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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today
Radio breakfast-time magazine introduced by Jack de Manio
7.45 Today's Papers
7.56 Ten to Eight
The Very Rev Francis Underhill, Dean of Rochester (from the BBC Sound Archives: 1933)
Introduced by Harold Rogers
7.55Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Francis Underhill
Introduced By:
Harold Rogers

Marsh.'
3: A trip to Klin
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Der Unmogliche
Raubüberfall: written by CARL Bt'ERING :
(Intermediate German series,
11.8 Music Workshop 1
How to make a poem more interesting written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Produced By:
William Murphy

Encounter uith People and Ideas: ANTHONY SLOOM (Metropolitan Anthony of Surozhi is an Archbishop in exile of the Russian Orthodox Church. He talks of his conversion to Christianity and of his beliefs 4 (Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)

on Richard Attenborough who recalls the highlights of his career from teenage actor to film director, with soundtrack illustrations and comments from Sir John Clements and Sir Laurence Olivier.

Contributors

Subject:
Richard Atlenborough
Speaker:
Sir John Clements
Speaker:
Sir Laurence Olivier
Written and introduced by:
Peter Matthews
Producer:
Lyn Fairhurst

Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENEE HOUSTON, ANNE EDWARDS, JILL FLETCHER, JACQUELINE MACKENZIE
In the chair ANONA WINN
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SERLE (Pre-recorded at The Playhouse, Northumberland Avenue. London WC2. Repeated: Thurs, 7.0)

Contributors

Unknown:
Renee Houston
Unknown:
Anne Edwards
Unknown:
Jill Fletcher
Unknown:
Jacqueline MacKenzie
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Christopher Serle

Nelum (1758-1805) written by MAUREEN OSBORNE (World History series)
2.20 Music Session One: Discovering Sound, with DAVID GELL and children from the Ellis Guildford Bilateral School,
Nottingham Guest artists JOY AND JENNIFER Script by CATHERINE BAXTER produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
2.40 Swedish River
Some aspects of life and landscape along the Indalsalven in central Sweden written by ALEX HUNTER (Geography: radiovisionj

Contributors

Written By:
Maureen Osborne
Unknown:
David Gell
Artists:
Nottingham Guest
Script By:
Catherine Baxter
Produced By:
Jenyth Worsley
Written By:
Alex Hunter

The novel by EDITH WHARTON adapted for radio in ten parts by ElLEEN CULLEN with Eileen Atkins and Stephen Thorne 10: After 26 years
Produced bv R. d. smith

Contributors

Novel By:
Edith Wharton
Unknown:
Elleen Cullen
Unknown:
Eileen Atkins
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne
Unknown:
R. D. Smith

by ROBERT BAKR
A story in six parts of espionage in the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides with Edward de Souza Bryden Murdoch and Geoffrey Frederick
Part 3
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE tLast Friday's broadcast)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Bakr
Produced By:
Peter Titheradge

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including: ' My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen ...': ELIZABETH FRANCIS meets some of London's toastmasters and finds out how their job originated From Pit to Poetry: EDDIEE LINDEN tells DEREK PALMER how he became editor of the new poetry magazine Aquarius
Second-hand Sight: PETER MUNN talks to HORACE THOMPSON , Of the Missionary Optica] Service. who takes cast-off spectacles to the less well-off areas of the world for re-use
Your letters f

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Elizabeth Francis
Unknown:
Eddiee Linden
Unknown:
Derek Palmer
Talks:
Peter Munn
Unknown:
Horace Thompson

Ten portraits compiled by JULIA SMALL
8: Eccentric Professor
Challenger of The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Challenger's appearance made people gasp. But was he just a homicidal mega)omaniac with a turn for science?
Narrated by DAVID DAVIS
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Small
Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
David Davis
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Malone:
Brian Haines
McArdle:
Michael Deacon
Challenger:
Stephen Jack
ROXton:
Charles Simon

Adapted from his TV series by Richard Waring, with Wendy Craig as Jennifer and Francis Matthews as Henry

A family of three seems just about ideal to Jennifer until her chum Mary discovers that she has another one on the way - and an old recording creates not a little confusion.

Contributors

Writer/adapter:
Richard Waring
Signature music by:
Ronnie Hazlehurst.
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Jennifer :
Wendy Craig
Henry:
Francis Matthews
Mary:
Charlotte Mitchell
Trudi:
Roberta Tovey
Robin:
Hugo Keith-Johnston
Amanda:
Jill Riddick
Hannah:
Elizabeth Morgan
Charlie:
Tenniel Evans

Written by JOHNNIE MORTIMER , BRIAN COOKE ; and MYLES RUDGE starring Kenneth Williams Hugh Paddick , Joan Sims THE MAX HARRIS GROUP
Announcer DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced bv JOHN SIMMONDS
Broadcast on 18 May (Radio 2)

Contributors

Written By:
Johnnie Mortimer
Written By:
Brian Cooke
Written By:
Myles Rudge
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Joan Sims
Unknown:
The Max Harris

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conducted by FREDERIK PRAUSNITZ
Mendelssolm Overture: The Fair Melusine
Sibelius Symphonic Poem: Tapiola
Schumann Symphony No 2
Recorded before an audience in the Town Hall, Todmorden

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Stead
Conducted By:
Frederik Prausnitz

Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN Most of the women in our prisons are inadequate rather than criminal, but shortage of staff and antiquated premises do little to prepare them to return to life outside.' Should we change our whole attitude to the treatment of women offenders? If so, in what ways? Produced by MICHELLRAPER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Edgar Lustgarten

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