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Michael Aspel introduces
Radio 4's 70-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
9.30 Talking Politics
A summer series in which leading politicians talk to ANTHONY KING about themselves and their lives in and away from politics.
3: RT HON ROBERT CARR , MP, Home Secretary
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
COLIN VALDAR reviews what the weeklies have to say with illustrations read by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Narrator BRYAN MARTIN
Producers PADDY O'KEFFFE
ANNE SLOMAN , TOM READ

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Carr
Unknown:
Colin Valdar
Narrator:
Martin Muncaster
Producers:
Paddy O'Kefffe
Unknown:
Anne Sloman

Introduced by alan PARRY
Previewing the afternoon's sport, including: Soccer - Watney Cup Final; Racing from Newbury; Show Jumping from Hickstead; County Cricket; Golf; Bowls-; Motor Racing. (Sport on 2: from 2.2 pm)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Alan Parry

Presenter Roger Cook
You and Your Time. Looking towards autumn - preparing next year's lawn and what's new in flowering bulbs: JOHN WARREN talks to NIGEL MURPHY. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Roger Cook
Talks:
John Warren
Unknown:
Nigel Murphy.

Introduced by Anne Gregg The week in Woman's Hour.
What the European papers say. Knowing Your Place Below Stairs: the hierarchy of domestic service in yesterday's England.
Worth a Detour: PEGGY ARCHER visits the Shell Museum at Buckfastleigh in Devon.
Wrap It Up? - 1: GORDON SNELL takes a critical look at packaging.
Mrs Joseph Porter Over the Way by CHARLES DICKENS abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by CLIFFORD NORGATE

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anne Gregg
Unknown:
Peggy Archer
Unknown:
Gordon Snell
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin
Read By:
Clifford Norgate

by Keith Miles
with Kerry Francis as Warren J. Keissinger

'He had the flat jaw and sinewy neck which are frequent in the American type; but the traces of national origin are a matter of expression even more than of feature and it was in this respect that our friend's countenance was supremely eloquent.'
(Henry James: The American)

(from Birmingham)

Contributors

Writer:
Keith Miles
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Warren J. Keissinger:
Kerry Francis
Dominic Foley:
Frank Moorey
Lord Staynes:
David King
Alan Millington:
Gareth Armstrong
Glover:
George Woolley
Annabelle:
Rosemary Dorken
Ellida:
Catherine Crutchley

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 Focus
SARAH FORBES and her 4th Dimension team look at films, theatre. books and music especially for you. Producer BOBBY JAYE

4.25 Things to Do
JANICE DICKERSON finds out how you can forecast and record the weather.
Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH

4.30 White Rose and Wanderer
The book by MOLLY HOLDEN abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON
Read by JUNE BARRIE
6: A West Wind Blowing
Producer PAMELA HOWE

4.50 Meet...
Anthony Buckeridge, author of the Jennings at School books and plays.
Producer ELIZABETH SMITH
Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Brian Thompson
Unknown:
John Frankiyn-Robbins
Unknown:
Carole Hayman
Producer:
Tony Cliff
Unknown:
Sarah Forbes
Producer:
Bobby Jaye
Unknown:
Janice Dickerson
Producer:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith
Book By:
Molly Holden
Abridged By:
Virginia Browne-Wilkinson
Read By:
June Barrie
Producer:
Pamela Howe
Unknown:
Anthony Buckeridge
Producer:
Elizabeth Smith
Editor:
Graham Gauld

Action for Slander
The novel by MARY BORDEN adapted for radio by FELIX FELTON with Allan Cuthbertson
William Fox , Carleton Hohbs
A weekend party in a country house: five of the guests sit down to a game of poker when suddenly one of the players. Mr Grant , accuses Major Daviot of cheating.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Novel By:
Mary Borden
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Allan Cuthbertson
Unknown:
William Fox
Unknown:
Carleton Hohbs
Unknown:
Mr Grant
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Major George Daviot:
Allan Cuthbertson
Capt Bradford:
Wllliam Fox
Sir Eustace Cunningham:
Carleton Hobbs
Sir Quintin Jessops:
Denis McCarthy
Mr Justice Trotter:
Rolf Lefebvre
Mr Grant:
Antony Viccars
Mr William Cowbit:
Haydn Jones
Mr Charles Cindertord:
John Bryning
Lord Freshwater:
Manning Wilson
Sir Bernard Roper:
Godfrey Kenton
Lord Pontefract:
Brian Haines
Tandy:
Timothy Bateson
Josie Bradford:
Diana Olsson
Col Standish:
Vernon Joyner
Ann Daviot:
Diana Bishop
Mr Smithers:
Peter Williams

Malcolm Muggeridge last year completed the first part of his autobiography.
In conversation with JONATHAN DIMBLEBY. he reflects on the first 30 years of his life. Producer HELEN FRY
(A programme based on Volume 2: 16 September)
' The sound of my voice ' :p p 3

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby.

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