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6.32 Farming Today
ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Hicks
Unknown:
Garth Cooper

Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 70-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for AH the Family with EILEEN FOWLER, or VHF Regional news and weather; at 7.55 Weather and programme news
At 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*

Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 Conference Special
IAN WALLER reports on the Liberal Party Assembly at Scarborough and talks to leading members of the party about the main issues they have been debating,
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
HONOR BALFOUR reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PAULINE BUSHNELL Narrator SHEILA TRACY Producers TOM READ
DAVID WALTER , JEREMY ECCLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Waller
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell
Producers:
Tom Read
Unknown:
David Walter

John Dunn introduces the Satturday show for young listeners. Arthur Poskltt
The final adventure of the Man of Destiny by BRIAN THOMPSON with John Franklyn-Robbins and Carole Hayman 12: Lost and Found Producer TONY clipf
4.5* Short Story Competition
KAYE WEBB gives the results of the competition she set on 9 August.
Some of the winning entries will be read by KAYE herself, ROSALIND ADAMS and MICHAEL BURLINGTON.
4.30* Jennings at School
Six plays by ANTHONY BUCKERIDGE 5: Jennings and the Surprise Item
Producer HERBERT SMITH Editor GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Thompson
Unknown:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Unknown:
Carole Hayman
Producer:
Tony Clipf
Unknown:
Rosalind Adams
Unknown:
Michael Burlington.
Unknown:
Anthony Buckeridge
Producer:
Herbert Smith
Editor:
Graham Gauld
Jennings:
Glenn Campbell
Darbishire:
Timothy Bleecker
Mr Wilkins:
Anthony Buckeridge
Mr Carter:
John Daglish
Venables:
Timothy Meehan
Temple:
Nicholas Cooke
Atkinson:
Christopher Ball

All the days current affairs, news and comment: presented by Nicholas Woolley with PM's reporting team Editor ANDREW BOYLE
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Presented By:
Nicholas Woolley
Editor:
Andrew Boyle

Conversational entertainment bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense by Dennis Barker , Dr Edward de Bono , Benny Green , Ann Leslie and who knows who else. Musical interludes by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Barker
Unknown:
Dr Edward De Bono
Unknown:
Benny Green
Unknown:
Ann Leslie
Producer:
Michael Ember

Mamie by WINSTON GRAHAM adapted for radio by JOHN KIRKMORRIS with Julie Hallam as Marnie Hitchcock turned Winston Graham 's anti-heroine into an American for his well-known film, but in Graham's original novel the girl is English-young, pretty, calculating and confused: a liar and a thief. She is also a challenge and confusion to the man she marries.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Winston Graham
Unknown:
John Kirkmorris
Unknown:
Julie Hallam
Unknown:
Marnie Hitchcock
Unknown:
Winston Graham
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Strutt:
Jonathan Scott
Mrs Denby:
Anne Jameson
Receptionist:
Norma Ronald
COllett:
Trader Faulkner
Lucy:
Betty Hardy
Edith:
Kathleen Helme
Ward:
Malcolm Hayes
Terry:
Christopher Bidmead
Mark:
Michael Spice
Dawn:
Rosalind Adams
Gloria:
Kate Coleridge
Mrs Leonard:
Katherine Parr
Roman:
Garard Green
Mrs Rutland:
Madi Hedd

Prunella Scales and Timothy West present their own choice of poetry and prose, accompanied on the piano by RICHARD BURNETT.
Their programme includes the writings Of LEWIS CARROLL. W. H. AUDEN , FLEUR ADCOCK , PAUL JENNINGS , ROBERT BROWNING , FANNY KEMBLE and DORA CARRINGTON.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Timothy West
Unknown:
Richard Burnett.
Unknown:
Lewis Carroll.
Unknown:
W. H. Auden
Unknown:
Fleur Adcock
Unknown:
Paul Jennings
Unknown:
Robert Browning
Unknown:
Dora Carrington.
Producer:
Christopher Venning

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