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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today presented by JOHN TIMPSON and TIM MATTHEWS 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 Ecstasy
MAJOR STEPHEN ANDERSON
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Tim Matthews
Unknown:
Major Stephen Anderson

Religious Service
As Jacob with travel was weary (BBC HPSN 2, Teachers' edition: Jacob's Ladder) Story: Water and Bread
A Prayer of Thanksgiving
We plough the fields and scatter (sp 14: Wir Pfliigen)
(Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
9.50 Interlude
9.55 Over to You The dark
Written by SEAMUS HEANEY

Contributors

Written By:
Seamus Heaney

Marsh! 16: To Siberia!
Written by VAUGHAN JAMES (Third-year Russian)
10.45 Robert Koch
Written by HILDE-MARIA KRAUS (Intermediate German)
11.0 Music Workshop Stage 1
The boggart plans mischief and the mischief is set to music.
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.30 Pretty Bird by MARGERY MORRIS
A folk story from Kenya: Language up to Unit 10 of the SCOPE I course
(Hello! Hello! series)
11.40 Living Without God
DAVID TRIBE and ANTHONY BRIDGE on what it means to them to live without God '
Produced by RALPH ROLLS
(Sixth Form series: Religion in its Contemporary Context)

Contributors

Written By:
Vaughan James
Unknown:
Robert Koch
Produced By:
William Murphy
Unknown:
Margery Morris
Unknown:
David Tribe
Unknown:
Anthony Bridge
Produced By:
Ralph Rolls

Problems from listeners' letters discussed by RENÉE HOUSTON BERYL REID
DR SHIRLEY SUMMERSKILL , MP
OLGA FRANKLIN
In the chair ANONA WINN
Devised by ANONA WINN and IAN MESSITER
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SERLE

Contributors

Unknown:
Renée Houston
Unknown:
Beryl Reid
Unknown:
Dr Shirley Summerskill
Unknown:
Olga Franklin
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Anona Winn
Unknown:
Ian Messiter
Produced By:
Christopher Serle

The Great Trek
Dutch settlers in South Africa move north (1836)
Written by GARRY LYLE (World History)
2.20 Music Session One Folk Around the World with THE SPINNERS and JOY AND JENNIFER
Script by CATHERINE: BAXTER
Produced by JENYTH WORSLEY
2.40 France
Agricultural Problems by ELIZABETH BOWER (Geography)

Contributors

Written By:
Garry Lyle
Produced By:
Jenyth Worsley
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bower

Compiled and introduced by RODNEY M. BENNETT
Since Biblical times the word leprosy has meant a horrible incurable disease. Even today all over the world there are thousands of lepers, but in the last decades modern techniques and drugs have brought hope and cure.
From the Princess Zenebework Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, comes this encouraging report.
Produced by ALAN BURGESS

Contributors

Introduced By:
Rodney M. Bennett
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

A family magazine introduced by TIM GUDGIN and including:
Two Worlds and Many Parts: the distinguished American actress Irene Worth , who came to this country during the war, talks tO ANNE SUTER
Under the Ground: NIGEL MURPHY explores the hidden and forgotten
Lola Montez alias Eliza Gilbert : DENISE ROBFRTSON tells the story of the 19th-century actress and adventuress for whom Liszt composed a sonata. Swinburne a poem, and a king surrendered a throne Your letters

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Unknown:
Irene Worth
Unknown:
Anne Suter
Unknown:
Nigel Murphy
Unknown:
Lola Montez
Unknown:
Eliza Gilbert
Unknown:
Denise Robfrtson

Six programmes compiled by JAMES Hewitt on some memorable historical events from the ]7th to the 20th century
5: The Charge of the Light Brigade1854
Produced by MARGARET ETALL

Contributors

Unknown:
James Hewitt
Produced By:
Margaret Etall
Narrator:
John Gabriel
General Lord George Paget:
Garard Green
J W Wightman:
John Pullen
Verse reader:
Henry Stamper

by LEO TOLSTOY
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by LOUISE MAUDE
AND AYLMER MAUDE edited by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Executive producer RONALD MASON with David Buck. Kate Binchy Martin Jarvis and 8: Natasha's first Grand Ball adapted by CONSTANCE cox Cast in order of speaking
Directed by JOHN POWELL
For free booklet giving cast and episode details, please send SAE 9x12 to ' War and Peace,' BBC, London W1A 1AA

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Translation By:
Louise Maude
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Aylmer Maude
Edited By:
Michael Bakewell
Unknown:
Ronald Mason
Unknown:
David Buck.
Unknown:
Kate Binchy
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Adapted By:
Constance Cox
Directed By:
John Powell
Tolstoy:
Denys Hawthorne
Petrushka:
Garard Green
Andrei Bolkonsky:
Martin Jarvis
Natasha Rostova:
Rate Binchy
Petya Rostov:
Derek Seaton
Sonya:
Patricia Gallimore
Ilya Rostov:
David March
Vera Rostova:
Margaret Wolfit
Countess Nataly Rostova:
Ilona Ference
Pierre Bezukhov:
David Buck
Abbé Morio:
Sean Barrett
Hélène Bezukhova:
Sonia Fraser
Boris Drubetskoy:
John Rye
Lieut Berg:
Geoffrey Collins
Mme Peronskaya:
Madi Hedd

MALCOLM BINNS (piano) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BACON conducted by URI SEGAL
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 1
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
Mozart Symphony No 38. in D major (Prague) (K 504)

Contributors

Piano:
Malcolm Binns
Leader:
John Bacon
Conducted By:
Uri Segal

Introduced by JEAN METCALFE
A Bill, introduced by Alfred Morris , up, asks for a square deal for the disabled and chronically sick-for more and better facilities and for a more enlightened approach to their problems. This week's Report looks at some of the people the Bill is about, at its aims. and at its chances of success.
Produced by MICHAEL RAPER

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe
Introduced By:
Alfred Morris
Produced By:
Michael Raper

The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post introduced by WALTER TAPLIN
For either the weekday or Sunday editions, send your letters to: Listening Post, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA. For very late letters ring [number removed], and dictate your message.

Contributors

Duced By:
Walter Taplin

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