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Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 60-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 Travel news and What's On: Weather and programme news at 7.55.
At 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*

Contributors

Introduces:
Barry Norman

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 The Week in Westminster Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with DAVID WOOD
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
GERARD EVANS reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by EDWARD COLE Narrator sheila TRACY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , BERNARD TATE

Contributors

Unknown:
David Wood
Unknown:
Gerard Evans
Read By:
Edward Cole
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
David Walter

A spontaneous discussion by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Ian Mikardo , mp
Sir Geoffrey Howe. mp Esther Rantzen
Chairman David Jacobs from Port Talbot
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? (Thursday at 7.30 pm) to: Any Answerst BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Unknown:
Ian Mikardo
Unknown:
Sir Geoffrey Howe.
Unknown:
Esther Rantzen
Unknown:
David Jacobs

Presenter Judith Chalmers
The week in Woman's Hour. Book of the Month for Me: chosen by SYLVIA CLAYTON.
Consumer Commentary: NORMAN TOZER with a round-up of international news in the consumer world.
What the European papers say. Lunch at 12.30: two sisters, AILEEN and BLANCHE who are in their 70s, share their midday meal with two local priests. Sitting Duck by BRYCE FRASER abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE read by KERRY FRANCIS (8)

Contributors

Presenter:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Sylvia Clayton.
Unknown:
Bryce Fraser
Abridged By:
Sally Skrimshire
Read By:
Kerry Francis

Reproaches by BERNARD KRICHEFSKI with Nigel Anthony. Kika Markham and David Valla
RICK: I've said enough.
HELENA: Maybe you have but ... Rick, I don'find this very easy to say - but we did both love him, didn'we? with VERNON JOYNER
EMILY RICHARD , JOHN RYE Producer DICKON REED

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Krichefski
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony.
Unknown:
Kika Markham
Unknown:
David Valla
Unknown:
Vernon Joyner
Unknown:
Emily Richard
Unknown:
John Rye
Producer:
Dickon Reed
RiCk:
Nigel Anthony
Helena:
Kika Markham
Martin:
David Valla

John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners. Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN with NIGEL LAMBERT. JO MANNING WILSON and GARARD GREEN Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5* Unusual Schools
JOHN CRAVEN visits schools with a difference.
2: Lord Mayor Treloar Trust Special School for physically handicapped girls and boys, Froyle, Hampshire.
Producer MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
4.25* New Books: ANNE WOOD looks at recent publications.
4.30* Flying Doctor in Africa
A series of six adventure plays by MICHAEL NOONAN about the hazardous work of the Flying Doctor Service in East Africa. 5: Bonfires in the Night
Producer PEGGY BACON Editor GRAHAM GAULD
Book, 4D Annual 1975, with stories, picture-strips, nature and science features, 90p, from bookshops

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Alexander Guyan
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert.
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Unknown:
Garard Green
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Unknown:
John Craven
Producer:
Michael Tuke-Hastings
Unknown:
Anne Wood
Unknown:
Michael Noonan
Producer:
Peggy Bacon
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Dr James Lane:
Ronald Baddiley
Karl Wegner:
Michael McClain
Sue Jenning:
Norma Ronald
Mary Donald:
Kate Coleridge
Frank:
Nigel Lambert
Minogue:
Denis McCarthy
Sudermann:
David Sinclair
Forrester:
Sean Arnold

The daily news magazine, now extended to Saturdays.
All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Nicholas Woolley
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

assisted bv Dennis Barker Dr Edward de Bono
Benny Green. Anna Raeburn and who knows who else
The Radio Personality of the Year takes a quizzical look at the week and talks to people who have contributed to its yield of the sublime and/or the ridiculous.
Musical comments by the NOTTINGHAM FESTIVAL
Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Barker
Unknown:
Dr Edward de Bono
Unknown:
Benny Green.
Unknown:
Anna Raeburn
Producer:
Michael Ember

Greg in Spring by John pores
' I know how he feels. Wartime bomber pilot, now failed civil servant. He thinks he's joined the had-it brigade, has no useful function any more, so must dream up situations in which he becomes admired, desired.'
Producer MARGARET ETALL
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Producer:
Margaret Etall
Greg Marklin:
Richard Grant
Mary Marklin:
Madi Hedd
Julia Austin:
Carole Boyd
John Lyddon:
Clifford Earl
Col Rodney Darvell:
Hector Ross
Jim Denger:
Jack Carr
Ella Harding:
Diana Bishop
Sgt Kerrins:
Alan Dudley

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