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with Brian Redhead in Manchester and John Timpson in London
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including latest news from Montreal on the build-up to the 1976 Olympic Games, which open on Saturday; Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
(English Regions: see column 5)

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Redhead
Presenter:
John Timpson
Editor:
Mike Chaney

Interviews, discussion, argument and a dash of humour to help you face Monday.
Mavis Nicholson, Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl review some of the events in the forthcoming week and talk with some of the personalities for whom the next six days have a special importance.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mavis Nicholson
Unknown:
Kenneth Robinson
Unknown:
Fritz Spiegl
Producer:
Ian GardHouse

I have just been reading that among birds of prey, the females are larger than the males. Whatever can be the reasonf I should have thought the males would have been the larger of- the two.
An unprejudiced answer today from the panel persons of the Wildlife team.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
Questions to: Wildlife, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
Dilys Breese

The Look of Love by SEAN LINDEY
Read by Geoffrey Beevers
' Henry Pitman disliked temptation: and in his 27th year with great joy he discovered how to put the devil behind him ...
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Lindey
Read By:
Geoffrey Beevers
Read By:
Henry Pitman
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

Presenter Sue Cook The World of Work
With jobs hard to find, MARGARET KORVING studies the market and looks at new opportunities in training and employment. Your Money
What should you be doing with it now?
With, of course, your views in What's on your Mind? Editor DENNIS LOWER

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Korving

Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till TwOi
2.0-2.2 News
Don't Throw it Away!: AMORET SCOT on her collection of ephemera.
Consumer Notes: with NORMAN TOZER.
A Most Remarkable Man: Liz MALONEY talks about her polygamous marriage to a Fulani leader in West Africa.
-' 'Eads Ain't Proper Meat: ROSE GAMBLE remembers the horror of finding a pig's head in her sixpenny bundle. PHIL BROWN reads
Reflections on a Mountain Summer by JOANNA M. GLASS abridged in ten parts by BA MASON (Final instalment)
(Music: Barber's Violin CQn, certo) Editor WYN KNOWLES

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Amoret Scot
Unknown:
Norman Tozer.
Talks:
Liz Maloney
Unknown:
Rose Gamble
Unknown:
Phil Brown
Unknown:
Joanna M. Glass
Unknown:
Ba Mason
Editor:
Wyn Knowles

The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Robert Williams
Editor:
Derek Lewis

A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards, Ted Ray, Cyril Fletcher, Alfred Marks
In the Chair McDonald Hobley
Special guest Ted Moult
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(McDonald Hobley is in "No Sex, Please - We're British" at the Strand Theatre, London)

Contributors

Panellist:
Jimmy Edwards
Panellist:
Ted Ray
Panellist:
Cyril Fletcher
Panellist:
Alfred Marks
Chairman:
McDonald Hobley
Special guest:
Ted Moult
From an idea by:
Jimmy Edwards
Producer:
Edward Taylor

by CHARLES DICKENS adapted in four parts and read by Emlyn Williams 2: Closing In
In which we meet Joe the Crossing-Sweeper; Mrs Pardiggle, and Mr Tulkinghorn. Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Read By:
Emlyn Williams
Unknown:
Mrs Par
Unknown:
Mr Tulkinghorn.
Producer:
Christopher Venning

The Whisperers adapted by JOAN O'CONNOR from the novel by ROBERT NICOLSON with Effie Morrison as Mrs Ross
A touching and at times hilarious portrait of an elderly woman, against a teeming Glasgow background.
Produced and directed by STEWART CONN
BBC Scotland
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Adapted By:
Joan O'Connor
Novel By:
Robert Nicolson
Unknown:
Effie Morrison
Unknown:
Mrs Ross
Directed By:
Stewart Conn
Police Sergeant:
Jameson Clark
Constable:
Paul Young
Mr Conrad:
Bryden Murdoch
Rafferty:
Henry Stamper
Charlie:
Charles Kearney
First whisperer:
Charles Baptiste
Second whisperer:
Henry Stamper
Social Security Officer:
John Young
Girl/Nurse:
Mary Riggans
Mrs Noonan:
Helen Norman
Pat:
Christopher Connor
Noonan/Stranraer:
Robert Docherty
Andy:
James Gavigan
Fish:
Paul Young
Archie:
Charles Baptiste
Mrs Sloan:
Jessie Morton
Sonny:
Andrew Byatt

Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh have spent the last five days in the United States, visiting Philadelphia. Washington. New York, Charlottesville and Boston to take part in the Bicentennial celebrations.
Robert Hudson introduces recorded highlights of the tour. Reporter PAUL REYNOLDS Producer JOHN HASLAM

Contributors

Introduces:
Robert Hudson
Reporter:
Paul Reynolds
Producer:
John Haslam

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