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Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 60-minute worldwide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 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 8.400

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in-the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
HONOR BALFOUR reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by DAVID WILLMOTT Narrator DENIS JONES
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE BERNARD TATE , TOM READ

Contributors

Unknown:
David Wood
Read By:
David Willmott
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Bernard Tate

Adaptations of six of the author's famous short stories
Adapted and produced for radio by Derek Hoddinott
The Marquise is on holiday on the Cote d'Azur. She is rich, bored and vulnerable. When she meets Paul, the local photographer, she realises just how vulnerable she is.
(World Service production)
Menacing du Maurier: page 5

Contributors

Author:
Daphne du Maurier
Adaptor/producer:
Derek Hoddinott
The Marquise:
Gwen Watford
Miss Clay:
Patricia Gallimore
Paul:
Brian Hewlett
Mademoiselle:
Jane Thomson
Storyteller:
Gabriel Woolf

Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
Rust Costs Money: MIKE HART -LEY-BREWER looks at rust-proofing techniques for your car. Are they worth it and how do they work?
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Roger Cook
Unknown:
Mike Hart

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson 8: North of England (ii)
STEWART BARKER (Cheshire) local government officer
PHILIP HARDINGRAM (Cumberland) JACK SCHALK (Yorkshire) industrial physicist
REV M. J. WEAR (Yorkshire) Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
Brain of Britain, 35p, from bookshops
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Stewart Barker
Unknown:
Philip Hardingram
Unknown:
Jack Schalk
Producer:
Martin Fisher

Introduced by Judith Chalmers The week in Woman's Hour.
Salad Days: memories of a childhood in and around Covent Garden.
Paved with Gold? HUGH MACPHERSON reports on young ballet dancers attracted to London to seek their fortune.
What the European papers say. Caravanning: clive JACOBS assesses the advantages of a caravan holiday at home and abroad.
The Gipsy's Warning written and read by JIM CRAWFORD

Contributors

Introduced By:
Judith Chalmers
Read By:
Jim Crawford

Ambush by LAURENCE GRAFFTEY-SMITH with Stephen Murray , Barbara Leigh-Hunt and William Fox
Ruthlessly ambitious. Sir John Chenery , Britain's ambassador in Cairo, undergoes a terrifying experience which changes his whole attitude to life.
Producer JOHN G. PITMAN
(Barbara Leigh-Hunt is a member of the rsc)

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Grafftey-Smith
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Unknown:
William Fox
Unknown:
Sir John Chenery
Producer:
John G. Pitman
Unknown:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Sir John:
Stephen Murray
Lady Chenery:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Toby:
Nigel Graham
Macrow/No 1:
Marvin Kane
No 5:
John Bull
Sir Henry Knollys:
William Fox
Sir Michael:
Gerald Cross

Introduced by John Dunn
Admiral Skylark
Tales of a Space-age Twit with George Layton as everyone: written by GAIL RENARD Producer SIMON BRETT
4.5 Help!
The Help team investigate what is being done to make the world a better place to live in and find out what you can do to improve the environment. Producer DICIKON REED
4.25 Book Review: ANNE WOOD
4.30 A Likely Lad by GILLIAN AVERY 2: Aunt Maggie
Read by DAVID MAHLOWE
4.40 Forecast: the radio game devised by IAN MESSITER Host Tony Blackburn
Special guest Johnny Morris Producer RICHARD WILLCOX
Programme editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Dunn
Unknown:
George Layton
Written By:
Gail Renard
Producer:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Dicikon Reed
Unknown:
Gillian Avery
Read By:
David Mahlowe
Unknown:
Johnny Morris
Editor:
Graham Gauld

Philip Hope-Wallace, music and drama critic, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Philip Hope-Wallace
Producer:
Ronald Cook

The Greer Case by DAVID W. PECK : adapted for radio by MIKE stott with Phil Brown as Judge Peck The case that opened in the New York Surrogate's Court on 21 April 1947 had those rare features that rivet the eyes of a whole nation upon a courtroom. A man was claiming a large fortune. To get it, he had to prove that he was the illegitimate son of Mabel Seymour Greer. who from her marriage in 1908 until her death in 1946 had been among New York's social elite.
Producer HARRY CATLIN
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
David W. Peck
Unknown:
Mike Stott
Unknown:
Phil Brown
Unknown:
Judge Peck
Unknown:
Mabel Seymour Greer.
Producer:
Harry Catlin
Judge Delehanty:
John Glen
Lester Friedman:
Peter Marinker
Francis D Wells:
Stuart Damon
Joseph COX:
Stephen Thorne
Annie Jackson:
Diana Olsson
Dr Tierney:
Kerry Francis
Mrs Tierney:
Margaret Robertson
Jennie Sheppard:
Janet Brandes
Erika Segnitz:
Hilda Schroder
Raymond Armbruster:
Paul Maxwell
Harold A Segur:
Murray Kass
Mrs Weisbecker:
Margaret Robertson
Mrs Henderson:
Janet Brandes
Henry Wise:
Peter Carlisle
Mrs Thompson:
Hilda Schroder
Ernest Bailey:
Kerry Francis
Judge Schoonmaker:
Ramsay Williams

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