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7.10 South-East News
7 15 Xodav radio's breakfast-timemagazine introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
Wishes for a Godchild
A Country Doctor addressing a student godson
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio

A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life Vagabond Woman
Kathleen Phelan talks with BARBARA MCDONALD about her life on the road
(Shortened version of the broadcast on 7 July: North)

Contributors

Talks:
Kathleen Phelan
Unknown:
Barbara McDonald

Intermediate French
5: Dimanche a Bruxelles
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 Frozen Water by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
Music selected and arranged by VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History
5: Munich. A review of the now notorious agreement which ceded the Sudetenland to Germany
Compiled by PHILIP HOLLAND

Contributors

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

MAURICE HUSSEY illustrates the adverse attitudes of men to women in literature, from Chaucer through Pope and Milton to the present day HARVEY HALL and PENELOPE LEE give voice and tone to this literary disparagement

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Hussey
Unknown:
Harvey Hall
Unknown:
Penelope Lee

Music Workshop 2
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.2* The Horse's Mouth by JOYCE CARY , adapted by DAVID LYTTLE. 2: The Feet
Produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 The Stars
ANTHONY HALL talks about the stars and tells how to use the Plough to find the North Pole Star
(Nature Series)

Contributors

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

Boatman do not tarry by JOHN D. STEWART
John Corby 's ferry can take a three-ton truck. But one bit of paper nearly has it sunk
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER

Contributors

Unknown:
John D. Stewart
Unknown:
John Corby
Produced By:
David A. Turner
John Corby:
John McBride
Sarah Corby:
Elizabeth Begley
Croogan:
Wolsey Gracey
Marty:
Jack McQuoid
Paddy:
Maurice O'Callaghan
Felix:
Michael Duffy
Jamesey:
Louis Rolston
Johnson:
Nigel Graham
Armitage:
Robert McLernon
The Minister:
Margaret D'Arcy

from Peterborough Cathedral
Introit: Sacerdotes Domini (Byrd)
Responses (Tallis, First Set) Psalms 108 and 109 Lessons: Job 33; Hebrews 11, vv. 17-40
Canticles (Weelkes for Trebles) Anthem: Sing joyfully (John Mundy )
Master of the Music STANLEY VANN
Assistant Organist BARRY FERGUSON

Contributors

Unknown:
John Mundy
Organist:
Barry Ferguson

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
The Cockney Kid: ETHEL REVNELL talks about her early days and her partnership with Gracie West
Launchings and Lectures: DENNIS LOWER meets GEORGE MOBBS , once a lifeboat coxswain who now travels overland for the RNLI
A Frail Woman: an overheard conversation leads ALICE MAY COLLIS to the discoveries of the work of a frail little lady who spent her life helping others The i" nut: SHEILA PEAL'S determination was rewarded - in the end

Contributors

Talks:
Ethel Revnell
Unknown:
George Mobbs
Unknown:
Alice May

(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Bruno Milna
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Lilian Nicholson:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Laura Archer:
Gwenda Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Phillp Morant
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Doughy Hood:
Arnold Ridley
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Hugo Barnaby:
Michael McClain

KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor COLIN DAVIS from the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
Britten Les illuminations, for tenor and string orchestra
8.13* Shostakovich Symphony No. 2, in c major (To October) (first performance in this country)
(Music is a weapon - Ates Orga on Shostakovich's Second Symphony: page 15)

Contributors

Leader:
Eli Goren
Conductor:
Colin Davis
Unknown:
Britten Les

' The ponies came up for their last-but-one holiday before machines take over completely ' A programme to mark the end of the working life of the pit pony in NCB mines.
By March 1971 the ponies will have been phased out. The men who work or have worked with them recall their particular ponies with humour and affection
Compiled and introduced by ANITA MORGAN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Anita Morgan

The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which ANNE ALLEN introduces letters from today's postbag For either the weekday or Sunday edition, send your letters to: Listening Post, BBC, London [Postcode removed]. For very late letters you can ring (01)-[number removed], extension 3030, and dictate your message

Contributors

Introduces:
Anne Allen

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