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Introduced by John Timpson and James Burke
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 8.351; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
James Burke

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The Single Woman and her Dependants
Where can my 82-year-old disabled mother go while I have a fortnight's holidayr And if I find a suitable place, how can I persuade her to go theref My father's had a bad coronary, but still tries to do as much as he did before: what can I dot
Put your questions to Roxane Arnold , director of the National Council for the Single Woman and her Dependants, and Dr Monnica Stewart. assistant physician of a geriatric unit. In the chair Sue MacGregor Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Roxane Arnold
Unknown:
Dr Monnica Stewart.

The Psychologist Who Went Too Far by DIANA marr-johnson Read by Noel Johnson
The Stop Me and Buy One was surprised at its good fortune. The day was cold, and the gentleman did not look the sort to require an ice in any temperature.
Producer EILEEN capil

Contributors

Read By:
Noel Johnson

'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and David Nixon , Paul Jennings
Tune twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by IAN MESS1TER
Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Eleanor Summerfield
Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Paul Jennings
Unknown:
Roy Plomley
Written By:
Ian Mess1ter
Producer:
John Cassels

Presenter Sue MacGregor
Back to the Simple Life? JAN BROOKES talks to a Welsh hill-farmer and his wife and the widows of a fisherman and a miner who remember having to live it.
2.0 2.2 News
Behind the Mind (6): SIR ALISTER HARDY talks about God. Arts Notebook.
Peggy Ashcroft reads
Lady Caroline Lamb (5) by ELIZABETH JENKINS

Contributors

Talks:
Jan Brookes
Talks:
Alister Hardy
Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroft
Unknown:
Lady Caroline Lamb
Unknown:
Elizabeth Jenkins

Seen above with her daughter, young Suzy,
Sheila Hancock is sketchily choosy :
Her choice for tonight
Must be witty and light -
It's the crime de la crime of revue. seeT
Sheila Hancock stars in her own special selection of the best in revue sketches and songs also starring Hugh Paddick With, MAX HARRIS who. with his Septet, provides the incidental music
Producer Christopher SERLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Max Harris

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The National Trust
With half a million acres. 200 country houses and nearly 500 , miles of coastline, it is the biggest private landowner in the country. Many of us have been enjoying .its amenities during our holidays this year. Ring George Scott to put your questions on its facilities and how they can be improved and extended to Lawrence Rich. Assistant Secretary of the National Trust.
[number removed](16 lines) trill take questions from 6.0 p?n onwards

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott
Unknown:
Lawrence Rich.

Written and presented by PETER HUNT
Ruffian Dick was the nickname which friends and contemporaries bestowed on Sir Richard Burton-soldier , explorer, scholar. swordsman and the translator of the Kama Sutra. The Perfumed Garden and other learned works of that kind.
His wife Isabel was no less remarkable, if for no other reason than the way she put up with her husband's antics. with Francis de Wolff as Richard Burton Producer
ROBERT cradock

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Hunt
Presented By:
Ruffian Dick
Unknown:
Sir Richard Burton-Soldier
Unknown:
Francis de Wolff
Unknown:
Richard Burton
Unknown:
Robert Cradock
Isabel:
Elizabeth Morgan
Journalist:
David Sinclair
Contessa:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Dr Baker:
Hector Ross

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