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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

by RICHARD COMPTON-HALL
Read by Martin Muncaster in live instalments
Yes, it's the oldest, least prepossessing stoker in Her Majesty's Submarine Service unleashed, yet again, upon the great British public. And to think that a minute ago you thought you had troubles! 1: In Bootle's Bad Book3 Producer JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Read By:
Martin Muncaster
Producer:
John Cardy

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Antiques
Are tliere any general rules for telling the age of an antique? What is netsuke?
I have been left some porcelain: how can I be sure of getting an honest valuation?
Is there anything that could be collected reasonably cheaply? Put your questions <m antiques to Geoffrey Moss. President of the British Antique Dealers' Association, and John Bly , a councillor of the BADA.
Judith Chalmers in the chair Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call 01-580 44H from 8.0 am
Collector's World: 7.35pmBBC2

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Moss.
Unknown:
John Bly
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers

While the Sun Shines by JOHN WAIN. Read by David Tate ' Look,' I said, ' I can drive a tractor as well as anybody. But not across that field. It's too steep for a tractor, and that's the end of it ...

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wain.
Read By:
David Tate

Introduced by Sue MacGregor The Fifth Estate: a new series in which the television interrogators face up to one another.
1: Russell Harty interviews Michael Parkinson
2.0-2.2 News
January Sounds: RAY GOODWIN with his countryside recordings. The Trendsetters-3: Pop music. Pop music has produced many trendsetters - we pick three who've made their mark in the 70s.
BARBARA MITCHELL reads The Marigold Field by DIANE PEARSON (2)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Russell Harty
Unknown:
Michael Parkinson
Unknown:
Ray Goodwin
Unknown:
Barbara Mitchell
Unknown:
Diane Pearson

visits Enfield in Middlesex
Members of the Bush Hill Park Horticultural Society put their questions to
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Questionmaster Michael Barratt
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.27pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Steve Race

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Soccer
The Football Association has set up a committee to investigate all aspects of the game.
Ring Robin Day to put your points and questions on the state of English soccer to Ted Croker , Secretary of the Football Association.
[number removed](16 lines) mil take questions from 6.0 onward

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Croker

The story of Queen Victoria, with 9: So Kind and Devoted a Minister
Producer NESTA PAIN
(Repeated: Friday. 3.5 pm)
(Peggy Ashcroft is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroft
Victoria:
Peggy Ashcroft
Disraeli:
Michael Hordern
Gladstone:
Stephen Murray
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Spencer Walpole:
Godfrey Kenton
Montague Corry:
David Sinclair
Lord Rosebery:
Vernon Joyner
Sir Henry Ponsonby:
John Richmond
Goldwin Smith:
James Thomason
Sir Charles Dilke:
Charles Hodgsoh

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