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9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Talking Politics
Anthony King asks Lord Butler of Saffron Walden, Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lord Feather and Lord George-Brown to look back on the events of 1975 and speculate over the challenges which the politicians will face in 1976.
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
ANNA RAEBURN reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by BRYAN MARTIN Narrator SUSAN DENNY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
ANNE SLOMAN and JEREMY ECCLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Raeburn
Read By:
Bryan Martin
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Anne Sloman
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

with Jill Burridge and Andy Price talks to the brothers Pertwee; waves a wand over fairy god-mothers; muses over marginals; and lends an ear to the European papers.
And RICHARD BRIERS reads Q - a Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural by STEPHEN LEACOCK, abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
(Jon Pertwee is in 'Aladdin' at the Richmond Theatre)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Burridge
Talks:
Andy Price
Unknown:
Richard Briers
Unknown:
Stephen Leacock
Abridged By:
Pat McLoughlin
Unknown:
Jon Pertwee
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The Taxman Cometh A play for radio by SHEILA STEWART with and' Funny I've always wanted to be a drummer They wouldn't let me. They said I had such a good head for figures ... So it was the Inland Revenue for me. I'd be a waste as a drummer, they said. It's too late now, I suppose!...'
Musicians:
HAYDN JACKSON (drums)
HENRY KREIN accordion)
DUNCAN CAMPBELL (trumpet) JOCK CUMMINGS (bones)
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Rptd: New Year's Eve 11.30) Preview: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Stewart
Musicians:
Haydn Jackson
Accordion:
Duncan Campbell
Producer:
John Theocharis
the Taxman:
Denis McCarthy
Joshua:
Alan Dudley
Phoebe:
Kathleen Helme
Dory:
Peter Whitman
Mr Bones:
Haydn Jones
Source: Radio Times
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on BBC Radio 4 FM

From the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, adapted for radio by John Richmond
With Helen Worth as Mary Lennox, Violet Carson as Mrs Medlock

Mary Lennox was a selfish, spoilt child, who always had her own way with her ayah and the other Indian servants. But cholera strikes. It is then that Mary is sent to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire - a house of dark stairs and secrets.

BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Author:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Adapted by:
John Richmond
Theme music composed by:
Alan Parker
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Mary Lennox:
Helen Worth
Mrs Medlock:
Violet Carson
Mrs Lennox, Mary's mother:
Merle Kessler
Lieut Charlesworth:
Mark Sheridan
Mrs Crawford, wife of the English Minister:
Rosalie Williams
Mrs Pelly:
Marah Stohl
Martha:
Susan Moverley
Ben Weatherstaff:
Tom Harrison
The Robin:
Percy Edwards
Dickon:
Richard Tolan
Mr Archibald Craven, Mary's Uncle:
Ronald Herdman
Colin, his son:
Timothy Woolgar
Nurse:
Mary Kilduff
Doctor:
Ronald Harvi
Indian servant/Sitar player:
Suraj Mian
Source: Radio Times

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