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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
What the Bible Says by BILLY MAGEE
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Billy Magee

An Act of Worship
Soldiers of Christ, arise (sp 641: new tune by John Maynard)
Interlude: Hopwood Family-Hark, hark* the dogs do bark The prayer of dedication
Introduced by RALPH ROLLS
9.25 Growing Up by MARGARET SHEFFIELD
Second of the two sex-education programmes suitable for children aged 8 and 9 (Nature series: radiovision)
9.40 Interlude
9.45 A I'écoute Programme 12
Written by Raymond Escoffey
For primary school pupils in their third year of French
9.55 Movement and Music 2 by JAMES DODDING
The seasons: Winter
Produced by VERA GRAY

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ralph Rolls
Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Music By:
James Dodding
Produced By:
Vera Gray

Actualites Francoises
A talk on current affairs in France given by HENRI APPIA and AGNES TANGUY (French for Sixth Forms)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY 2: Simon Says
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 The Story of a House Written and produced by JENYTH WORSI. EY (Springboard)
11.20 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ANTHONY THWAITE introduces his own poems The Pond and Dust, and the poems An Ordinary Day by Norman MacCaig , A Dead Mole by Andrew Young , Thistles bv Ted Hughes , The Thing by Theodore Roethke , and We are going to see the rabbit by Alan Brownjohn
. (Listening and Writing)
11.40 Prospect
Group Man. 2: Not conforming Compiled by ANTHONY SCHOOLING Produced by T. K BUTCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Henri Appia
Unknown:
Agnes Tanguy
Music By:
Albert Chatterley
Produced By:
Jenyth Worsi.
Introduces:
Anthony Thwaite
Unknown:
Norman MacCaig
Unknown:
Andrew Young
Unknown:
Ted Hughes
Unknown:
Theodore Roethke
Unknown:
Alan Brownjohn
Produced By:
T. K Butcher

The Way People Go On
A programme which includes poems by Lewis Carroll, James Stephens, Theodore Roethke, Maxime Kumin, and some children's poems.
Compiled by Connie Rosen (Stories and Rhymes)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lewis Carroll
Unknown:
James Stephens
Unknown:
Theodore Roethke
Unknown:
Maxime Kumin
Unknown:
Connie Rosen

A family magazine introduced from the Midlands by DAVID STEVENS and including:
Where there's Muck... JOHN BETTS collects rubbish and from it he finds gold. A refiner in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, he collects sweepings from the floors of jewellery manufacturers. He talks to GEOFFREY GREEN
The Legend Lives - The New Glenn Miller Sound: JOHNNY LAMBE , whose orchestra has revived Miller's music, talks to BARNEY BAMFORD
Pantomime: TOM COYNE investigates what this traditional Christmas entertainment means to those who provide it

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stevens
Unknown:
John Betts
Unknown:
Glenn Miller
Unknown:
Johnny Lambe
Unknown:
Tom Coyne

by GEORGE AND. WEEDON GROSSMITH abridged in seven parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by DAVID DAVIS
4: The Daisy Mutlar Business
Mr and Mrs Footer find Lupins fiancee and his amateur theatrical friends somewhat difficult to understand. Mr Pooter receives an insulting Christmas card.

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
David Davis
Unknown:
Daisy Mutlar Business
Unknown:
Mrs Footer
Unknown:
Mr Pooter

Contributors

Writer:
Brian Hayles
Daniel Archer:
Edgar Harrison
Doris Archer:
Gwen Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis: Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June Spencer
Jennifer Travers-Macy:
Angela Piper
Roger Travers-Macy:
Jeremy Mason
Lilian Nicholson:
Elizabeth Marlow
Lester Nicholson:
Hayward Morse
Tony Archer:
Colin Skipp
Jill Archer:
Patricia Greene
Tom Forrest:
Bob Arnold
Carol Tregorran:
Anne Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip Morant
Sid Perks:
Alan Devereux
Polly Perks:
Hilary Newcombe
Walter Gabriel:
Chris Gittins
Gregory Salt:
Gerald Turner
Nora Salt:
Julia Mark
Jack Woolley:
Philip Garston-Jones

SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA leader SAM BOR conductor
ALEXANDER GIBSON
Rossini Overture: William Tell
8.14* Berlioz Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans)
8.25* Cedric Thorpe Davie Diversions on a theme of Thomas Arne
8.43* Bcethofen Symphony No6, in F major (Pastoral) followed by an interlude

Contributors

Leader:
Sam Bor
Conductor:
Alexander Gibson
Unknown:
William Tell
Unknown:
Cedric Thorpe Davie
Unknown:
Thomas Arne

Ashenden - secret agent 1914-18 Mr Harrington 's Washing by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM read by ROGER DELGADO Last instalment
(Beginning on Monday: Book 2 of Phineas Redux by Trollope, read by David March )

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Harrington
Read By:
Roger Delgado
Unknown:
Phineas Redux
Read By:
David March

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