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Douglas Cameron introduces Radio 4s 60-minute worldwide look at the weekend
Including at 7.50 medium wave only Travel news and What's on; Weather and programme news at 7.55.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*

Contributors

Introduces:
Douglas Cameron

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
KEITH OVENDEN reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by JOHN MARSH Narrator DAVID WILLMOTT Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE , GERRY MONTE

Contributors

Unknown:
David Wood
Unknown:
Keith Ovenden
Read By:
John Marsh
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Bernard Tate

Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
The Answer Lies in the Compost!: NIGEL MURPHY and JOHN WARREN look at the organic versus the inorganic ways of making a compost pit: buying butterflies for your garden, plus what to be doing in the garden this week.

Contributors

Presenter:
Roger Cook
Unknown:
Nigel Murphy
Unknown:
John Warren

Chairman Robert Robinson 1: London
JUDITH TODD, chartered accountant; JAMES OSWALD , technical director; ALAN BULLOCK , school-master; JOHN ADLINGTON , retired teacher
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
Book, Brain of Britain, 35p: see page 50
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
James Oswald
Director:
Alan Bullock
Unknown:
John Adlington
Producer:
Martin Fisher

Introduced by Judith Chalmers The week in Woman's Hour. Guest Sir Adrian Boult.
Investments. 5: ELLEN WINSER , stockbroker, advises listeners with various financial problems on how to cope with them. What the European papers say. Proof Against What?: DILYS MORGAN braves showers and downpours in a variety of rainwear.
Legal Aid by FRANK O'CONNOR abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHlRE Read by ALAN BARRY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Sir Adrian Boult.
Unknown:
Ellen Winser
Unknown:
Frank O'Connor
Abridged By:
Sally Skrimshlre
Read By:
Alan Barry

by Mervyn Haisman
with Lee Montague as Christopher Porter

When private detective Christopher Porter is engaged to visit a millionaire's private estate in the West country to investigate deer poaching, he doesn't expect to find... murder!
Producer KEITH SLADE

Contributors

Unknown:
Mervyn Haisman
Unknown:
Christopher Porter
Producer:
Keith Slade
Christopher Porter:
Lee Montague
Jennie:
Julie Hallam
Bruce Morgan:
Peter Pacey
David Dalton:
John Hollis
Fiona Dalton:
Eva Haddon
Grant:
Gareth Armstrong
Menzies:
Leo Maguire
Turner:
David Collings
Ian Walker:
Edward Cast
Annie:
Hilda Schroder
Ticket Collector/Guard:
Sam Dastor

Introduced by John Dunn
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN
4.5 Argue! TONY ECCLES takes the chair as children from Manchester discuss fashion. Producer GILLIAN HUSH
4.25 Matchbox Competition
JOHN DUNN asks young listeners to see how many different articles they can get into a normal sized matchbox.
4.30 Smoke over Shap by MARGARET POTTER
An adventure serial in six instalments. based on the building of a railway in tire North of England in the 1840s. 1: Into Hazard
Play produced and programme edited by TREVOR HILL

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Dunn
Radio By:
Alexander Guyan
Unknown:
Margaret Potter
Edited By:
Trevor Hill
Gerard Gifford, a young surveyor:
Struan Rodger
Rev Josiah Linwood:
Tom Harrison
Bella, his daughter:
Merle Kessler
Ralph Rawlings, squire of Meathrop Hall:
Bruce Bould
Joady, a Westmorland farmer:
Hugh Wright
Sairey, his wife:
Julia Lang
Maggie, Housekeeper at the parsonage:
Joan Anstey
Mr Nathan Raphael:
Geoffrey Banks
Thomas Brassey,the railway contractor:
David Mahlowe
Chairman at the Kendal meeting:
Graham Roberts

Find Tony by JOHN KIRKMORRIS with Clive Swift
Tony's mother is understandably worried when her son suddenly goes away without as much as a postcard to let her know where he is. She finds the thought of listing him as a missing person ' is alarming, so instead she contacts a private detective.
Producer JANE GRAHAM
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Kirkmorris
Unknown:
Clive Swift
Producer:
Jane Graham
Walsh:
Clive: Swift
Mrs Beck:
Peggy Aitchison
Polly Parker:
Gillian McCutcheon
Colonel Herbert:
Stephen Thorne
Barman:
John Bull
Meeker:
Kerry Francis
Sgt McNair:
William Eedle
Porter:
Alan Rowe
Karen Herbert:
Stagey Tendeter
Insp Crane:
Brian Haines

This week: Not in Front of the Children
Adapted from his TV series by Richard Waring
starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Francis Matthews as Henry Corner in House in a Tree
Henry builds a somewhat shaky tree house overhanging a bus stop and comes up against the law.

Contributors

Writer:
Richard Waring
Signature Music:
Ronnie Hazlehurst
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Jennifer Corner:
Wendy Craig
Henry Corner:
Francis Matthews
Mother:
Fanny Rowe
Mary:
Charlotte Mitchell
Trudi:
Roberta Tovey
Robin:
Hugo Keith-Johnston
Amanda:
Jill Riddick
Biddy:
Madeleine Howell
Telephone Operator:
Owen Griffiths
Police Sergeant:
David Tate
Prison Warden:
Gregory Frederick

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