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Introduced bv 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

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

Families from all over Britain talk about their beliefs, feelings, and practice when it comes to telling the children about sex, behaviour and morals. How do they learn the facts of life? And what should you tell teenagers?
Introduced by Jan Brookes
Research by JANICE DICKERSON Producer JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH (Birmingham)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jan Brookes
Unknown:
Janice Dickerson
Producer:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith

A panel game for four hands
Leader of the pack and chairman is David Nixon who deals to June
Whitfield Patrick Moore , William Rushton Devised and shuffled by JAN MESSITER. Produced and cut by RICHARD WILLCOX

Contributors

Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Whitfield Patrick Moore
Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Jan Messiter.

by Margaret Harris
'Oh Marian, my dear, how did these two ever get to be related to you? Two funerals in the family and them round here wanting to try on hats. You'll forgive me, Marian, if I blow my top a wee bit.'

Contributors

Writer:
Margaret Harris
Producer:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Andrew:
Robert Trotter
Kate:
Sandra Clark
Annie:
Diana Olsson
Dora:
Audrey Muir
Mrs Gourlay:
Valerie Verdon
Waiter:
Fraser Kerr

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Dilys Powell , film critic of the Sunday Times
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Confrontation: John Wells , Chairman of the Road Haulage Association, confronts a panel of critics of the juggernaut-among them listeners to Woman's Hour and VERA LYNN , the singer, IAN BREACH, an environmental journalist, and RICHARD HOPE, Editor of Railway Gazette International.
TONY BRITTON reads The Long Divorce by EDMUND CRISPIN (3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
John Wells
Unknown:
Vera Lynn
Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
Edmund Crispin

Chords and Discords by SUZANNE EBEL
' I used to think being married was like grafting roses. You take the stems and bind them together and in the end they actually grow into one. I felt like that; but Matt cut me off.'
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Suzanne Ebel
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Mrs Margaret Winter:
Noël Hood
Mrs Joy Winter:
Carol Marsh
Mrs Mack:
Diana Bishop
Liz Brooks:
Bonnie Burren
Jesse Anselme:
Brian Hewlett
Matthew Winter:
Vernon Joyner

For thousands of children - and adults, too - who ' listened in' each Friday afternoon, Romany was the countryside, and his adventures, with Muriel, Doris and Raq, part of real life.
Thirty years after his death Romany is affectionately remembered by his family and broadcasting friends.
Introduced and produced by DILYS BREESE
' He was loved page 5

Contributors

Produced By:
Dilys Breese

Your questions discussed by Rente Houston, Peggy Mount Jean Marsh , Sally Beauman In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Mount
Unknown:
Jean Marsh
Unknown:
Sally Beauman
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter.
Unknown:
Alastair Scott Johnston

St Cecilia's Eve
St Cecilia is the patron of music. Today, the eve of her special day, is the occasion for a ' celebration ' designed by Steve Race. He recalls some of the magnificent music (light and serious) written in her honour, her supposed invention of the organ, and speculates on her feelings about certain kinds of music being heard today.
Producer PETER de ROSA

Contributors

Designed By:
Steve Race.
Producer:
Peter de Rosa

The Locksley Marriage Prize by JOHN ASHE with Betty Huntley-Wright and Peter Williams
There are about 400,000 marriages a year in the United Kingdom. Just over 1,000 a dav on average. How many childless? Married in the Church of England, and still together after 25 years? A white wedding on a Monday in November 1948. Do Muriel and Henry qualify for the prize?
Hospital Sister.ELIZABETH MORGAN Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
John Ashe
Unknown:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Unknown:
Elizabeth Morgan
Producer:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Muriel:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Henry Walshaw:
Peter Williams
Gloria:
Diana Olsson
Susan:
Karen Ford
Mr Cunningham:
David Timson

Change Without War
Six talks about the shifting structures of world power ty Alastair Buchan
2: The Emerging Agenda
The rise in world trade, the growth of the multinational company, the dependence of the industrialised world on imported raw materials are all creating an international order in which countries are extremely vulnerable to each other's policy decisions - these are the new items on the agenda of world politics which increasing interdependence is causing.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
9.29 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair Buchan
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff

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