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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 Sportsdesk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40'

Contributors

Introduces:
Barry Norman

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
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 , ANNE SLOMAN

Contributors

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

Presenter Judith Chalmers
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON gow reporting.
What the European papers say. The week in Woman's Hour.
In a Strange and Muddy Land: behind the official ceremonies which mark Remembrance Sunday are a million simple stories. This is one of them.
Sitting Duck by BRYCE FRASER abridged by SALLY SKRIMSHIRE read by KERRY FRANCIS

Contributors

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

Take Care of Bridger by BRIAN LEE
An elderly mother, two middle-aged daughters and a cat. An almost completely female household, apparently self-sufficient. Who needs men? Then Douglas comes to tea < . <
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Lee
Producer:
Roger Pine
Mrs Harvey:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Paula Harvey:
Freda Dowie
Elizabeth Harvey:
Norma Ronald
Douglas Venner:
Jeffrey Segal
Sydney Carter:
Stephen Thorne
Doreen Avery:
Anne Jameson
Jeff Avery:
Hector Ross

Introduced by John Dunn
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN with NIGEL LAMBERT. JO MANNING WILSON and GARARD GREEN Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5* Animals Unlimited
A very tall bird with an enormous beak-which makes a nest like a cartload of twigs in the top of the tree. Yes, it's the heron's turn for a close look from PHIL DRABBLE-who also opens his Pets' Postbag again - and we hear how to make a ' wormery.'
4.25* Postbag
Some of your letters read by ANDREA KEALY and JOHN MACLAREN
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 6: The Hyaena Calls
Producer PEGGY BACON Editor GRAHAM GAULD
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Contributors

Introduced By:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Alexander Guyan
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert.
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Unknown:
Garard Green
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Read By:
Andrea Kealy
Read By:
John MacLaren
Unknown:
Michael Noonan
Producer:
Peggy Bacon
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Dr James Lane:
Ronald Baddiley
Karl Wegner:
Michael McClain
Mary Donald:
Kate Coleridge
Sue Jenning:
Norma Ronald
Morgan:
Sion Probert
Keller:
John Bull
Heyse:
Denis McCarthy

by John Ashe
The play is set in and around the court of King Frederick William I of Brandenburg-Prussia in the year 1730.

9.58 Weather

Contributors

Writer:
John Ashe
Producer:
Christopher Venning
King Frederick William:
Robert Lang
The Crown Prince:
Christopher Cazenove
Princess Wilhelmina:
Ciaran Madden
Queen Sophia Dorothea:
Pauline Letts
Major-General Grumbkow:
Kerry Francis
Graf Von Seckendorff:
Norman Shelley
General Borck:
Lockwood West
Brig Dubourgay:
Malcolm Hayes
Sir Charles Hotham:
Richard Hurndall
Capt Guy Dickens:
Jack Carr
Lieut Katte:
Ian Cullen
Doris Ritter:
Elspeth Charlton
Page Keith:
Michael Deacon
Rochow:
David Sinclair
Servant:
David Ericsson
Officer:
John Bull

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