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Introduced by John Timpson
With MARGARET HOWARD Including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day with THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Timpson
Introduced By:
With Margaret Howard
Unknown:
Richard Harries
Read By:
John Marsh

Richard Baker oilers a recipo of popular classics on records: the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
(Revised repeat of Saturday's broadcast) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Ray Abbott

Story: Ladybird's Garden by JOYCE WILLIAMS
Presenters I.UCY SKEAPING and TONY AITKEN
Written by TONY AITKEN
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY long tcace only

Contributors

Garden By:
Joyce Williams
Presenters:
I.Ucy Skeaping
Presenters:
Tony Aitken
Written By:
Tony Aitken
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley

Introduced by Sue MacGregur
Twenty -fire - and - a - half Shoplifting Days to Christmas: BENITA BROWN reports on this continuing problem of theft.
Talking Point: opinions and ideas....
Private Collection: JOANNA SCOTT-MONCRIEFF ,former editor of Woman's Hour, remembers some of the poetry that earned a place in her personal anthology. Do-it- Yourself Culture: KATHLEEN HIND discovers that ' a little learning is a dangerous thing
The Tiger In the Smoke (5) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregur
Unknown:
Benita Brown
Unknown:
Joanna Scott-Moncrieff

Adman's Gothic by JAMES DOUGLAS
' Let me tell you about Carney. Carney is an innocent. And innocence in our business is an invaluable commodity where it can be harnessed and driven ... We must allow the innocent their occasional outbursts of righteous indignation.'
Directed by brian MILLER BBC Bristol
(First broadcast in 1975)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Douglas
Unknown:
Carney. Carney
Directed By:
Brian Miller
Mel Carney:
Christopher Bidmead
Marie Carney:
Josephine Crawford
JOSS:
Ivor Roberts
John:
Roger Gartland
Gilbey:
Ronald Russell
Masters:
Paul Nicholson
Actor:
Warden Peterlawrence
Beggar:
Hubert Tucker
Dcnise:
Jenifer Armitage
Mrs Gilbey:
Audrey Nobi E
Fr AllgOOd:
Norman Tyrrell

Philip Howard celebrates that part of The Times' correspondence column which attracts writers of wit and wisdom to air their views on subjects ranging from ' how to keep warm whilst reading in bed to Keats and Claret.
Readers ANTHONY NEWLANDS JIM NORTON , EVI KARPY and GERALD CROSS
Producer HELEN FRY

Contributors

Readers:
Anthony Newlands
Readers:
Jim Norton
Readers:
Evi Karpy
Readers:
Gerald Cross
Producer:
Helen Fry

Presented by Gordon Clough and Rachael Heyhoe-Hint Sequence editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Gordon Clough
Presented By:
Rachael Heyhoe-Hint
Editor:
Derek Lewis

Germaine Greer
The Rt lion Sir Richard Marsh , Marjorie Proops and Jimmy Young
Chairman David Jacobs from Rustington, Sussex Producer CAROLE STONE (Repeated: Sat 1.10 pm)
(Germaine Greer is Guest of the Week in Woman's Hour next Wednesday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Germaine Greer
Unknown:
Sir Richard Marsh
Unknown:
Marjorie Proops
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Germaine Greer

1 Of all the great things that the English have invented and part of the credit of the national character, the most perfect, the most characteristic, the only one they have mastered completely in all its details so that it becomes a compendious illustration of their social genius and their manners. is the well-appointed, well-administered, well
Kaleidoscope samples life in the English country house - and garden - as John Jacob , with Mark Girouard , reflects on how families have used the houses which architects and craftsmen built for them.
Producer JOHN POWELL

Contributors

Unknown:
John Jacob
Unknown:
Mark Girouard
Producer:
John Powell
fillcd, country house:
Henry James

David Jason , Bill Wallis
David Tate. Sheila Strafcl and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO Written by JOHN LANGDON , GUY JENKIN, BARRY BOWES , RICHARD QUICK, JEREMY BROWNE , ROGER WODDIS
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES i Repeated: Sat 5.25 pm)
Woddis on ... : page 15

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jason
Unknown:
Bill Wallis
Unknown:
David Tate.
Unknown:
Sheila Strafcl
Unknown:
David Firman
Written By:
John Langdon
Unknown:
Barry Bowes
Unknown:
Jeremy Browne
Unknown:
Roger Woddis
Producer:
Griff Rhys

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