Programme Index

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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, including the latest World Cup news from Germany; Today's Papers at 7.35' and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 Editor AUASTAIR OSBORNE

Contributors

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

Sleep
How much sleep do we really need? What causes insomnia and how dangerous are sleeping pills? How important are dreams? What exactly happens during sleep?
Phone in your questions on sleep to Dr Ian Oswald , Reader in Psychiatry at Edinburgh University and author of many publications on sleep. Chairman George Scott
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Reader:
Dr Ian Oswald
Unknown:
George Scott

Evans the Police by DONALD DOUGALL
Read by Douglas Blackwell
How I remember him - Mr Evans the police - yes, he was always Mister Evans to the whole village. Above all, I remember those spotless white gloves he wore, summer and winter. With those gloves he administered swift punishment to the young offender. It was accepted - it worked - and it never, brought newspaper headlines. Producer LORRAINE DAVIES (Wales)

Contributors

Read By:
Douglas Blackwell
Unknown:
Mr Evans
Unknown:
Mister Evans
Producer:
Lorraine Davies

With that defiant gesture of Sir Henry Newbolt's young officer on the North West Frontier of India, Robin Holmes introduces an anthology of patriotic and imperial poetry which until quite recently was required reading and learning in all our schools. with Hugh Burden and Valentine Dyall
Producer ROBERT CRADOCK

Contributors

Introduces:
Robin Holmes
Unknown:
Hugh Burden
Producer:
Robert Cradock

Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

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

from 2.0 Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Lancashire Cookery Club: EVELYN ROSE and MARGARET TRAVIS discuss summer food.
2.0-2.2 News
Composer in Residence: DAVID cain in Cumbria.
Back to Work: judi GOODWIN visits a course designed to smooth the way.
RICHARD LEECH reads Anthony Trollope (8)

Selected for Friday
Reunion by JOAN O'CONNOR based on a story by FRED UHLMAN with Sean Barrett
Brian Hewlett and Cyril Shaps ' That you had enemies - yes - I understand that ... You a Jew and they young Hitlerites. But in spite of all, you can'not have had a single friend.'
Producer JOHN TBEOCHARIS (1972)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Story By:
Fred Uhlman
Unknown:
Sean Barrett
Unknown:
Brian Hewlett
Unknown:
Cyril Shaps
Producer:
John Tbeocharis
Hans Schwartz:
Sean Barrett
Konradin von Hohenfels:
Brian Hewlett
Dr Schwartz:
Cyril Shaps
Frau Schwartz:
Eva Stuart
Martha Schwartz:
Mikel Lambert
Herr Zimnerman:
John Ruddock
Herr Adalbert:
Nigel Lambert
Herr Rosen:
Peter Marinker
Herr Loehr:
Geoffrey Beevers
Herr Brandt:
David Gooderson

The World Cannot Hear You by GWYN THOMAS abridged in ten parts by STUART EVANS
Read by DOUGLAS BLACKWELL (10) Producer ROGER PINE
(Starting next Monday: Slay-Ride ' by Dick Francis , read by Timothy West )

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Evans
Read By:
Douglas Blackwell
Unknown:
Dick Francis
Read By:
Timothy West

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain
Chairman Robert Robinson Second Round. 7: Scotland
JOYCE LIGERTWOOD (Stirlingshire) teacher
MICHAEL ELDER (Edinburgh) actor
ISLAY SHANKS (Inner Hebrides) retired schoolmaster
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
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Brain of Britain, 35p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Producer:
Martin Fisher

A spontaneous discussion by C. A. Joyce
Roderick MacFarquhar , up Janet Fookes , mp Des Wilson
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from the Isle of Wight
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to: Any Answerst, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
C. A. Joyce
Unknown:
Roderick MacFarquhar
Unknown:
Janet Fookes
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and bill MCGUFFIE 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 JOHN LLOYD

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Script By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Producer:
John Lloyd

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