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Market prices and intelligence, the weather and what's new for farmers.
Producers 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

Producers:
Robin Hicks
Producers:
Garth Cooper

Barry Norman introduces Radio 4's 60-minute world-wide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 medium wave Keep Fit for All 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*

Contributors

Introduces:
Barry Norman
Unknown:
Eileen Fowler

medium wave "only
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 The Week in Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with IAN WALLER
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
PETER PATERSON reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PAULINE BUSHNELL Narrator PETER DONALDSON Producers PADDY.O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER , JEREMY ECCLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Waller
Unknown:
Peter Paterson
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell
Unknown:
David Walter

with Judith Chalmers and Norman Tozer
(produced by the Woman's Hour Unit) investigates the scandal of ' the forgotten workers ' - people who work at home for piece-rates not much changed since Victorian times; presents a knightly double-bill - SIR JOHN GIELGUD and SIR RALPH RICHARDSON ; reads the European Papers; and reaches the letter ' D ' in the A-Z of Money.
And MARTIN MUNCASTER reads
Monsieur Favrolet and Friends by RICHARD COMPTON-HALL 4: Loo with a View

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Chalmers
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
John Gielgud
Unknown:
Sir Ralph Richardson
Unknown:
Martin Muncaster
Unknown:
Monsieur Favrolet
Unknown:
Richard Compton-Hall

The Do by SEAN WALSH
TOM: Black and white, embossed. Cost a quare bob to get them printed.
PAT: So they are married after all.
TOM: Takes more than an invitation to a reception to prove that.
PAT: Well ... are we going?
Producer BILL MORRISON (Northern Ireland)
(Repeated: Wednesday 11.30 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Walsh
Producer:
Bill Morrison
Tom:
Michael Duffy
Pat:
Trudy Kelly

Stanley Holloway, actor and entertainer, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.

(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
(Stanley Holloway takes part in The Sound of Julie: Friday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Stanley Holloway
Producer:
Ronald Cook

by James Bridie
with Gudrun Ure and Bryden Murdoch
"You arrive at one o'clock In the morning with two strangers. You have only a few minutes to spare for your mother. You devote the rest to this young creature, Connie or whatever her name is. All you can tell me is that the man is something in the city. A blackguard of a capitalist, in fact. Who are these people?"
(Scotland)
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Author:
James Bridie
Producer:
Gordon Emslie
Connie:
Virginia Stark
Hector:
Bob Docherty
George Triple:
Bryden Murdoch
Mrs Maclachlan:
Gudrun Ure
Sandy:
Willy Joss
Insp Flatt:
Martin Heller

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