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9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Conference Special
The BBC's Industrial Correspondent, JOHN HOSKEN , lOOkS back on the tuc's week in Brighton and talks to some of the delegates about the main issues of the week.
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES invites journalists to confront their readers and the people they have written about in the press this week. Narrator JOHN HEDGES
Producers GRAHAM MYTTON
ANNE SLOMAN and DAVID WALTER

Contributors

Unknown:
John Hosken
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Producers:
Graham Mytton
Unknown:
Anne Sloman
Unknown:
David Walter

A light-as-a-feather form of entertainment for the wireless with Donald Swann (and piano) and LESLIE RANDALL
JANET BROWN , LOIS LANE and JACK EMBLOW (and Quartet) Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Monday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Swann
Unknown:
Leslie Randall
Unknown:
Janet Brown
Unknown:
Lois Lane
Producer:
John Browell

Anne Gregg and Peter Windows sometimes in control of a lively hour, with reporters at large, guests in the studio.
And COLETTE O'NEIL reads the second instalment of A Breath of Border Air by LAVINIA DERWENT.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Gregg
Unknown:
Peter Windows
Unknown:
Colette O'Neil
Unknown:
Lavinia Derwent.

by Peter McKelvey
with Sylvia Syms and Peter Baldwin

'I'm such a fool, like a soldier, shellshocked, who returns to the battlefield... This room embalms me. Is it possible to be haunted by the living? '

(Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)

Contributors

Writer:
Peter McKelvey
Producer/Director:
Jane Morgan
Elaine Bartram:
Sylvia Syms
Edith Raynor:
Susan Richards
Derek Tyler:
Peter Baldwin
Reggie Bartram:
Michael Goldie
Frank Cresswell:
Tim Wylton
Daphne Cresswell:
Nicolette McKenzie
Herbert Joyce:
Andrew Branch

A series of six plays based on the novels Of GEORGES simenon withand
4: Maigret in Society translated by ROBERT EGLESFIELD and adapted for radio by EDWARD BRUCE with Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Repeated: Friday 8.30 pm)
(Michael Gough is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Translated By:
Robert Eglesfield
Unknown:
Edward Bruce
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman
Unknown:
Michael Gough
Jules Maigret:
Maurice Denham
Georges Simenon:
Michael Gough
Lapointe:
John Rye
Janvier:
And Sean Barrett
The Princess de Veret:
Joyce Carey
Philippe:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Julien de Veret:
Steve Hodson
Jaquette:
Marjorie Westbury
MoerS:
Patrick Barr
Mazeron:
Leslie Heritage
Aubonnet:
James Thomason
Abbé:
Ralph Truman
Cromieres:
Paul Meier

Michael Bond, the writer and creator of Paddington Bear, 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)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Michael Bond
Producer:
Derek Drescher

Penelope. a play for radio by ANTONIA FRASER with Maria Aitken Nigel Davenport and Frederick Jaeger
The beautiful Penelope is alone -her husband Ulick. an explorer, disappeared in South America years before. Penelope is besieged by suitors but. as she has no web. she promises to give one of them an answer when she has finished writing her latest book. And every night, true to tradition, she tears up the chapters she has written. But the suitors are getting impatient - especially as one of them is Penelope's publisher!
Produced and directed by BETTY DAVIES
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
(Nigel Davenport is in ' Three Sisters ' at the Cambridge Theatre. London; Maria Aitken is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Antonia Fraser
Unknown:
Maria Aitken
Unknown:
Nigel Davenport
Unknown:
Frederick Jaeger
Directed By:
Betty Davies
Unknown:
Nigel Davenport
Unknown:
Maria Aitken
Penelope:
Maria Aitken
Sandy Sanchez:
Nigel Davenport
Fred Rosenberg:
Frederick Jaeger
Timothy:
Christopher Good
Andrew:
Victor Lucas
Verna Bartholomew:
Christine Finn
Topsy:
Susan Colgrave
Eileen:
Sandra Clark
Mr Nutting:
Douglas Blackwell

The story of Queen Victoria, In a series of 13 episodes, with 11: The White Queen's Burden by DONALD THOMAS
The Queen to Viceroy Curzon: ' Sir, be kind to my poor Indians.'
DAVID NEAL , DIANA OLSSON
HILDA SCHRODER. MADHAV SHARMA STEPHEN THORNE. PETER WILLIAMS Ballads sung bv CHARLES YOUNG with dennis gomm (piano) and TERRY LYNCH i concertina) Produced and directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS
(Shortened version of the programme broadcast in 1974)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Thomas
Unknown:
David Neal
Unknown:
Diana Olsson
Unknown:
Hilda Schroder.
Unknown:
Madhav Sharma
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne.
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Unknown:
Charles Young
Unknown:
Terry Lynch
Directed By:
John Theocharis
the Queen:
Peggy Ashcroft
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Curzon:
Andrew Sachs
The Poet:
Jeremy Rowe
Also taking part::
Yemi Ajibade

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