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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 Conference Special
Delegates and observers look back at the weeks events in Blackpool and discuss their likely impact on the Labour Party's policies and strategy in the run-up period to the General Election.
Presenter ANTHONY KING
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
MICHAEL MOLYNEUX reviews what the weeklies have to say with illustrations read by STUART FORSYTH
Narrator BRYAN MARTIN
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
ANNE SLOMAN , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Presenter:
Anthony King
Unknown:
Michael Molyneux
Narrator:
Stuart Forsyth
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Anne Sloman

Panel: Nan Winton, Ted Moult, Neil Durden-Smith
v Royal Navy, Gibraltar: John Holland, Tony Sperring, David Farquharson, Bryan Evans
Questionmaster Alun Williams
Questions set, devised and produced by Michael Tuke-Hastings
(by arrangement with the BFBS)
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)

12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
John Holland
Unknown:
Tony Sperring
Unknown:
David Farquharson
Unknown:
Bryan Evans
Questionmaster:
Alun Williams
Produced By:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

Introduced by Judith Chalmers The week in Woman's Hour Guest Raymond Leppard
What the European papers say. Attitudes to Blindness: JANE FINNIS , DAVID SCOTT BLACK-HALL and PETER FREEMAN.
What's New for the Home: ALICE HOPE reports. Mr Hamble's Bear by MARGERY SHARP abridged by FIONA MACPHERSON Read by John Moffatt ProducerGILLIAN HUSH

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Raymond Leppard
Unknown:
Jane Finnis
Unknown:
David Scott
Unknown:
Peter Freeman.
Unknown:
Margery Sharp
Abridged By:
Fiona MacPherson
Read By:
John Moffatt
Producer:
Gillian Hush

From Small Beginnings by MICHAEL BRETT
Christine and Gordon Marks have forgotten their tickets. Returning home. they find their house has been burgled, but it's no ordinary break-in. Producer DAVID h. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Brett
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Det-Sgt Cooper:
Alan Dudley
Det-Insp Blake:
Peter Humphreys
Gordon Marks:
Nigel Graham
Christine Marks:
Myrtle Reed
Charlie Jennings ,:
John Baker
Bruce Wakefield:
Rolf Lefebvre
Olive Simons:
Miriam Margolyes
Rosemary Steele:
Diana Olsson
Ex-Det-Insp Marleby:
Wilfrid Carter
Dr Warwick:
Peter Williams
Messenger:
Anthony Hall
Alberto Fiori:
Nigel Anthony
Det-Supt Middleton:
Manning Wilson
John Shaw:
Brian Haines

John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN Fearless Capt Radio and Passionflower versus the world's most evil man - Krakov!
With NIGEL LAMBERT. GARARD GREEN and JO MANNING WILSON. Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5 Dial a Scientist
The popular telephone show returns for another series. Send in those science questions that do not seem to have straightforward answers. Paddy Feeny will phone up the lucky ones and put them on the line to the panel: astronomer Patrick Moore, electrical engineer Professor Eric Latthwaite, zoologist Professor John Napier. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
Questions on a postcard, with your name, age and home phone No, to: Dial a Scientist, 4th Dimension, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 4WW
4.30 Harry the Boot
Martin Muncaster reads a new series of comedy stories by RICHARD COMPTON-HALL .
'Harry the Boot; Ironwork, Carpentry and Coffins Executed to Order. Plumbing by Arrangement Boots and Shoes repaired to the Satisfaction of All. Known to the Nobility.' 1: The Secret Passage Producer JOHN CARDY
4.45 A Picture of Summer
ROY HAYWARD discusses the entries for the photographic competition with the judge, J. S. LEWINSKI , FRPS, who announces the winners. Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Radio By:
Alexander Guyan
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert.
Unknown:
Garard Green
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson.
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Stories By:
Richard Compton-Hall
Producer:
John Cardy
Unknown:
Roy Hayward
Unknown:
J. S. Lewinski
Editor:
Graham Gauld

People, ideas and events in the world of arts and sciences.... A second chance to hear the best from the week's editions. Introduced by Gordon Snell Producers
ALAN HAYDOCK , MIRIAM RAPP
LOUISE PURSLOW. ELIZABETH BLUNT
5.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gordon Snell
Producers:
Alan Haydock
Unknown:
Miriam Rapp
Unknown:
Louise Purslow.

Mary Peters, Olympic gold medallist, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.

(Track records: page 5)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Mary Peters
Producer:
Ronald Cook

By Mike Stott
An archaeologist excavating a site discovers a skull. The skull, however, is modern, and Det-Sgt John Smith begins to unravel the most unusual murder mystery of his career.
Producer Gerry Jones
(Repeated: Monday. 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Mike Stott
Producer:
Gerry Jones
Det-Sgt Smith:
Alan Downer
Sue Rogers:
Caroline John
Dr Eva Hartley:
Margot Boyd
Det-Con Tony Lambert:
Geoffrey Beevers
Mrs Clark:
Diana Bishop
BBC telephonist:
Diana Bishop
Eric Benton:
Timothy Bateson
Hughie Latchmere:
Timothy Bateson
Graham Rees:
Sam Dastor
Graham Appleby:
Fraser Kerr
Andrew Donnelly:
William Sleigh
David Fielding:
Neville Jason
Announcer:
Neville Jason
PC Ogilvey:
David Timson
Dr Willoughby:
Rolf Lefebvre

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