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Introduced by Barry Norman and Malcolm Billings 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 and 8.27; Today's Papers at 7.35- and 8.35'; and Thought for the Day 7.45 7.50 English Regions: see column 5

Contributors

Introduced By:
Barry Norman
Introduced By:
Malcolm Billings

from Scotland
That Casual Glance by ANGELA JEANS
Read by Harriet Buchan
I was standing quietly, going up on an escalator in a big store, when I saw - yes. myself. Everything had been normal up to that moment. Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS

Contributors

Read By:
Harriet Buchan
Producer:
Allan G. Rogers

Dennis McCarthy reports on some of the strange places he's been to and the more unusual people he's met.
This week: five hours of non-stop yodelling, a 91-year-old who drove her car a quarter of a million miles and the man who built a concrete boat. Producer PETER DE ROSA

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis McCarthy
Producer:
Peter de Rosa

Written and adapted by Eddie Braben
With ANN HAMILTON and ARTHUR TOLCHER
Special Singing Guest: Wilma Reading
Music from DENNIS WILSON and HIS ORCHESTRA
Producer JOHN BROWELL
(First broadcast on Radio 2)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Adapted By:
Eddie Braben
Adapted By:
With Ann Hamilton
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Producer:
John Browell

Introduced bv Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
European Crosstalk: between MARY KENNY and ANDREW MANDERSTAM.
For Your Booklist: Elizabeth BERRIDGE chooses some recent novels.
Sanditon (4)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Mary Kenny
Unknown:
Andrew Manderstam
Unknown:
Elizabeth Berridge

I'm not Flatbush by EDWARD CROWLEY
Henry Gannish was only following his romantic inclinations the day he pursued Julia into the offices of the Council for Planned Recreation. How could he know that love could lead to. power and a cultural revolution?
Producer TONY CLIFF (Leeds)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Crowley
Unknown:
Henry Gannish
Producer:
Tony Cliff
Julia Johnson:
Sandra Clark
Henry Gannish:
Alan Rothwell
George Vickers:
Howard Benbrook
Flatbush:
Christian Rodska
Harold Williamson:
Christopher Godwin
Director General:
Graham Roberts
Dame Laura ffitch-Garrick:
Penelope Lei

(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
Gareth Armstrong is a member of the RSC)

Contributors

Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Macy:
Angela Piper
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Haydn Evans:
Charles Williams
Harry Booker:
Gareth Armstrong
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Maggie Price:
Rachel Newman
Jean Harvey:
Patricia Gibson
Charles Harvey,:
Victor Lucas

by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A.R. Rawlinson
with David Spenser and Gary Watson

It was against every rule and order, for she was a Mussulman's daughter. But for Holden she was the whole world. A city in the Punjab in the 1890s.

Contributors

Author:
Rudyard Kipling
Dramatised by:
A.R. Rawlinson
Producer:
John Tydeman
Rudyard Kipling:
David Spenser
Holden:
Gary Watson
Ameera:
Heather Emmanuel
Ameera's mother:
Zohra Segal
Pir Khan:
Sam Dastor
Club Secretary:
William Eedle
First Club Member:
William Fox
Second Club Member:
Terry Scully
Butler:
Anthony Hall
Durga Dass:
Garard Green

'Because of the Bill now be enacted, perhaps a million human beings will be allowed to live in greater peace.' (LORD ARRAN, House of Lords. 1967)
In 1967 the Sexual Offences Act freed male homosexuals over 21 in England and Wales from the threat of criminal prosecution for homosexual acts in private.
Linda Blandford hears from homosexuals about their lives, themselves. their feelings about their sexuality and about society's attitudes towards them.
Leo Abse. mp, Lerd Arran and Lord Wslfenden, the men responsible for the law reform. talk about what they hoped to achieve and how they view the results of their efforts; Kenneth Williams discusses the homosexual as a figure of fun: and the Rt Rev John Yates. Bishop of Whitby. talks about homosexuality and the Church.
Producer JENNY DE YONG (Birmitighani)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Abse.
Unknown:
Lerd Arran
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
John Yates.

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