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Introduced by Robert Robinson and Michael Clayton
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 Robert Robinson 's Music :8.30 pm

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
Michael Clayton
Unknown:
Robert Robinson

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Do It Yourself
What's the best type of wallpaper for a beginner to hangf Hints, please, on laying a concrete patht What can I do about damp patches on inside walls! Is there an inexpensive sound-proofing I can fix myself? Put your questions to Tony Wilkins , Editor of Do-It-Yourself Magazine.
Judith Chalmers is in the chair to receive your calls. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Wilkins
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers

A Fine Turn of Speed by MEG SEATON
Read by Carleton Hobbs
' Good healthy life inside,' said Spider. ' No dissipations.... You should see me in the exercise yard. The screws have bets on my time.'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Meg Seaton
Read By:
Carleton Hobbs
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Presenter Lyn Macdonald Home and Family
Truancy: BRYON QUIGLEY visits a school for school-haters - an experiment to educate truants. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Lyn MacDonald
Unknown:
Bryon Quigley

from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
Dear Doctor: written by DOREEN MONTGOMERY. GUY MORGAN adapted by PAT DUNLOP
An attempted suicide provides Dr Finlay with unexpected problems.
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Written By:
Doreen Montgomery.
Written By:
Guy Morgan
Adapted By:
Pat Dunlop
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Crufckshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Laura Blaikie:
Bllen McIntosh
Mrs Brodie:
Molly Weir
Matron:
Kathleen Helme
Nurse Maddox:
Mary Wylie
Georgina:
Helen Worth
Barbara Grant/Mrs Duneannon:
Kay Gallie
Mr Gibson:
John Forrest
Mrs Gordon/Joy Begg:
Sheila Grant

Introduced by Michael Baguley
Wives and Work: Polly Devlin, writer for Vogue, is compiling a Department of Commerce booklet full of information for the wives of key workers sent to Northern Ireland.
2.0-2.2 News
Khaki on Call: some of the military policewomen now stationed in Northern Ireland tell Sean Rafferty about their work. If the Cap Fits: Willie John McBride has more caps than any other international rugby player: he and his wife talk to Frank Hanna.
Housewives in Harmony: Gloria Hunniford discovers a choir with a difference when she visits Londonderry.
One Good Turn: for John Body, wood-turning was to be a retirement hobby, but it has become much more than that, as he explains to Pat Lindsay.
Jan Richardson reads "Scenes from Provincial Life" (2)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Baguley
Unknown:
Polly Devlin
Unknown:
Sean Rafferty
Unknown:
Willie John
Unknown:
Frank Hanna.
Unknown:
Gloria Hunniford
Unknown:
Pat Lindsay.
Unknown:
Jan Richardson
Producer:
Pat Lindsay

by HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ adapted for radio in ten parts 1: The Arbiter of Fashion
With BRIAN HEWLETT , IAN LUBBOCK Producer R D. SMITH (1965)

Contributors

Unknown:
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Unknown:
Brian Hewlett
Unknown:
Ian Lubbock
Producer:
R D. Smith
St Peter:
John Rudock
Christ:
Gabriel Woolf
Petronius:
Felix Felton
Corbo, a slave:
Stephen Thorne
Teiresias, majordomo:
Noel Howlett
Marcus, a patrician tribune:
Peter Howell
Eunice, a slave girl:
Rosalind Shanks
Chilo, a hunchback informer:
Anthony Jacobs
an Sporus, innkeeper:
Norman Wynne
Aulus Plautius, an old patrician:
Peter Claughton
Pomponia, his wife:
Nicolette Bernard
Lygia, a hostage princess:
Hilda Schroder
Caius Hasta, a centurion:
Garard Green
Ursus, a giant bodyguard:
Michael Kllgarriff

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race Questions compiled bv STEVE RACE
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden

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Ring George Scott to put your question in person to the Ombudsman, Sir Alan Marre. who took on the job just three years ago.
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pin onward

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott
Unknown:
Sir Alan Marre.

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