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Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 70-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 8.40*

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING examines the dilemmas of Opposition with RT HON WILLIAM WHITELAW. MP; RT HON ROBERT CARR. MP; RT HON ANTHONY CROSLAND , MP; RT HON REGINALD PRENTICE , MP; and DAVID STEEL, MP.
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
J. W. THOMPSON reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by DAVID WILLMOTT Narrator PETER DONALDSON Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE ANNE SLOMAN. TOM READ

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony King
Unknown:
William Whitelaw.
Unknown:
Robert Carr.
Unknown:
Anthony Crosland
Unknown:
Reginald Prentice
Unknown:
J. W. Thompson
Read By:
David Willmott
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Anne Sloman.

Adaptations of six of the author's famous short stories 4: The Chamois adapted by MICHAEL BARTLETT with Christopher Cazenove as Stephen and Anna Cropper as his wife When Stephen decides to go to Greece it is for one reason only: to rid himself of a secret fear - a fear so painful that he will try anything to conquer it.
Producer DEREK HODDINOTT
(BBC World Service production)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Michael Bartlett
Unknown:
Christopher Cazenove
Unknown:
Anna Cropper
Producer:
Derek Hoddinott
ZUS:
Nikolas Janis
The Storekeeper:
Alexis Gallnos
The Storyteller:
Gabriel Woolf

There'll be all that free time: MARGERY Bi. YTH went on a pre-retirement course.
Who said that? First of six quiz programmes compiled and presented by IRENE THOMAS : answering the questions today, IRENE HANDL and RUSSELL HARTY. What the European papers say. Whatever happened to the little dressmaker? FRANCES BERTHELSEN had great difficulty finding out.
A Child in the Forest by WINIFRED FOI.EY: abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON Read by JUNE BARRIE (2)
A Child in the Forest. £2.25, from 25 April from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Margery Bi.
Presented By:
Irene Thomas
Unknown:
Irene Handl
Unknown:
Russell Harty.
Unknown:
Frances Berthelsen
Abridged By:
Virginia Browne-Wilkinson
Read By:
June Barrie

After Dunkirk by T. d. WEBSTER After the horrors of the evacuation from Dunkirk the remnants of a Regular Fusilier Regiment are billeted in a South Yorkshire mining village for a well-deserved respite. Most of the miners and their families are friendly and helpful at first - most of them ... at first.
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
T. D. Webster
David Oldiield:
Elizabeth Morgan
Rose Oldfield:
Anne Jameson
Dai Griffiths:
Anthony Jackson
Alex Grey:
Christopher Godwin
Hilda:
Elizabeth Revill
Jack Oldfield:
Brian Haines
Tom:
Eric Allan
Officer:
William Sleigh
Charlie:
David Hatton
RSM:
John Linstrum

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 At Your Service
TONY ECCLES and his team of young reporters investigate the part played by science and technology in providing goods and services.
This month: A Car Factory Producer MICHAEL GREEN
4.25 Postbag: STEPHEN BONE and SHARI PHILLIPS read some of your letters.
4.30 A Likely Lad by GILLIAN AVERY read by DAVID MARLOWE (5)
4.40 Forecast: the radio game devised by UN MESSITER
Your host Tony Blackburn Special guest Peter Glaze with some Scouts and Guides Producer RICHARD WILLCOX Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Dunn
Unknown:
George Layton
Written By:
Gail Renard
Producer:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Gillian Avery
Read By:
David Marlowe
Unknown:
Peter Glaze
Producer:
Richard Willcox
Editor:
Graham Gauld

by Eden Phillpotts. With Nigel Stock
Samuel Sweetland, widower, of the village of Little Silver, Devon, man of substance and self-importance, decides to choose himself a wife from his own local short-list.
Other parts Moyra Babington, Esmond Rideout, Charles Mander.
Producer Brandon Acton Bond
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
Eden Phillpotts
Producer:
Brandon Acton Bond
Araminta Dench:
Lois Hawkins
Churdles Ash:
John Long
Thirza Tapper:
Aileen Mills
Samuel Sweetland:
Nigel Stock
Sibley Sweetland:
Jennie Woodford
George Smerdon:
David Hyde
Petronell Sweetland:
Jane Criddle
Richard Coaker:
Geoffrey Collins
Louisa Windeatt:
Pat Nye
Henry Coaker:
Brian Haines
Mary Hearn:
Zulema Dene
Other parts:
Moyra Babington
Other parts:
Esmond Rideout
Other parts:
Charles Mander

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