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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 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:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
Desmond Lynam

Where Do I Go From Here? - Career Opportunities
What do you want out of a jobt What should you do if you've just left school and haven't found workt How do you find out what a job's really like before you apply for ilt How should you prepare for an interview? How soon must you decide whether you want to go to colleger
You may still be at school wondeaing what sort of career you should be working towards. and what qualifications you will need. You may have left school or college but still not be sure what you want to do. Or you may be at work already and have found that you've chosen the wrong direction. Put vour questions to Terry Collins , Principal Careers Officer for Wiltshire.
In the chair Teresa McGonagle Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Terry Collins
Unknown:
Teresa McGonagle

A Man at Peace by RFARDEN CONNER
Read by Allan McClelland
My Uncle Jody had small hands and outsize feet. There was a story to this. but be would never talk about it ... ' But if I'm to understand the man at all,' I reasoned, ' I have to know about his feet....'
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Rfarden Conner
Read By:
Allan McClelland
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Irving Berlin
A celebration of the best - and the worst-of Beriln's songs, with recorded help from
ETHEL MERMAN , FRED ASTAIRE BING CROSBY , GROUCHO MARX and many others

Contributors

Unknown:
Irving Berlin
Unknown:
Ethel Merman
Unknown:
Fred Astaire
Unknown:
Bing Crosby
Unknown:
Groucho Marx

Presenter Jeanine McMulIen
Second hand Toys: you don't have to pay a lot of money for really good toys. but you do have to know where to start looking, as JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH points out.
And Give Up Smoking!
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind? Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London WIA 1AA

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMulien
Unknown:
Jocelyn Ryder-Smith

The antidote to panel games from Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and William Rushton
Under the supervision of Humphrey Lyttelton in the Chair with Colin Sell at the piano.
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Panellist:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Panellist:
Barry Cryer
Panellist:
Graeme Garden
Panellist:
William Rushton
Chairman:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Pianist:
Colin Sell
Producer:
Simon Brett

Introduced by Sue MacGregor

It's Only Money!: June Rose unearths some unusual attitudes to the subject from a bank manager, a poet-economist, a founder of a co-operative, a young visitor returned from India, and others.

2.0-2.2 News

In and Out of School: Pat Callaghan joins children visiting a Wildfowl Trust centre at Ormskirk.

If Only More Women Would...: 3: keep their identity, says Pearl Binder

Answer and Comment.

Jo Maxwell-Muller reads "Sanditon" by Jane Austen and Another Lady (12)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Pat Callaghan

Fairy Tales and Stories of Hans Andersen translated by ERIK HAUGAARD abridged and read by DAVID DAVIS
1b and Little Christina
Hadn't Ib and Christina been called ' sweethearts ' since they were little children? Now he knew that he had always expected that one day they would marry; and he felt as though they were engaged though neither of them bad ever spoken a word about it.

Contributors

Stories Of:
Hans Andersen
Translated By:
Erik Haugaard
Read By:
David Davis
Read By:
Little Christina
Read By:
Christina Been

A domestic comedy about retirement written by ANNE JONES starring Deryck Guyler and Mollie Sugden as Mr and Mrs Wheeler with Norman Rsssington as Jack Bailey
Mother's Little Pet with JOHN BADDELEY as Nev PATRICIA GREENE as Kath YSANNE CHURCHMAN as Ange GRAHAM WESTON as Bob
Home to Roost theme by ALEX WELSH , played by ALEX WELSH AND HIS BAND
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK (Birmingham)

Contributors

Written By:
Anne Jones
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Mollie Sugden
Unknown:
Mrs Wheeler
Unknown:
Norman Rsssington
Unknown:
Jack Bailey
Unknown:
John Baddeley
Unknown:
Nev Patricia Greene
Unknown:
Kath Ysanne Churchman
Unknown:
Ange Graham Weston
Unknown:
Alex Welsh
Played By:
Alex Welsh

(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Dan Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Dons Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Pat Archer:
Patricia Gallimore
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Shula Archer:
Judy Bennett
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Mary Pound:
Ysanne Churchman
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Andrew Sinclair:
James Grant
Neil Carter:
Brian Hewlett
Colin Drury:
John Baddelly
Adamson:
Richard Carrington
Mike Tucker:
Terry Molloy
Betty Tucker:
Pamela Craig
Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood

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