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7.10 South-East News
7.15 Today presented by JACK DE MANIO
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
DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE reading from the Old Testament section of the New English Bible
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Dame Sybil Thorndike

Twelve Hours of Daylight The Witnesses
Written by ROBERT c. WALTON (Christian Focus)
10.50 Music Workshop 2 Follow-up
A concert of music heard during the term sung by the ALUN MOLD CHOIR directed by BRIAN HUGHES
Introduced and produced by WILLIAM MURPHY
11.0 Time and Tune
Introduced by JOHN CAMBURN 10: Farewell to London
Written and produced by DOUGLAS COOMBES
11.20 The Feast by MARGERY MORRIS
Presented by BARRY FOSTER Produced by DAVID LYTTLE (Man)
11.40 Southampton Docks
Southampton is Britain's greatest passenger port. But it is also a cargo port of growing importance.
Compiled by PHILIP HOLLAND (Geography)

Contributors

Directed By:
Brian Hughes
Produced By:
William Murphy
Introduced By:
John Camburn
Produced By:
Douglas Coombes
Unknown:
Margery Morris
Presented By:
Barry Foster
Produced By:
David Lyttle
Unknown:
Philip Holland

A medical magazine introduced by JOAN YORKE and including:
Shift Work: is it a health hazard?: ANGELA PAIN reports
Specialist in the Studio: a gynaecologist answers listeners' questions
Produced by THENA BESHEL †

Contributors

Introduced By:
Joan Yorke
Produced By:
Thena Beshel

Writing by Listeners
Poems and stories sent in by children who listen to the series (Living Language)
2.20 Poetry Corner
Icker-backer soda-cracker
2.30 Unos minutos nada mds 10: La senora tonta
Written by ROBERT p. CLARKE
(For secondary school pupils in their third year of Spanish)
2.40 Time on your Hands
Written and introduced by ROBERT LAMB
Produced by RITA UDALL
(LookingAhead: YourWorld)

Contributors

Written By:
Robert P. Clarke
Introduced By:
Robert Lamb
Produced By:
Rita Udall

Information and encouragement for women at home whose domestic responsibilities leave them with time for other work Presented by CAROLINE NICHOLSON and MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by JUDITH bumpus

Contributors

Presented By:
Caroline Nicholson
Unknown:
Michael Smee
Produced By:
Judith Bumpus

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Goodbye-ee: URSULA BLOOM talks to JACK SINGLETON about some of the farewells in her life
Personal Choice in the Kitchen: ZENA SKINNER at the Ideal Home Exhibition discusses priorities in the 1970 kitchen
Let's Hear it Again: MRS MOLLY PENDLETON of Brighton tells ROBERT GUNNELL about motor-cycling at 79.
Your letters

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Singleton
Unknown:
Zena Skinner
Unknown:
Mrs Molly
Unknown:
Robert Gunnell

by R. L. STEVENSON read by BRYDEN MURDOCH
4: The Enetnu in the House
'The candle made a broad space of light upon the frosted ground. There was the blood-stain in the midst; and a little farther off, Mr Henry 's sword; but of the body, not a trace.' Produced by GORDON EMSLIE

Contributors

Unknown:
R. L. Stevenson
Read By:
Bryden Murdoch
Unknown:
Mr Henry
Produced By:
Gordon Emslie

from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN with Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen as Janet Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
Without the City: written by DOREEN MONTGOMERY and GUY MORGAN : adapted for radio by PAT DUNLOP
Broadcast by arrangement with GRAHAM STEWART
Produced by PETER TITHERADGE

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Unknown:
Andrew Cruickshank
Unknown:
Dr Cameron Barbara Mullen
Unknown:
Janet Bill Simpson
Written By:
Doreen Montgomery
Unknown:
Guy Morgan
Unknown:
Pat Dunlop
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Produced By:
Peter Titheradge
Fanny Wishart:
Gudrun Ure
Jock Stoddart:
Simon Lack
Margit Stoddart:
Patricia Leventom
Granma:
Margot Boyd
Kitty Stoddart:
Elizabeth Proud
Tommy Stoddart:
Jo Manning Wilson
Jamie Donald:
Gordon Faith
Annie Donald:
Elizabeth Proud
Jarvis:
Michael Deacon
Sgt Mackie:
Alaric Cotter
The:
Rev Duncan

1839-1881
Written by RAYMOND NEWPORT
'Quite boyish, very elegant, some foppishness.' This was what Borodin, the composer of Prince Igor, said about the 17-year-old Mussorgsky. A little over
25 years later that foppish teenager was dead. having written some of the great
Russian music of his time, including Boris Godtmov and A night on the Bare Mountain
Produced by DANIEL SNOWMAN

Contributors

Written By:
Raymond Newport
Unknown:
Boris Godtmov
Produced By:
Daniel Snowman
Narrator:
Godfrey Kenton
Mussorgsky:
Hugh Burden
Borodin:
John Gabriel
Kompaniesky:
John Bryning
Balakirev:
Malcolm Hayes
Stassov:
Frederick Treves
Rimsky-Korsakovl:
Peter Tuddenham
Bertensson:
Peter Tuddenham
Nadezhda:
Jan Edwards
Leonova:
Jo Manning Wilson

BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader REGINALD STEAD conductor BRYDEN THOMSON
Copland Suite: Appalachian Spring
8.58* Beethoven Symphony No 8, in F major
Part of a public concert from the Central Hall, University of Lancaster
(Presented by the BBC in association with the Music Department, University of Lancaster)

Contributors

Leader:
Reginald Stead
Conductor:
Bryden Thomson

Introduced by PAT WILLIAMS including
ROY FULLER on the translation of the Old Testament in the New English Bible
EDWARD HYAMS on -Frederick Sander , the Orchid King by Arthur Swinson. the biography of the man who became grower of orchids to
Queen Victoria JONATHAN RABAN On Lovers in War by Colin Spencer , the third novel in the quartet called Generation
Produced by ALAN HAYDOCK
9.58 Weather

Contributors

Introduced By:
Pat Williams
Unknown:
Roy Fuller
Unknown:
Edward Hyams
Unknown:
Frederick Sander
Unknown:
Arthur Swinson.
Unknown:
Queen Victoria Jonathan Raban
Unknown:
Colin Spencer
Produced By:
Alan Haydock

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