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Presenters John Timpson and Brian Redhead including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day THE REV ADRIENNE SAVAGE
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Road by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
John Timpson
Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Unknown:
Pauline Bushnell

Village Diary by ' MISS READ abridged in 12 parts by ZOE BAILEY
Read by Avril Elgar 1: January
Each episode is a month in the life of a country schoolmistress. She describes with gently satiric humour, the ups and downs of post-war village life.
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Zoe Bailey
Read By:
Avril Elgar
Producer:
Jenyth Worsley

Richard Baker offers a recipe of popular classics on records: the mixture leavened occasionally by the unfamiliar, with the added ingredient of listeners' requests.
Producer RAY ABBOTT
long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Baker
Producer:
Ray Abbott

A panel game whose unruly members are occasionally kept in disorder by the Chairman Nicholas Parsons and in which
Kenneth Williams Peter Jones
Clement Freud and Aimi MacDonald endeavour to prevent each other from talking for just a minute on this-or that. Devised by IAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
12.55 Weather; programme news: long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Aimi MacDonald
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Week: Sir Raymond Pennock. President of the Confederation of British Industry.
New York Report: from HELENE HANFF.
Reading Your Letters.
Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage
20 children appear in Barnardo which opens in London tonight.
TONY BARNFIELD looks at the possibilities and problems of children working to entertain.
Greek Fire (10) long wave only

Contributors

Unknown:
MacGregor Guest
Unknown:
Raymond Pennock.
Unknown:
Helene Hanff.

by Lester Powell with Gladys Spencer as Blanche, June Barrie as Clarice and Valerie Murray as Albertine
"That car comes here every evening, Albertine, and parks right outside this building. Nothing fishy about that you may say: every street in the country is packed with parked cars. Only no one ever sees this one arrive, and no one ever sees it go."
"By everyone you mean the people who live in these flats?"
"And no one ever sees the driver."
BBC Bristol

Contributors

Writer:
Lester Powell
Director:
Shaun MacLoughlin
Blanche:
Gladys Spencer
Clarice:
June Barrie
Albertine:
Valerie Murray

from Magdalen College, Oxford
Introit: Alleluia, Ascendit Deus (Byrd)
Responses (Byrd)
Psalms: 81, 82 (Marsh. Battishill)
First Lesson: Exodus 24, vv 3-18
Canticles: The First Service (Ward)
Second Lesson: Hebrews 8
Anthem: O clap your hands (Gibbons)

Contributors

Organist and Informator Choristarum (choirmaster):
Dr Bernard Rose
Organ scholar:
Simon Lawford

Devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Sieve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. Executive producer BOBBY JAYE
(Repeated: Fri 12.27 pm) -

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
John Amis
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Ian Wallace
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Producer:
Bobby Jaye

investigates and analyses current events and issues, at home and abroad, with reports from STEVE BRAD siiaw and DAVID HENSHAW Presenter
Peter Oppenheimer
Producer MAX EASTERMAN Editor COLIN ADAMS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thurs 11.5 am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Brad
Unknown:
David Henshaw
Presenter:
Peter Oppenheimer
Producer:
Max Easterman
Editor:
Colin Adams

Starring Tom Mennard and Anthea Askey
How do you knit Boeuf Stroganoff without a recipe?
Can you use a chicken bone as an alternator in your car?
How do you defend yourself when you're attacked by a wall?
Wrinkles supplies the answers to questions you never asked.
With Ballard Berkeley as Winston, David Ross as Mr Pettigrew, Gordon Salkilld as Arnold
BBC Manchester
(Broadcast Tues 6.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Rob Grant
Writer:
Doug Naylor
Producer:
Mike Craig
Tom:
Tom Mennard
Mrs Askey:
Anthea Askey
Winston:
Ballard Berkeley
Mr Pettigrew:
David Ross
Arnold:
Gordon Salkilld

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