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Presented by Libby Purves and Paul Burden
6.45* Prayer for the Dot THE.RT REV MICHAEL HARE-BURKE
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by BRYAN MARTIN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presented By:
Libby Purves
Presented By:
Paul Burden
Unknown:
Michael Hare-Burke
Read By:
Bryan Martin

Some of the poetry requested by Radio 4 listeners.
Presented by Norman MacCaig
Readers DIANA OLSSON and JOHN GRAHAM
Producer BRIAN PATTEN BBC Bristol long wave only
Requests: Poetry Pleasel, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Contributors

Presented By:
Norman MacCaig
Presented By:
Readers Diana Olsson
Presented By:
John Graham
Producer:
Brian Patten

A woman's place is on her yacht with her children/
Barry Took presents a collection of gems from the writing of the American columnist Art Buchwald. Featuring
EdBishopasArtBuchwald With ALEC BREGONZI, JOANNA PALMER , MICHAEL MCCLAIN and MARIE SUTHERLAND Producer
DANNY GREENSTONE
12.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Took
Unknown:
Art Buchwald.
Unknown:
Joanna Palmer
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Unknown:
Marie Sutherland
Producer:
Danny Greenstone

Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Preview:
MARGARET KORVING ViSitS the Ideal Home
Exhibition which opens tomorrow.
My Ideal Home: a through-the-week miscellany of personal views.
Face Watching: DR DAVID MENDEL describes an under-valued diagnostic shell.
Reading Your Letters. On Holiday in Kenya:
BERNARD JACKSON pays his first visit to Africa.
The Crimson Chalice (10) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Margaret Korving
Unknown:
Dr David Mendel
Unknown:
Bernard Jackson

Presenters Gordon Clough and Joan Bakewell Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.50 Shipping forecast long wave only
5.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presenters:
Gordon Clough
Presenters:
Joan Bakewell
Editor:
Derek Lewis

Self Importance Frank Muir and Alfred Marks recorded comedy from JOHN CLEESE , MICHAEL PALIN , JOYCE GRENFELL
RONNIE BARKER and RONNIE CORBETT , MICHAEL BENTINE MIKE NICHOLS and ELAINE MAY
Written by FRANK MUIR and SIMON BRETT
Producer SIMON BRETT
(Repeated: Wed 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
John Cleese
Unknown:
Michael Palin
Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Unknown:
Ronnie Barker
Unknown:
Ronnie Corbett
Unknown:
Michael Bentine
Unknown:
Mike Nichols
Written By:
Frank Muir
Written By:
Simon Brett
Producer:
Simon Brett

A panel game'Whose - unruly members are Occasionally kepi in disorder by the chairman
Nicholas Parso 'ds and in which Kenneth. Williams. Peter Jones ,
Clement Freud and Tim Rice endeavour to prevent each other frpm talking tor just a minute on this or that.
Devised by iAN MESSITER Producer DAVID HATCH
(.Broadcast Sat 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parso
Unknown:
Kenneth. Williams.
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Tim Rice
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
David Hatch

by Jorge Acaza, adapted by Elilzabeth Gowans from the translation by Mervyn Savill
with Nigel Davenport, Judy Franklin, Cyril Shaps and John Rye.
Ecuador in the early 1930s; A landowner, whose last chance of averting total ruin is to build a road and open up the interior for American speculators, has to buy more land, and the Indians who go with it, to provide his labour force; there is nothing else in his way, except the Indians' huts and hereditary plots of land - their 'huasipungos'.
Special music arranged and played by Malcolm Clarke of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Jorge Icaza
Adapted by:
Elizabeth Gowans
Translation:
Mervyn Savill
Special music arranged and played by:
Malcolm Clarke
Director:
Margaret Etall
Don Alfonso:
Nigel Davenport
Dona Blanca:
Judy Franklin
Uncle Julio:
Cyril Shaps
Priest:
John Rye
Policarpio:
Martyn Read
Andrés:
Christopher Scott
Cunshi:
Jane Knowles
Jacinto:
Sean Arnold
Juana:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Foreman/Cabascango:
Edward Kelsey
Engineer:
Michael Spice
Rosita:
Ann Rosenfeld
Mr Chapman:
Douglas Lambert
Soldier:
John Webb
Soldier:
David McAlister
Indians:
Kathryn Hurlbutt
Indians:
Ann Rosenfeld
Indians:
Olwen Griffiths
Indians:
John Webb
Indians:
Stephen Garlick
Indians:
John McAndrew
Indians:
Sean Arnold

A series of five talks In which a .memory is triggered off by, a sight, sound-, smell, tafte-or touch. - , 1: A Struck Match , Alison Grant was in Ibiza in 1932, before the Spanish Civil War. She met an artist who appeared deaf and mute. She saw a face illuminated in the dark. Many years later there was a trial in the US and a face in a newspaper ... Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Grant
Unknown:
Barbara Crowther

The Ladies of the Vale In 1646, during the Civil War, the already much-battered Lichfield Cathedral suffered at the hands of the Puritans. They looted the treasures, chased cats up the nave, and shot down the central spire. Yet the Cathedral survived to be rebuilt and today, one of the features that makes it unique in Britain,is its three spires - The Ladies of the Vale...
Michael Oliver explores the CathedraT with the Dean, THE VERY REV JOHN LANG , archivist BEN
■BendIks, and" architect
CHARLES BROWN ', and talks .to those who live and work there, discovering along the way, the eighth-century St Chad's Gospels, which are dedicated to St Chad, whodiedinMarch672Att and in whose memory, the Cathedral was founded. Producer
RICHARD BANNERMAN
Editor ROSEUArr HART

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
John Lang
Unknown:
Charles Brown
Unknown:
Richard Bannerman
Editor:
Roseuarr Hart

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