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6.32 Farming Today an East Anglian edition introduced by GORDON MOSLEY
6.50 Thought for the Week Words, all words by VERNON NOBLE
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

Frisch Begonnen ... German for Beginners 12: Der Geburtstag
Written and produced by STEPHEN KANOCZ
(A radiovision programme recorded in collaboration with West German Radio)
9.45 British History. Decisive events: Brindley's First Canal Script by HOWARD JONES

Contributors

Unknown:
Frisch Begonnen
Produced By:
Stephen Kanocz
Script By:
Howard Jones

Allons-u! 12: L'accident Written by EMILE HARVEN
(An audio-visual programme)
10.45 Interlude
10.47 Nous Void!
12: Le service militaire
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 2: What's News?
Written and presented by JOHN STOCKBRIDGE
Edited by SIMON CLEMENTS
11.46 Drama Workshop. Man and the Seasons. 2: Snow
Introduced by DEREK BOWSKILL

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Written By:
Emile Harven
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 4 produced by ANTHONY CORNISH

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

Oil. 2: Super tankers
Over 1,000 feet long and 170,000 tons deadweight, the crew use bicycles to get about the decks.
Script bv PADDY FEENY (Exploration Earth)
2.20 The Music Box by GORDON REYNOLDS
Produced by ALBERT CHATTERLEY
2.30 Failing i The Examination Result ' from Not Even Then by GWYN THOMAS. (Speak series)
2.40 Movement, Mime, and Music 2 for the 9-11-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Paddy Feeny
Produced By:
Albert Chatterley
Unknown:
Gwyn Thomas.
Unknown:
Glyn Harris

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
The Shelter Man: DES WILSON, Director of the National Campaign for the Homeless, talks to JOHN ELLISON about the turning-points in his life
Operation Butterfly: L. HUGH NEWMAN tells JACK SINGLETON about when as a young man he was sent to Sark
Bathology: ELSPETH WHITAKER recalls variations on this daily (or weekly) theme
Books for Your Tokens: HONOR WYATT has some suggestions

Contributors

Unknown:
John Ellison
Unknown:
L. Hugh
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Elspeth Whitaker

The book by DOREEN TOVEY arranged for radio in five instalments by HOWARD JONES read by KATHLEEN HELME
5: Grandma and OddGoings-On ' Other people have eccentric relations, too, of course. But my grandmother wasn'just eccentric. Her behaviour was usually quite contradictory as well.'
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

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

A panel game controlled by Nicholas Parsons in which Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimmo Clement Freud. Sheila Hancock try to talk for just a minute on this and that
Devised by IAN MESSITER
Produced by SIMON BRETT
(Pre-recorded at The Paris, Lower Regent Street, London SW1. Rpt: Thursday, 12.25) (Derek Nimmo is in ' Charlie Girl ' at the Adelphi Theatre; Sheila Hancock in 'So What About Love? ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Clement Freud.
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Derek Nimmo
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock

'I don't know how it is. but I am seized with the desire to be off... I long for the steamer and for the perfume of British coal... I have a long-cherished plan of introducing my wife to the country of my predilection.'

A memoir in words and music of the composer Mendelssohn's visits to England between 1829 and 1847.

Ian Holm as Felix Mendelssohn with Paul Daneman as the Narrator and Kathleen Helme, Rosalind Shanks, Marjorie Westbury, John Baddeley, Peter Pratt and Michael Spice
The programme compiled from contemporary sources by Joanna Richardson

Contributors

Compiled by:
Joanna Richardson
Producer:
John Powell
Felix Mendelssohn:
Ian Holm
Narrator:
Paul Daneman
[Actress]:
Kathleen Helme
[Actress]:
Rosalind Shanks
[Actress]:
Marjorie Westbury
[Actor]:
John Baddeley
[Actor]:
Peter Pratt
[Actor]:
Michael Spice

by SAMUEL SELVON
A story from Trinidad with Gordon Woolford Yolande Fermin
George Webb , Celia Robinson and Burt Kwouk
Quatro music by FITZROY COLEMAN Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Samuel Selvon
Unknown:
Gordon Woolford
Unknown:
Yolande Fermin
Unknown:
George Webb
Unknown:
Celia Robinson
Unknown:
Burt Kwouk
Music By:
Fitzroy Coleman
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Tiger:
Gordon Woolford
Oho:
Burt Kwouk
Urmilla:
Yolande Fermin
Babolal:
George Webb
Singh:
Frank Singuineau
Mr Robinson:
Frederick Treves
Doreen Robinson:
Jan Edwards
SoyOO:
Rudolph Walker
Berta:
Celia Robinson
West Indian woman:
Myrtle Robinson

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