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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 A talk by CLAUDE MUNCASTER
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Talk By:
Claude Muncaster

Interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
The
Widower BILL COLLETT of Leicester is 72 and has lived alone since his wife died 12 years ago. With a tremendous sense of humour and determination, he has overcome the loneliness, and has developed an attitude towards looking after himself-cooking, washing, making beds, and so on - that could be a comfort to people in the same position. Today he talks to LARRY HARRIS Produced by JAMES GALLAGHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Widower Bill Collett
Unknown:
Larry Harris
Produced By:
James Gallagher

Intermediate French
5: Dimanche a Bruxelles also JAN ROSOL singing with his guitar
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

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

Seven years ago 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller , son of Governor Nelson Rockefeller , disappeared off the coast of New Guinea. No trace of him has ever been found, and in spite of an enormous and expensive search operation mounted by his father at the time, the manner and cause of his disappearance remain a mystery. Earlier this year GARTH ALEXANDER , a journalist living in Indonesia, spoke to New Guinea tribesmen who, he believes, could throw much more light on that disappearance. These tribesmen are cannibals,
(In the hands of head hunters: page 12)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rockefeller
Unknown:
Nelson Rockefeller
Unknown:
Garth Alexander

Music Workshop 2
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 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 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

by RICHARD AUSTIN with Helen Fraser
' Of an evening you want to get out, see a bit of life.' Anita's desire for a bit of life takes her to Soho, where she meets a young man who is also hoping for something from his night out.
Produced by JANE GRAHAM

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Fraser
Produced By:
Jane Graham
Barry:
Bill Lyons
Waitress:
Hilda Kriseman
Anita:
Helen Fraser
Edna:
Caroline Monkhouse
Mike:
Nigel Lambert
Barman:
John Pullen
George:
Don McKiliop
Walter:
Kerry Francis
Iris:
Elizabeth Proud
Policeman:
Clifford Norgate

from Peterborough Cathedral
Introit: 0 bone Jesu (Philip Radcliffe)
Responses (Bernard Rose )
Psalms 142 and 143 (Stanley Vann , H. C. Stewart )
Lessons: Proverbs 4, v 20, to 5, v 14; James 4
Canticles (Houiells, St Paul's Service)
Anthem: At the round earth's imagined corners (Tony Hewitt -Jones)
Master of the Music, STANLEY VANN
Assistant Organist BARRY FERGUSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Rose
Unknown:
Stanley Vann
Unknown:
H. C. Stewart
Unknown:
Tony Hewitt
Organist:
Barry Ferguson

A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWES and including: A Many-Coloured Palette: MARYLIN WAILES talks to ANNE CATCHPOLE about her varied life as a painter and musician
It's in the Bag: MARIELAINE DOUGLAS visits one of the most modern crisp factories in the world
Smoke-but no fire: another un-military memory from DRU PARSONS
School Report: GILLIAN ATHI-SAYAM, an Englishwoman married to an Indian, talks about her adopted son's first term as the only coloured boy on the roll

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Talks:
Marylin Wailes
Unknown:
Anne Catchpole
Unknown:
Marielaine Douglas

GYÖRGY PAUK (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor COLIN DAVIS
Violin Concerto in D major
8.35* Symphony No 4, in F minor
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed]enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

Contributors

Leader:
Eli Goren
Conductor:
Colin Davis

ROGER SNOWDON talks about the fascination of old motors with some of the people who next Sunday will be driving their pre-1905 cars on Britain's best-attended sporting event, the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run
Compiled by ROGER SNOWDON

Contributors

Talks:
Roger Snowdon
Unknown:
Roger Snowdon

played by RAYMOND CARPENTER (clarinet) NUALA HERBERT (piano)
Schumann Fantasiestiicke , Op 73
Poulenc Sonata (1962)
Nicolas Tchcrepnin Pièce insouciante

Contributors

Clarinet:
Raymond Carpenter
Piano:
Nuala Herbert
Piano:
Schumann Fantasiestiicke
Unknown:
Nicolas Tchcrepnin

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