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6.32 Farming Today
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Hicks
Unknown:
Garth Cooper

Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 55-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 ALAN WATKINS
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
SIMON JENKINS reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PETER DONALDSON Narrator PAULINE BUSHNELL Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER and BERNARD TATS

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Watkins
Unknown:
Simon Jenkins
Read By:
Peter Donaldson
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
David Walter

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian J. Ford
Producers:
David Paterson
Unknown:
Thelma Rumset

Music by Komzák. Millöcker. Johann and Josef Strauss , Ziehrer. Lanner and Suppe played by the JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA Of
VIENNA conducted by WILLI BOSKOVSKY gramophone records
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Josef Strauss
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Conducted By:
Willi Boskovsky

Sir Hugh Casson , architect and Professor of Environmental Design at the Royal College of Art, says that his understanding of music has been developed by his personal and professional associations with the theatre and the concert hall - he has designed productions and buildings. His choice of records includes ITZMAK PERLMAN playing a violin concerto by Bach, NETANIA DAVRATH singing one of the Songs of the Auvergne, as well as DUKE EILINGTON playing Mood Indigo and TURNER LAYTON singing Transatlantic Lullaby,

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Hugh Casson
Unknown:
Netania Davrath
Unknown:
Turner Layton

BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by ERIC WETHERELL
Rossini Overture: The Barber of Seville
Bizet Prelude (L' Arlésienne: Suite No 1)
Kodaly Summer Evening
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite

Contributors

Leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conducted By:
Eric Wetherell

John Dunn introduces the Saturday show for young listeners. Chief Inspector Chief of Scot-1l»■*itli'AIltW•.wlr.m.3n■».nw...rrm«
MICHAEL ROLFE with Nigel Anthony , Peter Pacey and Stephen Thorne
Producer MICHAEL ROLFE
4.5* Time Well Spent
BRIAN TRUEMAN looks at things for you to do, to make and to collect.
This month: a do-it-yourself weather centre; collecting crested china; and making a piggy bank.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH
4.25* Edwards' Ark
PERCY EDWARDS imitates and talks about animals of your choice.
Producer NICK HANDEL
4.30* The Quest for the Severed Head
A four-part serial play by MODWENA SEDGWICK
2: Entering Enemy Territory
Producer HERBERT SMITH Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
Michael Rolfe
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
Peter Pacey
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne
Producer:
Michael Rolfe
Unknown:
Brian Trueman
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Producer:
Nick Handel
Play By:
Modwena Sedgwick
Producer:
Herbert Smith
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Kuwendal:
David Mahlowe
Garlon:
Alan Rothwell
Dunstan:
David Casey
Duan:
Ronald Harvi
Liconal:
Geoffrey Banks
Cynfarth:
John Linstrum
Hundel:
Paul Webster
Nim:
Marah Stohl
Dal:
John Fielding

Sir Maurice Yonge, FRS, marine biologist, 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:
Sir Maurice Yonge
Producer:
Ronald Cook

Strictly in Confidence A play for radio by MALCOLM STEWART with Mr Drew appears to have international contacts - gets phone calls from all over the place. Well, he's made a big impression on one of the guests at the hotel. A wiidow with a tot of money and not much sense; and she's dead keen to get him advising her about investment. He told me, confidentially, she was a bloody nuisance.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
(Prunella Scales is in 'A Journey to London ' at the Greenwich Theatre. London; Megs Jenkins in ' Not in the Book' at the Richmond Theatre, Surrey)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Stewart
Producer:
John Theocharis
Unknown:
Prunella Scales
Unknown:
Megs Jenkins
Roger Hallam:
Peter Jeffrey
Peggy Hallam:
Prunella Scales
Dolly Johnson:
Megs Jenkins
Dexter Cushing Drew:
Paul Maxwell
Insp Bruce:
Haydn Jones
Sgt Collins:
Anthony Smee
Bannan:
Garard Green

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