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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 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES looks at an aspect of newspaper coverage this week.
Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
BERNARD TATE and ANNE SLOMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Victor Knight
Unknown:
Nigel Rees

A spontaneous discussion by Marghanita Laski Lord Mancroft
Dr Magnus Pyke and The Bishop of Oxford Chairman David Jacobs from Oxfordshire
Producer MICHAEL BOWEN BBC Bristol
(Good Friday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jacobs
Producer:
Michael Bowen

with Anne Gregg and Norman Tozer visits Jerusalem and Vatican City and questions the relevance of religious belief in 1977. And JIM MCMANUs reads I Know a Rotten Place by BRYAN BREED abridged in six instalments (2) Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit

Contributors

Unknown:
Anne Gregg
Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Jim McManus

A Walk up the Sugar Loaf by JOAN LOCK with Joyce Carey as Helen and Noel Hood as Mabel with AUBREY WOODS as Reggie
' Shall we take our second cup of tea out on the verandah, dear? We can listen to the sounds of the jungle night drawing in.' When Helen and Mabel travel to the far corners of the earth they believe in taking their creature comforts with them. They have got adventure down to a fine art. With the voices of: MICHAEL HARBOUR and PAUL MEIER Produced and directed by JOHN CARDY
(Rptd: Wednesday 11.30 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Carey
Unknown:
Noel Hood
Unknown:
Aubrey Woods
Unknown:
Michael Harbour
Unknown:
Paul Meier
Directed By:
John Cardy

David Jason , Bill Wallis David Tate and Bill McGuMe at the piano look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side Script by COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH and ALASTAIR BEATON with ANDY HAMILTON , MARTIN SMITH and WILL ADAMS, BARRY PILTON and others.
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate
Unknown:
Bill McGume
Script By:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Script By:
Alastair Beaton
Unknown:
Andy Hamilton
Unknown:
Martin Smith
Unknown:
Barry Pilton
Producer:
Geoffrey Perkins

Rod Hull, comedian, script-writer and Emu-owner, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.

(Rptd: Easter Monday 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Rod Hull
Producer:
Derek Drescher

The Murder of Walter Raleigh by IAN CULLEN with Bernard Archard as Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh , once England's pride, was sentenced to death, reprieved and then executed 15 years later. This imaginative reconstruction of events tells how this came about.
Other parts played by ESMOND RIDEOUT and members of the cast. Produced and directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Cullen
Unknown:
Bernard Archard
Unknown:
Sir Walter Raleigh
Unknown:
Sir Walter Raleigh
Played By:
Esmond Rideout
Directed By:
Christopher Venning
Sir Robert Cecil:
John Rowe
Sir Edward Coke:
Vernon Joyner
Captain Keymis:
Basil Moss
King James I:
Robert Trotter
Henry, Prince of Wales:
Michael Cochrane
George Harvey:
David Horovitch
Will Cecil:
Christopher Good
Wat Raleigh:
Nigel Bradshaw
a boyWat Raleigh,:
Jean Rogers
Chief Justice Popham:
Carleton Hobbs
Bess Raleigh:
Kathleen Michael
Sergeant Heale:
Drew Wood
Barber/Stukely:
Kevin Brennan
Excutioner:
Christopher Masters

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