Programme Index

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Introduced by Nancy Wise 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 S.55 and 7.55.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*: and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.56.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Nancy Wise
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam

ESP and Telepathy
Do you believe in them! What do scientists think oj ' paranormal phenomena
Phone in your questions on the mysteries of extra-sensory perception and telepathy to Professor Mark Hansel of the University College of Swansea and to Professor Arthur Ellison of the City University. London. Chairman George Scott
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Mark Hansel
Unknown:
Professor Arthur Ellison
Unknown:
George Scott

Sometime During the Night.... by DENISE HAWTHORNE
Read by Bob Monkhouse
When someone slipped a powder into Sam Watkins 's drink at the office party, they could hardly have bargained for the consequences! Producer DAVID SHUTE

Contributors

Unknown:
Denise Hawthorne
Read By:
Bob Monkhouse
Unknown:
Sam Watkins
Producer:
David Shute

A musical account of the Suffragette Movement
Singers Pat Whitmore, Charles Young, The Charles Young Singers
Narrators Charles Chilton, Valerie Colgan, John Westbrook
Shoulder to Shoulder, a Radio Times Special about the Suffragette movement, 38p (including postage), from BBC Publications, [address removed]

Contributors

Singer:
Pat Whitmore
Singer:
Charles Young
Singers:
The Charles Young Singers
Narrator:
Charles Chilton
Narrator:
Valerie Colgan
Narrator:
John Westbrook
Writer/Producer:
Charles Chilton

Presenter Sue MacGregor
Cumbrian Country People - talking about their way of life and its changing qualities.
2.0-2.2 News
The Moonlighters: concert pianist NAOMI DAVIDOV also plays for afternoon audiences among the potted palms.
A Sense of Proportion: a closer look at the way we vote. GABRIEL WOOLF reads
The Occupying Power (5)

Contributors

Pianist:
Naomi Davidov
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf

Selected for Friday
Samaritan: a play for radio by JOHN HYNAM
Wilfred Pickles as Stan Bates JOE: And she can make good soup, can Mother ... And didn' we agree Uiat she was Mother to us both?
SUE: Something like that . . . JOE: I wish you'd accept her ...
Producer
DAVID H. GODFREY (1972)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hynam
Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Unknown:
Stan Bates
Unknown:
David H. Godfrey
ElSa Bates:
Margaret Wolfit
Joe Marchant:
John Samson
Sue Marchant:
Jane Knowles
Mrs Marchant:
Margot Boyd
Passer-by:
Brian Haines
Milkman:
Robin Browne
Woman:
Olwen Griffiths
Pat Hannigan:
Allan McClelland
George:
William Eedle
Sheila:
Kate Dinchy

A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in Cyprus, Malta and Northern Ireland.
Panel: NAN WINTON, TED MOULT, NEIL DURDEN-SMITH v A team representing RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus: TREVOR JORDAN, VIVIEN THOMAS, JACK BULLEN, TREVOR CAVE
Questionmaster PETER JONES
Questions set and programme devised by the producer MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS

(by arrangement with the BFBS: Saturday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
Trevor Jordan.
Unknown:
Vivien Thomas
Unknown:
Jack Bllllen
Unknown:
Trevor Cave
Unknown:
Peter Jones

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 SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees.
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Producer:
Simon Brett

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