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Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam
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
Deputy editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam
Editor:
Alastair Osborne

Loneliness
It is said to be one of the major sources of unhappiness today. What causes it? Are there different ways of combating different types of loneliness?
Whether you are in need of advice, or want to help others by sharing your experiences of conquering loneliness, ring and talk to Esther Rantzen and Norman Ingram-Smith , Director of the Social Service Unit, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Esther Rantzen
Unknown:
Norman Ingram-Smith

Presenter Jeanine McMuIlen
You and the Law
What's Your Rating?: DICK TRACEY looks into the subject of rates and how to appeal against assessment.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER
Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA IAA

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMuilen

(Medium wave only from 2.0)
Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Wise Counsels: Pat Callaghan looks at new developments in pastoral care in schools.
2.0-2.2 News
Northern guest: Gerry Marsden
Lizzie Small's Travels: Rod Caird looks at his grandmother's letters from St Petersburg.
Breast Feeding: a personal view from Betsy Whitaker.
Mary Wimbush reads Shroud for a Nightingale (5)

Contributors

Presenter:
June Knox-Mawer
Reporter (Wise Counsels):
Pat Callaghan
Guest:
Gerry Marsden
Speaker (Lizzie Small's Travels):
Rod Caird
Speaker (Breast Feeding):
Betsy Whitaker.
Reader:
Mary Wimbush

Master and Man by LEO TOLSTOY : dramatised for radio by FRED PARTRIDGE with John Carson and Charles Leno
'Oh God, will this night never end? It must be nearly morning now. But I'm not going to look at my watch. No! I could easily freeze to death if I undid my coat.'
Producer DAVID H. GODFREY
(1971: shortened version)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Radio By:
Fred Partridge
Unknown:
John Carson
Unknown:
Charles Leno
Producer:
David H. Godfrey
Vassili Andreitch Brekhunoff:
John Carson
Nikita:
Charles Leno
Vassilia Mikolovna:
Margaret Wolfit
Isai:
Peter Tvddenham
Tarass:
John Boxer
Petrushka:
Andrew Jack
His father:
Martin Friend
His grandmother:
Betty Baskcomb
His Wife:
Sara Coward
Villagers:
Martin Friend
Villagers:
Alan Reid

Chairman Robert Robinson 11: Wales
LILIAN PRITCHARD (Swansea) MARGARET JONES (Swansea)
RICHARD FATTORINI (Glamorgan) badge-maker
DON MAY (Cardiff) medical journalist
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
Brain of Britain. 35p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A spontaneous discussion by Lord David Cecil. Lord Stokes Lady Barnett. Melvyn Bragg Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Dorset
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon, 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord David Cecil.
Unknown:
Lord Stokes Lady Barnett.
Unknown:
Melvyn Bragg
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

DAVID JASON. NIGEL REES CHRISTOPHER EMMETT and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and others
Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason.
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Christopher Emmett
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Producer:
Simon Brett

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