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Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 60-minute Worldwide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave oulu Travel news and What's On: Weather and programme news at 7.55.
At 8.1)
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at K.30*; Papers at 8.40*

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at hume and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents through. out the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week In Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Alan Watkins
10 0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
BRIAN CONNELL reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by DAVID WILLMOTT Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers Paddy O'Keeffe
ANNE SLOMAN, DAVID WALTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Connell
Read By:
David Willmott
Unknown:
David Walter

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson Semi-final (2) bill bent (Liverpool) lecturer
PHii.irii.ARDiNGHAM (Cumberland) factory worker jovce I:'GERTWOOD (Stirlingshire) teacher james mirray (Kincardineshlre) retired headmaster
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. wynn Producer MARIN FISHER
(Repealed: Friday, 6.15 pm)
Brain of Britain, 35p, front bookshops
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Producer:
Marin Fisher

Ian Mikardo, MP, Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP, Dr Monty Finniston, John Randall
Chairman David Jacobs
from Lancashire
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to: Any Answers?, [address removed]

Contributors

Panellist:
Ian Mikardo
Panellist:
Rt. Hon. Margaret Thatcher
Panellist:
Dr Monty Finniston
Panellist:
John Randall
Chairman:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

Presenter Barbara Myers
The week in Woman's Hour.
What the European papers say.
Entertainment Round up: Gordon Gow reporting.
Gardening: seasonal tips from Geoff Amos.
I Feel I've Been Here Before: Brenda Kidman has memories of Bortipenchatan in India.
Look at All Those Roses by Elizabeth Bowen, abridged by Ann Rees Jones, read by Rosalie Crutchley

Contributors

Presenter:
Barbara Myers
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bowen
Abridged by:
Ann Rees Jones
Reader:
Rosalie Crutchley

by Charles Hatton
What the Labour Exchange considers a 'plum job' may not be all that attractive when you've been used to a well-paid position in a respectable firm.

Contributors

Writer:
Charles Hatton
Producer:
hahky catlin
Walter Trewin:
Vernon Joyner
Denise Trewin:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Mr Dodd:
Manning Wilson
Archie Raybould:
Trevor Martin
Vicar:
Godfrey Kenton
Maggie Blain:
Sandra Clare

John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners

Arthur Poskett - Man of Destiny: 2: Wings Over the Wold
With John Franklyn Robbins and Carole Hayman
Written by Brian Thompson
Producer Tony Cliff

4.5 All Yours
Stories, poems and music written and performed by you.

4.20 Your Next School
Many of you will be changing schools next term and moving on to a secondary modern, a comprehensive or a public school. This series tells you something of what you may expect to find.
1: Peter Wheeler talks to the Headmistress and pupils of Nantwich County Secondary School for Girls, Cheshire.
Producer Herbert Smith

4.30 Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - 4 Back to the Chocolate Factory
told by Martin Muncaster
Producer Peter Movis

4.50 Strange Music
3: Ensembles and Orchestras
Weird antique sounds played on human and animal bones.
Narrated and produced by Madeau Stewart
Editor Graham Gauld

Contributors

Introduced by:
John Dunn
Writer (Arthur Poskett - Man of Destiny):
Brian Thompson
Producer (Arthur Poskett - Man of Destiny):
Tony Cliff
Presenter (Your Next School):
Peter Wheeler
Producer (Your Next School):
Herbert Smith
Producer (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator):
Peter Novis
Narrator/ producer (Strange Music):
Madeau Stewart
Editor (Strange Music):
Graham Gauld

by James Follett
A chain of coincidences - and a British nuclear submarine of the 1990s prepares to launch an all-out attack, devastating, unpreventable. Unless...
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)

9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
James Follett
Producer:
Margaret Etall
Capt Harrison:
Manning Wilson
Floyd:
Michael Shannon
Lieut Sinclair:
John Rye
Leading Technician Stride:
Ian Thompson
Lieut Aitkin:
Sion Probert
Lieut Fisher:
John Bull
Master at Arms:
Nigel Graham
First rating:
Hugh Ross
Second rating:
Roger Gartland
Prime Minister:
Conrad Phillips
Louise Arnott:
Sheila Mitchell
Theodore Pike:
Vernon Joyner
Wallis:
James Hayes
Computer operator:
Carole Boyd

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