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7.18 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
What the Bible Says FR VINCENT WHELAN
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Fr Vincent Whelan

A l'écoute: 9 written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY (for primary school pupils in their third year of French) S.55 Movement and music 2 by JAMES DODDING
Circus acts, worked out to music from Petrushka by Stravinsky. Music selected and arranged by VERA GRAY

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Music By:
James Dodding
Arranged By:
Vera Gray

Une ville francaise - Dole. Compiled and introduced by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY.
(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. The play complete. (Springboard)
11.20 Ash Road by IVAN SOUTHALL , adapted by MICHAEL HYDE. 3: The Crucible (Listening and Writing)
11.40 1 am, therefore I think 4: Can the team think?
HAROLD LOUKES , Reader in Education at Oxford University, considers the difficulties of group thinking and decision-making, with illustrations from real life and fiction.
Produced by STUART EVANS (Prospect series)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Raymond Escoffey.
Music By:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
Jenyth Worsley.
Unknown:
Ivan Southall
Adapted By:
Michael Hyde.
Reader:
Harold Loukes
Produced By:
Stuart Evans

Miss Snippett goes Adventuring Again by ELIZABETH ROBINSON , adapted by Margaret Thomas (Let's Join In)
2.20 The Bayeux Tapestry
Written by BRIAN RAWLINSON
Produced by RICHARD WORTLEY Editor MOIRA DOOLAN
(Art and Design: radiovision)
2.45 My Dog Sunday by LEILA BERG
(Stories and Rhymes)

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Robinson
Adapted By:
Margaret Thomas
Written By:
Brian Rawlinson
Produced By:
Richard Wortley
Editor:
Moira Doolan

celebrates his 70th birthday this year
DEREK PARKER introduces a tribute to the great conductor made up of recordings of his friends and colleagues, and some of the music which he has conducted.
Produced by DENYS GUEROULT

Contributors

Introduces:
Derek Parker
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

A family magazine introduced from Scotland by HOWARD LOCKHART
The Finals of the BBC Scots Fiddle Competition take place in Perth this evening. JAMES HUNTER reports on this traditional style of music-making
Ocean Hunter: It's a tough life for the crews of distant water trawlers, especially for the skippers. DONALD MACLEOD talks to HARRY BOWMAN of Aberdeen
Venison: STANLEY MAXTON looks at this once neglected game, now a thriving export business Shetland Knitting: JOCELYN HAY has been visiting Fair Isle and Unst and talking to some of the hand-knitters

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Lockhart
Unknown:
James Hunter
Talks:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Harry Bowman
Unknown:
Stanley Maxton
Unknown:
Jocelyn Hay

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 11: The Last Years
Smuggled out of Vienna by the Americans, Nijinsky finds peaceful refuge in England. Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Romola Nijinsky
Abridged By:
Derek Parker
Read By:
Anna Burden
Produced By:
Graham Gauld

Contributors

Written By:
Bruno Milna
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer:
Angela Piper
Lilian:
Elizabeth Marlowe
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Philip Archer:
Norman Painting
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Christine:
Lesley Saweard
Paul Johnson:
Leslie Dunn
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones
Zebedee Tring:
Graham Rigby
Mabel Larkin:
Kay Hudson
Jethro Larkin:
George Hart
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Mrs Spenlowe:
June Brocksom

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

Gade Quartet in D major, Op 63 COPENHAGEN STRING QUARTET Tutter Givskov (violin)
Mogens Lydolph (violin) Mogens Bruun (viola)
Asger Lund Christiansen (cello) gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Mogens Lydolph
Viola:
Mogens Bruun
Cello:
Asger Lund Christiansen

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