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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
What the Bible says
With WILF WILKINSON
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Wilf Wilkinson

La reconstruction en France après les deux guerres
Compiled and introduced by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
(French for Sixth Forms)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 street Games and Singing Games
An investigation by PADDY FEENY Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY (Springboard)
11.20 The Day of the Picnic A short story by DOROTHY WHIPPLE
(Listening and Writing)
11.40 individual - 3: Me
MICHAEL SMEE and PADDY FEENY have been talking to young people about the way they see themselves as individuals and how much they think their personalities have been affected by other influences
Edited by STUART EVANS (prospect)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Raymond Escoffey
Music By:
Albert Chatterley
Produced By:
Jenyth Worsley
Story By:
Dorothy Whipple
Unknown:
Michael Smee
Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Edited By:
Stuart Evans

The Glass Staircase by M K. RICHARDSON , adapted for radio by SHEENA CLARKE (Let's Join In)
2.20 Ways of Looking
' Mummy, when do we start getting smaller? ' asked the little boy as he got into the aeroplane by FRED GETTINGS (Art and Design)
2.40 When the Indians Came A true tale by GARRY LYLE set in North America (Stories and Rhymes)

Contributors

Unknown:
M K. Richardson
Unknown:
Sheena Clarke
Unknown:
Fred Gettings
Unknown:
Garry Lyle

by NESTA PAIN based on Mary Kingsley 's autobiographical writings with Dorothy Tutin
Mary Kingsley was a conventional woman of Victorian England who transformed herself, when already in her thirties, into an intrepid traveller and the friend and familiar of cannibal tribes
Produced by NESTA PAIN

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Kingsley
Unknown:
Dorothy Tutin
Unknown:
Mary Kingsley
Produced By:
Nesta Pain

A family magazine introduced from the Midlands by DAVID STEVENS and including:
Hold the Front Page!: PARRY JONES of Oswestry looks back over 50 years as a Border Counties journalist
In the Mood: As the Electric Cinema, King's Lynn, comes under the demolition hammer, DOROTHY MACDONALD , once the resident pianist there, recaptures for TONY SCASE the mood of those pre-war silent movies Can Spring be far behind?: PERCY THROWER looks at bulbs flowering on the windowsill and in the garden

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stevens
Unknown:
Parry Jones
Unknown:
Dorothy MacDonald
Unknown:
Tony Scase

The biography of the legendary dancer written by his widow ROMOLA NIJINSKY : abridged by DEREK PARKER from Nijinsky and The Last Years of Nijinsky read by ANNA BURDEN
5: Freedom and America
Released at the end of the war, Nijinsky again meets Diaghilev and tours America for the last time

Contributors

Unknown:
Romola Nijinsky
Abridged By:
Derek Parker
Read By:
Anna Burden

A panel game from the Midlands devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair JACK LONGLAND

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J. Mason
Unknown:
Dilys Powell
Unknown:
Frank Muir
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
Jack Longland

A story in six parts of espionage in the remote islands of the Outer Hebrides.

(Repeated: Tuesday, 3.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Barr
Recorder:
Sarah Maxwell
Producer:
Peter Titheradge
Jim Nicholson:
Edward de Souza
Dr Mackenzie:
Alaric Cotter
Major Williams:
Peter Hawkins
Bill Grant:
Geoffrey Frederick
Brigadier:
Michael Kilcarriff
George Hammond:
Kim Grant
Ian McLeod:
Bryden Murdoch
Katie Kennedy:
Gudrun Ure
Mary Somers:
Rosemary Miller
Dr Lawrence:
Roy Spencer

Climbing the Stairs by MARGARET POWELL abridged by CAROLINE MACKINLEY Read by BARBARA MITCHELL Produced by JOHN CARDY Beginning on Monday:
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , read in fifteen parts by Nigel Stock

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Powell
Abridged By:
Caroline MacKinley
Read By:
Barbara Mitchell
Produced By:
John Cardy
Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
Nigel Stock

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