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Radio 4 fills you in on the political scene at home and abroad.
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Talking Politics
Having looked at the American experience of a Bill of Rights. Anthony King discusses with Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone Lord Lloyd of Hampstead and Michael Zander the arguments for and against establishing one in Britain.
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 SHEILA TRACY
Producers GRAHAM MYTTON and ANNE SLOMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony King
Unknown:
Michael Zander
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Narrator:
Sheila Tracy
Producers:
Graham Mytton

A special birthday card, with greetings and good wishes from friends and admirers.
(The illustrations are reproduced by kind permission of the Ronnie Barker Portrait Gallery.) Introduced by Leslie Crowther Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Monday 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Introduced By:
Leslie Crowther
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson

Presented by Anne Gregg and Norman Tozer
Talks to the film critic Dilys Powell - looks at, and listens to, the music used in films, and scans the papers of Europe. And Colette O'Neil reads the fourth instalment of "A Breath of Border Air" by Lavinia Derwent.
Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit

Contributors

Presented By:
Anne Gregg
Presented By:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Colette O'Neil

The Count's Courtship by WALTER DE LA MARE , adapted for broadcasting by DAVID DAVIS.
A delicate story of misunderstanding and of 'star-crossed' love, full of restraints and compunctions but not without irony and surprise.
Produced and directed by TERENCE TILLER
(Repealed: Wed 11.30 am)

Contributors

Writer:
Walter De La Mare
Adapted by:
David Davis
Producer / Director:
Terence Tiller
Narrator:
David Davis
Richard:
Sam Dastor
Count:
Peter Williams
Aunt:
Kathleen Helme

Last of six plays based on the novels of GEORGES SIMENON with 6: Maigret and the Young Girl translated by DAPHNE WOODWARD and adapted for radio by FREDERICK BRADNUM with Sean Barrett as Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
( Repeated : Friday 8.30 pm) i Michael Gough is a National Theatre player)

Contributors

Unknown:
Georges Simenon
Translated By:
Daphne Woodward
Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Unknown:
Sean Barrett
Directed By:
Glyn Dearman
Unknown:
Michael Gough
Jules Maigret:
Maurice Denham
Georges Simenon:
Michael Gough
Janvier Inspector Lognon.:
Garard Greex
Dr Paul MICHAEL:
Tudor Barnes
Viviane:
Nicolette McKenzie
Irene:
Gudrun Ure
Madame Cremieux:
Noel Hood
Rose:
Anne Rosenfeld

The Shoplifter by A. R RAWLINSON with An elderly lady is brought before a store's security officer accused of shoplifting ...
Have you ever done this sort of thing before ...? '
No At least .. I did once help to steal something What? '
' An ocean-going liner,'
Produced and directed by GORDON HOUSE (Rptd: Mon 3.5)

Contributors

Unknown:
A. R Rawlinson
Directed By:
Gordon House
May Bridgerton:
Elizabeth Proud
Tom Bridgerton:
Christopher Good
Mervyn Grant-Ellison:
Sean Barrett
Harvey Grinton:
James Cossins
Paolo:
Leonardo Pierroni
Miss Oliver:
Hilary Sesta
Mother:
Irene Sutcliffe
Father:
James Thomason
Sister/Female diner:
Anne Rosenfeld
Brother:
Earl Rhomes
Jimmy Send:
Patrick Barr
Mrs Send:
Cécile Chevreau
Ship's officer:
Steve Hodson
Ship's stewardess/SpanishGovernor's Wife:
Carole Boyd
Norton:
John Rowe
British Governor:
William Fox
Resident Minister/Norton'sclerk:
Michael Harbour
Resident Minister/Norton'sclerk:
Ilarrio Bisi Pedro
Male diner:
Simon Jones

Last of 13 episodes of the story of Queen Victoria, with Peggy Ashcroft as the Queen 13:Indian Summerby DENIS CONSTANDUROS
' My 81st birthday! God has been very merciful, but my trials and anxieties have been manifold ... '
The Absent-minded Beggar sung by CHARLES YOUNG with DENNIS GOMM (piano)
Produced and directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Ashcroft
Unknown:
Denis Constanduros
Sung By:
Charles Young
Piano:
Dennis Gomm
Directed By:
John Theocharis
Narrator:
Gabriel Woolf
Marie Adeane:
Rosalind Shanks
Ponsonby:
John Rye
Lytton Strachey:
Stephen Thorne
The Poet:
Siôn Probert
Reader:
Vernon Joyner

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