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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
What the Bible Says
With FR VINCENT WHELAN
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Fr Vincent Whelan

to people talking about Edward Elgar
After his recent programme on the composer many listeners wrote to DAVID FRANKLIN and told him their memories of Elgar
Produced by Helen Fry

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Elgar
Unknown:
David Franklin
Produced By:
Helen Fry

Lecture Expliquée: A reading, with comment and appreciation of La Fontaine's fable La Mvrt et le Bucheron
Written by JEAN MOUTON (French for Sixth Forms)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 Harlequin's Hoax
A play in the round based on Commedia del'Arte characters by JENYTH WORSLEY : second rehearsal. (Springboard)
11.20 Ash Road by IVAN SOUTHALL , adapted by MICHAEL HYDE. 2: State of Emer gency. (Listening and Writing)
11.40 I am, therefore I think 3: I don'get it
MARY WARNOCK, Headmistress of Oxford High School for Girls, explores, in conversation with sixth-formers from the school, problems of communication. Produced by STUART EVANS (Prospect series)

Contributors

Written By:
Jean Mouton
Music By:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
Jenyth Worsley
Unknown:
Ivan Southall
Adapted By:
Michael Hyde.
Unknown:
Emer Gency.
Produced By:
Stuart Evans

Miss .Snippet goes to the Land of Pins and Needles by ELIZABETH Robinson , adapted by Margaret Thomas (Let's Join In)
2.26 Van Gogh
Written by NICHOLAS WADLEY
Produced by SAM LANGDON
(Art and Design: Radiovision)
2.40 The Singing Hill by MElNDERT DEJONG Part 3: The Rain
(Stories and Rhymes)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Robinson
Adapted By:
Margaret Thomas
Unknown:
Van Gogh
Written By:
Nicholas Wadley
Produced By:
Sam Langdon
Unknown:
Melndert Dejong

An enquiry by STUART FORSYTH The British mining industry-at one time foremost in the world - is now in a pretty sad state. Yet just across the Irish Sea, the Republic of Ireland has shown that, given some incentive, mining companies are prepared to seek and exploit minerals in a way that is profitable to both country and companies. So why not a rebirth of mining in Britain?
Produced by DAVID PATERSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Stuart Forsyth
Produced By:
David Paterson

A family magazine introduced from the Midlands by DAVID STEVENS and including:
Hand-in-glove at Fiddler's Folly: KEITH ACKRILL has been to see Shropshire's only permanent Puppet Theatre, run by Douglas Ward , in a valley near Church Stretton
Ton-up boys of the Twenties: GEOFFREY GREEN turns the clock back to the 1920s and the influence that the motorbike had on the teenagers who travelled and tinkered with them

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stevens
Unknown:
Keith Ackrill
Unknown:
Douglas Ward

The biography of the legendary dancer written by his widow ROMOLA NIJINSKY : abridged by DEREK PARKER from Nijinsky and The Last Years of Nijinsky read by ANNA BURDEN 10: Escape to Vienna
A perilous journey to Vienna leaves the Nijinskys stranded without food or money in a luxury hotel.

Contributors

Unknown:
Romola Nijinsky
Abridged By:
Derek Parker
Read By:
Anna Burden

Tonight's evening paper of the air with reports from the region's news studios and Scotland Yard - Sportsdesk - Weekend with TOM bostock - Stop Press: introduced by MICHAEL MEECH

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Bostock
Introduced By:
Michael Meech

(Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Bruno Milna
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Travers-Macy:
Angela Piper
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Adam Archer:
Jeremy Whltticase
Lilian Nicholson:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine Johnson:
Lesley Saweard
Paul Johnson:
Leslle Dunn
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Phlllp Morant
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Ralph Bellamy:
Jack Holloway
Mrs Perkins:
Pauline Seville
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Hester Latimer:
Penelope Shaw
Mrs Blossom:
Anne Crick

The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by News-stand in which GEORGE SCOTT analyses how the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street

Contributors

Unknown:
George Scott

Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat major. Op 47
MEMBERS OF THE BARYLLI QUARTET Walter Barylli (violin) Rudolf Streng (viola)
Emanuel Brabec (cello)
JORG DEMUS (piano)
gramophone record

Contributors

Violin:
Walter Barylli
Viola:
Rudolf Streng
Cello:
Emanuel Brabec
Piano:
Jorg Demus

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