Programme Index

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Introduced by Michael Aspel including at 7.50 med wave only Travel news and What's on: Weather and prog news at 7.55 At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Aspel

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
(Next edition: Tues, 10.5am)

9.30 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Robert Carvel.

10.0 News

10.2 The Weekly World
Michael Molyneux reviews what the weeklies have to say.

(Medium wave only)

Contributors

Presenter (The Week in Westminster):
Robert Carvel
Presenter (The Weekly World):
Michael Molyneux
Illustrations read by (The Weekly World):
Peter Jefferson
Narrator (The Weekly World):
Denis Jones
Producer:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producer:
Charles Roeter
Producer:
Bernard Tate

A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Presenter Brian J. Ford who says: "A scientist's discoveries should be more accessible to other scientists as well as the public. And not just data, but the ideas and feelings of scientists as people. The aim is to inform - to generate interest I hope."

(New series)
(Medium wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian J. Ford
Producer:
Michael Bright

Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
The Grenadier and the Rabbit Fish: these deep-sea fish may not look so good but in years to come may replace the more familiar cod or plaice on the fishmonger's slab, TED HARRISON reports.

Contributors

Presenter:
Roger Cook
Unknown:
Ted Harrison

Chairman Robert Robinson

David Blackman (Berks): scientist; Stephen Griffiths (Hampshire) computer programmer; Mark Broadhead (Norfolk) insurance clerk
Including Beat the Brains
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
Brain of Britain, 35p, from bookshops

12.55 Weather, programme news
(Medium wave only)

Contributors

Chairman:
Robert Robinson
Panellist:
David Blackman
Panellist:
Stephen Griffiths
Panellist:
Mark Broadhead
Questions set and programme devised by:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
Martin Fisher

Presenter Sue MacGregor
The week in Woman's Hour.

Have Scholarship - Will Travel: winners of Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowships look back with Pat Rowe at ambitions fulfilled.

What the European papers say. Who said that? Fourth of six quiz programmes. Answering the questions today, Valerie Jenkins and Roy Hudd

Gardening: Geoff Amos

A Child in the Forest: (5)
by Winifred Foley: abridged by Virginia Browne-Wilkinson.
Read by June Barrie.
A Child in the Forest, £2.25, from bookshops.
(Medium wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Item presenter (Have Scholarship - Will Travel):
Pat Rowe
Compiled and presented by (What the European papers say):
Irene Thomas
Presenter (What the European papers say):
Valerie Jenkins
Presenter (What the European papers say):
Roy Hudd
Item presenter (Gardening):
Geoff Amos
Author (A Child in the Forest):
Winifred Foley
Abridged by (A Child in the Forest):
Virginia Browne-Wilkinson
Reader (A Child in the Forest):
June Barrie

by William Smethurst.
'By the grace of France! A King of Cards, rotting out his life on the charity of France and Rome. Madam, your son is everything his subjects look for. An English Prince! Well-made, brave, virtuous...'
Song by pupils of West House School, Birmingham
Producer Anthony Cornish (Birmingham)
(medium wave only)

Contributors

Writer:
William Smethurst
Producer:
Anthony Cornish
Lord Perth:
George Woolley
King James II:
Frank Woodfield
Lord Middleton:
Frank Lefebvre
Morrell:
Michael Burlington
Cooper:
Alan Devereux
Sedley:
Peter Clark
Mary of Modena:
Patricia Lawrence
Mr Baker:
Fraser Kerr
Prince James:
Giles Gordon Smith
Booth:
Robin Browne
Count de Gracon:
Simon Carter

Introduced by John Dunn.

4.0 Admiral Skylark
Written by Gail Renard.
Tales of a Space-age Twit with George Layton as everyone.

4.5 Time Well Spent
Things to do, to make, to collect... and a competition set by magician John Wade in which the wildest answers win the prizes.
Introduced by Brian Trueman.

4.25 New Films
From New York Sarah Forbes looks at the films which will be coming your way soon.

4.30 Liz: Part 2
A comedy serial play in six parts by Anthony Buckeridge.

(medium wave only)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Dunn
Writer (Admiral Skylark):
Gail Renard
Everyone (Admiral Skylark):
George Layton
Producer (Admiral Skylark):
Simon Brett
Co-presenter (Time Well Spent):
John Wade
Item presenter (Time Well Spent):
Brian Trueman
Producer (Time Well Spent):
Gillian Hush
Item presenter (New Films):
Sarah Forbes
Producer (New Films):
Bobby Jaye
Writer (Liz):
Anthony Buckeridge
Producer (Liz):
Margaret Etall
Editor (Liz):
Graham Gauld
Liz Armitage:
Helen Worth
Kate Kitchener:
Jill Lidstone
Mrs Kitchener:
Diana Bishop
Mr Collins:
Anthony Buckeridge
Mrs Hubbard:
Diana Olsson
Miss Thomas:
Carole Boyd
Shopkeeper:
Sion Probert
Porter:
David Sinclair
Waitress:
Elizabeth Morgan

Antoinette Sibley, prima ballerina, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.

(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)
(Antoinette Sibley broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Antoinette Sibley
Producer:
Ronald Cook

A story about Marie Lloyd by Daniel Farson and Harry Moore.
In the play Marie says: 'Most people lead dreadful lives, I try to make them laugh and I don't see the harm in that.'
Ten years after her death in 1922, C.B. Cochran wrote: 'Of the great artists of the Music Hall whose genius I have admired, Marie Lloyd stands out as the greatest of all. The delicacy of her indelicacies was exquisite.'
(Repeated Monday: 3.5 pm)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
Daniel Farson
Writer:
Harry Moore
Musical director:
Robert Docker
Technical presentation:
Gordon Bowen
Producer:
John G. Pitman
Marie Lloyd:
Georgia Brown
Bella Burge:
Katherine Parr
Alec Hurley:
David Sinclair
Bernard Dillon:
Sean Barrett
Freddie Barnes:
Terry Scully
[Actor]:
John Bull
[Actor]:
Alan Dudley
[Actor]:
Rolf Lefebvre
[Actor]:
Michael Kilgarriff
[Actor]:
Timothy Bateson
[Actress]:
Julie Hallam
[Actress]:
Betty Huntley-Wright
[Actor]:
Nigel Graham
[Actress]:
Hilda Schroder

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