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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
Beyond Anger: EDDIE MCATEER
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Eddie McAteer

A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life A Teller of Tales
With her zest for living undiminished, Phyllis Bentley , author of Inheritance and many other books, talks about her life to OLIVE SHAPLEY.

Contributors

Unknown:
Phyllis Bentley
Unknown:
Olive Shapley.

Intermediate French La Chasse au Buste 2
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 Echoes by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.26 Movement and Music I by PENNY WHITTAM
At the Zoo: music by Debussy Produced by VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History
2: The UN and the Korean War compiled by PHILIP HOLLAND

Contributors

Written By:
Emile Harven
Unknown:
Harry Armstrong
Produced By:
Vera Gray
Unknown:
Philip Holland

Music Workshop 2
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Morphy by JOHN FULLER
Produced by STUART EVANS (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Birds in the Cold by BERTHA LONSDALE
What food to give birds in the cold winter months. (Nature)

Contributors

Produced By:
William Murphy
Produced By:
Stuart Evans
Unknown:
Bertha Lonsdale

by CHARLES HATTON with Frank Duncan
1 When you've turned fifty time is going faster and life seems more precious. You feel you ought to be doing something to justify yourself ... '
Other parts JAN EDWARDS SEAN ARNOLD
Produced by BETTY DAVIES

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Hatton
Unknown:
Frank Duncan
Unknown:
Jan Edwards
Unknown:
Sean Arnold
Produced By:
Betty Davies
Peter Gillot:
Frank Duncan
Hazel Gillot:
Madi Hedd
A C Coates:
Charles Simon
Joy:
Jenny McCracken
George Hartley:
Garard Green

from Durham Cathedral
Responses (Kenneth Leighton ) Office Hymn: What star is this with beams so bright
Psalm 106 (Parry, Clark, Gilbert)
Lessons: Micah 4; 1 Corinthians 3
Canticles (Armstrong Gibbs in F minor)
Anthem: A Boy is Born (Benjamin Britten)
Master of the Choristers CONRAD EDEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Leighton

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Friends of the Folies: two English theatre people talk to NORMAN TOZER about their experiences of working in the famous Parisian musical revues at the Folies Bergère ' The Smugglers ': TIMOTHY GREEN tells JACK SINGLETON about ' the world's second-oldest profession '
' Exit, pursued by a bear': a Shakespearean memory by DICK GREGSON
Breakfast with a Poet: KATH LEEN CURRY recalls the day she threw her childhood ambition out of the window

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Tozer
Unknown:
Timothy Green
Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Dick Gregson
Unknown:
Kath Leen

by ALISTAIR MACLEAN read in five parts by DENYS HAWTHORNE 2: The Blow
The Greenland ice-cap - 300 miles from nowhere. Ten airline passengers to save. And somebody has wrecked the radio ... abridged and produced by DAVID A. TURNER

Contributors

Unknown:
Alistair MacLean
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Produced By:
David A. Turner

1782-1840
A sorcerer. He will dwell in our heart until it ceases to move. The wish to hear me again will always remain in those who have heard me. How many Paganinis do they think there are in the worldt
A radio portrait compiled from contemporary and other sources and written by JOANNA RICHARDSON
With JOHN RICHMOND
WILFRID CARTER , LEONARD FENTON CHARLES SIMON ,GUY DU MONCEAU
KERRY FRANCIS , and SONIA FRASER Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Written By:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
John Richmond
Unknown:
Wilfrid Carter
Unknown:
Leonard Fenton
Unknown:
Charles Simon
Unknown:
Guy du Monceau
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Unknown:
Sonia Fraser
Produced By:
David Davis
Paganini:
Robert Rietty

An occasional series by DONALD THOMAS of trials in the House of Lords It was only in 1948 that the privilege of a member of the House of Lords of choosing to be tried by his peers was abolished. Donald Thomas has dramatised, from the original documents and contemporary reports, a number of these trials, including that of Lord Mohun for murder in 1692, and the second Earl Russell for bigamy in 1901. 1: The Trial of Lord Cardigan in 1841 for inflicting grievous bodily harm
Principal characters
Other parts SEAN ARNOLD
JOHN BENTLEY. KERRY FRANCIS BRIAN HAINES , MALCOLM HAYES
CLIFFORD NORGATE , HECTOR ROSS
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Thomas
Unknown:
Sean Arnold
Unknown:
John Bentley.
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Unknown:
Brian Haines
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Unknown:
Clifford Norgate
Unknown:
Hector Ross
Produced By:
Charles Lefeaux
Adeline de Horsey:
Jan Edwards
Narrator:
Howieson Culff
Lord Cardigan:
William Fox
Inspector John Busain:
Frederick Treves
Thomas Dann:
Leonard Fenton
Lord High Steward:
Austin Trevor
Attorney-General:
John Gabriel
Sir William Follett:
John Pullen
Mrs Dann:
Kathleen Helme

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