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6.22 Farming Today with ROBIN Hicks and GARTH COOPER from the Dairy Farming Event at Stoneleigh
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES
Prayers of Hope: talks by Richard Harries , 70p, from bookshops

Contributors

Unknown:
Garth Cooper
Unknown:
Richard Harries

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; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50 Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
English Regions, see column 5

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Editor:
Alastair Osborne

Wanton Whipple by HELEN COLE
Read by June Barrie
One thing was certain. She wasn't the slightest bit wanton. Not with those bright little hedgehog eyes, and complete dedication to duty and good deeds ...
Producer PAMELA HOWE (Bristol)

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Cole
Read By:
June Barrie
Producer:
Pamela Howe

[Starring] Rodney Bewes and James Bolam as Bob Ferris and Terry Collier
with Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers, Sheila Fearn as Audrey, Olive Milbourne as Mrs Collier and Julian Holloway, Gretta Gouriet
(Wednesday's broadcast)

12.55 Weather and programme news (medium wave only)
Regional news and weather (VHF)

Contributors

Writer:
Dick Clement
Writer:
Ian La Frenais
Producer:
John Browell
Bob Ferris:
Rodney Bewes
Terry Collier:
James Bolam
Thelma Chambers:
Brigit Forsylh
Audrey:
Sheila Fearn
Mrs Collier:
Olive Milbourne
[Actor]:
Julian Holloway
[Actress]:
Gretta Gouriet

Introduced from Manchester by June Knox-Mawer
Northern Guest: Eddie Braben , Liverpool-based scriptwriter for Morecambe and Wise.
2.0-2.2 News
Lady with the Large Lamp: PEGGY BRAITHWAITE talks to TREVOR HILL about her new job as principal keeper of Walney Island lighthouse.
Paget's Disease: DIANA STENSON reports on a condition which affects three people in every hundred.
Washington Square (4)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eddie Braben
Talks:
Peggy Braithwaite
Unknown:
Diana Stenson

Old Mali and the Boy by D. R. SHERMAN dramatised for radio by JOHN ASHE with Saeed Jaffrev and Crispian Thorne
We might die in the end of hunger, we might die of thirst, but I do not think it will take that long ... The smell of the blood will bring them at night, the jackal and the panther.
Producer DAVID SPENSER

Contributors

Unknown:
D. R. Sherman
Unknown:
John Ashe
Unknown:
Saeed Jaffrev
Unknown:
Crispian Thorne
Producer:
David Spenser
Mali:
Saeed Jaffrey
Jeffrey:
Crispian Thorne
Mother:
Carole Boyd
Headmaster:
Alan Dubley

Programme 2
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services in Hong Kong, Singapore, Gan, Cyprus and Masirah.
Panel: Nan Winton
Ted. Moult, Neil Durden Smith v a team representing the Army stationed in Hong Kong. Rodney Fox , David Kitching
Ken Bradbury , Roger Bury Questionmaster PETER JONES
Questions set. programme devised and produced by MICHAEL TUKEMHASTINGS
(By arrangement with British Forces Broadcasting Service)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
Neil Durden Smith
Unknown:
Rodney Fox
Unknown:
David Kitching
Unknown:
Ken Bradbury
Unknown:
Roger Bury
Unknown:
Questionmaster Peter Jones
Produced By:
Michael Tukemhastings

and the King of Diamonds A serial in six parts by ROBERT BARR starring
6: The Last Move in which all the cards are played, and we find the Joker,
Producer JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Barr
Producer:
John Browell
Galbraith:
Bernard Hepton
Cater:
Tom Watson
Lindemanns:
Cyril Shaps
Evans:
Richard Davies
Gelder:
Peter Dyneley
Anne Marie:
Eva Haddon
Betty van Druten:
Frances Jeater
Lander:
Peter Hawkins
Gunman:
Robert Gillespie
Milne:
Bruce Alexander
Mary Galbraith:
Katharine Page

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