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Introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
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

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Robert Robinson

from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor Guest of the week:
Lord Gore-Booth. former Head of the Diplomatic Service
2.0-2.2 News
In the Red: ARCHIE HILL on the agonies of blushing.
On Your Allotment - 4: FRANCES PERRY advises JEAN AND JOHN TUSON about growing vegetables and choosing garden tools. PHIL BROWN reads
Miss Addie was a Widow (5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Perry
Unknown:
John Tuson
Unknown:
Phil Brown

by K. Allen Saddler

Words and music are combined in this satirical updating of the traditional English myth of the idyllic countryside, and what happens to the myth when it is shattered by an impending motorway ...

(Bristol)
(Howard Goorney, Tim Fearon, Tim Munro, Tony Robinson, and Chris Harris are members of the Avon Touring Company)
(Stereo)

Contributors

Writer:
K. Allen Saddler
Producer:
Brian Miller
Composer:
Staverton Bridge
Jenks/First workman:
Howard Goorney
Tom:
Tim Fearon
Grace:
Diana Olsson
Second workman:
Tim Munro
Brian:
Tony Robinson
First passenger/Mrs Green:
Moyra Babington
Second passenger:
Peggy Ryalls
George:
Francis Lunt
Fred/American voice:
Chris Harris

How many people suffer from migraine and how awful a complaint is it? Why do chocolate and cheese sometimes trigger it off?
Dick Tracey talks to SIR BARNES WALLIS and other migraine sufferers and asks PROFESSOR MERTON SANDLER of London University: is there any hope of a lasting cure?
Producer PETER DE RoSA

Contributors

Talks:
Dick Tracey
Unknown:
Sir Barnes Wallis
Unknown:
Professor Merton Sandler
Producer:
Peter de Rosa

with Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackfortn , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn.
Unknown:
Adamson Norman Hackfortn
Unknown:
Peter Glaze
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Producer:
John Cassels

The glory of the Vienna Philharmonic
The pride and determination Of the VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA have preserved a precious musical tradition in the face of political threats and the most destructive of wars.
In its 133rd year, GERALD LARNER celebrates the miraculous survival in Vienna of the spirits of Brahms and Bruckner. Wagner and Mahler - and more than one kind of Strauss. Narrator BRIAN TRUEMAN Producer GILLIAN HUSH

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Larner
Narrator:
Brian Trueman

Extra Terrestrial Objects by IAN DOUGALL with Kenneth Griffith and Nerys Hughes
' Flying saucers - he's seen the lot. Every colour in the rainbow. He's seen them landing. taking off, hovering, appearing and disappearing. His last report concerned a squadron of them doing aerobatics over Tinton at 3 in the morning! '
With BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Producer BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Griffith
Unknown:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Producer:
Betty Davies
Wilfred:
Kenneth Griffith
Mildred, hiswife:
Eva Stuart
Jenny:
Nerys Hughes
Fletcher:
Timothy Bateson
Inspector Welling:
David Timson
Sgt Robbins:
Stephen Thorne
Ron:
Fraser Kerr
Cyril:
Nigel Graham

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