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Introduced by John Timpson 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;.Todav'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

Mrs Bailey 's Quest for Culture by ELIZABETH WILLIAMS Read by Moira Lister
Mildred's growing appetite for culture drives her husband towards another woman, that is until Mildred buys an original. Producer DAVID SHUTE (Birmingham)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs Bailey
Unknown:
Elizabeth Williams
Read By:
Moira Lister
Producer:
David Shute

Dennis McCarthy reports on some of the strange places he's been to and the more unusual people he's met.
This week: a chocolate-eating rabbit in the living room; a goldfish's 25th birthday party and the parrot who is given pocket-money every week, Producer PETER DE ROSA

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis McCarthy
Producer:
Peter de Rosa

A radio happening with Jimmv Edwards , Ted Ray
Arthur Askey , Leslie Crowther In the chair McDonald Hobley Special guests:
Ray Alan and Lord Charles
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR iRpt)
12.55 ?nedium wave only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Jimmv Edwards
Unknown:
Ted Ray
Unknown:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Leslie Crowther
Unknown:
Ray Alan
Producer:
Edward Taylor

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Women and the Law: TESS GILL on recent developments.
For Your Booklist: BA MASON chooses some recent novels.
Prizes for Everyone - but is it luck or judgment that wins them?: CATHY GILBEY reports on sales promotion competitions. JOHN GLEN reads
Washington Square by HENRY JAMES (3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Cathy Gilbey
Unknown:
John Glen
Unknown:
Henry James

by Leo Simpson
'The West Door. That's the only way people leave here. Feet first through the West Door.'
But the inmates of Elgin Manor - a home for 'senior citizens' in North America - are not going through that door without a struggle...

(Anthony Daniels is in 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' at the Criterion Theatre)

Contributors

Writer:
Leo Simpson
Producer:
Glyn Dearman
M Nightingale:
Jill Simcox
P Nightingale:
John Rye
Mrs Cummings:
Madi Hedd
Mrs Delgardo:
Bessie Love
Nurse Pugg:
Norma Ronald
Mr Smith:
Tommy Guddan
Dr Niler:
Michael Deacon
Mr Dolly:
Stuart Nicholl
Mr Wainwright:
Peter Dyneley
TV Compere:
Denis McCarthy
Anthony Lasinio:
Anthony Daniels
Mrs Nightingale:
Gladys Spencer

(Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)

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
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora McAuley:
Julia Mark
Martha Woodford:
Mollie Harris
Joby Woodford:
George Woolley
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Haydn Evans:
Charles Williams
George Barford:
Graham Roberts
Aldridge:
Charles Collingwood
Dorothy:
Heather Barrett
Gwyneth:
Margaret John
Ewan Llewellyn:
Dillwyn Owen
Bert Gibbs:
Graham Rigby

written by A.R. Rawlinson. Narrated by Ralph Michael.
Three stories of intrigue and Intelligence from World War II.

The peer who never was - happened to be a young Scots subaltern with a genius for extracting information from high-ranking German prisoners-of-war. Unfortunately, after the cessation, Lord Aberfeldy found it impossible to relinquish his bogus title.

Contributors

Writer:
A.R. Rawlinson
Narrator:
Ralph Michael
[Actor]:
Malcolm Hayes
[Actor]:
Denis McCarthy
[Actor]:
Nigel Anthony
[Actor]:
Frederick Treves
[Actor]:
Roger Snowdon
[Actor]:
Anthony Smee
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

A series of four programmes in which Harry Ree, a former headmaster and Professor of Education at York University, offers a personal survey of the present-day educational scene.

Changes in the pattern of education have probably been more radical, and more controversial, at the secondary level than at any other. The end of the division between the Grammar School and the Secondary Modern, the decision to raise the school-leaving age, and the reluctance of many teenagers to accept old loyalties and authority, have presented a formidable challenge to the schools. Tonight's programme examines some of the ways in which they are responding.
(Manchester)

Contributors

Presenter:
Harry Ree
Producer:
Michael Green

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