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Introduced by John Timpson and Desmond Lynam
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 VHF Regional news and weather; at
6.55 and 7.55 Weather and programme news. At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.27; Today's Papers at 7.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50. English Regions: see column 5

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam

Second Round
A nationwide general knowledge contest.
Chairman Robert Robinson
14: Home Counties and South BRIAN NASH , animal technician DOROTHY DAY , retired teacher
R. J. REES , retired headmaster Including 'Beat the Brains '
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, With IAN GILLIES , sets the questions.
Producer CHRISTOPHER SERIE (Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Brian Nash
Unknown:
Dorothy Day
Unknown:
R. J. Rees
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Unknown:
Ian Gillies

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Guest of the Week: Ted Tinling, tennis couturier to the stars.

2.00-2.20 News

Reading your letters.
Sweetbreads and Brains: Pru Leith proves that offal isn't awful.
Arts Notebook.... visits Stratford for the centenary of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Miss Elizabeth Arden (11)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Ted Tinling
Unknown:
Pru Leith
Unknown:
Miss Elizabeth Arden

Five Little Flowers by JOHN KIRKMORRIS with John Bull. Deborah Norton and Paddy Joyce
Eddie's life has taken a downward curve - his marriage died on him and his business failed
10 he's reduced to working for someone else and to dossing down in the office with no home to go to. But then he's given the opportunity to change his fortunes.
With MICHAEL BURLINGTON and MICHAEL DEACON Producer
JANE GRAHAM
(Deborah Norton is in ! Kennedy's Children ' at the Arts
Theatre Club, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Kirkmorris
Unknown:
John Bull.
Unknown:
Deborah Norton
Unknown:
Paddy Joyce
Unknown:
Michael Burlington
Unknown:
Michael Deacon
Unknown:
Jane Graham
Unknown:
Deborah Norton
Tommy:
Paddy Joyce
Eddie:
John Bull
Claire:
Deborah Norton
Reg:
Malcolm Hayes
Ramsay:
William Eedle
Cashier:
Carole Boyd
Race Commentator:
Peter Baldwin
Sharon:
Kate Coleridge
Connor:
Peter Woodthorpe

You can say yes, that's a 16th-century cottage, but what people really want to know is what about the man who lived here - what kind of a rascal was he?
Rowland Parker talks to Peter France about the ordinary people who have lived in Oxton in Cambridgeshire - like John Rayner who annoyed his Elizabethan neighbours, and Joanna Puckering who was fined 3d by a medieval court for brewing weak ale.

Contributors

Talks:
Rowland Parker
Unknown:
John Rayner
Producer:
Sue Coates

When the Fans Get out of Hand Whether at soccer matches or pop concerts and festivals, what makes young people run riot? How can they be controlled?
Ring Robin Day to put your questions in person to psychologist Dr John Harrington of Birmingham University, who has made a special study of this type of behaviour; and Sgt Leslie Male. Chairman of the Police Federation
Call [number removed]from 6.0 pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr John Harrington
Unknown:
Sgt Leslie Male.

The weapons of espionage are not ethical: lies, treachery, blackmail, violence - even murder sometimes.
Dusko Popov was one part of the complicated war of deception in the battle against the Germans, a man of courage and daring, who worked for the Allies, not only in London, but amongst and with the Germans.
In remembering some of the highlights of his career, he talks to Ewen Montagu , who also introduces the programme. Producer NATALIE WHEEN
Behind the 007 myth: page 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Dusko Popov
Unknown:
Ewen Montagu
Producer:
Natalie Wheen

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More