Programme Index

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Introduced by John Tlmpson 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; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35"; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. Editor ALASTAIR OSBOKNE

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Tlmpson
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam
Editor:
Alastair Osbokne

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The NHS and Private Patients
What place should there be for private medicine in the National Health Servicet Is the pay-bed dispute a symptom of a wider crisis in the NHST
In this special people-to-people edition ring [number removed]and discuss with other listeners your views on the NHS and private patients.
Chairman George Scott Calls from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott

from Scotland
Big Erchie by JIM WAITE Read by Gerry Slevin
Big Erchie he was called then. He had a body too big for his brain, but that didn'matter to boys of the school. He was a kind of god to them ... Producer MICHAEL SHAW

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Waite
Read By:
Gerry Slevin
Producer:
Michael Shaw

Presenter Lyn Macdonald
Shopping Basket: MARGARET KORVING - with the new Shopping Basket Price Index - reports on the way prices have changed and where the bargains will be at the weekend.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER

Contributors

Presenter:
Lyn MacDonald

from RAF Brize Norton
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze try to guess objects presented by their hosts
Peter Jones in the chair
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Brize Norton
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Joy Adamson
Unknown:
Norman Hackforth
Unknown:
Peter Glaze
Unknown:
Peter Jones

Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
From Festival Director to the Buses: what Keeps HENNY KING on the move?
2.0-2.2 News
Step-relationships: a happy stepmother looks at why they sometimes go wrong.
Art for the North West: HELEN KAPP is buying it this year. GABRIEL WOOLF reads
The Occupying Power (10)

Contributors

Unknown:
Henny King
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf

Selected for Friday
The Great Steeplechase Race: a comedy by MATTHEW WALTERS with Peter Baldwin Rosemary Martin John Westbrook
Applethwaite was the fly in the ointment - always had been. Champion of this, prizes for that. But now Applethwaite was in for a pretty nasty shock.
Producer DAVID GEARY (1971)

Contributors

Comedy By:
Matthew Walters
Unknown:
Peter Baldwin
Unknown:
Rosemary Martin
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Producer:
David Geary
Julian:
Peter Baldwin
Ludmilla:
Diana Payan
Julian's wife:
Rosemary Martin
Jenny:
Sian Davies
Commentators:
Leslie Heritage
Commentators:
Clifford Norgare
Motorist:
Antony Higginson
Bill:
Charles Hodgson
First Headmaster:
Ronald Forfar
Applethwaite:
John Westbrook
Second Headmaster:
Noel Iliff
Miss Smithers:
Margot Boyd

Panel: NAN WINTON
TED MOULT, NEIL DURDEN-SMITH v A team representing the Army. Dhekelia Area, Cyprus: PETER WIGLEY SMITH
BILL MAYLING , JOHN CANE PAT CONNOLLY
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:
Peter Wigley Smith
Unknown:
Bill Mayling
Unknown:
John Cane
Unknown:
Pat Connolly
Unknown:
Questionmaster Peter Jones
Producer:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

The true story of the Atlantic Wall in Normandy and the plot to destroy it: by ROBERT BARR adapted from Richard COLLIER'S book Ten Thousand Eyes
Garard Green as the Storyteller 1: The Wall and the Mirror
Other parts JOHN CAZABON, SAM DASTOR, DEREK SEATON
Producer CHARLES MAXWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Richard Collier
Unknown:
John Cazabon
Unknown:
Sam Dastor.
Unknown:
Derek Seaton
Producer:
Charles Maxwell
Marcel Girard:
Frederick Treves
Eugene Meslin:
John Gabriel
Ren6 Duchez:
Victor Lucas
Gilbert Renault:
Lewis Stringer
Mme Renault:
Eva Stuart

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

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