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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
A Book of Witnesses With DAVID KOSSOFF
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
David Kossoff

The recent publication of Miss du Maurier's latest novel The House on the Strand has renewed critical interest in this perennially popular writer.
In her first broadcast interview for well over a decade DAPHNE DU MAURIER talks to WILFRED DE'ATH about her remarkable family, her life, and work.

on the Feast of the Epiphany from the Parish Church of St James, Piccadilly, London
Celebrant THE REV STEWART CROSS assisted by members of the staff of the BBC including a section of the BBC CHORUS
Preacher FR PATRICK MCENROE Epistle: Ephesians 3. vv 1-12 Gospel: Matthew 2, vv 1-12
Hymns (BBC HB): Hail to the Lord's Anointed (457); BriRhtest and best (63); As with gladness (62)
The Service sung to Darke in E Organist GEORGE THALBEN-BALL

Contributors

Unknown:
Fr Patrick McEnroe

presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest PATRICIA LAMBERT and the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHES1RA conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by EDDIE FRASER

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill McCue
Unknown:
Patricia Lambert
Conductor:
Iain Sutherland
Produced By:
Eddie Fraser

2: All For a Bit of Cod by DAVID MOSEY
When young Colin gets the sack he seems quite unperturbed, but Arthur, his father, interprets it as a slur on the family reputation.
Produced by ALAN AYCKBOURN

Contributors

Unknown:
David Mosey
Produced By:
Alan Ayckbourn
Ivy:
Pamela Dellar
Arthur:
Geoffrey Banks
Terry:
Brian Peck
Colin:
Derrick Gilbert
Brian:
Brian Miller

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including: With-it Writ: CLIFF RICHARD tells TONY BLACK of his part in recording the latest paraphrase of the New Testament, with music
Heritage of Fantasy: JOAN PYPER visited the romantic castles of Ludwig II of Bavaria to meet the restorers at work and hear legends of the king Big Jack and the Injuns: w. GRATTON recalls the thrill of the Little Picture House
Your letters

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Unknown:
Cliff Richard
Unknown:
Tony Black
Unknown:
Joan Pyper

by Leo Tolstoy
A dramatisation in 20 episodes from the translation by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude edited by Michael Bakewell
with David Buck, Kate Binchy, Martin Jarvis, Stephen Murray, Felix Felton, Anna Cropper and Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy
Adapted by Michael Bakewell

Cast in order of speaking [see below]

(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)

(Martin Jarvis is in 'The Bandwagon' at the Mermaid Theatre, London)

Contributors

Author:
Leo Tolstoy
Translation by:
Louise Maude
Translation by:
Aylmer Maude
Translation edited by/[Episode] adapted by:
Michael Bakewell
Executive Producer:
Ronald Mason
Director:
Nesta Pain
Tolstoy:
Denys Hawthorne
Count Ilya Rostov:
David March
Marya Dmitrievna:
Kathleen Helme
Count Pierre Bezukhov:
David Buck
Shinshin:
Garard Green
Julie Karagina:
Alexa Romanes
Petya Rostov:
Derek Seaton
Natasha Rostova:
Kate Binchy
Sonya:
Patricia Gallimore
Princess Catiche:
Jo Manning Wilson
Prince Vasili Kuragin:
James Thomason
Princess Drubetskaya:
Daphne Newton
Princess Sophia:
Sonia Fraser
Marya Bolkonskaya:
Elizabeth Proud
Prince Nicolai Bolkonsky:
Stephen Murray
Mademoiselle Bourienne:
Patricia Gallimore
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky:
Martin Jarvis
Princess Lise Bolkonskaya:
Anna Cropper
Nesvitski:
Michael Deacon
Timokhin:
Geoffrey Collins
Fedya Dolokhov:
Sean Barrett
German colonel:
Leonard Fenton
General Kutuzov:
Felix Felton

The Shop Steward - Paragon or Parasite?
Introduced by KENNETH HARRIS
Last year Mrs Barbara Castle , addressing an important assembly of executives, claimed that power of management was moving from the top echelon to the shop floor.
If this is true. has the Shop Steward too much power - and does he abuse it? Can and will our economy be strangled at source by wildcat strikes in docks, factories, railways, and mines? Is the Shop Steward an anachronism?
Produced by ALAN BURGESS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kenneth Harris
Unknown:
Mrs Barbara Castle
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post introduced by LESLIE SMITH
For either the weekday or Sunday editions, send your letters to: Listening Post, BBC, Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA. For very late letters you can ring (01)-[number removed], extension 3030, and dictate your message.

Contributors

Duced By:
Leslie Smith

The second in a series of four talks about the prospects facing India in the coming decade. DILIP MUKERJEE , one of India's best-known economic and political writers, looks at the present state of the Indian economy and points to some of the more urgent tasks to be faced in the next few years.
(Eric da Costa: Wednesday)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilip Mukerjee

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