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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Weather; programme news
7.50 News Summary followed by Today including Apollo 12 The Moon Revisited
The astronauts touch down (as Radio 1 and 2: see facing page)
8.0--8.10* The News
8.35 South-East News
8.40 Today's Papers
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Johnston

Intermediate French
8: L'equipe de secours
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 Exercise and Rest by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
Music selected and arranged by VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55am)
11.40 Contemporary History
8: D-Day. The Allied landings in Normandy, 6 June 1944 Compiled by ROBERT REID

Contributors

Written By:
Emile Harven
Unknown:
Harry Armstrong
Arranged By:
Vera Gray
Unknown:
Robert Reid

Music Workshop 2: written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Moby Dick by HERMAN MEL VILLE, adapted by STUART EVANS. 2: Aboard the Pequod
Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Life Underwater by TONY GOULD. (Nature)

Contributors

Produced By:
William Murphy
Produced By:
Moby Dick
Unknown:
Herman Mel
Adapted By:
Stuart Evans.
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Unknown:
Tony Gould.

Take Any Day by IVOR WILSON
'A doctor holds in his hands the lives and happiness of his patients - not just for this day - or that - but-cvery day. When we ask him for an account of his stewardship he must be able to say - Take any day '
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivor Wilson
Produced By:
Alfred Bradley
Ada Gennett:
Sharon Duce
Dr David Smith:
Geoffrey Hinsliff
Mr Dakers:
Ronald Harvi
Chairman:
David Mahlowe
Caroline Smith:
Pamela Craig
Herbert Dyson:
Harry Markham
Dr Tenniel:
Geoffrey Banks
Alice:
Frances Colyer
Mr Jackson:
Sam Kelly
Mrs Askew:
Nita Valerie
Dorothy DineIy:
Dorothy Vernon
Eileen Telford:
Fiona Walker
Mr Brownlow:
Brian Miller

from the Chapel of St John's College.

Cambridge Responses (Thomas Ebdon)
Psalms 98. 99, 100, 101 (T. Attwood; P.W. Whitlock)
Lessons
Isaiah 6; St John 12, vv 20-36
Canticles: (Rose in c minor)
Anthem: Christus factus est pro nobis (Bruckner)
Hymn: Lord of our life, and God of our salvation (Iste confessor: EH 435)

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including:
1 Bless the Bride': VIVIAN ELLIS talks to KEN SYKORA about his life with music
The Colour Explosion: ENID VERITY , of the British Colour Education Institute, discusses with CORAL HADDON how people are becoming increasingly colour-conscious
All that Pepys began: MICHAEL GILLIAM investigates the variety of diaries available and the way people use them
Tea-Trinks: memories of a Cornish childhood by JIM CRADDOCK

Contributors

Talks:
Vivian Ellis
Unknown:
Enid Verity
Unknown:
Michael Gilliam
Unknown:
Jim Craddock

A Window of Sky
The book by GEOFFREY MORGAN adapted as a serial reading in five parts by the author read by Richard HURNDALL 3: Nina and Tuesday
Joe and Mrs Massiter had three months to get out of their London home. Nina had written from Vienna that she was coming to England, and Joe was looking forward to that, but he had less enthusiasm for the accountancy job found for him. But then Nina came ...

Contributors

Book By:
Geoffrey Morgan
Read By:
Richard Hurndall
Read By:
Mrs Massiter

Written by TONY VAN DEN BERGH with Stephen Murray as Edward Jenner
The disease was hideous. And it was usually fatal. Before the beginning of the 19th century more than 40,000 people a year died in Britain of smallpox. And those who survived the disease were invariably hideously pockmarked.
As a young doctor Edward Jenner worked under John Hunter. ' the father of British surgery.' After years of patient research - research constantly hindered by a large body of public and medical opinion who thought that his methods were a contradiction to the will of God - he discovered the protective power of vaccination. It was a discovery which was to save the lives of millions of people throughout the world from that day onwards.
Produced by ALAN BURGESS

Contributors

Written By:
Tony van Den Bergh
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Unknown:
Edward Jenner
Unknown:
Edward Jenner
Unknown:
John Hunter.
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

Roger Snowdon , with a cast of actors, tells of 240 years of drama on and off the stage at one of London's greatest play-houses. The Theatre Royal, Haymarket
The Gentlemen:
ROGER BIZLEY , WILFRID CARTER
KERRY FRANCIS , ANTHONY JACKSON GODFREY KENTON , VICTOR LUCAS PETER PRATT , HECTOR ROSS
DAVID SPENSER , JAMES THOMASON PETER TUDDENHAM , PETER WILLIAMS The Ladies:
MARGOT BOYD , URSULA HANRAY
KATHLEEN HELME , PAULINE LETTS Written, produced and narrated by ROGER SNOWDON

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Snowdon
Unknown:
Roger Bizley
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Unknown:
Anthony Jackson
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Unknown:
Victor Lucas
Unknown:
Peter Pratt
Unknown:
Hector Ross
Unknown:
David Spenser
Unknown:
James Thomason
Unknown:
Peter Tuddenham
Unknown:
Peter Williams
Unknown:
Margot Boyd
Unknown:
Ursula Hanray
Unknown:
Kathleen Helme
Unknown:
Pauline Letts
Unknown:
Roger Snowdon

The News
The background to the news and people in the news. followed by Listening Post in which WALTER TAPLIN 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:
Walter Taplin

BBC Radio 4 FM

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More