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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 8.0 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.

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson

Include Me Out
Youth has plenty of ideals - too many, perhaps, for comfort. Must these ideals be laid aside when the time comes to take on the challenge of the adult world, or could they be directed to a positive end? Is there no way of including the dropout in? A discussion, chaired by Paddy Feeny between young people and their elders.
Producer PAT TAYLOR

Contributors

Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Producer:
Pat Taylor

The world of Nancy Mitford embraces Uncle Matthew and the Sun King, 'The Bolter' and Mme de Pompadour. For 30 years her novels and biographies have, in the best tradition of 'noblesse oblige,' diverted the common reader.
Such diversions are celebrated by John Julius Norwich, Alan Melville and Amanda Theunissen.
(Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Julius Norwich
Unknown:
Alan Melville
Unknown:
Amanda Theunissen
Producer:
Pamela Howe

Only a Matter of Time by F. L. MAYELL
' That Monday Morndng Feeling! It is, I imagine, fairly common in all walks of life. But more so in some . . . '
Producer IAN COTTERELL

Contributors

Unknown:
F. L. Mayell
Producer:
Ian Cotterell
Schoolboy:
Richard Dillane
Tom Rushton:
John Rye
Mr Crocker:
Vernon Joyner
Mary Rushton:
Diana Olsson
Sam:
Nigel Lambert
Pickering:
Nicholas Dillane
Headmaster:
Manning Wilson
Nurse:
Emily Richard
Doctor:
Nigel Graham

Presenter Sue MacGregor
Guest: Peter Hall , Director of the National Theatre.
2.1-2.2 News
Sounds like Home: some recent efforts to measure, label and reduce the noise of domestic appliances.
I'm Given the Best Chair: CATHERINE JAY has DO wish to be young again.
On Your Allotment (7): to end the series FRANCES PERRY advises JEAN AND JOHN TUSON On hfting and storing crops. Lady Caroline Lamb by ELIZABETH JENKINS : abridged in eight parts by BA MASON read by Peggy Ashcroft
Of all the affairs that shook an epoch notorious for its scandals, there was none more tempestuous than the liaison between Lady Caroline Lamb and Lord Byron.
(Music: ' With the Wild Geese by Hamilton Harty)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Hall
Unknown:
Catherine Jay
Unknown:
Frances Perry
Unknown:
John Tuson
Unknown:
Lady Caroline Lamb
Unknown:
Elizabeth Jenkins
Read By:
Peggy Ashcroft
Unknown:
Lady Caroline Lamb

When the Bough Breaks by IVOR WILSON
Jacky has been John Stern 's pride and joy since she came in at 11. Galloped through ten O-levels blindfold at 15. All set for a scholarship for Oxford and then she begins to fade....
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)
Writing for the BBC, a guidebook for professional, freelance or ' kitchen-table ' writers who want to submit scripts, 40p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivor Wilson
Unknown:
John Stern
Taffy:
Christopher Godwin
Rosalind Greenway:
Joanna Tope
John Stern:
John Rowe
Jim:
Peter Bourke
Roland Bishop:
Geoffrey Banks
Jacky:
Moira Hughes
Mrs Sutton:
Elizabeth McKenzie
Mr Sutton:
Graham Roberts
Charles Ramsay:
John Llnstrum

says Do You Remembert 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 1NIA TE WIATA; JIMMY JEWEL and BEN WARRISS; EDDIE CALVEHT ; We're in Business with PETER JONES , HARRY WORTH , IRENE HANDL and PADDY EDWARDS ; CAR-ROLL gibbons; The Motorway Men with RONNIE RONALDE. Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
(Repeated: Thursday, 7.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eddie Calveht
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Harry Worth
Unknown:
Irene Handl
Unknown:
Paddy Edwards
Unknown:
Ronnie Ronalde.
Unknown:
Alastair Scott Johnston

The antidote to panel games from Tim Brooke-Taylor
Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden and William Rushton under the supervision of Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and DAVE LEE at the piano Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
William Rushton
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Unknown:
Dave Lee
Producer:
John Cassels

Bing Crosby
A light-hearted tribute to the Old Groaner, with the accent on music.
Written by FRANK DIXON Presented by RAY MOORE Producer HERBERT SMITH (Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Written By:
Frank Dixon
Presented By:
Ray Moore
Producer:
Herbert Smith

Murder a la Carte by RAGAN BUTLER
Sir George Major , a prosperous but worried tycoon, is shocked to learn of the sudden death of one of his best friends in the City, apparently of heart failure....
(For cast see Thursday, 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ragan Butler
Unknown:
Sir George Major

3: Not all science fiction is concerned with flights to the planets: more and more writers are exploring the complexities of man's mind.
With the help of CHRISTOPHER PRIEST, PHILIP STRICK and other science fiction writers. JANE FINNIS reviews some works that concentrate on Inner Space.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Strick
Unknown:
Jane Finnis

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