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Introduced bv 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; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
John Timpson

Advertising
Do advertisements tell lies! Should cigarette ads be bannedr Is there too much sex in advertisingt Should small children be used to promote goods!
Put your questions on advertising to Patricia Mann , copy-writer, and Peter Thomson. Director and Secretary, Advertising Standards Authority
Sue MacGregor is in the chair Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Mann
Unknown:
Peter Thomson.

The Racket by JANET MARTIN
Read by Allan McClelland
'You mark my words, that boy will come to a bad end. Selling his lunch. Did ya ever hear the like of it,' she said to her husband, who was Paul's father.
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Janet Martin
Read By:
Allan McClelland
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Presenter Nancy Wise Home and Family
Squatters' rights the tenants' wrongs, NANCY WISE on the legality of a squatting in 1974. With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards. Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Cardew Robinson In the chair McDonald Hobley Special guest John Junkin
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(McDonald Hobley is in ' Move Over Mrs Markham ' at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth)
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards.
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Cardew Robinson
Unknown:
John Junkin
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards
Producer:
Edward Taylor
Unknown:
Mrs Markham

Presenter Sue MacGregor
The Villa Toubkal: REG CLEAVER is building a holiday home for handicapped Moroccan children in the Atlas Mountains. Reading your letters.
2.0-2.2 News
Lunch with the Baxters: a family from the east coast of Scotland invite listeners to share their lunch and discover something of life in the fishing town of Macduff.
The Person My Childhood Made Me 4: Diana Graves talks to ELIZABETH WEBB about some lessons that lasted. RICHARD LEECH reads
Anthony Trollope (10)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Webb

A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Steve Race

Making the Best Use of Your Brain
How does the brain workr Does size matter!How important are IQ tests.... or a formal educationt Have men got better brains than woment Ring Robin Day to put your question on these and other points about the brain and its functions to Tony Buzan, author of Use Your Head.
[number removed](16 lines) will take questions from 6.0 pm onward

A portrait of Lady Arbella Stuart by ALISON PLOWDEN with Alethea Charlton , Pauline Letts Maureen O'Brien and Alan Rowe Arbella was the last of the unfortunate female descendants of Henry VIII's sisters. As such she was regarded by some as a future Queen of England: but by others as a potential threat, first to Elizabeth and then to James I. Producer
MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Lady Arbella Stuart
Unknown:
Alethea Charlton
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Maureen O'Brien
Unknown:
Alan Rowe
Unknown:
James I.
Unknown:
Martin Jenkins
Arbella Stuart:
Maureen O'Brien
First Narrator:
Alan Row
Second Narrator:
Alethea Charlton
Shrewsbury:
Timothy Bateson
Queen Elizabeth:
Alethea Charlton
Bess of Hardwick:
Pauline Letts
Charles Cavendish, her son:
Sam Dastor
Venetian Ambassador:
Martin Friend
James:
Fraser Kerr
William Fowler:
Godfrey Kenton
Messenger:
Kerry Francis
John Starkey:
Sam Dastor
John Dodderidge:
Timothy Bateson
Sir Henry Brounker:
Manning Wilson
William Monson:
Kerry Francis

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