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It is Crufts week but even if dogs are more pets or menaces to you than champions, you can still put your questions to our studio team. What kind of dog is best for town-dwellers, flat-owners, families with young children, the elderly? Should they have a dog at all? Which make the best pets, dog or bitch, mongrel or pedigree? From where should you obtain your dog? James Alcock. dog-owner and veterinary surgeon, and Phil Drabble, dog-owner and presenter of the TV programme One Man and his Dog, are in the studio with Barbara Myers, to answer your queries and hear your opinions. Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Call [number removed] from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
James Alcock.
Unknown:
Phil Drabble
Unknown:
Barbara Myers

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From southern Africa Bridget Bloom. Africa Correspondent of the Financial Times, talks to black and white Africans, leading politicians and ordinary people. They tell 'her how they cope with the problems facing them in their own countries and give their views on the growing racial conflict which dominates the area.
Producer CAROLINE MILLINGTON

Contributors

Producer:
Caroline Millington

(medium only from 2.0)

Introduced by June Knox-Mawer

Hobday Chooseday - 6: senior citizens need the sun! Rita Bando has ideas for inexpensive holidays on a pension.

2.0-2.2 News

Tales of a Tiller Girl: Ann Ensor became a dancer in the Folies-Bergere in 1926.

Reading Your Letters.

Learn to Sing to Learn to Read with Dr Audrey Wisbey - 3: Introduction to C loud and soft.

"Emma" by Jane Austen (17)

Contributors

Presenter:
June Knox-Mawer
Unknown:
Rita Bando
Unknown:
Ann Ensor
Unknown:
Dr Audrey Wisbey
Author (Emma):
Jane Austen

by CHARLES DICKENS , dramatised in 12 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL and CONSTANCE cox
' Your mother-in-law passed the last pike at 20 minutes afore six o'clock yesterday evening, having done the journey wery much under regulation time. If you will come and see me. Sammy. I will take it as a wery great favour for I am wery lonely Samivel.'
Tony Weller 's relationship with his second wife had not been a happy one, but neither he nor his son can rejoice at her death.
12: Beginnings and Endings
With MICHAEL GOLDIE and THELMA WHITELEY
Directed by JANE MORGAN
Technical presentation by PETER NOVIS. assisted by PENNY LEICESTER, DAVID HITCHINSON and JANE BRINSMEAD
(Tim Wylton is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Contributors

Directed By:
Jane Morgan
Presentation By:
Peter Novis.
Unknown:
David Hitchinson
Unknown:
Jane Brinsmead
Mr Pickwick:
Freddie Jones
Winkle:
Philip Bond
Tupman:
Michael Graham Cox
Snodgrass:
Stephen Thorne
Sam Weller:
Douglas Livingstone
Jingle:
Paul Chapman
Charles Dickens:
Simon Cadell
Mr Wardle:
Jack May
Emily Wardle:
Heather Bell
Arabella Allen:
Rosalind Ayres
Joe:
Michael Troughton
Mary:
Alison Frazer
Tony Weller:
John Hollis
Mr Stiggins:
Christopher Benjamin
Job Trotter:
Tim Wylton
Bob Sawyer:
Nigel Anthony
Ben Allen:
Tim Pigott-Smith
Mr Winkle Sr:
Richard Hurndall
Mr Perker:
Timothy Bateson
Dodson:
John Gabriel
Fogg:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Mr Lowten:
Kenneth Shanley

Vienna Bonbons
Charles Osborne explores the details of Viennese dance music in the 19th century. Producer RONALD COOK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Osborne
Producer:
Ronald Cook

The humorous wireless programme. Lesson 33:
The Last Burkiss Way starring Jo Kendall. Nigel Rees Chris Emmett and Fred Harris Written by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jo Kendall.
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Chris Emmett
Unknown:
Fred Harris
Written By:
Andrew Marshall
Written By:
David Renwick
Producer:
John Lloyd

Compiled by PATRIC DICKINSON Introduced by Henry Knowles Readers ELIZABETH BELL and SEAN BARRETT including Bright Star by KEATS Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING

Contributors

Unknown:
Patric Dickinson
Introduced By:
Henry Knowles
Introduced By:
Readers Elizabeth Bell
Introduced By:
Sean Barrett
Producer:
Christopher Venning

Starring Trevor Bannister and Eleanor Summerfield, with Madeline Smith, John Kane and Dennis Ramsden

Penniless actor Richard Worthington inherits a fortune from his late Aunt Lavinia, on condition that he marries within 12 months, but his search for a wife is considerably hindered by his aunt's ghostly interference...

(First broadcast on Radio 2)
(Eleanor Summerfield is in 'A Murder is Announced' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)

Contributors

Writer:
Colin Bostock-Smith
Producer:
Martin Fisher
Richard Worthington:
Trevor Bannister
Aunt Lavinia:
Eleanor Summerfield
[Actress]:
Madeline Smith
[Actor]:
John Kane
[Actor]:
Dennis Ramsden

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