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Introduced by 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.* 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.

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson

East, West. Home's Best
Even in the happiest family there comes a time when the children need to strike out on their own. How can this be achieved with a minimum of disturbance to both generations? Or is a degree of conflict not only inevitable but necessary as well?
Paddy Feeny leads a discussion between young people and experts
Producers SALLY THOMPSON PAT TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Producers:
Sally Thompson
Producers:
Pat Taylor

Wax by GKHALD BULLETT
Read by Robert Eddison
And when he wanted to sit down in the road and forget everything, forget this new-minted morning and return to his world within, they all three pressed savagely upon him. and held him up, and the woman's face became an angry grinning mask.

Contributors

Read By:
Robert Eddison

The Lightest Touch
To be the Grand Old Man of modern English literature, and at the same time its most captivating humorist; to be loved by millions of readers as a genius of frivolity, and revered by fellow-writers as a master of style ...
The joys of reading P. G. Wodehouse are celebrated by Rt Hon Sir Dingle Foot , QC, Derek Parker and Sam Pollock. Producer PAMELA HOWE

Contributors

Unknown:
P. G. Wodehouse
Unknown:
Sir Dingle Foot
Unknown:
Derek Parker
Unknown:
Sam Pollock.
Producer:
Pamela Howe

Hollow Victory by DEREK WEt.LMAN
For 19 years the Colonel has been virtually unchallenged as the Member of Parliament for Barthmoor. Now he faces his first serious opposition - from one of his own party.
Producer JOHN CARDY

Contributors

Producer:
John Cardy
Col Widdicombe:
Richard Hurndall
Evelyn Widdicombe:
Fabia Drake
Gillian Anstey:
Anna Cropper
Douglas Anstey:
Hugh Suliivan
Fred Faulkner:
Timothy Bateson
Waitress:
Emily Richard

Presenter Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Alan Ayckbourn. playwright and director of the Theatre-in-the-Round, Scarborough.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
The Person My Childhood Made Me (5): Leslie' Thomas talks to Elizabeth WEBB about some lessons that lasted.
It doesn' just go with lettuce: CHRISTINE HOUSELEY Serves cucumber in different ways. GABRIEL WOOLF reads
The Occupying Power (13)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Ayckbourn.
Unknown:
Elizabeth Webb
Unknown:
Christine Houseley
Unknown:
Gabriel Woolf

A Wreath for Old Graves by CHARLES THOMAS with Michael Harbour
Nerys Hughes and John Bull
In 1936 many young men thought the Spanish Civil War was the most important issue in history .. ,
Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Andrew Sachs is in ' Habeas Corpus ' at the Lyric Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Thomas
Unknown:
Michael Harbour
Unknown:
Nerys Hughes
Producer:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Andrew Sachs
Alf Draper:
Michael Harbour
Jim Draper:
Joiin Bull
Mrs Draper:
Hilda Schroder
Will Draper:
Kerry Francis
Mrs Thorpe:
Katherine Parr
Elsie:
Nerys Hughes
Iris:
Carole Boyd
Marshall:
Bruce Beeby
Bill Shelley:
Andrew Sachs

says Do You Rememberf as he looks back over his years as an entertainer and" the friends and colleagues among whom he has spent and continues to spend his very active life. Today he recalls ELTON HAYES
The Navy Lark
JOYCE GRENFELL. SEMPRINI
Round the Horne with KENNETH HORNE. KENNETH WILLIAMS and HUGH PADDICK IVOR NOVELLO Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Thursday, 7.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elton Hayes
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell.
Unknown:
Kenneth Horne.
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Ivor Novello
Unknown:
Alastair Scott Johnston

Anona Winn. Joy
Adamson Norman Hackfofth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
Peter Jones in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Anona Winn.
Unknown:
Adamson Norman Hackfofth
Unknown:
Peter Glaze
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Producer:
John Cassels

Kenneth Horne
Round the Horne and back -to Much-Binding In The Marsh
Richard Murdoch introduces an appreciation of a unique radio entertainer, illustrated with recordings from his many broadcasts.
Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Introduces:
Richard Murdoch
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

The Worriers: a new radio comedy by GWYN THOMAS
The case of Jack Sharp , a gun-happy shepherd, versus the voters of Ferncleft. Sharp's sheep are accused of despoiling Ferncleft gardens and Ferncleft's dogs are accused of ' worrying ' Sharp's sheep.
Producer Lorraine DAVIES
(Repeated: Thursday, 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Comedy By:
Gwyn Thomas
Unknown:
Jack Sharp
Producer:
Lorraine Davies
Jack Sharp:
Ryan Davies
Wyndham WHkie:
Talfryn Thomas
Edie Sharp:
Myfanwy Talog
Wally Wallace:
Ronnie Williams
Mungo Wallace:
Idillwyn Owen
Nelson Wagstaff:
Brinley Jenkins

Reflections by SIR GEOFFREY JACKSON 3: East
1 These rains were vital to the old man and his sheep.... if he waited, he would find all the grazing he wanted, and we would be treated to that brief explosion of the desert into a kind of ephemeral heaven of spring flowers which of course are the authentic lilies of the field....'

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Geoffrey Jackson

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