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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
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
John Timpson
Presented By:
Tim Matthews

En Normandie also JAN ROSOL singing with his guitar
Written by PAULE-ALINE DENT (Intermediate French)
10.45 Foreign Correspondent
A BBC Correspondent talks on a topic of interest and importance in the immediate past, present, or future
11.0 Science Questions introduced by HARRY ARMSTRONG (Junior Science)
11.20 Movement and Music 1 by PENNY WHITTAM
The story of Little Red Feather with traditional American songs. Produced by VERA GRAY
11.40 Contemporary History 6: The Cuban Crisis, 1962 Script by ALAN EREIRA

Contributors

Unknown:
Jan Rosol
Introduced By:
Harry Armstrong
Produced By:
Vera Gray
Script By:
Alan Ereira

H. HARVEY WOOD talks about some of the distinguished persons he met in the course of his duties as representative of the British Council in Paris and elsewhere - amongst them General de Gaulle, Francois Mauriac , and Pierre Fournier.

Contributors

Talks:
H. Harvey Wood
Unknown:
Francois Mauriac
Unknown:
Pierre Fournier.

Music Workshop 2
It's time for David and Ann to go home with the help of Twm's magic pony.
Written and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
2.20 Juno and the Paycock by SEAN O'CASEY: part 3
Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Books, Plays, Poems)
2.45 The Mating of Animals by CHRISTINE DUDLEY (Nature)

Contributors

Produced By:
William Murphy
Unknown:
Sean O'Casey:
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Unknown:
Christine Dudley
Captain Boyle:
Kevin Flood
Mrs Boyle:
Pauline Delaney
Joxer:
Harry Webster
Mary:
Patricia Leventon
Johnny:
Wesley Murphy
Jerry Devine:
Allan McClelland
Mrs Madigan:
Mairhi Russell
Removal man:
Wilfrid Carter
First Irregular:
Peter Pacey
Second Irregular:
John Brand

from St Mary 's Church, Southampton
Responses (Byrd) Psalm 93
Lessons: Genesis 46. v 26, to 47. v 12: Philippians 3
Canticles: In medio chori (Weelkes)
Anthem: Laboravi in gemitu meo (Weelkes)
Both the canticles and the anthem have been reconstructed by DAVID BROWN , Master of the Choristers
Organist PETER EVANS

Contributors

Unknown:
St Mary
Unknown:
David Brown
Organist:
Peter Evans

A family magazine introduced by TIM GUDGIN and including: From Kreisler to Suk: JEANINE MCMULLEN talks to three generations of violin-makers f
When Faust played the Devil: another of DICK GREGSON 'S memories of early days in the theatre
Twenty-five servants - but no taps: MRS WINIFRED WATSON , one of the early women graduates of Oxford, recalls the India she knew
Will someone play instead?: I.AURENCE AGER expounds the evils of being a relief organist

Contributors

Introduced By:
Tim Gudgin
Talks:
Jeanine McMullen
Unknown:
Dick Gregson
Unknown:
Mrs Winifred Watson
Unknown:
I.Aurence Ager

by DANE CIIANDOS
The affectionate memories of the extraordinary Lady Abbott-Acland, enthusiastic gardener, brilliant if unconventional tennis player, animal lover and entertainer of royalty, told by her nephew. with 1: Abbie goes to the Zoo
Produced by GUY VAESEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Dane Ciiandos
Produced By:
Guy Vaesen
Abbie:
Dorothy Reynolds
Dane:
Eddie Matthews

Life is a jest, and all things show it:
I thought so once, and now I know it
An appreciation of John Gay (1685-1732) author of The
Beggar's Opera
Compiled from contemporary and other sources and written by JOANNA RICHARDSON with
CHARLES SIMON , HECTOR ROSS
MALCOLM HAYES , KATHLEEN HELME Narrated and produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Written By:
Joanna Richardson
Unknown:
Charles Simon
Unknown:
Hector Ross
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Unknown:
Kathleen Helme
Produced By:
David Davis
John Gay:
Timothy Bateson

' The scene of this English company's operations is a no-man's-land- in the Amazon basin. It is alleged that their agents have forced the Indians to work day and night at the extraction of rubber without the slightest remuneration. They have given them nothing to eat. They flog them until their bones are bare, then let them linger until they die ... '
Written by ARTHUR SWINSON Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON

Contributors

Written By:
Arthur Swinson
Produced By:
Stanley Williamson
Narrator:
Geoffrey Banks
Julio Arana:
Roger Delgado
Sir Roger Casement:
Alan Barry
Henry Gielgud:
Christopher Wilkinson
John Russell Gubbins:
Wilfred Harrison
Charles Roberts, mp:
David Mahlowe
William Joynson Hicks, mp:
Ronald Harvi
John Gordon Macneill, Kc, mp:
Eric Woodburn

by RAY DEXTRAS
The adventures of a Canadian journalist who traversed his homeland, looked for an identity - his own and his country's - and ended up in London with Peter Marinker and JOHN GLEN. JERRY STOVIN BILL NAGY , HAYWARD MORSE ANN MURRAY , JAN EDWARDS and CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD
Produced by ROBERT CUSHMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Ray Dextras
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
John Glen.
Unknown:
Jerry Stovin
Unknown:
Bill Nagy
Unknown:
Hayward Morse
Unknown:
Ann Murray
Unknown:
Jan Edwards
Unknown:
Christopher Bidmead
Produced By:
Robert Cushman

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