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Introduced by John Timpson and Barry Norman
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 7.5S.
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:
Barry Norman

Inkbury Mill by GEOFF PERKINS Read hy Frank Windsor
The long-lived rivalry between the Steel Works team and the men of the Chainmakers' Arms Angling Club erupts again at a fishing contest, with humorous consequences.
Producer MICHAEL SHOESMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Perkins
Producer:
Michael Shoesmith

from 2.0 Presenter Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
What they'd really like: ideas for children's Christmas presents (4): 11 and over.
You too can be an Art Collector: SHELAGH FRASER tells how she was hooked.
Home Safety First: TED HARRI son visits the Electricity Council's testing labs in Surrey. DAVID BUCK reads
The Castle Inn (9)

Contributors

Unknown:
Shelagh Fraser
Unknown:
Ted Harri

Contributors

Written By:
Keith Miles
Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Macy:
Angela Piper
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlow
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pa, Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Haydn Evans:
Charles Williams
Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Aunt Gwyneth:
Margaret John
Country Kate:
Mollie Harris

A dramatised feature by Sheila Stewart based on her book Country Kate with Peter Gllmore, Mollie Harris and Heather Bell.
Kate Walker was born at the turn of the century in the Cotswold village of Long Compton. Life had a different quality in those days and Kate reveals the tragedies and comedies, the births and deaths that so movingly affected her young life.
The congregation, choir and bells of Long Compton Parish Church; the children of Long Compton County Junior and Infant School

Contributors

Writer:
Sheila Stewart
Producer:
Kay Patrick
Country Kate:
Mollie Harris
Young Kate:
Heather Bell
Will Walker:
Peter Gilmore
John Walker/Wealthy gent:
Paul Gaymon
Kate's mother/Granny Walker:
Hilda Schroder
First countrywoman/Child/ Maid:
Carole Boyd
Secondcountrywoman/Mrs Bury:
Betty Baskcomb
Mr Bury/Parsan:
Alan Dudley
Countryman/Grandpa Walker:
Trader Faulkner

Need the World Starve?
Presented by John Maddox
The United Nations World Food Conference last month raised two kinds of problems - the need for enough supplies to prevent starvation in the next few months, and the possibility of a permanent shortfall of food production in developing countries. Analysis brings together the views of agriculturalists, ecologists and economists, and tonight's programme examines these issues in the light of recent developments... Producer DAVID PATERSON

Contributors

Presented By:
John Maddox
Producer:
David Paterson

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