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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today
Presented by JOHN TIMPSON
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
What the Bible Says by WILF WILKINSON
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Wilf Wilkinson

A l 'écoute
Programme 15
Written by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
(For primary school pupils in their third year of French)
9.55 Movement and Music 2 by JAMES DODDING
Shapes and Shadows, and the beginning of the Story of the Apple of Light, to the music of Stravinsky's ' Firebird '

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Escoffey
Music By:
James Dodding

Huis Clos
Extracts from the play by JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
(French for Sixth Forms)
10.50 A Corner for Music by ALBERT CHATTERLEY 5: Wheels within Wheels
(This programme should be tape-recorded)
11.0 Riddles and Poems selected by EDWARD BLISHEN
Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY (Springboard)
11.20 The Goldsmith extract from ' The African Child ' by CAMARA LAYE , translated by JAMES KIRKUP
(Listening and Writing)
11.40 Prospect
Current Affairs: a programme of topical interest

Contributors

Music By:
Albert Chatterley
Produced By:
Jenyth Worsley
Unknown:
Camara Laye
Unknown:
James Kirkup

A lively account of Mixed Marriage compiled by DILIP HIRO from conversations with Indian, English, and West Indian partners of inter-racial marriages "... It was quite romantic, wasn'it, really? He used to play all love records! I used to sit under an apple tree in the garden With the two children and he would open his bedroom window and play all kinds of sentimental records '
Produced by CHARLES PARKER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilip Hiro
Produced By:
Charles Parker

A family magazine introduced from Wales by HARRY SOAN and including:
Welsh Millionaire: JULIAN HODGE , merchant banker, talks to GERRY MONTE about his life and career
The Pipeliners: a group of Americans who are laying a pipe from the east coast of England to the west coast of Wales recall their experiences in conversation with CHRIS LOWELL
I Can'Act Tonight: JON HOLLIDAY explains why
On Stage: GAENOR THOMAS looks at the state of the amateur theatre in Cardiff

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Soan
Unknown:
Julian Hodge
Unknown:
Gerry Monte
Unknown:
Chris Lowell
Unknown:
Jon Holliday
Unknown:
Gaenor Thomas

The Diary of a Nobody by GEORGE and WEEDON GROSSMITH abridged in seven parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by DAVID DAVIS 7: Mr Pooter 's Triumph
Failure attends Mr Pooter 's first effort to undo the damage caused by Lupin's extraordinary behaviour. The Pooters indulge in table-turning séances. All ends happily.
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
David Davis
Read By:
Mr Pooter
Unknown:
Mr Pooter
Produced By:
Graham Gauld

A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN 6: North of England (i) WENDY ACRES, Co Durham drama teacher
EDMUND HODGE , Westmorland retired solicitor
PETER HIGGINS , Cheshire insurance official
FLT-LIEUT J. G. SEVERN , RAF Yorkshire
The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Produced by JOAN CLARK

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Edmund Hodge
Unknown:
Peter Higgins
Unknown:
J. G. Severn
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

The News
The background to the news and people in the news, followed by News-stand in which JOHN THOMPSON analyses how the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street

Contributors

Unknown:
John Thompson

Phineas Redux by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Book 2: Tribulation - and Trial abridged by MADGE HART read by DAVID MARCH (15)
Produced by JOHN CARDY
(Beginning on Monday: Farewell Victoria, by T. H. White , read by David Davis )

Contributors

Unknown:
Phineas Redux
Abridged By:
Madge Hart
Read By:
David March
Produced By:
John Cardy
Unknown:
T. H. White
Read By:
David Davis

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