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6.32 Farming Today an East Anglian edition introduced by GORDON MOSLEY
6.50 Thought for the Week from PETER FIRTH
6.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time: GTS 7.0,8.0,9.0 am
1.0, 6.0. 11.0 pm
10.0 pm

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gordon Mosley
Unknown:
Peter Firth

7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world introduced by ROBERT WILLIAMS
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
Belief in God made a difference DAVID GODFREY
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Robert Williams
Unknown:
David Godfrey

Frisch Begonnen ... German for Beginners. 1: Die Familie Schafcr. Written and produced by STEPHEN KANOCZ. Consultants A. A. WOLFF and H.-J. DAUS
(A radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.45 British History
Decisive Events: Stamford Bridge and Hastings-a reconstruction of the two battles fought by King Harold in the early autumn of 1066 Script by P. WENHAM and MARGARET MILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Frisch Begonnen
Unknown:
Familie Schafcr.
Produced By:
Stephen Kanocz.
Unknown:
A. A. Wolff
Script By:
P. Wenham
Unknown:
Margaret Miller

Allons-y! 1: L'Hôtel des Voyageurs. Written by EMILE HARVEN (An audio-visual programme)
10.47 Nous voici! 1: Mister Charles , illusioniste. Written by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE
(Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together introduced by WILLIAM APPLEBY Songs include All through the night; Charlie is m' darling; and Flight of Earls
Produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Inquiry. 1: Self-interest JOHN PEEL introduces the first of five programmes investigating self-interest and responsibility Compiled by MAURICE WHITBREAD
11.40 Drama Workshop-movement, actions, improvisation
DEREK BOWSKILL introduces the first of three introductory broadcasts in this series of creative drama programmes

Contributors

Written By:
Emile Harven
Unknown:
Mister Charles
Written By:
Geoffrey Braithwaite
Introduced By:
William Appleby
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes
Introduces:
Derek Bowskill

Old Land. New Land
1: Skelmersdale: an old mining town with a declining industry becomes a town of
80.000 people
Script by NORMAN TURNER (Exploration Earth series)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
Produced by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
2.30 Truth
The Cross-Examination from The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan. (Speak series)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music (2) by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Script By:
Norman Turner
Produced By:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
Terence Rattigan.
Music By:
Glyn Harris

' found Israel very hard to be neutral about since it contains so many references to our felt identities, if we be Jew, Arab, or Christian ' says DR ANDREW CROWCROFT
As a psychiatrist he describes his observations during a recent visit on principles of child raising in the Kibbutz, which are often diametrically opposed to the teaching of western psychology

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Andrew Crowcroft

The Vicar of Wakefield A play for radio by JAMES LlGGAT and TERENCE LONGDON based on the book by OLIVER GOLDSMITH with Wilfred Pickles as Dr Primrose (The Vicar) and Vivienne Chatterton as Mrs Primrose

Contributors

Unknown:
James Llggat
Book By:
Oliver Goldsmith
Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Cousin Phillis
The story by MRS GASKELL abridged and read in six parts by JOHN WESTBROOK
4: The Storm
Back at his lodgings again. Paul's young employer Edward Holdsworth receives the offer of a new post in Canada. He asks Paul to say goodbye to his friends at Hope Farm, telling Paul he intends to return and will ask Phillis to be his wife

Contributors

Story By:
Mrs Gaskell
Unknown:
John Westbrook
Unknown:
Edward Holdsworth

Contributors

Written By:
Edward J Mason
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain
Dr McLaren:
Duncan McIntyre
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Lady Isabel Lander:
Mary Wimbush

by Brendan Behan
with players from the Arts Theatre, Lyric Theatre, and Ulster Theatre Company, Belfast
Behan died in March 1964. Ten years earlier, when this play was first produced, he was thirty-three years of age. Eight had been spent in prison

Contributors

Writer:
Brendan Behan
Dunlavin:
John McBride
Neighbour:
Louis Rolston
Warder Regan:
Michael Duffy
The Hard Case:
Sam McCready
His Mate:
Maurice O'Callaghan
The Kerry Boy:
Michael Lynch
The Embezzler:
Charles Witherspoon
Lifer:
Bill Hunter
Mickser:
Peter Adair
Young Prisoner:
Barry Cowan
Young Prisoner:
Brian Cullen
The Hangman:
Harold Goldblatt
Prison Governor:
Joe McPartland
Warder Donnelly:
J.J. Murphy
Warder Crimmin:
Patrick Brannigan
Chief Warder:
Jack McQuoid
[Actor]:
Jeremy Jones
[Actor]:
George Mooney
Adapter/Producer:
David A. Turner

The News
The background to the news and people in the news. followed by Listening Post in which JOHN ANTHONY introduces another edition in the series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics

Contributors

Introduces:
John Anthony

BOB THORPE has recently returned from a sojourn in Australia. Among the places he visited was the Mount Tom Price Iron Ore development which, with other newly tapped mineral resources, may make Western Australia the richest of Australia's states. He describes the extraordinary life that the developers live in their instant settlement on this remote and barren land
Tomorrow: The ' Outback '

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Thorpe

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