Programme Index

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Introduced by John Ttmpson and Brian Redhead 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 Ttmpson
Introduced By:
Brian Redhead

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Parent and Pupil Power
Do you feel that, as a parent, you are kept in the dark about what's going on at schoolt Should parents and pupils be allowed to express their news about, for example, which languages are taught, about sex, religious and political education/
If you feel that parents and pupils should be consulted about what goes on in school, if you hesitate about ' making a fuss,' if your child is unhappy at school, if you're worried about whom to approach and how to put your case, ring in with your questions to Barbara Bullivant , Honorary Secretary of the Confederation for the Advancement of State Education, and Graham Bond , Primary School Headmaster and Chairman of the Home and School Council.
In the Chair Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed]from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Bullivant
Unknown:
Graham Bond
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers

A Dag's Life by JOAN O'CONNOR
Read by Lockwood West
'He was a dog without a master, a child without a governess ... She was a French-woman. a passionate if indifferent painter, impecunious, charming in a raffish way and very kind ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Lockwood West is in ' Billy at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Read By:
Lockwood West
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Presenter Jeanine McMallen
Careers without O-levels: the fifth in our series about people who started their careers without any O-levels, is about a commercial artist.
Careers without O-levels, including today's story and It others: £1 00 from bookshops.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jeanine McMallen

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams Clement Freud. Peter Jones and Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that.
Devised by IAN MESSITIER Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Thursday 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Andree Melly
Unknown:
Ian Messitier
Producer:
John Lloyd

Introduced by Sue MacGregor The Pantomime is Alive and Well! : PAUL BARNES discovering some of the secrets of the Christmas Shows.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Children with Diabetes: DR ANDREW CUDWORTH describes a hopeful new line of research.
A Holiday Haunt: HEATHER VENABLES and MAUREEN O'LEARY tell BERNARD JACKSON about a strange experience.
Breakthrough: HARRY FORBES talks about the effect of a first exhibition on a young artist... LAURENCE HARRINGTON reads Shake Hands forever by HUTM RENBEU. (5)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Maureen O'Leary
Unknown:
Bemnarb Jackson
Talks:
Harry Forbes
Artist:
Laurence Harrington

by Jane Austen
with Elizabeth Counsell as Elizabeth Bennet, Eleanor Sommerfield as Mrs Bennet, Robert Sansom as Mr Bennet

The news of Lydia's elopement with Wickham brought a sudden end to the visit of Mr and Mrs Gardiner and their niece to Derbyshire

(BBC Bristol)

Contributors

Author:
Jane Austen
Music composed and conducted by:
Sidney Sager
Producer:
Brian Miller
Narrator:
Madi Hedd
Elizabeth Bennet:
Elizabeth Counsell
Mrs Bennet:
Eleanor Sommerfield
Mr Bennet:
Robert Sansom
Mrs Gardiner:
Nancy Gower
Mr Gardiner:
Rex Holdworth
Jane:
Gabrielle Drake
Lydia:
Sheridan Fitzgerald
Mr Collins:
Michael Rothwell
Kitty:
Sue Withers
Mr Wickham:
George Raistrick

MICHAEL BARRATT invites
FRED LOADS. BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. Producer KENNETH FORD
Questions, on postcards please, to ' Gardeners' Question Time,' BBC, Woodhouse Lane. Leeds LS2 9PX

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Barratt
Unknown:
Alan Gemmell
Unknown:
Woodhouse Lane.

A panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge
Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
(Repeated: Thursday 11.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Anne Scott-James
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Peter Moore

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More