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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. Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne

Population Control
A vital need for mankind, or an attempt by wealthy nations to preserve their standards of living? What, if any, are the limits to world population? Should family planning be left to the individual or should novernments control it? If so, how far can and should they got
Put your question to Alastair Service, chairman of the Birth Control Campaign and National Executive member of the Family Planning Association. Presenter George Scott
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Presenter:
George Scott

John, Liz and the Cat by SARAH MOORE
Read by Margaret Tyzack
The cat was to prove the bridge in a marriage that was pretty firmly on the rocks. Producer DAVID SHUTE
(Margaret Tyzack is an Rsc associate artist)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Moore
Read By:
Margaret Tyzack
Producer:
David Shute
Unknown:
Margaret Tyzack

Presenter George Luce
Shopping Basket: MARGARET KORVING reports on the way prices have changed, with some of the reasons why. and where the bargains will be at the weekend.
Editor DENNIS LOWER
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
George Luce
Unknown:
Margaret Korving

Introduced from Bristol by Daphne Hubbard
Pay Attention! - to Professor Jimmy Edwards.
2.0-2.2 News
Agoraphobia: gliding seems an unlikely aid to recovery, but it was the final cure for one man. Fair Exchange: Ashanti gold weights were used by natives in Ghana for gold trading, and each has a proverb to tell... DOUGLAS BLACKWELL reads Dead Letters (5)

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne Hubbard
Unknown:
Jimmy Edwards.
Unknown:
Douglas Blackwell

Selected for Friday
Requiem on Strangford by JOHN TARRANT
Strangford Lough, in the County Down: too beautiful a setting, one might think, for sudden death ...
Producer DAVID A. TURNER
(Northern Ireland: 1968)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tarrant
Producer:
David A. Turner
John Logan:
Maurice O'Callaghan
Susan Costello:
Heather Gibson
Sergeant Ryan:
J J Murphy
Dr Donnelly:
Jack McQuoid
Michael Brady:
John McBride
Kathleen Costello:
Yvonne Adams
Cmdr Casey:
Robert McLernon
Phil Moran:
George Mooney

A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services in Cyprus, Malta and Northern Ireland.
Panel: NAN WINTON, TED MOULT, NEIL DURDEN-SMITH v A team representing 1st Duke of Edinburgh Royal Regiment and 3 Brigade MIKE MARTIN, PAT HUNT, RAY POVEY, DENNIS SOUTHWICK
Questionmaster PETER JONES
Questions set and programme devised by the producer MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS

(by arrangement with BFBS: last Saturday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
Mike Martin
Unknown:
Pat Hunt
Unknown:
Ray Povey
Unknown:
Dennis Southwick
Questionmaster:
Peter Jones
Producer:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

The true story of the Atlantic Wall in Normandy and the plot to destroy it: by ROBERT BARR adapted from RICHARD COLLIER 'S book Ten Thousand Eyes 6: The Last Map
Producer CHARLES MAXWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Unknown:
Richard Collier
Producer:
Charles Maxwell
the Storyteller:
Garard Green
Marcel Girard:
Frederick Treves
Eugene Meslin:
John Gabriel
René Duchez:
Victor Lucas
Fernand Arsene:
David Graham
Jean Chateau:
John Baddeley
Dany:
Norma Ronald
Leon Dumis:
John Graham
Leonard Gille:
Peter Hawkins
Marraine:
Norma Ronald

It is ... a brand new comedy show It is ... the voices of MARY ADAMS , JONATHAN CANTER
JOHN LLOYD , GRIFFITH RHYS JONES ... the music of NIC ROWLEY, NIGEL HESS
TIM BRUTTON , JULIAN SMEDLEY : .. and the words of JOHN LLOYD , JONATHAN CANTER JEREMY BROWNE , CHRIS MILLER ANDREW MARSHALL and others Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Adams
Unknown:
Jonathan Canter
Unknown:
John Lloyd
Unknown:
Griffith Rhys
Unknown:
Nigel Hess
Unknown:
Tim Brutton
Unknown:
Julian Smedley
Unknown:
John Lloyd
Unknown:
Jonathan Canter
Unknown:
Jeremy Browne
Unknown:
Chris Miller
Unknown:
Andrew Marshall
Producer:
Simon Brett

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