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6.32 Farming Today an East Anglian edition introduced by GORDON MOSLEY
6.50 Thought for the Week With PAUL PRIEST
. 6.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time GTS 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 am
1.0, 6.0, 11.0 pm Big Ben 10.0 pm

Contributors

Introduced By:
Gordon Mosley

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 A memory of DR ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Introduced by HAROLD ROGERS
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Dr Albert Schweitzer
Introduced By:
Harold Rogers

Frisch Begonnen
German for Beginners 11: Be-such aus Hamburg
Written and produced by STEPHEN KANOCZ
(A radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.45 British History
Decisive events: The Founding of Pennsylvania
Written by WILLIAM FOX

Contributors

Unknown:
Frisch Begonnen
Produced By:
Stephen Kanocz
Written By:
William Fox

Allons-y!
11: Un article sensationnel Written by EMILE HARVEN
(An audio-visual programme)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous Voici ! 11: Le conseil de revision
Written by PAULE-ALINE DENT (Third-year French)
11.1 Singing Together
Introduced by WILLIAM APPLEBY Produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 Inquiry
Five programmes on Pressure and Opinion
1: Changing Your Mind
Written and presented by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Edited by SIMON CLEMENTS
11.40 Drama Workshop. Man and the Seasons - Old Year, New Year
Introduced by DEREK BOWSKILL

Contributors

Written By:
Emile Harven
Unknown:
Nous Voici
Introduced By:
William Appleby
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes
Presented By:
John Stockbridge
Edited By:
Simon Clements
Introduced By:
Derek Bowskill

A serial in five parts by ALAN REES based on the story of Mary Lindell , OBE-Comtesse de Milleville - and the search for her youngest son who disappeared from Paris during the war. Read by SUSAN FLEETWOOD Part 3
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH (Susan Fleetwood is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Co)

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Rees
Unknown:
Mary Lindell
Read By:
Susan Fleetwood
Produced By:
Anthony Cornish
Produced By:
Susan Fleetwood

Oil Wells of Kuwait
Script by PADDY FEENY (Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
Produced by ALBERT CHATTERLLY
2.30 Fighting
Including The Fight ' from There is a Happy Land by KEITH WATERHOUSE (Speak series)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 for the 9-11-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Script By:
Paddy Feeny
Unknown:
Gordon Reynolds
Produced By:
Albert Chatterlly
Unknown:
Keith Waterhouse
Unknown:
Glyn Harris

A family magazine introduced from the North of England by Barry Chambers and including:
Rescue: A.R. Dresser was stationed on an Indian Ocean island. At the height of a storm came trouble.
Dressed and Highly Recommended: John Burns samples a Northern delicacy
Isn't there Anyone for Tennis?: one of life's minor pleasures described affectionately by Barbara Brill

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Chambers
Unknown:
A. R. Dresser
Unknown:
John Burns
Unknown:
Barbara Brill

The book by DOREEN TOVEY arranged for radio in five instalments by HOWARD JONES read by KATHLEEN HELME
4: Grandma and the Saving of Gladys Gladys was our local delinquent. She was sullen, she stole and lied and fought.... Only my grandmother found excuses for her.
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Book By:
Doreen Tovey
Unknown:
Howard Jones
Read By:
Kathleen Helme
Unknown:
Gladys Gladys
Produced By:
David Davis

A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud , Aimi Macdonald try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESITER
Produced by SIMON BRETT
(Pre-recorded at The Paris, Lower Regent Street, London SW1. Repeated: Thursday,
12.25 pm)
(Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Aimi MacDonald
Unknown:
Ian Mesiter
Produced By:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo

A radio portrait of Handel in England 1710-1759
Though not a native of England, Handel spent the greatest part of his life in the service of its inhabitants, improving our taste, and introducing among us so many species of musical excellence that, during more than half a century, we neither wanted nor wished for any other standard.' DR BURNEY
Compiled from contemporary and other sources, and written by JOANNA RICHARDSON with Norman Shelley as Handel CHARLES SIMON , BRUCE BEEBY
DENYS BLAKELOCK , KERRY FRANCIS and WILFRID CARTER
Narrator BERNARD KEEFFE
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Written By:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Handel Charles Simon
Unknown:
Bruce Beeby
Unknown:
Denys Blakelock
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Produced By:
David Davis

The second of two plays by JULIA JONES based on novels by RIIYS DAVIES starring Hywel Bennett
Life's not going to fail us, I promise - we've got too good a hold on it. I'm afraid there'll never be much money, but we've got healthy minds and we're not greedy. Laugh, for God's sake, laugh.'
Produced by lorraine DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Hywel Bennett
Produced By:
Lorraine Davies
Tudor:
Hywel Bennett
Bronwen, his grandmother:
Rachel Thomas
Cerldwen, his mother:
Dilys Price
Elwyn, his father:
Ivor Roberts
Mildred:
Sian Davies
Melville:
Wyn Thomas
Daisy:
Elizabeth Morgan
Billy:
Frank Lincoln
Meredith:
Brinley Jenkins
Richards:
Ray Handy

First of two programmes on the place of youth in our rapidly changing society Speakers include: LORD RITCHIE-CALDER MAURICE CARSTAIRS
S. N. HASHIM , M. F. H. WILKINS Arranged and introduced by REX KEATING Of UNESCO Radio

Contributors

Unknown:
Lord Ritchie-Calder
Unknown:
Maurice Carstairs
Unknown:
S. N. Hashim
Unknown:
M. F. H. Wilkins
Introduced By:
Rex Keating

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