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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson

News Comment

Time Check: 4: Lady Strathcona talks about how she arranges her day

Reading your Letters

Granny's Home-grown Cures: Maureen Vincent remembers childhood remedies

Leisure and Pleasure: pursuits, entertainments and places to go

Gabriel Woolf reads "The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy (7)

Contributors

Presenter:
Marjorie Anderson
Speaker:
Lady Strathcona
Speaker:
Maureen Vincent
Author (The Mayor of Casterbridge):
Thomas Hardy
Reader (The Mayor of Casterbridge):
Gabriel Woolf

The game in which it's better to be wrong than right, with Jon Pertwee, John Cleese, Barbara Kelly, Andree Melly, their chairman Clement Freud and this week's special guest Robin Knox-Johnston

Contributors

Chairman:
Clement Freud
Panellist:
Jon Pertwee
Panellist:
John Cleese
Panellist:
Clement Freud
Panellist:
Barbara Kelly
Panellist:
Andree Melly
Guest:
Robin Knox-Johnston
Devised by:
Ian Messiter
Producer:
Christopher Serle

in Portadown
With The Sherwoods
BBC N. Ireland Orchestra, leader Maurice Cavanagh, conducted by Havelock Nelson

Contributors

Presenter:
Brendan O'Dowda
Musicians:
The Sherwoods
Musicians:
BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Maurice Cavanagh
Conductor:
Havelock Nelson
Producer:
Alan Tongue

from the Radio 2 Ballroom
Old-time and sequence dancing played by Sidney Davey and his Orchestra with Lissa Gray
Introduced by Bill Crozier MC and Dance hostesses Holland and Sylvia Brockbank

10.2 Evening Racing Results
(1500m only. VHF joins Radio 1)

Contributors

Presenter:
Bill Crozier
Dance Host:
Holland Brockbank
Dance Hostess:
Sylvia Brockbank
Musicians:
Sidney Davey and his Orchestra
Singer:
Lissa Gray
Producer:
Charles Clark-Maxwell

(1500m only. VHF joins Radio 2)
Peter Latham with music and news, people and places
BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra, conductor Iain Sutherland
The Gordon Langford Quartet

including Sports Desk at 10.15

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Latham
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra
Conductor:
Iain Sutherland
Musicians:
Gordon Langford Quartet
Producer:
Ian Fenner

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