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Introduced by John Tlmpson
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 Tlmpson

from Northern Ireland Esmeralda's Kingdom by MAURICE MCALEESE
Old Magnus had fallen asleep in the heat of the sun, when Esmeralda had wandered off. It wasn' the first time the big donkey had done this sort of thing. Producer PAUL MULDOON

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice McAleese
Unknown:
Old Magnus
Producer:
Paul Muldoon

Conceived, written and misread by Tim Brooke-Taylor
Barry Cryer , John Junkin and THE DENIS KING TRIO Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
John Junkin
Producer:
David Hatch

Presenter Sue MacGregor Of Current Concern
2.0 2.2 News
What We Wear (1): DILYS MORGAN talks to office staff about the clothes they wear at work and off duty.
The Seven Ages of ARTHUR MARSHALL (6): The lean and slippered pantaloon, with spectacles on nose ...
Headmaster - tyrant, administrator or managing director?: ANN HEYNO asks how the role of headmasters has altered. Peggy Ashcroft reads
Lady Caroline Lamb (7) by ELIZABETH JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Director:
Ann Heyno
Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroft
Unknown:
Lady Caroline Lamb
Unknown:
Elizabeth Jenkins

Story: Pussy Simkin Meets a Peacock Btrd by LINDA GREEN-BURY
Presenters GLADYS WHITRED and TONY AITKEN
Scripts by GLADYS WHITRED Producer JENYTH WORSLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Pussy Simkin
Presenters:
Gladys Whitred
Presenters:
Tony Aitken
Unknown:
Gladys Whitred
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley

(Repeated: Friday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlow
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Robin Freeman:
Peter Kenvyn
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Haydn Evans:
Charles Williams
Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Optician:
Graham Rigby

Last in the series edited by c. h. ROLPH
Lady Sackville's Inheritance by HALLAM TENNYSON
LADY SACKVILLE: You know, my lord, you do get sick of it when you are told five or six times a day that you are going to be cut out of a will!
Yet. there was half a million pounds at stake and the two leading counsel of the day, F. E. Smith and Sir Edward Carson , were at daggers drawn. with the voices of SEAN ARNOLD , JILL BALCON
CAROLE BOYD , MICHAEL DEACON SION PROBERT , ALAN ROWE
MICHAEL SMEE , HARRY WEBSTER Producer DICKON REED
(Repeated: Monday, 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hallam Tennyson
Unknown:
F. E. Smith
Unknown:
Sir Edward Carson
Unknown:
Sean Arnold
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Unknown:
Carole Boyd
Unknown:
Michael Deacon
Unknown:
Sion Probert
Unknown:
Alan Rowe
Unknown:
Michael Smee
Unknown:
Harry Webster

A British Klondyke?
The growing demand for minerals, combined with a chronic balance of payments problem, has revived interest in Britain's unexploited mineral deposits. What do they consist of? How urgent is our need for them? Should we try to revive our past role as one of the great mining nations, or should we think first of the impact of mining operations on so-far unspoiled countryside?
A report by Brian Redhead Producer STANLEY WILLIAMSON (Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Stanley Williamson

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