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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', including the latest news from Germany following Scotland's World Cup match v Zaire; Papers at 8.40*

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Aspel

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with ALAN WATKINS
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
SIMON JENKINS reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PETER JEFFERSON
Narrator PETER DONALDSON Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE , DAVID WALTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Watkins
Unknown:
Simon Jenkins
Narrator:
Peter Jefferson
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Bernard Tate
Unknown:
David Walter

on The Official Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen
The Queen's Colour of the 1st Bn Irish Guards is being trooped
There will be eight Guards with a Sovereign's Escort of the Household Cavalry
Music played by the MASSED BANDS OF THE GUARDS DIVISION and THE MASSED BANDS OF THE LIFE GUARDS AND THE BLUES AND ROYALS Scene described by ROBERT HUDSON from
Horse Guards Parade, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Hudson

Presenter Sue MacGregor
The week in Woman's Hour. Consumer Commentary: NORMAN TOZER with a round-up of national and international .news in the consumer world. Medicine over the Decades: DR GERTRUDE BROWN , who, until her recent death at the age of 94, was probably the country's oldest practising doctor.
What the European papers say. A Long Way From Home: ' Land of the humming bird' - Trinidadians who live and work here talk about the life back home.
A Child in the Forest by WINIFRED FOLEY : abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE-WILKINSON Read by JUNE BARRIE
A Child in the Forest, 12.25, from bookshops

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Dr Gertrude Brown
Unknown:
Winifred Foley
Abridged By:
Virginia Browne-Wilkinson
Read By:
June Barrie

A play for radio by Anthony Grey.

A comedy set inside one human body - a vast bureaucracy where bright young living cells clash with their conservative superiors and the whole concern is run by the intellectual elite - the Brain Cells who inhabit the corridors of power. A crisis develops in the life of the Body concerned - Himself - and the cells react like the crew of a trapped submarine.

Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Contributors

Writer:
Anthony Grey
Producer:
Betty Davies
Himself:
David Timson
Herself:
Diana Bishop
Commuter:
Stephen Thorne
In the Body:
Living Cell 10047, a bright lad in Parathyroid Sub-Division: Nigel Anthony
His Superior:
James Thomason
Living Cell 10013:
David Valla
Living Cell 100654:
Sian Probert
Brain Cell One:
Rolf Lefebvre
Brain Cell Two:
John Rye
Chief Engineer, Fuel Refinery:
Fraser Kerr
His assistant:
Antony Viccars
Ego:
John Rye

John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners

4.0 Admiral Skylark
Tales of a Space-age Twit with George Layton as everyone, Written by Gail Renard
Producer John Lloyd

4.5 Railway Magazine
returns for another series.
We go to Scotland at 100 mph in the cab of a new electric express and hear the story of of a famous holiday train that's celebrating its 70th birthday.
Introduced by Tom Heaney
Producer Rex Christiansen

4.25 Ghost Guide - when to find more of them! Taken from A Book of Ghosts and Hauntings edited by Aidan Chambers

4.30 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: book by Roald Dahl abridged in six parts by Naomi Lewis
1: In which Mr Wonka goes too far. Told by Martin Muncaster
This book starts where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory finished. Producer Peter Nevis

4.50 Poetry Competition
Kevin Crossley-Holland talks about the entries and the prize-winning poems are read out. Editor Graham Gauld

Contributors

Introduced by:
John Dunn
[Actor] (Admiral Skylark):
George Layton
Writer (Admiral Skylark):
Gail Renard
Producer (Admiral Skylark):
John Lloyd
Presenter (Railway Magazine):
Tom Heaney
Producer (Railway Magazine):
Rex Christiansen
Told By:
Martin Muncaster
Producer (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator):
Peter Novis
Reader (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator):
Martin Muncaster
Editor (Poetry Competition):
Graham Gauld

by Lydia Ragosin.
With Freddie Jones, Hilda Schroder, and Diana Olsson.
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. A name synonymous with gambling, racing and good living. But his talent for diplomacy and grasp of foreign affairs, had he succeeded to the throne sooner, might have changed the course of European history.
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
(Rosalind Shanks is in 'The Great Society' at the Mermaid Theatre, London)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
Lydia Ragosin
Producer:
Margaret Etall
Albert Edward, 'Bertie':
Freddie Jones
Princess Alexandra, 'Alix':
Diana Olsson
Prince Albert:
Stephen Thorne
Queen Victoria:
Hilda Schroder
Princess Helena:
Liane Aukin
Lord Beresford:
Vernon Joyner
Sir Francis Knollys:
David Timson
Charlotte Knollys:
Doris Welles
John Brown:
David Timson
Lillie Langtry:
Caroline Hunt
Leon Gambetta:
Brian Haines
Lord Salisbury:
Denis McCarthy
Princess Victoria, 'Vicky':
Liane Aukin
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, 'Willie':
Nigel Anthony
Lady Brooke 'Daisy':
Rosalind Shanks
Doctor:
William Sleigh

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