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6.32 Farming Today an East Anglian edition introduced by GORDON MOSLEY
6.50 Thought for the Week with DAVID BENTLEY
6.55 Weather; programme news
Today'sTimeors7.0,8.0, 9.0 am
1.0, 6.0. 11.0 pm
10.0 pm

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gordon Mosley
Unknown:
David Bentley

7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight I Was Alone
GERALD BROOKE
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Gerald Brooke

ROBERT STANNAGE takes you on the first part of a 3,500-mile journey he made a few weeks ago on the ss Arcadia
1: Lisbon, Majorca, Gibraltar Produced bv HAROLD ROGERS (Robert Stannage continues his journey to the Canary Islands and Madeira at the same time next week)

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Stannage
Unknown:
Harold Rogers
Unknown:
Robert Stannage

by CHARLOTTE BRONTË abridged in ten instalments by NAN MACDONALD reader Billie Whitelaw
1: The Red Room
At the age of 10, Jane Eyre , unloved and unwanted by her aunt and cousins, leaves Gates-head Hall for the unknown world of school at Lowood.

Contributors

Reader:
Billie Whitelaw
Unknown:
Jane Eyre

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor MARCUS DODS
STUDIO ORCHESTRA OF RIAS BERLIN conducted by HANS CARSTE
RADIO ENTERTAINMENT ORCHESTRA OF BADEN-BADEN conducted by WILLY MATTES

Contributors

Leader:
Arthur Leavins
Conductor:
Marcus Dods
Conducted By:
Hans Carste
Conducted By:
Willy Mattes

The Making of a Marchioness
A radio play by DIANA MORGAN from the novel (pub 1901) by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT with Andrew Cruickshank and Curigwen Lewis

Contributors

Play By:
Diana Morgan
Unknown:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Unknown:
Andrew Cruickshank
Unknown:
Curigwen Lewis

A family magazine introduced from Northern Ireland by MICHAEL BAGULEY and including Ireland's Bing Crosby: RAY WARREN talks to MAURICE LEITCH Death of a Custom: SAM HANNA bell recalls a fragment of folklore from his part of County Antrim
Soundings: SEAMUS HEANEY and JAMES SIMMONS , two young Ulster poets, read some of their work with music
Motoring Memories-Edwardian reminiscences: LYSTER JACKSON
Ceiling: BETTY LOWRY recaptures some childhood memories of two unusual aunts and contemporary folk songs by GERRY O'KANE and GEORGE HUTCHINSON

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Baguley
Talks:
Ray Warren
Unknown:
Maurice Leitch
Unknown:
Sam Hanna
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Unknown:
James Simmons
Unknown:
Lyster Jackson
Unknown:
Betty Lowry
Songs By:
Gerry O'Kane
Songs By:
George Hutchinson

The Wooden Horse
The famous wartime escape story by ERIC WILLIAMS abridged for radio in 10 instalments by NAN MACOONALD Reader JOHN BENNETT 9: Followed
Peter felt a sudden anger against the fate that had lured them on with every promise of success only to let them down at the last minute. The only thing now was to submit and go back quietly to the camp-to try again. But he felt sick mside him with a desperate desire to turn back the clock and not make the mistakes that had brought the Gestapo on their track.

Contributors

Story By:
Eric Williams
Reader:
Nan MacOonald
Reader:
John Bennett

A panel game controlled by Nicholas pardons in which KENNETH WILLIAMS. DEREK NIMMO CLEMENT FREUD. SHEILA HANCOCK try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised bv IAN MESSITER
Produced by DAVID HATCH
(Pre-recorded at The Paris, Lower Regent Street. London, SW1. Rptd Thurs, 12.25 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi; Sheila Hancock in ' So What About Love? ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams.
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud.
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Produced By:
David Hatch
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock

The action takes place on Sorin's country estate in 1896.

Contributors

Writer:
Anton Chekhov
Translated by:
David Magarshac
Produced by:
Charles Lefeaux
Semyon Medvyedenko a school-master:
Anthony Jackson
Masha, Shamrayev's daughter:
Barbara Mitchell
Pyotr Sorin, Arkadina's brother:
Ronald Herdman
Konstantin, Arkadina's son:
Ian McKellen
Nina, a young girl:
Zena Walker
Yakov, a workman:
Bernard Brown
Polina, Shamrayev's wife:
Marjorie Westbury
Yevgeny Dorn, a doctor:
Jack May
Shamrayev, manager of Sorin's estate:
Victor Lucas
Madame Irina Arkadina, an actress:
Irene Worth
Boris Trigorin, a novelist:
Hugh Burden

ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) Haydn Overture in D major attrib. J. C. Bach Harpsichord Concerto in A major
Haydn Six German Dances gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Neville Marriner
Harpsichord:
George Malcolm

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