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AH Work and No Play
Many schoolchildren take on part-time jobs to swell their pocket money, and even to supplement the family income. David Hawksworth examines the kind of work they do; to what extent they are exploited; what the legal implications are; the effect on school and homework; work; and the unexpected advantages of this introduction to working life.
Producer MICHAEL GILLIAM

Contributors

Unknown:
David Hawksworth
Producer:
Michael Gilliam

Today's author is J. G. BALLARD Blain Fairman reads The Garden of Time
The great throng had now receded to the horizon, the entire concourse abruptly flung back in a reversal of time. The flower had shrunk to the size of a glass thimble ... Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
J. G. Ballard
Unknown:
Blain Fairman
Producer:
Barbara Crowther

New stories about the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
Old Bones by DONALD BULL
Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Unknown:
Donald Bull
Producer:
Edward Taylor
Dr Cameron:
With Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Harry:
John Laurie
Ben:
Elizabeth Proud
Ishbel:
Eva Smart
Bones:
Gordon Gardner

medium only from 2.0
Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week: Chief Supt Mary Wedlake , Head of the. Juvenile Section of the Metropolitan Police.
2.0-2.2 News
Anyone Can Ski?: BERNARD JACKSON in the Spanish Pyrenees.
Pick of the Paperbacks: JUNE KNOX-MAWER and EDWARD BLI-SHEN look at the season's crop, with Christmas in mind. Lost Profile (5)

Contributors

Unknown:
MacGregor Guest
Unknown:
Mary Wedlake
Unknown:
Bernard Jackson
Unknown:
June Knox-Mawer
Unknown:
Edward Bli-Shen

A Man in the House by HENRY JAMES dramatised from the short story The Third Person by HUGH BURDEN with Noel Hood , Jeanne Watts
Two maiden ladies who had previously lived solitary and lonely lives come together to share a house unexpectedly bequeathed to them. They find companionship in each other but there's also a third person in the house whose presence they can't ignore but whose existence must be kept secret.
Directed by JANE MORGAN (The Ambassadors: tonight on BBC2 at 9.45; at this time next week Juno)

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry James
Unknown:
Noel Hood
Unknown:
Jeanne Watts
Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Henry Jame:
And Hugh Burden
Miss Amy Frush:
Jeanne Watts
Miss Susan Frush:
Noel Hood
Mr Patten:
Denis McCarthy
Ben:
Michael Shannon

from Ely Cathedral
Versicles and Responses (Rose); Psalms 114, 115 (Attwood in D; Walmisley in A)
Lessons: Genesis 28, vv 10-22; Mark 7. vv 24-30
Office hymn: 0 God, thy soldiers' crown and guard (EH 181)
Canticles (Wills: Verse Service) Anthem: Cantantibus Organis (Peter Philips). Organist and Choirmaster ARTHUR WILLS Assistant Organist STEPHEN LE BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Choirmaster:
Arthur Wills
Organist:
Stephen Le

At My Leisure
Noel Edmonds considers some of the personal pleasures discovered amidst the bustle of public life. Producer DAVID EPPS
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Noel Edmonds
Producer:
David Epps

Devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
Dilys Powell and Frank Muir challenge Anne Scott-James and Denis Norden
In the Chair Jack Longland Questions compiled by PETER MOORE
BBC Birmingham

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Anne Scott-James
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland
Unknown:
Peter Moore

Presented by Peter Oppenheimer
The background to current events at home and abroad with reports by Steve Bradshaw and David Henshaw.
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Oppenheimer
Reporter:
Steve Bradshaw
Reporter:
David Henshaw
Editor:
Michael Green

The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C. Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife with MICHAEL MCCLAIN
JO MANNING WILSON Book 2, Chapter 3: The Club
Written by BASIL BOOTHROYD Producer BOBBY JAYE

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Carmichael
Unknown:
Gerald C. Potter
Unknown:
Charlotte Mitchell
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Unknown:
Jo Manning Wilson
Written By:
Basil Boothroyd
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

England v Poland: Round 1 England: Anthony Quinton
(Chairman) with Irene Thomas and John Julius Norwich Poland:
Gordon Clough (Chairman), with Karol Malcuzynski, politician and Dr Janusz Stefanowicz, Editor of the Catholic Weekly Universe
Question researcher DAVID MACKAY Producer TREVOR HILL BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
David MacKay
Producer:
Trevor Hill

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