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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

Unknown:
Robin Hicks
Unknown:
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; 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

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 VICTOR KNIGHT
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
GERARD EVANS reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PETER DONALDSON Narrator SUSAN DENNY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
ANNE SLOMAN and JEREMY ECCLES

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Knight
Unknown:
Gerard Evans
Read By:
Peter Donaldson
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Unknown:
Anne Sloman

with Jill Burridge and Norman Tozer considers the nursing of those in need of constant care, the sick, the handicapped, and the elderly; peruses the papers of Europe; and ' Qs up ' on money.
And MARGARET ROBERTSON reads The Looking Glass, written by EDITH WHARTON and abridged by MADGE HART
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Burridge
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Margaret Robertson
Written By:
Edith Wharton
Abridged By:
Madge Hart

When the Music Stops by DAVIDMARSHALL with and 'The Board of Directors have decided - rightly in my opinion - that the 60s are over. The permissive society has been closed down. I am drafting the appropriate Resolution at this minute.
The question for J.B.'s staff is, when the music stops, which lady will be left sitting on which knee.
Producer RICHARD WORTLEY (Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
(Lynn Farleigh is in ' A Room with a View' at the Albery Theatre, London)

Contributors

Producer:
Richard Wortley
Unknown:
Lynn Farleigh
John:
Philip Bond
Ann j.b:
Lynn Farleigh
J B:
Garard Green
King:
David Graham
Taxi driver:
Malcolm Hayes
Sylvie:
Diana Olsson

All the day's current affairs, news and comment: presented by Gordon Clough - with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Presented By:
Gordon Clough
Editor:
Derek Lewis

The Heroine by ANTONIA FRASER with Maxine Audley
In 1644, in the English Civil War, the Countess of Derby held Lathom House for the King during a three months' siege, while her husband was away at the war. This play is based on that historic siege, and tells a story of heroism - of more than one kind.
Other parts played by MICHAEL SHANNON ,' MICHAEL DEACON and ANTHONY SMEE
Producer BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Antonia Fraser
Unknown:
Maxine Audley
Played By:
Michael Shannon
Played By:
Michael Deacon
Producer:
Betty Davies
Charlotte, Countess of Derby:
Maxine Audley
Lady Katherine Stanley, her elder daughter..:
Patricia Quinn
Mary, Countess of Strafford, her younger daughter:
Rosalind Shanks
Alice, Lady Girlington, a neigh bour:
Jane Wenham
Mistress Judith Parker, an old servant:
Gladys Spencer
Susan Jefferies, a soldier's wife:
Carole Boyd

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