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

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Johnston
Talk By:
Derrick Greeves

Franz Kafka
Written by RUDOLF WEIL (German for Sixth Forms)
10.59 Music Workshop 2
Follow-up: written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Time and Tune
Introduced by JOHN CAMBURN
Journey to the Lands of the Midnight Sun - 7 written by JOHN EDWARDS
Produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.2* Brain, Eye, and Hand by MARGERY MORRIS
Narrated by BARRY POSTER Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Man series)
11.40 The Pennines-Littondale A visit to Arncliffe (Eagle's Cliff), and a discussion of an aerial photograph of Blue Scar by NORMAN TURNER (Geography)

Contributors

Unknown:
Franz Kafka
Written By:
Rudolf Weil
Duced By:
William Murphy
Introduced By:
John Camburn
Written By:
John Edwards
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes
Unknown:
Margery Morris
Produced By:
David Lyttle

A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including
Acupuncture: ANGELA PAIN talks to doctors and patients with experience of this treatment
Specialist in the Studio: a psychiatrist answers listeners' questions
Produced by THENA BESHEL

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Produced By:
Thena Beshel

A panel game controlled (!) by NICHOLAS PARSONS
KENNETH WILLIAMS , DEREK NIMMO CLEMENT FREUD , GERALDINE JONES try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER Produced by DAVID HATCH

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Geraldine Jones
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
David Hatch

Homer's Odyssey retold by KENNETH CAVANDER
6: The Bending of the Bow
Produced by RICHARD WORTLEY (Living Language)
2.20 Poetry Corner: Hey Diddle Diddle - poems and a song

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Cavander
Produced By:
Richard Wortley
Narrator:
Michael Smee
Odysseus:
Barry Foster

Information and encouragement for women at home whose domestic responsibilities leave them with time for other work
Presented by CAROLINE Nicholson and MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by EVELYN GIBBS

Contributors

Presented By:
Caroline Nicholson
Unknown:
Michael Smee
Produced By:
Evelyn Gibbs

by NICHOLAS TUCKER
Go into any record shop and what do you find? A few pop records for children, neither pop, nor really for children. Yet there are some excellent children's records - songs, stories, and poetry. Nicholas Tucker plays some of these, as well as some rather bizarre ' oldies,' to show how children enjoy all kinds of things.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Tucker
Unknown:
Nicholas Tucker

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
The Industrious Lord: FRANK PAKENHAM , Earl of Longford, talks to JOHN ELLISON about the turning points in his life as a peer in politics
Join the Girls in Lovat Green: FRANCES BERTHELSEN Visits the WRAC centre at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks , Guildford, to meet some new recruits
Sock it to Them!: elma CHITTY remembers an unusual dinner party in Malaya Your Letters

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Pakenham
Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
Frances Berthelsen
Unknown:
Elizabeth Barracks

Mr Midshipman Easy by CAPTAIN MARRYAT read by ANDREW FAULDS abridged and produced by ANTHONY CORNISH
1: Nicodemus Easy and his son Jack in which we meet our hero and his doting parents

Contributors

Read By:
Andrew Faulds
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish

A Review of the Year Introduced by Michael Flanders including
The Birth of Broadcasting; A Century of Centuries; The Political Scene; First Wembley Cup-Final: The Theatre; Arrival of Hitler; Songs, Tunes, and Talk of the Time with the recorded voices of HM KING GEORGE V
LADY CYNTHIA ASQUITH
A. J. ALAN , P. P. ECKERSLEY
JACK HOBBS , GERTRUDE LAWRENCE COLONEL JOHN LEGGE
DAVID LOW , HELENA MILLAIS REX PALMER and SEAN ARNOLD , WILFRID CARTER
MICHAEL DEACON , KATHLEEN HELME PETER TUDDENHAM
Compiled, written, and produced by JOHN BRIDGES in collaboration With LESLIE BAILY (Were the good old days good?: page 14)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael Flanders
Unknown:
Lady Cynthia Asquith
Unknown:
A. J. Alan
Unknown:
P. P. Eckersley
Unknown:
Jack Hobbs
Unknown:
Gertrude Lawrence
Unknown:
Colonel John Legge
Unknown:
David Low
Unknown:
Helena Millais
Unknown:
Rex Palmer
Unknown:
Sean Arnold
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter
Unknown:
Michael Deacon
Unknown:
Kathleen Helme
Unknown:
Peter Tuddenham
Duced By:
John Bridges
Unknown:
Leslie Baily

concert-master, PETER MOUNTAIN conducted by CHARLES GROVES with ANN SCHEIN (piano) from the Guildhall, Portsmouth Strauss First Waltz Sequence (Der Rosenkavalier)
8.47* Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3, in D minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Mountain
Conducted By:
Charles Groves
Piano:
Ann Schein

Introduced by PAT WILLIAMS who reviews H. G. Wells - His Turbulent Life and Times by Lovat Dickson
BERNARD HOLLOWOOD is interviewed about his new book on the life and work of the great Punch artist,
Pont ANTONY JAY on Robert Connor 's portrait of his father, Cassandra - Reflections in a Mirror
ROY STRONG reviews Sailing to Byzantium - An Architectural Companion by Osbert Lancaster and other new books
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pat Williams
Unknown:
H. G. Wells
Unknown:
Lovat Dickson
Unknown:
Bernard Hollowood
Artist:
Pont Antony Jay
Unknown:
Robert Connor
Unknown:
Osbert Lancaster
Produced By:
Alan Haydock

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