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Introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson 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 Today 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:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson

Residents James Burke and Isobel Barnett ; guests Irene Thomas and Paul Barnes.
Rohin Ray puts the questions aided bv recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Questions Set by MARGARET HOWARD Producer HELEN FRY
(This may be replaced by a special Budget programme)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Burke
Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Paul Barnes.
Unknown:
Rohin Ray
Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Producer:
Helen Fry

Cockles and Mussels by Susan HILL: read by Betty Hardy ' Everything is so vulgar on the Lower Bay ... ' But in her heart. Miss Avis Parson felt that life as it should be lived was lived along the foreshore and up and down the streets of the Lower Bay ...

Contributors

Read By:
Betty Hardy
Unknown:
Miss Avis Parson

Late Flood by LINDSAY BARRETT The setting, an African village. Everything I taught you was invested in me by the power of the father of this land, and the flood is the manifestation of this power.' (PAPA BLOSSOM)
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Lindsay Barrett
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Damus:
Leonard Dixon
Sister Rose:
Maria Subi
Mama Blossom:
Hilda Kriseman
Narrator:
Nigel Graham

Presenter Nigel Murphy Consumer Style
Pop-up, turn-over, table-grill or whatever: MOLLY PRICE-OWEN looks into value for money in toasters and their like.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Murphy
Unknown:
Molly Price-Owen

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Rachael Heyhoe. captain of the England Women's Cricket team.
2.0-2.2 News
Bricks and Mortar - making a new house habitable. 3: electrical fitting and wiring.
Know Your Place: RACHEL ANDERSON, GRACE FOAKES and FRANCES BERRIGAN , middle children, discuss their family position with THORNTON PEARN.
Animals in Research: how are they used and why? Is it really necessary?
Queen of the Headhunters by SYLVIA BROOKE abridged by DOREEN ESTALL Read by CATHLEEN NESBITT

Contributors

Unknown:
Rachael Heyhoe.
Unknown:
Grace Foakes
Unknown:
Frances Berrigan
Unknown:
Thornton Pearn.
Abridged By:
Doreen Estall
Read By:
Cathleen Nesbitt

The Birds Fall Down
The novel by REBECCA WEST adapted as a serial in three parts by JOAN O'CONNOR with John Phillips , Lyndon Brook Julie Hallam , Terry Scully and Jill Balcon 1:Flight
1 My father doesn'want to be considered innocent if the Tsar thinks him guilty. My father can'quarrel with what the Tsar has done any more than he could quarrel with God.'
Producer JANE GRAHAM

Contributors

Novel By:
Rebecca West
Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Unknown:
John Phillips
Unknown:
Lyndon Brook
Unknown:
Julie Hallam
Unknown:
Terry Scully
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Producer:
Jane Graham
Tania Rowan:
Jill Balcon
Edward Rowan:
Michael Spice
Laura:
Julle Hallam
Ellen:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Count Diakonov:
John Phillips
Katinka:
Diana Olsson
Aglaia:
Elizabeth Revill
Countess Diakonova:
Gr1zelda Hervey
Kamensky:
Lyndon Brook
Louison:
John Bull
Chubinov:
Terry Scully

Elsie and Doris Waters look back and recall, this week:
MAURICE CHEVALIER , MAX MILLER ARTHUR ASKEY and RICHARD MURDOCH , PETER DAWSON GERTIE GITANA , AL READ
Last of six programmes Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Big-hearted Arthur: cover story, pages 68-71

Contributors

Unknown:
Doris Waters
Unknown:
Maurice Chevalier
Unknown:
Max Miller
Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Peter Dawson
Unknown:
Gertie Gitana
Unknown:
Alastair Scott Johnston

The questions and ideas you send discussed this week by Renée Houston. Charmian lnnes
Dame Eva Turner. Katie Boyle In the chair Anona Winn
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER. Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dame Eva Turner.
Unknown:
Katie Boyle
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter.

The Fells of Yew dale by JOHN TARRANT with Peter Armitage Valerie Georgeson and Brian Trueman
PAT: I've just been wondering about the next move. Will you be all right here while I go down to Coniston and dig out the nearest Mountain Rescue team? tom: Er ... I'd rather you didn'do that!
Producer TREVOR HILL (Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tarrant
Unknown:
Peter Armitage
Unknown:
Valerie Georgeson
Unknown:
Brian Trueman
Pat Moore:
Valerie Georgeson
Tom Corrin, an army sergeant:
Peter Armitage
Tyson, a Lakeland grocer:
Hugh Wright
Sgt Cretney:
Peter Ellis
Insp Kneale:
Brian Trueman
Roma Taggart,:
Tom'S Young
COUSIN:
Carole Turner

A Sportsman and Gentleman
Many a manly heart beats quicker at the name ' Bulldog Drummond.'
Amanda Theunissen persuades Lord Annan, Arthur Marshall and William Vivian Butler to reveal the boyish fantasies they still cherish about Sapper's brawny hero, who hurled himself on to the stage of popular fiction in 1920. Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Amanda Theunissen
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
William Vivian Butler
Producer:
Pamela Howe

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