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Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 55-minute worldwide 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 ROBERT CARVEL
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:
Robert Carvel
Unknown:
Gerard Evans
Read By:
Edward Cole
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
David Walter

Questionmasters TIM GUDGIN and BOB HOLNESS
Second Round
10: PEEBLES HIGH SCHOOL V THE PHILIP MORANT SCHOOL, COLCHESTER
Questions set by ROY SMITH Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday, 6.15 pm)

12.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Bob Holness
Unknown:
Philip Morant
Producer:
Martin Fisher

Presenter Judith Chalmers The week in Woman's Hour.
Book of the Month for Me: chisen by ELIZABETH berridge.
Memories are Made of This: but what? ANNE SUTER looks at how memory works, and why we remember what we remember. What the European papers say. OK - so I've got Arthritis: MARIE JOSEPH
One of the Seven Ages of ARTHUR MARSHALL - Then a soldier full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard. EILEEN ATKINS reads
Norfolk Child by JANE WHITE (3)

Contributors

Presenter:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Elizabeth Berridge.
Unknown:
Anne Suter
Unknown:
Marie Joseph
Unknown:
Arthur Marshall
Unknown:
Eileen Atkins
Unknown:
Jane White

Complete in itself, the play describes further incidents in the early life and adolescence of the author who, already deaf, was later to become blind.

Five other radio plays by R. C. Scriven, are published in a book, The Seasons of the Blind, £3.50, from bookshops

Contributors

Writer:
R. C. Scriven
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Narrator:
Stephen Murray
Neville Scriven:
Denise Bryer
Ronald Scriven:
Judy Bennett
Great-Aunt Jin/Aunt Flo:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Aunt Winnie:
Sheila Grant
Great-Aunt Suff/Aunt Ciss:
Kathleen Helme
Bill FOX:
Brian Hewlett
Uncle Harold:
Nigel Lambert
Uncle James/Tom:
David March

Introduced by John Dunn
Rex Radio by ALEXANDER GUYAN with NIGEL LAMBERT , JO MANNING WILSON, andGARARD GREEN
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5* Unusual Schools
JOHN CRAVEN visits an internationally famous school in Britain. 3: The Royal Ballet Lower School at White Lodge, Richmond Park.
Producer GEOFF DOBSON
4.25* Books for Christmas
NAOMI LEWIS talks about some books you might like to give or receive.
4.30* Five Children and It by E. NESBIT. Abridged in five parts and read by David Davis 3: Biaper than the Baker's Boy Producer PEGGY BACON
4.50* In Daily Use
GWYN RICHARDS discovers how everyday things get to us.
3: China. Producer DAVID SHUTE Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Alexander Guyan
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson,
Unknown:
Garard Green
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Unknown:
John Craven
Producer:
Geoff Dobson
Talks:
Naomi Lewis
Unknown:
E. Nesbit.
Read By:
David Davis
Producer:
Peggy Bacon
Producer:
David Shute
Editor:
Graham Gauld

The Murder of Walter Ralegh by IAN CULLEN with Bernard Archard as Sir Walter Ralegh
Sir Walter Ralegh , once England's pride, was sentenced to death, reprieved and then executed 15 years later. This play tells how this came about.
With ESMOND RIDEOUT
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING (Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter Ralegh
Unknown:
Ian Cullen
Unknown:
Bernard Archard
Unknown:
Sir Walter Ralegh
Unknown:
Sir Walter Ralegh
Unknown:
Esmond Rideout
Producer:
Christopher Venning
Sir Robert Cecil:
John Rowe
Sir Edward Coke:
Vernon Joyner
Captain Keymis:
Basil Moss
King James I:
Robert Trotter
Henry, Prince of Wales:
Michael Cochrane
George Harvey:
David Horovitch
Will Cecil:
Christopher Good
Wat Ralegh:
Nigel Bradshaw
a boyWat Ralegh,:
Jean Rogers
Chief Justice Popham:
Carleton Hobbs
Bess Ralegh:
Kathleen Michael
Sergeant Heale:
Drew Wood
Barber/Stukely:
Kevin Brennan
Executioner:
Christopher Masters

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