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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today
Thirty minutes of what Britain is getting up to this morning - and what's happening abroad
7.45 Today's Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight Retirement
Talk by GRACE WYNDHAMGOLDIE
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Talk By:
Grace Wyndhamgoldie

A series in which you meet interesting and unusual people from all walks of life
The Man who dug
Silbury Richard Atkinson , Professor of Archaeology at the University College of South Wales, who was in charge of the excavation of Silbury Hill, talks with JAMES DEWAR about his work and the role of the archaeologist in modern society

Contributors

Unknown:
Silbury Richard Atkinson
Unknown:
James Dewar

Intermediate French
La Chasse au Buste (4)
Written by EMILE HARVEN
10.45 Foreign Correspondent
A BBC correspondent talks on a topic of interest
11.0 High Notes and Low Notes by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
Produced by VERA GRAY
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.55 am)
11.40 Contemporary History 4: Early Space Flight
ALAN EREIRA introduces a survey of man's early efforts to conquer space

Contributors

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

Music Workshop 2
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Juno and the Paycock by SEAN O'CASEY , part 1
Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 Sound and Music by KEITH GEARY
What's the difference between ordinary noise and a musical note? (Nature)

Contributors

Produced By:
William Murphy
Unknown:
Sean O'Casey
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Music By:
Keith Geary
Captain Boyle:
Kevin Flood
Mrs Boyle:
Pauline Delaney
Joxer:
Harry Webster
Mary:
Patricia Leventon
Johnny:
Wesley Murphy
Jerry Devine:
Allan McClelland
Bentham:
Kevin McHugh

Part 1: Table by the Window adapted for radio by CYNTHIA PUGHE with Rachel Gurney
Noel Johnson. Mary Wimbush
The Hotel Beauregard, settled and conservative, is intrigued by the arrival of the sophisticated and mysterious Mrs Shankland.
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT † (Part 2 of Separate Tables: next Saturday at 2.0)

Contributors

Unknown:
Rachel Gurney
Unknown:
Noel Johnson.
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Mrs Shankland.
Produced By:
Norman Wright
Mabel:
Brenda Dunrich
Ladv Matheson:
Molly Rankin
Mrs Railton-Bell:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Miss Meacham:
Nora Nicholson
Doreen:
Angela Piper
Mr Fowler:
Howieson Culff
Mrs Shankland:
Rachel Gurney
Miss Cooper:
Mary Wimbush
Mr Malcolm:
Noel Johnson
Mr Stratton:
Glyn Dearman
Miss Tanner:
Polly Murch

from Salisbury Cathedral
Introit: 0 Lord, give thy Holy Spirit (Tallis)
Responses (Ayleward)
Psalms 22, 23 (Revised Psalter: Wesley, M. Camidge , C. H. Lloyd )
Lessons: Genesis 32, vv 24-30; Romans 8, vv 18-end
Canticles (Howells, Sarum Service)
Anthem: Greater love hath no man (Ireland)
Come 0 thou travellers unknown (EH 378)
Organist and Master of Choristers RICHARD SEAL Assistant Organist MICHAEL SMITH

Contributors

Unknown:
M. Camidge
Unknown:
C. H. Lloyd
Organist:
Michael Smith

A family magazine introduced by POLLY ELWES and including: ' Dessie ': FLORENCE DESMOND talks to ANNE SUTER about her career as an impressionist and remembers some of her most famous take-offs
Capitalist in Soviet Russia: LT-COL FRANK BUSTARD opened a shipping office in Moscow just after the Revolution
The Place of a Thousand Tigers: ARTHUR FINLAYSON , a retired major, remembers with affection the tiger cub he found and reared in India
'It gives me constant pleasure': WINIFRED GILL describes how she met a truly great artist

Contributors

Introduced By:
Polly Elwes
Unknown:
Anne Suter
Unknown:
Col Frank Bustard
Unknown:
Arthur Finlayson
Unknown:
Winifred Gill

by JOAN PYPER Brazil is a country of extreme contrasts and extraordinary mixtures. From its amalgam of European, African, and indigenous peoples many strange hybrids of custom and belief have emerged - not least of them Macumba, the voodoo-like religion to which millions, from every class of the Brazilian society, openly or covertly adhere, and which fascinated Joan Pyper on a recent visit.

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Pyper
Unknown:
Joan Pyper

Part 2
BBC MEN'S CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY (men's voices)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor COLIN DAVIS
(Donald McIntyre broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Clifford Grant by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)

Contributors

Conductor:
Colin Davis
Conductor:
Donald McIntyre
Unknown:
Clifford Grant

DERRICK CANTRELL (Organ)
Bach Prelude and Fugue in G (s 550)
Mendelssohn Sonata No 2, in c minor
Bach Chorale Preludes
An Wasserfliissen Babylon (s 653); Herzlich tut mich verlangen (s 727)
From Manchester Cathedral

Contributors

Unknown:
Derrick Cantrell

BBC Radio 4 FM

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