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Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 70-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for All the Family, with EILEEN FOWLER. or VHF Regional news and weather; at 7.55 Weather and programme news.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30'; Papers at 8.40*

Contributors

Introduces:
Barry Norman
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler.

Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad.
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 PETER JENKINS
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
PETER PATERSON reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PETER JEFFERSON Narrator EDWARD COLE
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , BERNARD TAT1

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Jenkins
Unknown:
Peter Paterson
Read By:
Peter Jefferson
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
David Walter

DENYS GUEROULT makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC Radio and Television during the past seven days.
Introduced by ROBERT HUDSON Producer DAVID CORNET

Contributors

Unknown:
Denys Gueroult
Introduced By:
Robert Hudson
Producer:
David Cornet

Presenter Brian J. Ford
A weekly survey of what is new and significant in science and technology at home and abroad. Producers MICHAEL BRIGHT and DAVID PATERSON

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian J. Ford
Producers:
Michael Bright
Producers:
David Paterson

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* A Chance to Meet ...
1: Kaye Webb , Editor of Puffin Books
A telephone series in which JOHN DUNN puts you on the line to prominent people.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
Questions for our next guest to: 4th Dimension, BBC, London W1A 4WW
4.30* The Hawks and the Doves A series for the young and fearless written by PAT HOODINOTT
AND
DEREK HOODINOTT
2: Operation Ghost Hunt
Producer DEREK HODDINOTT Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Alexander Guyan
Unknown:
Nigel Lambert
Unknown:
Jo Manning
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Unknown:
Kaye Webb
Unknown:
John Dunn
Written By:
Pat Hoodinott
Written By:
Derek Hoodinott
Producer:
Derek Hoddinott
Editor:
Graham Gauld
VIC:
David Griffin
Brad:
Nigel Anthony
Sam:
Elizabeth Proud
Aunt Mary:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Trent:
Sion Probert
Man:
Peter Pacey

All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Presented By:
Nicholas Woolley
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

A personal collection from the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense revealed in informal conversation with Dennis Barker , Dr Edward de Bono. Benny Green and who knows who else
Musical ideas by PETER SKELLERN With NOTTINGHAM FESTIVAL Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Barker
Unknown:
Dr Edward De Bono.
Unknown:
Benny Green
Unknown:
Peter Skellern
Producer:
Michael Ember

Stanley Dangerfield, international dog show judge, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley who devised the programme.

(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Stanley Dangerfield
Producer:
Ronald Cook

West End Winners
A series of outstanding successes from the London stage Richard of Bordeaux by GORDON DAVIOT with Martin Jarvis
Maurice Denham , David Buck Maureen O'Brien , John Rowe
' They always compare me in their minds with my father. " If the Black Prince had lived there would be none of this pacifist nonsense." War, war, war! It is all they ever think of.'
Henry Botingbroke JOHN ROWE Thomas Arundel , Archbishop of Canterbury TRADER FAULKNER
Producer MARTIN JENKINS
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Daviot
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Maureen O'Brien
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Henry Botingbroke John Rowe
Unknown:
Thomas Arundel
Unknown:
Trader Faulkner
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Maudelyn:
David Timson
Second page/Henry's page:
Anthony Suet
Richard:
Martin Jarvis
Anne of Bohemia:
Maureen O'Brien
Thomas of Woodstock. Duke of Gloucester:
Maurice Denham
John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster..........,........:
Alan Rowe
Edmund Duke of York:
Manning Wilson
Michael De la Pole:
Alan Dudley
Earl of Arundel:
Allan Cuthbertson
Robert de Vere:
Geoffrey Collins
Sir Simon Burley/Doctor:
Denis McCarthy
Sir Thomas Mowbray:
David Buck
Sir John Montague:
Roger Gartland
Rutland/Page:
Peter Whitman

Professor Alan Wilson Tony Harrison
Gerald Haythornthwalte in conversation with Brian Redhead
ProducerSTANLEY WILLIAMSON (Manchester)

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Alan Wilson
Unknown:
Tony Harrison
Unknown:
Gerald Haythornthwalte
Unknown:
Brian Redhead
Producer:
Stanley Williamson

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