Programme Index

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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 7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.30* Sportsdesk; at 8.40* Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
(Next edition: Tues, 10.5 am: In Britain Now: Wed, 10.5 ami Wheeler on Washington: p 12
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week with ROBERT CARVEL
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
WALTER TAPLIN reviews what the weeklies have to say. with illustrations read by BRYAN MARTIN Narrator MARTIN MUNCASTER Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Carvel
Unknown:
Walter Taplin
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Martin Cox

Presenter Derek Cooper Home-Finding Week
Mobile Homes: how much do they cost? How far do they keep their value? MARGARET KORVING investigates.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? A roof over your head: pp 8-9

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Margaret Korving

A spontaneous discussion by David Benedictus
Viscount Watkinson David Attenborough Sheila Scott
Chairman David Jacobs from Nailsea. Somerset

Contributors

Unknown:
David Benedictus
Unknown:
Viscount Watkinson
Unknown:
David Attenborough
Unknown:
Sheila Scott
Unknown:
David Jacobs

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

A comedy for radio by K. Allen Saddler

Nowadays, with so many of us facing redundancy, it's encouraging to find someone like Willie Banks. He had the right idea about work - or had he?

Contributors

Writer:
K. Allen Saddler
Producer:
Christopher Venning
Sir Nigel:
Nigel Graham
Greaves:
Nigel Anthony
Willie:
Terry Scully
Helen:
Helen Fraser
Cyril Watson:
Haydn Jones
Joe:
Andrew Bradford
Jacko:
Michael St John
Carole:
Bonnie Hurren
Lorry driver:
Tony McEwen
Lady Bull:
Diana Olsson
Countryman:
Geoffrey Collins
Shapley:
Barrie Cookson

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 Dial Your Career
Telephone the experts for advice on all kinds of careers. This month a motor-racing driver and a teacher answer your telephone questions. Presenter Maureen Staffer Producer DAVID SHUTE
Next edition: 28 July, when the guests are an Army officer and a Wren.
Send your questions for them to 4th Dimension, BBC, London WIA 4WW
4.30 Popinjay Stairs by GEOFFREY TREASE
A serial play in four parts, set in the days of King Charles II. 3: The Spanish Stranger
Producer HARRY CATLIN Editor GRAHAM GAULD
(Derek Smith is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Brian Thompson
Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Unknown:
Carole Hayman
Producer:
Tony Cliff
Presenter:
Maureen Staffer
Producer:
David Shute
Unknown:
King Charles Ii.
Producer:
Harry Catlin
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Unknown:
Derek Smith
Dr Fane:
Geoffrey Bayldon
Denzil Swift:
Michael Harbour
Samuel Pepys:
Derek Smith
Deborah Fane:
Lisa Harrow
Mrs Vanderloo:
Hilda Schroder
Digby:
David Timson
Col Rackerby:
Ralph Truman
Alderman Springer:
Brian Haines
Ballad seller:
Bonnie Hurren
Servant:
David Gooderson

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
MIRIAM RAPP. LOUISE PURSLOW
JOY HATWOOD
5.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Hewison
Producers:
Rosemary Hart
Unknown:
Miriam Rapp.
Unknown:
Louise Purslow

by Lydia Ragosin
with Marius Goring as Benjamin Disraeli and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Mary Anne

'Nature has given me an awful ambition and fiery passions. My life has been a struggle - with moments of rapture.'

(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
(Jane Wenham is in "Crown Matrimonial" at the Hay-market Theatre, London)
(Not just pretty voices: p 11)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
Lydia Ragosin
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Benjamin Disraeli:
Marius Goring
Mary Anne:
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Wyndham Lewis:
William Eedle
Lord Stanley (later Earl of Derby):
David March
Sir Robert Peel:
Godfrey Kenton
Sarah Disraeli:
Diana Olsson
Mrs Rosina Bulwer:
Diana Bishop
Lord George Bentinck:
Nigel Graham
Mr Gladstone:
William Sleigh
Queen Victoria:
Jane Wenham
Prince Albert:
Brian Haines
Edward Stanley:
John Samson
[Actor]:
Verenon Joyner
[Actor]:
Fraser Kerr
[Actor]:
Rolf Lefebvre
[Actress]:
Elizabeth Morgan
[Actor]:
Terry Scully

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