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Introduced by Robert Robinson and James Burke
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:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
James Burke
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

Talking Point: discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside. Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
Questions to Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

The sounds and scenes of a year in the past challenge the memories of residents James Burke and Isobel Barnett and guests Sue MacGregor and Humphrey Lyttellon.
Robin Ray puts the questions, aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Questions set by MARGARET HOWARD Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Unknown:
James Burke
Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttellon.
Unknown:
Robin Ray
Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Producer:
Helen Fry

See You! by PAT GARROD Read by Sheila Mitchell
' I suddenly said aloud: " My daughter." They were lovely words, especially to me as I'd only go4 sons. And then I began to wonder what my daughter was like....'

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Garrod
Read By:
Sheila Mitchell

Roger Whittaker discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife and its conservation, and chooses some recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives Producer JOHN BURTON (Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Whittaker
Unknown:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Burton

The Developer by PETER F. FERGUSON
' You've always been a Smart Aleck ain'you. Wilf-how'd you like to be as smart as Mr James eh - how'd you like to be that smart? '
Producer ANTHONY CORNISH

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter F. Ferguson
Unknown:
Mr James
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Wilf:
John Malcolm
Benny:
Ralph Lawton
John:
George Woolley
James:
John Forrest
Williams:
Simon Carter
Harry:
Lee Johns

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest Barbara Windsor
2.0-2.2 News
Live it yourself -2: DR KIT PEDLER on how not to be a robot.
Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments, places to go. BARBARA MITCHELL reads The Marigold Field (3)
(Barbara Windsor is in ' Carry On, London' at the Victoria Palace, London)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Barbara Mitchell
Unknown:
Barbara Windsor

Kerry Francis and Julie Hallam In Portrait of Jennie by ROBERT NATHAN adapted by MICHAEL VOYSEY
' There's something in the girl that reminds me of something. I haven'placed it yet, but I can ten you ... tt feels like when I was young....'
Producer MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Unknown:
Julie Hallam
Unknown:
Robert Nathan
Adapted By:
Michael Voysey
Producer:
Margaret Etall
Eben Adams:
Kerry Francis
Jennie:
Julie Hallam
Mathews:
Brian Haines
Miss Spinney:
Joan Miller
Mrs Jukes:
Diana Olsson
Fred:
Neville Jason
GUS:
Alfred Hoffman
Moore:
Vernon Joyner
Arne:
Anthony Daniels

The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renle Houston
Eleanor Summerfield Sheila Van Damm BetUne le Beau
In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Renle Houston
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
Sheila van Damm
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter.
Producer:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Marriage a la Feydeau
An occasional series of one-act plays by Georges FEYDEAU in which the master of French farce follows the hilarious progress from Marriage to (almost) Divorce.
Translated and adapted for radio by PETER MEYER with No 3:
Take Your Medicine Like a Man (On purge Bébé) with Maurice Denham
The scene is Follavoine's study. Paris, about 1910.
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Meyer
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Producer:
Glyn Dearman
the wife:
Jill Bennett
the husband:
John Osborne
Jurie:
Jill Bennett
Follavoine:
John Osborne
Toto, their son:
Jean England
Adele, their maid:
Sandra Clark
ChOUillOUX:
Maurice Denham
Madame Chouilloux:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Truchet:
Timothy Bateson

A funny kind of book ...
Barry Took, Johnny Morris and Kenneth Robinson all write wittily for a living, but that's no laughing matter.
So which books make them laugh - and why?
(Bristol)

Contributors

Guest:
Barry Took
Guest:
Johnny Morris
Guest:
Kenneth Robinson
Producer:
Pamela Howe

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