we'd been unfaithful since marriage-after all, it all happened before. JANE: Yes, but men never forgive that sort of thing, no matter when it happened.
JULIA: They haven'- but it's our duty to make them think they have.
Producer IAN COTTERELL
(A Talent to Amuse: Tues. 8.30)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Cotterell
Unknown:
Isabel Dean
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Producer:
Ian Cotterell
Julia Sterroll:
Mary Wimbush
Fred Sterroll:
William Fox
Saunders:
Hilda Schroder
Willy Banbury:
Michael Spice
Jane Banbury:
Isabel Dean
Maurice Duclos:
Nigel Graham

medium wave
Introduced by Judith Chalmers The Week in Woman's Hour
Small jobs in the Garden: seasonal tips from GEOFF AMOS
Entertainment Round-up: JUDITH CHALMERS
What the European papers say. How True?: ' Life is what you make it': this and other cliches examined by DILYS POWELL and ALAN COREN
Alphonse by MARTIN JARVIS read by MARJORIE WESTBURY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Geoff Amos
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Read By:
Marjorie Westbury

medium wave
John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners.
Adventures of the Incredible Dr McLoon by BRIAN THOMPSON with JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS and Carole hayman Producer tony cliff
4.5 Use Your Wits
A nation-wide word-game contest devised by TONY SHRYANE Compiled by peter MOORE
1: Birmingham (Shenley Court Comprehensive School)
JENNIFER BREMNER and SUSAN BROWN challenge CHRISTOPHER ROSS and ASHLEIGH QUAITE Chairman tom coyne
4.20 Adventure Holidays
Ideas for summer holidays on your own. pony-trekking, sailing, canoeing - and not a parent in sight. Explored by DON MOSEY
4.30 Kick Off: a six-part serial by NOEL STREATFEILD 4: The first Cap
Producer TREVOR HILL Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Brian Thompson
Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Unknown:
Jennifer Bremner
Unknown:
Susan Brown
Unknown:
Christopher Ross
Unknown:
Ashleigh Quaite
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Mrs Bean:
Hope Johnstone
Mr ean:
Graham Roberts
Billy SI:
Mon Lennon
Velma:
Helen Worth
Anne:
Maggie Peacock
Charles:
Andrew Harrison
Commentator:
Maurice Edelston
Mr Neil:
Graham Tennant
Mrs Ackroyd:
Lorraine Peters
Alice:
Kathryn Atkins
Helen:
Nichola Bradbury

A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. People, ideas and events in the world of arts and sciences.
Introduced by Robert Hewison Producers ROSEMARY HART
ALAN HAYDOCK , MICHAEL BRIGHT
5.55 medium wave Weather, programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Hewison
Producers:
Rosemary Hart
Introduced By:
Alan Haydock

by William Smethurst
with William Lucas as Major General Thomas Harrison

... Gentlemen, it is for being instrumental in that great cause that I am brought here to suffer death - and had I ten thousand lives I could cheerfully lay them down as witness to this matter

(from Birmingham)
(Repeated: Monday. 3.0 pm)
(David King is a member of the Birmingham Repertory Company: Gordon Griffin it in "Godspell" at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
William Smethurst
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Major General Thomas Harrison:
William Lucas
Charles I and II:
Peter Bartlett
Catherine Harrison:
Ursula O'Leary
James Standish:
David King
Mary:
Eileen Barry
Oliver Cromwell:
John Malcolm
Colonel Bowyer:
Graham Rigby
Herbert:
Peter Biddle
Christopher Feake:
Gordon Griffin
Mr Rogers:
John Baddeley
First Judge:
George Woolley
Second Judge:
John Baddeley
Nathaniel Tompkins:
Graham Rigby
[Actor]:
Alan Devereux
[Actor]:
Stanley Page

A late-evening conversation in Which CHARLES MEDAWAR. AUBREY WILSON and WILLIAM THORNHILL exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas and prejudices with BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer MICHAEL GREEN (from Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Medawar.
Unknown:
Aubrey Wilson
Unknown:
William Thornhill

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