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Introduced by Robert Robinson and John Timpson
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 Sportsdesk at 7.25 and 8.25, including news from Germany of the build-up to the 1974 World Cup: Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Robinson
Introduced By:
John Timpson

from 9.20 Helping the Disabled
I'm, terrified about tvhat will happen to my handicapped boy when I'm dead.
We were advised to get a handrail fixed near the lavatory but we couldn' afford it. Do you think I'm entitled to the Attendance Allowance?
Many disabled and elderly people manage extremely well despite their handicaps-others need advice, encouragement and practical help to overcome the problems of day-to-day living
Put your calls on all aspects of disablement to Mary Greaves. OBE. disabled for over 60 years, and George Wilson , of the Central Council for the Disabled
Sue MacGregor is in the chair Produced bv the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Greaves.
Unknown:
George Wilson
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor

Nan Dreward 's Daughter by A. R. RAWLINSON
Read by John Westbrook
... Tom has always maintained that no one in their senses would ever believe his account of what happened on the motorway through Blayhurst Deep on the night of the new moon....
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Dreward
Unknown:
A. R. Rawlinson
Read By:
John Westbrook
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Presenter Nancy Wise Home and Family
Is University Worth It?: as another generation of students complete their exams, HUGH PURCELL , visits three universities and asks students: was university as you expected? Was it worth it?

Contributors

Unknown:
Hugh Purcell

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cardew Robinson In the chair
McDonald Hobley
Special guest Liz Fraser
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Thursday. 6.15 pm) (McDonald Hobley is appearing in ' Move Over Mrs Mark -ham' at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth)
12.55 medium ware only
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards.
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Cardew Robinson
Unknown:
Liz Fraser
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Producer:
Edward Taylor
Unknown:
Mrs Mark

from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor
The Person Mv Childhood Made Me - 4: Lord Shinwell talks to ELIZABETH WEBB about some lessons that lasted.
Reading your letters.
2.0-2.2 News
Lunch with the Blairs: a New-castle family invite Woman's Hour listeners to share their lunch and discover something of life in this Metropolitan Borough.
The Pleasure of Music: NOR-DOFF AND ROBINS demonstrate their therapy for autistic children.
Tea at G-unters by PAMELA RAINES abridged by EVANGELINE RANKS lead by CORINNA MARLOWE i Final instalment)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Webb
Abridged By:
Evangeline Ranks
Unknown:
Corinna Marlowe

visits Cambridgeshire
Members of the Harston, Hauxton and Newton Horticultural Society put questions to FRED LOAPS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMEI. L
Questionmaster MICHAEL BARRATT Producer KENNETH FORD

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Alan Gemmei.
Unknown:
Questionmaster Michael Barratt
Producer:
Kenneth Ford

Devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Alfred Marks challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.27pm) (Alfred Marks is appearing at Chichester Festival Theatre)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden

The Bigger the Better?
The problems of economic growth. Do we need it? Can we afford it? Might we be better off, and happier, if we concentrated on quality rather than quantity?
Ring Robin Day to put your points and questions on the type and size of the community, for living and working, in which we would feel most at home, to Ernst Schumacher , former Economic Adviser to the National Coal Board and author of the book Small is Beautiful.
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm onward

Contributors

Unknown:
Ernst SchumacHer

Sir John Betjeman the Poet Laureate introduces and reads with Jill Balcon and Gary Watson, love poetry, including:
John Keats La Belle Dame sans Mirci
Robert Browning The Laboratory Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee Thomas Hardy The Ruined Maid W. B. Yeats John Kinsella's Lament for Miss Mary Moore
Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb Recorded before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London Producer GEORGE MACBETH

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir John Betjeman
Producer:
George MacBeth

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