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Michael Aspel Introduces Radio 4s 60-minute worldwid 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
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
ANDREW SINCLAIR reviews what the weeklies have to say, with illustrations read by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Narrator BRYAN MARTIN
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
MARTIN COX , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Carvel
Narrator:
Martin Muncaster
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Martin Cox

Introduced by CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS
Latest news and prospects of a big afternoon's sport, including: British Open Golf Championship: British Grand Prix; AAA Championships; Tennis; Racing; Cricket. Producer ANTHONY SMITH
(Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Producer:
Anthony Smith

Second Round. 9: N Ireland and West of England
Chairman ROBERT ROBINSON
MRS JENNY GRAVES (Gloucester) landscape architect
DR GLYN COURT (Somerset) linguist
BRIAN TOUGHER (Belfast) managing director
JAMES JOHNSTON (Belfast) local government officer
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
N Ireland
Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Mrs Jenny
Unknown:
James Johnston
Producer:
Martin Fisher

Introduced by Anne Gregg The week in Woman's Hour.
What the European papers say. Our Unwanted Pets: JILL BUR-RIDGE visits Raystede, Sussex, a home for unwanted animals. What's New for the Home: DIANA POLLOCK reports.
Guest: Eric Hosking , photo. grapher and naturalist
The Best of British: HONOR WYATT on feeding young foreign guests.
David MARCH reads Auntie Mame by PATRICK DENNIS (2)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anne Gregg
Unknown:
Diana Pollock
Unknown:
Eric Hosking
Unknown:
Patrick Dennis

Recess by JILL HYEM with Virginia Stride as Judy Robin Ellis as Peter Lambert David Collings as Joss Colin Douglas as Wally Beevers Brighton and the Labour Party Conference have happy memories for Peter and Judy Lam bert, as it was there he popped the question. It would seem as if it's going to be lucky for them again though this time it's politics Peter is interested in - but what about Judy? Claude ..........TIMOTHY BATESON Receptionist.......SANDRA CLARK and ROBIN BROWNE , JOHN FORREST BONNIE HURREN , DAVID SINCLAIR Producer JANE GRAHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Judy Robin Ellis
Unknown:
Peter Lambert
Unknown:
David Collings
Unknown:
Joss Colin Douglas
Unknown:
Wally Beevers
Unknown:
Judy Lam
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Sandra Clark
Unknown:
Robin Browne
Unknown:
John Forrest
Unknown:
Bonnie Hurren
Unknown:
David Sinclair
Producer:
Jane Graham

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 Day Out: first of three programmes in which we join two youngsters from Birmingham on a summer outing full of interest and surprises. Today BEVERLEY MICHAEL, accompanied by LESLIE DUNN. visits Stapleford Park, the stately home of Lord and Lady Gretton, near Melton Mowbray.
Producer RICHARD MADDOCK
4.25 Favourite Books: 13-year-old GEORGE BENJAMIN talks about some of the books he enjoyed reading.
4.30 White Rose and Wanderer The book by MOLLY HOLDEN abridged in six parts by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON
Francis had run away to sea. When he returns to work at the Hall Stables, where his father is master, he discovers a close-guarded family secret. Read by June Barrie 1: Home is the Sailor Producer PAMELA HOWE
4.50 They Live in a Faraway Land. 1: Hong Kong
ANTHONY LAWRENCE reports on the daily lives of boys and girls in the Far East. Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Brian Thompson
Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Unknown:
Carole Hayman
Unknown:
Todav Beverley Michael
Unknown:
Leslie Dunn.
Producer:
Richard Maddock
Talks:
George Benjamin
Book By:
Molly Holden
Read By:
June Barrie
Producer:
Pamela Howe
Unknown:
Anthony Lawrence
Editor:
Graham Gauld

A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Gillian Strickland
Producers i.ouise PURSLOW
MICHAEL BRIGHT, ROSEMARY HART JOY HATWOOD
5.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gillian Strickland
Producers:
I.Ouise Purslow
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart

Colonel Sir 'Mike' Ansell, Chairman and President of the British Equestrian Federation, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the records he would take to a desert island.

(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Colonel Sir 'Mike' Ansell
Producer:
Ronald Cook

The Fallow Land: the novel by H. E. BATES adapted for radio by DAVID H. GODFREY with Denise Bryer and Geoffrey Matthews
'It's always been the same-always has been and always will be. If you're not master of the land, the land will be master of you. Nothing's so sure as that.'
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
(Joan Sanderson is in ' Habeas Corpus ' at the Lyric Theatre, London)
9.5S Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
H. E. Bates
Unknown:
David H. Godfrey
Unknown:
Denise Bryer
Unknown:
Geoffrey Matthews
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Unknown:
Joan Sanderson
Fairground attendant:
William Eedli
Jess Mortimer:
Geoffrey Matthews
Deborah:
Denise Bryer
Mrs Arbuthnot:
Joan Sanderson
Mr Mortimer:
Charles Simon
Mrs Mortimer:
Kathleen Helme
Alma Wolstenholm:
Jane Knowles
David aS child:
Olwen Griffiths
Benjamin as child:
Sandra Clark
Dr Starling:
Peter Williams
Sophie Sharman:
Gretta Gouriet
David as man:
John Forrest
Benjamin as man:
David Valla
Mr Twelvetree:
Brian Halnes
Mrs Twelvetree:
Hilda Schroder
Anthea Twelvetree:
Julie Hallam
Government Official:
Anthony Hall
Ada:
Sandra Clark

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