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"I'M SORRY I'LL READ THAT AGAIN"

Seventh series

7/1 15-2-70 (25-1-70)
Broadcasting in the Seventies ; Introducing Radio Prune ; Statement of intention by Radio Prune ; Censorship sketch ; Pruneflash ; Prune Play of the Week - The Taming of the Shrew.

7/2 22-2-70 (1-2-70)
Radio Prune goes commercial ; The Fairy Puff Man ; Home This Afternoon A-Go-Go ; Commercial break ; The News ; Sunday Evening Song ; Prune Play - The Canterbury Tales.

7/3 1-3-70 (8-2-70)
Top of the Charts ; Radio Prune - Countrywide - Commercial break - Listeners' Letters ; Endless Soap-opera ; Commercial break - El Tarantula Wine ; Courtroom Drama - Regina v. Radio Prune in re. Illicit Commercials ; As I Sit Here In The Silence ; Prune Play - The Telephone.

7/4 8-3-70 (15-2-70)
Programmes in your mind ; Radio Prune - Mrs. Forsyte's Ambridge Newcomers... - Full Frontal Nudesroom - Sprot (Big Fight) - Schools trail - trail for 'Not In Front Of The Adults' ; Ironing My Goldfish ; Prune Play - Circus Life.

7/5 15-3-70 (22-2-70) (without Cleese)
The Stars At Night, with Patrick Bore ; The Wireless Doctor ; Honours List ; News in Welsh ; Minority Programmes ; Message from the Director-General ; Musical Football Results ; Nigel Carter-Smith's Society Band ; Prune Play - Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School.

7/6 22-3-70 (1-3-70)
People we shall be offending this week ; Radio Prune sketches, including Rolf Harris - Letter to Her Majesty - The Amazing Babies - This Is Your Life - Police Warning ; Tillingbourne Folk Song and Madrigal Society - Stuffing Your Gibbon ; Prune Play - Murder on the 3.17 to Cleethorpes.

7/7 29-3-70 (8-3-70) (without Cleese)
Listeners' Strike ; Radio Prune - Cooking Hint - Recipe Time Full Frontal Newsroom - Army take over Newsroom - Battered Babies - Violence Today - The MCC Song ; Prune Play - The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

7/8 5-4-70 (15-3-70)
Show Business ; Parliamentary Committee on the Common Market ; Radio Prune Goes International - International Music Hall - Dear Sir - Tom Jones Suitably Censored - Guerres Sans Frontières ; Today's Honours List ; Police messages ; Thud-Bang-Banq-Wobble-Wobble-Bong (Eurovision Song) ; Prune Play - Jorrocks, the Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.

7/9 12-4-70 (22-3-70)
Radio Prune is nine weeks old - Radio critics write - Set-up-a-sketch competition - Broadcasting changes - Listen with Mother ; The Brew That We All Love The Most (Irish Folk Song) ; Prune Play - The Return of the Son of the Bride of Frankenstein.

7/10 19-4-70 (5-4-70)
The Yellow-and-White Minstrel Show ; The Radio Prune Awards ; Bradford Girls ; Prune Play - The Harder They Fall, The More They Hurt Themselves (Boxing story).

7/11 26-4-70 (12-4-70)
The Bear and Cookie Joke ; Radio Prune - 'Teapot' (catchphrase) - Pop Roundup - The Julie Andrews Songbook (expurgated) - Police Message - The Money Programme ; TV Themes Song ; Prune Play 20,000 Leaks Under The Sea.

7/12 3-5-70 (19-4-70)
Combined Bank Holidays ; Holiday Night With The Stars - Crosstalk Newscasters - White Feather Club - Holiday Traffic Report - Latest Brian Rix Farce ; Tillingbourne Folk Song and Madrigal Society - Football Chants ; Prune Play - Greek Tragedy.

7/13 10-5-70 (22-4-70)
Programme changes ; Full-frontal Radio Prune - The Raymond Nostril Story, including Stuffing That Gibbon, In The Silence, Nigel Carter-Smith's Society Band, The Rhubarb Tart Song (sung by Cleese), The David Frost Song, I'm Going To Make It One Day, The MCC Song & The Angus Prune Tune.


SPECIAL 31-12-70 (20-12-70) (45 minutes)
A Warning to shipping ; TV v. Radio ; Radio Prune takes over, including Full Frontal Radio ; Miss World Contest ; Les Girls ; Censored Christmas songs ; Retrospect of 1970 ; Pantomime - Aladdin/Dr. Zhivago.

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