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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 Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE

Contributors

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

Survival
How would you cope if you were stranded in a rubber dinghy in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and had to face the elements alone for nearly four months?
This was the fate of MAURICE AND MARALYN BAILEY after their yacht sank during a voyage last year. They survived by living off the resources of the ocean and the sky and by using extraordinary ingenuity. But how many people today could have survived that life-or-death crisis? Have we lost the art of survival?
Phone in your questions to Maurice and Maralyn Bailey and to explorer John Ridgway who runs a school of adventure in Scotland.
Chairman George Scett
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Maralyn Bailey
Unknown:
Maralyn Bailey
Unknown:
John Ridgway
Unknown:
George Scett

Cherry and the Ratbag by BILL KEYS
Read by Paul Kermack
Cherry knew that in a few minutes some teachers would be yelling at her in the corridor and. as she said to her pals, she liked to give them as much to complain about as possible.

Contributors

Read By:
Paul KermacK

The story of its composition told by Roger Fiske : with piano and gramophone illustrations
Beethoven............NIGEL ANTHONY with WILLIAM EEDLE
DAVID GOODERSON , HAYDN JONES
Producer CHRISTOPHER HOLME

Contributors

Told By:
Roger Fiske
Beethoven:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
William Eedle
Unknown:
David Gooderson
Producer:
Christopher Holme

Presenter Roger Cook
You and the Law: who decides how much you get? DICK TRACEY finds answers to some of the questions which arise when your home is subject to a compulsory purchase order.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER

Contributors

Presenter:
Roger Cook
Unknown:
Dick Tracey

from 2.0 Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Tunes with a purpose: judi GOODWIN finds out how music can help deaf children to communicate.
2.0-2.2 News
Bilingual: KAILASH PURI edits a Punjabi-English magazine.
A Life in the Country: COSIRA can make it work.
He was Asking After You by MARGERY ALLINGHAM abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS read by CARLETON HOBBS

Contributors

Unknown:
Margery Allingham
Abridged By:
Evangeline Banks
Read By:
Carleton Hobbs

Selected for Friday
Hold My Hand. Soldier by CLIVE EXTON with John Hollis as The Private Peter Egan as The Officer
Haydn Jones as The Corporal
The action is set on and near a battlefield - any battlefield. Producer
CHARLES LEFEAUX (1968) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Exton
Unknown:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Peter Egan
Unknown:
Haydn Jones

The Search Party by George A. Birmingham abridged in 10 parts by Stewart Parker
Read by Godfrey Quigley
10: Muddling Through
Producer Michael Heffernan (Northern Ireland)

Contributors

Writer:
George A. Birmingham
Abridged:
Stewart Parker
Read By:
Godfrey Quigley
Producer:
Michael Heffernan

(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Written By:
Keith Miles
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Macy:
Angela Piper
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlow
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Haydn Evans:
Charles Williams
Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Harry Booker:
Alex Johnston
Mary Weston:
Kate Crutchley
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy

A spontaneous discussion by Malcolm Muggeridge Marghanita Laski Glenda Jackson
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Kent
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon. 11.5 am) Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to: Any Answers!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Unknown:
Marghanita Laski
Unknown:
Glenda Jackson
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and PETER PONTZEN 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:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Peter Pontzen
Script By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Producer:
Simon Brett

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