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The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
6.50
Travel news. What's on, and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk; at 7.35* Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

from 9.20 Cooking
How can I be sure of making a successful Christmas caker
Can you suggest some non-fattening winter puddingst
Ideas, please, for using up left-overs from the jointf
Put questions on cooking to Delia Smith and Louise Davies. Sue MacGregor in the chair Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am
Family Fare: Fri 7.35 pm BBC2

Contributors

Unknown:
Delia Smith
Unknown:
Louise Davies.

Turning Point by LEE MCGIFFIN Reader Hugh Burden
Across the last of the Latin exam papers Prof John McVitty wrote, 'This is too good not to Be better....' It wasn'the marking which consumed time, it was the students....

Contributors

Unknown:
Prof John McVitty

by P.G. Wodehouse
starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster and Patrick Cargill as Sir Watkyn Bassett, Miriam Margolyes as Stiffy Byng, Douglas Blackwell as Harold Pinker, Tony McEwan as PC Oates
Adapted by Chris Miller from the book "The Code of the Woosters"

(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
(Richard Briers is in "Absurd Person Singular" at the Criterion Theatre, London)

12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Author:
P. G. Wodehouse
Adapted by:
Chris Miller
Producer:
David Hatch
Jeeves:
Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster:
Richard Briers
Sir Watkyn Bassett:
Patrick Cargill
Stiffy Byng:
Miriam Margolyes
Harold Pinker:
Douglas Blackwell
PC Oates:
Tony McEwan

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Sauce and Resource: a test of ingenuity in the kitchen when PADDY FEENY faces MARY GILLIAT and NICK CLARK with those crises that every cook dreads.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
As I See It: JENNIFER CURRY on her conversion to atheism.
Crisis - spiralling food prices and worldwide shortages. Can the balance be redressed and will prices ever come down? jo BERESFORD investigates. DELIA PATON reads

Contributors

Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Unknown:
Mary Gilliat
Unknown:
Nick Clark
Unknown:
Jennifer Curry
Unknown:
Delia Paton

by WILKIE COLLINS : dramatised In six parts by ELIZABETH BRADBURY with and 5: Death Comes to Baliol Cottage
With RICHARD CARRINGTON Producer
ANTHONY CORNISH

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bradbury
Unknown:
Richard Carrington
Unknown:
Anthony Cornish
Magdalen Vanstone:
Angela Pleasence
Captain Wragge:
Frank Thornton
Narrator:
John Rowe
Noel Vanstone:
Graham Armitage
Mrs Wragge:
Eileen Barry
Mrs Lecount:
Penelope Shaw
French doctor:
Davld Fleeshman
Admiral Bartram:
Frank Woodfield
George Bartram:
Darryl Kavann
Norah:
Carole Boyd
Miss Garth:
Kathleen Helme
Mr Pendril:
Simon Carter
Mr Loscombe:
George Woolley
Louisa:
Gillian Andrews

A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.27)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Anne Scott-James
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Peter Moore

The story of Queen Victoria. her life and the great events of her time, in a series of 13 episodes, with Peggy Ashcroft as the Queen.
1: England Expects by NESTA PAIN with : Producer NESTA PAIN
9.29 Weather

Contributors

The Duke of Kent:
Stephen Murray
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Peter Pindar,:
Timothy Bateson
Countess Lieven:
Margaret Robertson
Thomas Creevey:
Charles Hodgson
Prince of Wales:
Godfrey Kenton
Soldier:
Nigel Graham
Baron Stockmar:
Rolf Lefebvre
Duchess of Kent:
Ellen Pollock

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