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Introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and programme news at 6.55 and 7.55. At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Todav with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35'; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson

Residents James Burke and Isobel Barnett and guests Joan Bakewell and Mike Yarwood.
Robin Ray puts the questions, aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Burke
Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Unknown:
Mike Yarwood
Unknown:
Robin Ray
Questions set by:
Margaret Howard
Producer:
Helen Fry

Personal Column by C. M. SMITH Read by Carmel McSharry
She, Bunty Lindy , had a sea-green hat. Not a sea-green hat, but the sea-green hat, one worthy of a notice in the Personal Column ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
C. M. Smith
Read By:
Carmel McSharry
Unknown:
Bunty Lindy
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Lavished with Care: a play for radio by JEAN MILLER
Lucy returns to England from a self-imposed exile to find her mother desperately needing her....
Producer BRIAN MILLER (Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Miller
Producer:
Brian Miller
Lucy:
Carole Boyer
Mrs Tate:
Margot Boyd
Nurse:
June Barrie
Gilbert:
Paul Nicholson
George:
Esmund Rideout

from the original TV series by JIMMY PERRY and DAVID CROFT starring
Arthur Lowe , John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn 2: Museum Piece
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Perry
Unknown:
David Croft
Unknown:
Arthur Lowe
Unknown:
Clive Dunn

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Professor Sir John Stallworthy , President of the Royal Society of Medicine.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
My Dogs are TV Stars!: NICK HUGHES talks to the owner of Radar and Saxon.
Is it fear or boredom?: why do children play truant from school and what is being done to help them? ANNE HEYNO reports.
RICHARD BRIERS reads

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Stallworthy
Talks:
Nick Hughes
Unknown:
Anne Heyno
Unknown:
Richard Briers

Sorcery by LAURENCE GRAFFTEY-SMITH with Manning Wilson and Margaret Robertson
1960: Richard and Mary are on a honeymoon cruise. Richard fears his wartime knee injury may restrict his young wife's shipboard activities, but the real threat to their happiness comes from another quarter.
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Grafftey-Smith
Unknown:
Manning Wilson
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Richard Lorimer:
Manning Wilson
Mary Lorimer:
Margaret Robertson
Mrs Moffat:
Madi Iiedd
Tony Cairns:
Stephen Thorne
Sitt Zeinab:
Miriam Margolyes
Mansour:
Elizabeth Morgan
Shaikha:
Betty Huntley-Wright

They clothe your garden, provide a habitat for birds, add mystery to a skyline.... they make your furniture, your newspapers and books, and a thousand other unconsidered things. Yet do we care enough about trees?
Hugh Johnson thinks not and considers with ALAN MITCHELL of the Forestry Commission. JOHN WORKMAN of the National Trust and others what is being -and should be-done to plant and preserve our woodlands. Producer DENYS GUEROULT '

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Johnson
Unknown:
Alan Mitchell
Unknown:
John Workman
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renee Houston , Janet Hitchman Barbara Cartland , Jill Fletcher In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Renee Houston
Unknown:
Janet Hitchman
Unknown:
Barbara Cartland
Unknown:
Jill Fletcher
Unknown:
Anona Winn

The Lost Art of Revue
The writer and man-of-the-theatre Ronnie Hill talks about this style of entertainment that reigned supreme until recently. Illustrations from the great star names of this century. Producer JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Producer:
John Browell

The Lost World of Dornford Yate. s
Berry and Jonah and Co wandered insouciantly through an upper-class world of romance, humour, and adventure which, even in the 1920s, was threatened. Now it has gone for good, but its fascination is as potent as ever.
Derek Parker , Richard Usborne and Valentine Dyall search for clues to Dornford Yates 's enormous success as a popular novelist.
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)
9.29 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Dornford Yate.
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Richard Usborne
Unknown:
Valentine Dyall
Unknown:
Dornford Yates
Producer:
Pamela Howe

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