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Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 60-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
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ROBERT CARVEL
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
MICHAELMOLYNEUXreviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PETER JEFFERSON Narrator COLIN DORAN
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE , TOM READ

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Carvel
Read By:
Peter Jefferson
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Bernard Tate

Presented by Derek Cooper
You and Your Time. Holiday Co-operatives: summer activities for children don'just happen, they need to be organised. PAT BENNETT explains how.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presented By:
Derek Cooper
Unknown:
Pat Bennett

Chairman Robert Robinson
Second Round. 3: Home Counties and West of England
JOHN EDMOND (Buckinghamshire) administration manager
DR ROGER PRITCHARD (Somerset) civil servant
FRANCIS HOWES (Dorset) schoolmaster
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)
Brain of Britain, 35p, from bookshops
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Dr Roger Pritchard
Unknown:
Francis Howes
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A spontaneous discussion by Rt lion Edward du Cann , mp Christopher Mayhew , mp Billie Whitelaw Michael Clayton
Chairman David Jacobs

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward du Cann
Unknown:
Christopher Mayhew
Unknown:
Billie Whitelaw
Unknown:
Michael Clayton
Unknown:
David Jacobs

Presenter Sue MacGregor
The week in Woman's Hour Ooh! MICHAEL CRAWFORD.
What the European papers say. Who Said That? Fifth of six quiz programmes compiled and presented by IRENE THOMAS : answering the questions today, CHRISTIANNA BRAND and KENNETH WILLIAMS.
The Next Cat in the Queue: MARGRANITA LASKI describes her summer visitors.
A Child in the Forest by WINIFRED FOLEY : abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON Read by JUNE BARRIE (6)
A Child in the Forest, £2.25, from bookshops.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Michael Crawford.
Presented By:
Irene Thomas
Presented By:
Kenneth Williams.
Unknown:
Margranita Laski
Unknown:
Winifred Foley
Abridged By:
Virginia Browne-Wilkinson
Read By:
June Barrie

The Judgment of Dr Johnson by G. K. CHESTERTON adapted for radio by FREDERICK BRADNUM and SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN Freddie Jones as Dr Johnson

BOSWELL : Only twice in my life. and long ago. I have seen Johnson really angry, with something that he really did hate and I tell you I remember those few far-off moments as he remembers the hour of death and the Day of Judgment. I turn cold when I think of them.
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
More of Chesterton

Contributors

Unknown:
G. K. Chesterton
Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Unknown:
Freddie Jones
Unknown:
Dr Johnson Boswell
Producer:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Mary Swift:
Julie Hallam
John Swallow Swift:
Blain Fairman
John Wilkes:
Timothy Bateson
Marquise de Montmaret:
Cecile Chevreau
James Boswell:
Nigel Graham
John Burke:
Kevin Flood
Capt Draper:
Vernon Joyner
Ian MacLean:
Robert Trotter
Moira MacLean:
Sandra Clark
Grant of Inverballoch:
Fraser Kerr

Introduced by John Dunn
4.0 Admiral Skylark
Tales of a Space-age Twit with GEORGE LAYTON as everyone: written by GAIL RENARD Producer JOHN LLOYD
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: An airport Producer MICHAEL GREEN
4.25 Poetry Competition
KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND asks you to write a poem for 4th Dimension. Valuable prizes to be won! Entries to: 4th Dimension, BBC, London W1A 4WW
4.30 Liz
A comedy serial play in six parts by ANTHONY BUCKERIDGE Part 3
Guitarist GEORGE ELLIOTT Producer 'MARGARET ETALL Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Dunn
Unknown:
George Layton
Written By:
Gail Renard
Producer:
John Lloyd
Unknown:
Tony Eccles
Producer:
Michael Green
Unknown:
Anthony Buckeridge
Guitarist:
George Elliott
Producer:
Margaret Etall
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Liz Armitage:
Helen Worth
Kate Kitchener:
Jill Lidstone
Mrs Kitchener:
Diana Bishop
Mr Collins:
Anthony Buckeridge
Mrs Bulstrode:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Mrs Doyle:
Delia Paton
Mrs Hubbard:
Diana Olsson
Cleo:
Sharon Rose
Alison:
Emily Richard
Major Ramsden:
Brian Haines

T.C. Fairbairn, centenarian impresario, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Repeated: Monday. 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
T.C. Fairbairn
Producer:
Ronald Cook

by Ronald Miller
With Richard Briers, Hannah Gordon, Clive Morton, Mary Morris
Abelard: Heloise - forever one. One of the greatest love stories, set in France in the early part of the 12th century. Students:
Adapted and produced by Martin Jenkins
(Repeated: Monday. 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Ronald Millar
Adapted by/Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Peter Abelard:
Richard Briers
Heloise:
Hannah Gordon
Students - Alain:
Sion Probert
Students - Philippe:
Nigel Graham
Students - Gerard:
William Sleigh
Students - Robert:
David Timson
Guibert, Abelard's servant:
Kerry Francis
Canon Gilles de Vannes:
Clive Morton
Canon Fulbert:
Manning Wilson
Alys, a prostitute:
Susan Brown
The Abbess of Argenteuil:
Mary Morris
Nuns - Laura:
Hilda Schroder
Nuns - Mariella:
Susan Brown
Nuns - Constance:
Diana Olsson
Nuns - Gisella:
Sandra Clark
Nuns - Godric:
Kathleen Helme
Jehan:
William Sleigh
Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux:
Nigel Graham
Denise, Abelard's sister:
Diana Olsson

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