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Introduced by John Timpson
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news. What's on. and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER ; Weather and prog 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 OSBORNE

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler
Editor:
Alastair Osborne

Why dues the crossbill have a crossed bill? What use can it be to the bird in feeding and finding food?
That's one of your problems the team will be sorting out in today's edition of Wildlife. Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol) Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

The End of a Career by JEAN STAFFORD
Read by Hannah Gordon
'To be loved is to be beautiful, but to be beautiful is not necessarily to be loved. Go and find a lover. Get loved by somebody - it doesn' matter who- and you'll get well.' Producer
JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Stafford
Read By:
Hannah Gordon

A new series of intriguing legal mysteries edited and introduced by C. H. Rolph
1: The Unattainable Legacy
An account of the astronomical Thierry Inheritance: written by CHARLOTTE AND DENIS PLIMMER Gabriel Woolf as narrator
In Corfu in 1654 Jean Thierry made a carefully drawn-up will, leaving a great fortune to his rightful heirs. When he died, little did he suspect that over three centuries later his estate, inflated to massive proportions, would still be claimed by his descendants. Special contributors:
ALAN FREEMAN and PETER THIERRY Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
11.50 Announcements

Contributors

Introduced By:
C. H. Rolph
Introduced By:
Denis Plimmer
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Jean Thierry
Unknown:
Alan Freeman
Unknown:
Peter Thierry
Producer:
John Theocharis

Presenter Nancy Wise
Company Accounts - totally irrelevant, a big bore, or something that affects us all? TIM MATTHEWS finds some of the answers and how to read them with understanding
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Matthews

Presenter Sue MacGregor
Breaking the Barrier: do women have equal opportunities in the legal profession? ANNA COOTE investigates.
2.0-2.2 News
The Moonlighters (2): actor PATRICK ALLEN is also king of the ' voice-over ' brigade - the men who do the talking on the TV ads.
Reading your letters.
'It's fun and it's therapeutic': CHRIS DENHAM visits Radio Camelot, a programme for children in hospital. GABRIEL WOOLF reads
The Occupying Power by EVELYN ANTHONY (11)
Deputy editor TERESA MCGONAGLE Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Allen
Unknown:
Chris Denham
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
Evelyn Anthony
Editor:
Teresa McGonagle
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

The Big House of Inver by E. OE. SOMERVILLE and MARTIN ROSS : abridged for radio in ten parts and read by Denys Hawthorne Capt Jasper Prendeville , like most of his illustrious line. 'takes his whack, they say,' and, alas, the vices of his family seem fated to destroy their grand house on the west coast of Ireland. But in the dreams of Shibby. Jasper's natural daughter, the vision embodied by the house lives on. 1: The Big House and Captain Jasper
Producer MICHAEL HEFFERNAN (Northern Ireland)

Contributors

Unknown:
E. Oe. Somerville
Unknown:
Martin Ross
Read By:
Denys Hawthorne
Read By:
Capt Jasper Prendeville

starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in Big Deal
LENNOX-BROWN: Sir Gregory's presented us with another rotten job. I nearly gave him a nasty look.
LAMB: What's the point? He's got one already. with NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDILEY , JOHN GRAHAM written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(Repeated: Wed, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Norma Ronald
Unknown:
Ronald Baddiley
Unknown:
John Graham
Written By:
Edward Taylor
Written By:
John Graham
Producer:
Edward Taylor

Written by ANNE JONES starring Deryck Guyler and Mollie Sugden as Mr and Mrs Wheeler with Norman Rossington as Jack Bailey
The early days of retirement bring their problems when man and wife suddenly find themselves under each other's feet after 40 years of leading their own daytime lives. Home to Roost theme by ALEX WELSH played by ALEX WELSH AND HIS BAND
Producers RICHARD MADDOCK and PETER TITHERADGE (Birmingham)

Contributors

Written By:
Anne Jones
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Mollie Sugden
Unknown:
Mrs Wheeler
Unknown:
Norman Rossington
Unknown:
Jack Bailey
Played By:
Alex Welsh
Producers:
Richard Maddock

According to the Regulations by ELIZABETH MORGAN with Glyn Houston , Elizabeth Morgan Douglas Blackwell , Jan Edwards ' Six days, that's all it took the Almighty to make this world of ours, and all the creatures therein. Nine months it takes to make a new human life - God's finest masterpiece. Nine seconds to take aim. and fire, and destroy that masterpiece ... Perhaps we'll learn one day.' This play is based on events that actually took place in Llanelly in 1911, but the Welsh characters are fictitious.
Violinist LIONEL BENTLEY Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Gerald James is in 'Life Class ' at the Duke of York's Theatre. London)
(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Morgan
Unknown:
Glyn Houston
Unknown:
Elizabeth Morgan
Unknown:
Douglas Blackwell
Unknown:
Jan Edwards
Violinist:
Lionel Bentley
Producer:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Gerald James
Dai Morgan:
Glyn Houston
Ellen Morgan:
Elizabeth Morgan
Gwyn Morgan:
Douglas Blackwell
Annie Morgan:
Jan Edwards
lestyn Morgan:
Siôn Probert
Gwilym Morris:
Anthony Hall
Rachel Morris:
Christine Pollon
Mansel Thomas:
Gerald James
Tecwyn Richards:
William Ingram
Hugh Davies:
David Sinclair
Owen Spencer:
Siôn Probert
Lieut Smythe:
David Timson
Major Denning:
Vernon Joyner
Bugle boy:
Peter Pacey
Lloyd George:
Timothy Bateson
Keir Hardie:
Hector Ross
George Lansbury:
Stephen Thorne
Winston Churchill:
David Timson

Sir Geoffrey Jackson reflects on some of his experiences when living in different parts of the world and illustrates his theme with readings. 1: North
' Oh, Northwards is a nice direction. It certainly can captivate a man. Mind you. if he isn' very careful, it can kill him too!'

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Geoffrey Jackson

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