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Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam
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
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam

from Northern Ireland Going into Exile by LlAM O'FLAHERTY
Read by Catherine Gibson
The dance was on account of Mary and Michael, who were going to the United States on the following morning. Producer PAUL MULDOON

Contributors

Read By:
Catherine Gibson
Producer:
Paul Muldoon

A portrait of Eva Turner , DBE
She came from Lancashire and went on to become one of the world's great opera singers. Her singing was her life, and now, at 82. Dame Eva still devotes her formidable energies and personality to teaching and encouraging young singers.
Steve Race tells the story, with dame EVA herself and the voices of some of her many colleagues and friends.
Producer NATALIE WHEEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Eva Turner
Singers:
Steve Race
Producer:
Natalie Wheen

Anne of Green Gables: a Canadian centenary.
Face of Britain: change in maps.
The Dram: how it all began. MEG WYNN OWEN reads the final instalment of Look Back with Love by DODIE SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Meg Wynn Owen
Unknown:
Dodie Smith

Selected for Friday
The Seasons of the Blind
Three autobiographical plays by R. C. SCRIVEN
2: The Peacock Screamed One Morning
Producer CHARLES LEFEAUX
These plays, with two others by R. C. Scriven , are published in a book, The Seasons of the Blind, £3.50, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
R. C. Scriven
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Unknown:
R. C. Scriven
Narrator:
Stephen Murray
Ronald Scriven:
Judy Bennett
Neville Scriven:
Jo Manning Wilson
Slow Joe Robinson:
David March
Iron Ann, his wife:
Kathleen Helme
Uncle James:
Frederick Treves
Edgar:
Elizabeth Proud
Edith Swaine:
Hilda Schroder

A spontaneous discussion by Jacky Gillott
Rt Hon Richard Marsh Ted Moult
Michael Clayton
Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Devon
(Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon, 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacky Gillott
Unknown:
Richard Marsh
Unknown:
Ted Moult
Unknown:
Michael Clayton
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

DAVID JASON , BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side.
Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH
DAVID RENWICK , ALASTAIR BEATON and others
Producer SIMON BRETT

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Bill McGuffie
Script By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Script By:
David Renwick
Script By:
Alastair Beaton
Producer:
Simon Brett

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