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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
Listening with Reverence ROY MCKAY
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Reverence Roy McKay

A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
NAB 1 is the registration number of just one of the several luxury cars belonging to Sir Gerald Nabarro , up, but it's also a good tag for the man himself. One of the most colourful characters in the House of Commons, he hjis a unique make-up of bristling arrogance, old-world charm, pomposity, and genuine concern for the underdog.
Today he talks to PETER MID-FORTH about his newly published book on 20 of his many years in politics -
Produced by JAMES GALLAGHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Gerald Nabarro
Produced By:
James Gallagher

intermediate French 4: St Vincent de Paul
Written by EMILE HARVEN
10.45 Foreign Correspondent a BBC correspondent talks on a topic of interest and importance in the immediate past, present, or future
11.0 Water in the Air by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.28 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
Music selected and arranged by VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History 4. The Rise of Hitler
An account of the German dictator's rise to power from the early 1930s to the Austrian Anschluss
Compiled by MAURICE WHITBREAD

Contributors

Written By:
Emile Harven
Unknown:
Harry Armstrong
Arranged By:
Vera Gray

GUY GRAVETT is a photographer, and travels widely to get his pictures. He spent last Christmas on the North Slope - that most inhospitable region of Alaska where men are searching for oil in temperatures as low as 60 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
He describes what happens to men who have to work in these searing conditions

Music Workshop 2
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 The Horse's Mouth by JOYCE CARY , adapted by DAVID LYTTLE. 1: Eve
Produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Rocket Journey to the Moon by CHRISTINE DUDLEY
An imaginary moon journey based on the Apollo XII flight (Nature series)

Contributors

Produced By:
William Murphy
Unknown:
Joyce Cary
Adapted By:
David Lyttle.
Produced By:
Elizabeth Ornbo
Unknown:
Christine Dudley

Three Threes are Seven by KENNETH JOHN
Peter Bates seeks refuge on a farm to escape the wrangling of his parents and the meaningless rituals of his education
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH This afternoon's play is the first to be produced at the BBC studios in Norwich, and has an appropriately East Anglian flavour. Its author is a school-teacher in the area, and Philip Hinchley , who plays the lead, and Martin Holmes , in a smaller role. both come from his school. And it was at the same school that the background sound effects were recorded

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth John
Unknown:
Peter Bates
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Produced By:
Philip Hinchley
Produced By:
Martin Holmes
Peter Bates:
Philip Hinchley
Mrs Bates:
Mary Ann Turner
Ayton:
Peter Tuddenham
Molly:
Emily Gray
Campbell:
Preston Lockwood
Bates:
Brian Cant
CUrtiS:
Martin Holmes
Mrs Willis:
Elizabeth Riclen
Mr Brewer:
F R Buckley

from Ripon Cathedral
Responses (Kenneth Leighton)
Psalm 78 (Crotch, Smart, Flintoft, Havergal, Dakers)
Lessons: Job 18: Hebrews 8
Canticles (Patrick, Short Service)
Anthem: O Lord, the Maker of all thing (Joubert)
Stereophony
* Approximate time

Contributors

Composer:
Kenneth Leighton
Organist and Master of the Choristers:
Ronald Perrin

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including: Saved by a Nocturne: NATALIA KARP , the concert pianist. tells ANNE CATCHPOLE how a Chopin Nocturne saved her life during the war
Churchman Extraordinary: GEOFFREY MATSON talks to MICHAEL GILLIAM about his unusual life as custodian of a remote church in a Surrey wood
' Southwards with the Prince': CONSTANCE GAMAGE recalls going to Savoy Hill to receive an essay prize from the British Broadcasting Company Ltd A Breath of Fresh Air: from the llkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist WALTER FLESHER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Natalia Karp
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Talks:
Geoffrey Matson
Unknown:
Michael Gilliam
Unknown:
Constance Gamage
Unknown:
Walter Flesher

(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Bruno Milna
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Travers-Macy:
Angela Piper
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Lilian Nicholson:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine Johnson:
Lesley Saweard
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Phillp Morant
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Brigadier Winstanley:
Anthony Godfrey
Lady Isabel Lander:
Mary Wimbush
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Mrs Blossom:
Anne Crick
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Joby Woodfield:
George Woolley

from the Royal Festival Hall London
CLAUDIO ARRAU (piano)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS. conductor ANDRÉ PREVIN
Part 1
Schubert Overture in c major (In the Italian Style)
8.8* Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor

Contributors

Leader:
John Georgiadis.

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