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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

Events and sounds of a past year to challenge the memories of Resident team
Isobel Barnett and Terry Wogan and Guests Kenneth Williams and Gordon Clough
Chairman Sheridan Morley
MARGARET HOWARD sets the questions with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer MADEAU STEWART

Contributors

Unknown:
Isobel Barnett
Unknown:
Terry Wogan
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Gordon Clough
Unknown:
Sheridan Morley
Unknown:
Margaret Howard
Producer:
Madeau Stewart

A Week of Love Stories
Poor Little Devil by PAT GARROD
... telling anyone about Benjy means telling them about me ... about the day I was 14. Everything happened that day ... Read by Shirley Dixon
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Garrod
Read By:
Shirley Dixon
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

A domestic comedy about retirement written by ANNE JONES starring
Deryck Guyler , Mollie Sugden as Mr and Mrs Wheeler with Norman Rossington as Jack Bailey
This week: Wedding Bells and YSANNE CHURCHMAN as Ange Home to Roost theme by ALEX WELSH, played by HIS BAND
Producer TRAFFORD WHITELOCK

Contributors

Written By:
Anne Jones
Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Mollie Sugden
Unknown:
Mrs Wheeler
Unknown:
Norman Rossington
Unknown:
Jack Bailey
Nev:
John Baddeley
Kath:
Patricia Greene

The seventh quiz on music and general knowledge Panel: Nan Winton
Ted Moult , Neil Durden-Smith v a team representing the Army stationed in Cyprus
Eddy Hampson. Bob Boulton Cbarles Good. Dave Anforth Questionmaster PETER JONES
Questions set, programme devised and produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS (By arrangement with the British Forces.Broadcasting Service)
(Repeated: Friday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Nan Winton
Unknown:
Ted Moult
Unknown:
Neil Durden-Smith
Unknown:
Bob Boulton
Unknown:
Dave Anforth
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Produced By:
Michael Tuke-Hastings

from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Major John Blashford-Snell , Royal Engineers. Explorer and leader of the Zaire River Expedition.
2.0-2.2 News
You Rang, Sir?: a look at domestic servants in 1975. Nature's Way (4): Cat 'n Mouse - PHIL DRABBLE with some secrets of animal play.
Be Ye Separate: ANNE ARNOTT grew up as a member of the Plymouth Brethren.
; George 111 at Home (3)

Contributors

Unknown:
Major John Blashford-Snell
Unknown:
Phil Drabble
Unknown:
Anne Arnott

Harvey's Festival by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL , with In this comedy, a youthful and exuberant religious sect disturb the settled ways of a peaceful English village.
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Russell
Producer:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Bertha:
Miriam Margolyes
Harvey:
Geoffrey Matthews
AngelO:
Peter Woodthorpe
Robert:
Malcolm Hayes
Geoffrey:
Haydn Jones
Mr Shadwell:
Nigel Lambert
Dave:
Michael Deacon
GWen:
Rosalind Adams
Woman:
Anne Jameson
Frank:
Peter Pacey
Jan:
Julie Hallam
Hodge:
John Rye

Do you like the way that the news is read on Radio 4f Would you like to hear different voices from all over England and from orerseasf What other changes, if any, would you likef
Answers to these questions from a cross-section of listeners to BBC Local Radio discussed by DAVID LLOYD JAMES and JACK WINDSOR LEWIS Producer DENYS GUEROULT

Contributors

Unknown:
David Lloyd James
Unknown:
Jack Windsor Lewis
Producer:
Denys Gueroult

The last in the present series with and JOAN HICKSON , ANITA CARET BARBARA OGILVIE , DAPHNE HEARD 13: End of an Era
Written by DICK CLEMENT and IAN LA FRENAIS
Adapted for radio and produced by JOHN BROWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Hickson
Unknown:
Barbara Ogilvie
Written By:
Dick Clement
Produced By:
John Browell
James Bolam and:
Terry Collier
Rodney Bewes:
Bob Ferris
Thelma Chambers:
Brigit Forsyth
Audrey:
Sheila Fearn

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Local Government - How Can it Make Ends Meet?
Ring Robin Day to put your questions in person to the Rt lion Anthony Crosland , mp
Secretary of State for the Environment
Producer WALTER WALLICH
To promote a maximum flow of questions [number removed]will take them from 6.0 pm until the end of the programme.

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Crosland
Producer:
Walter Wallich

A ten-part series on some of the men in the private and public life of Queen Elizabeth
, based on the book by NEVILLE WILLIAMS with Judy Parfitt as the Queen Narrated by Gabriel Woolf ®»:TheWorlds
Wide Wonder
ROBERT LACEY
Martin Jarvis
Earl of Essex with the voices of JOHN FOLEY PETER MESSALINE , HAYDN JONES PETER WILLIAMS , DOVGLAS BLACK-WELL, LEWIS STRINGER , EDWARD BURNHAM and KATE COLERIDGE Producer MAURICE LEITCH

Contributors

Book By:
Neville Williams
Unknown:
Judy Parfitt
Unknown:
Robert Lacey
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
John Foley
Unknown:
Peter Messaline
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Unknown:
Lewis Stringer
Unknown:
Edward Burnham
Producer:
Maurice Leitch

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