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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 memory of GILBERT SHAW
Introduced by HAROLD ROGERS †
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Introduced By:
Harold Rogers

A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
Duet; Right Hand, Left Hand Tom and John Skinner , though born identical twins, are far from identical in nature; one extrovert, one introvert; even as painters one is abstract, the other representational. They talk to PATRICK HARVEY

Contributors

Unknown:
John Skinner
Unknown:
Patrick Harvey

Intermediate French La Chasse au Buste 1
Written by EMILE HARVEN
10.45 Foreign Correspondent
A BBC correspondent talks on a topic of interest and importance in the immediate past, present, or future
11.0 The Sounds We Hear by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music I by PENNY WHITTAM Snowflakesand Snowmen, with music by Debussy
Produced by VERA gray
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History 1: Mao Tse-tung
Written by RICHARD HARRIS

Contributors

Written By:
Emile Harven
Unknown:
Harry Armstrong
Unknown:
Penny Whittam
Produced By:
Vera Gray
Written By:
Richard Harris

Music Workshop 2
David and Ann make the acquaintance of Twm Shon Cati who, it appears, often finds himself in trouble Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Monro by SEAMUS HEANEY
Produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Watching the Weather by CHRISTINE DUDLEY
How to record rainfall and watch wind-speed and direction. (Nature)

Contributors

Unknown:
Twm Shon
Produced By:
William Murphy
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Produced By:
Elizabeth Ornbo
Unknown:
Christine Dudley

by GERALD KELSEY with Nora Nicholson and Alan Webb
Addie Lovelace is released from prison after serving a sentence for fraudulently deceiving an elderly gentleman. She goes to live with her sister who is extremely worried when Addie seems to be up to her old tricks again.
Addie Lovelace. ..NORA NICHOLSON
Produced by MARTIN JENKINS †

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerald Kelsey
Unknown:
Nora Nicholson
Unknown:
Alan Webb
Unknown:
Addie Lovelace
Unknown:
Addie Lovelace.
Unknown:
Nora Nicholson
Produced By:
Martin Jenkins
Prison Governor:
Margaret Robertson
Furkin:
Ronald Herdman
Billings:
Sean Arnold
Millie Lovelace:
Noel Hood
PC Briggs:
Christopher Bidmead
Auctioneer:
Ian Thompson
Hodges:
Denys Hawthorne
Charles Holbrook:
Alan Webb
Haggerty:
Antony Viccars
Police Inspector:
Denys Hawthorne
Moggridge:
Wilfred Babbage

from St Mary's Parish Church, Belfast: sung by the Choir of St Anne's Cathedral
Introit: Love came down at Christmas (trad. arr H. Grmdle ) Responses (Smith of Durham)
Psalms 73 and 74 (Soaper in E; Walmisley in A; Turle in D minor; Lawes in B flat major) Canticles (Ireland in F)
Anthem: Born in a Manger (Christopher Morris)
Hymn: As with gladness men of old (ICH 77)
Voluntary: Carillon (Herbert Murrttl )
Organist and Master of the Choristers HARRY GRINDLE
Assistant Organist HOWARD FEE

Contributors

Unknown:
H. Grmdle
Organist:
Herbert Murrttl
Unknown:
Harry Grindle
Organist:
Howard Fee

A family magazine introduced by STEVE RACE and including: ' Youth Praise STEWART CROSS talks to MICHAEL BAUGHEN , rector of Holy Trinity, Manchester, and introduces some of the hymns he composed, sung by
6.000 young people at the Royal Albert Hall
A Victorian Art Revived: PAMELA MCDOWALL talks to CORAL HAGDON about making pictures with pressed flowers and leaves
There was Always a Surgery on! : JOAN PATTERSON recalls her childhood as a doctor's daughter
Railways of the Future: DR SYDNEY JONES , Chief of Research of British Rail, tells GEORGE SHORT the story of the development of new high-speed trains

Contributors

Introduced By:
Steve Race
Talks:
Stewart Cross
Unknown:
Michael Baughen
Talks:
Pamela McDowall
Unknown:
Joan Patterson
Unknown:
Dr Sydney Jones

by R. c. SCRIVEN with Michael Hordern
This poetic play, specially writtentomarkthe1968centenary year of 'the Royal National Institute for the Blind, surveys the full cycle of a year, showing how the blind can only rely upon memory and their other remaining senses when they wish to appreciate the changing of the seasons.
The many other parts: .
DAVID BRIERLEY , WILFRID CARTER JAN EDWARDS , NICHOLAS EDMETT LEONARD FENTON. BRIAN HAINES
KATHLEEN HELME , HILDA KRISEMAN HAYDN JONES , DENIS MCCARTHY LOCKWOOD WEST
MARJORIE WESTBURY
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Unknown:
R. C. Scriven
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Unknown:
David Brierley
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter
Unknown:
Jan Edwards
Unknown:
Nicholas Edmett
Unknown:
Leonard Fenton.
Unknown:
Brian Haines
Unknown:
Kathleen Helme
Unknown:
Hilda Kriseman
Unknown:
Haydn Jones
Unknown:
Denis McCarthy
Unknown:
Lockwood West
Unknown:
Marjorie Westbury
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Narrator:
Michael Hordern
Persephone:
Barbara Mitchell
Night:
Sheila Burrell
Matt:
David March
Winter:
Francis de Wolff
Summer:
Lisa Harrow
Autumn:
Victor Lucas

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 ([number removed], and dictate your message.

Contributors

Unknown:
Leslie Smith

"by BARBARA MAUDE
The English village is showing remarkable resistance to the march of progress, preserving its institutions and traditions in spite of such physical interruptions as motorways and new town development.
(Lopsided Planning: Thursday, 10.45 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Maude

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