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6.32 Farming Today an East Anglian edition introduced by GORDON MOSLEY
6.50 Thought for the Week A Question of Leisure
THE REV ELSIE CHAMBERLAIN
6.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time: GTS 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 am
1.0, 6.0, 11.0 pm
10.0 pm

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gordon Mosley
Unknown:
Rev Elsie Chamberlain

7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight: I'll Never Forget
Talk by Monica Furlong
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Johnston
Talk By:
Monica Furlong

Frisch Begonnen ... German for Beginners. 7: Wiederholung Written and produced by STEPHEN KANOCZ f
<A radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.45 British History
Decisive events: Westminster Abbey: the last days of the monastery. Written by CATHERINE NOKTHCOTE

Contributors

Unknown:
Frisch Begonnen
Produced By:
Stephen Kanocz
Written By:
Catherine Nokthcote

Allons -y! 7: L'arrivee de Minou Vison. Written by EMILE HARVEN (An audio-visual programme)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous Voici ! 7: Pierre I'Italien. Written by GEOFFREY BRAITHWAITE and MICHEL DE LANTIVY (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together introduced by WILLIAM APPLEBY
11.20 Inquiry 2: A Fair Day's Work. Five programmes on ' Getting and Spending '
Presented by LEIGH CRUTCHLEY
11.40 Drama Workshop. Man and the Seasons: A Tree In Autumn. Introduced by DEREK BOWSKILL with music by the MICHAEL GARRICK TRIO
Produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES

Contributors

Written By:
Emile Harven
Unknown:
Nous Voici
Written By:
Geoffrey Braithwaite
Written By:
Michel de Lantivy
Introduced By:
William Appleby
Presented By:
Leigh Crutchley
Introduced By:
Derek Bowskill
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes

Beryl Reid , Patricia Hayes in a new series by JENNIFER PHILLIPS
6:Long Way to Go
While turning out a chest of drawers Madge comes across her passport. The idea of travel takes root.
Produced by KEITH Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Reid
Unknown:
Patricia Hayes
Unknown:
Jennifer Phillips
Produced By:
Keith Williams
Madge:
Beryl Reid
Lilian:
Patricia Hayes
Travel Agency Clerk:
Andree Evans

Scattered settlements 1: Isle of Lewis
On remote crofts on the Island of Lewis and Harris the famous Harris tweed is woven. What is a crofter's life like as he weaves about 160 yards of tweed a week?
Written by HENRY DONALD (Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
Produced by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
2.30 Old Age
Extract from the play ' The Happy Haven ' by JOHN ARDEN (Speak series)
2.40 Movement. Mime, and Music 2 for the 9-11-ycar-olds by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Written By:
Henry Donald
Produced By:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
John Arden

Home and the 'It has long been recognised that education is concerned with the whole man; henceforth it must be concerned with the whole family.' This is one of the conclusions of the Plow-den Report, with which susie BARRY, now of the Further Education Group at Brunei University, was closely involved. She discusses her work with WILLEMVAN DER EYKEN
Produced by JUDITH WALTON
For publication see page 46

Contributors

Produced By:
Judith Walton

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including: Dr Christiaan Barnard (1) : LESLIE SMITH talks to the eminent heart surgeon about his bovhood, medical career, and heart transplant operations Spies in Fact and Fiction: JEANINE MCMULLEN looks at some recent books on espionage and talks to richard DEACON, author of The British Secret Service
Darn it!: violet DISMORE reflects on a dying art
A Breath of Fresh Air: from the Ilkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist WALTER FLESHER f

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Christiaan Barnard
Talks:
Leslie Smith
Unknown:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Walter Flesher

The Wooden Horse
The famous wartime escape story bv ERIC Williams abridged for radio in 10 instalments by NAN MACDONALD Reader JOHN BENNETT
5: Finn Plans
Everything is ready for the break-out. Their civilian clothes, emergency rations dog food'). forged travel passes and other necessary papers - the Ausweis (Identity Card) and Arbeitskarte ( Workman's Identity Card) - train times checked. and arrangements made for sealing down the trap after them. Peter and Phil enter the tunnel for the last time. But what has happened to John?

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Williams
Reader:
Nan MacDonald

introduced by Jack Brymer BBC SCOTTISH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader TOM ROWLETTE conducted by ALAN SUTTIE including:
Rimsky - Korsahov Spanish Caprice
Wagner Prelude: Tristan and Isolde
Struvinsky Ballet Suite: The Firebird (1919 version)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack Brymer
Leader:
Tom Rowlette
Conducted By:
Alan Suttie

by MAX BEERBOHM adapted for radio by DOROTHY BAKER
A satirical tale of literary London in the nineties
(This self-portrait. 1893, is published in ' Max Beerbohm in Perspective ' by Bonn Lynch. Heinemann 1921
Produced by R.D. SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorothy Baker
Unknown:
Max Beerbohm
Unknown:
Bonn Lynch.
Produced By:
R.D. Smith
Max Beerbohm:
Hugh Burden
Enoch Soames:
Robin Bailey
The Devil:
Ralph Truman
William Rothenstein:
Tim Seely
Henry Harland:
Blain Fairman

The Children of the House bv BRIAN FAIRFAX-LUCY and PHILIPPA PEARCE abridged and produced by PAUL HUMPHREYS
KEITH BANKSA reads the first of 10 instalments
The Children of the House is the story of life in a large country house in the years before 1914 seen through the eyes of the four children who lived there. Though Stanford Hall had been in the possession of Lady Hatton's family for generations the estate had become impoverished, and her husband Sir Robert Hatton , an unsentimental north-country man. was determined to save what was left.

Contributors

Produced By:
Paul Humphreys
Produced By:
Keith Banksa
Unknown:
Sir Robert Hatton

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