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7.1* 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 Todays Papers
7.50 Ten to Eight
How I would play JesusNIGEL STOCK
7.55 Weather; programme news

Contributors

Presented By:
Jack de Manio
Unknown:
Nigel Stock

presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest Jane Fyffe and the BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra, leader Ian Tyre conducted by Alun Francis

Contributors

Presenter/Singer:
Bill McCue
Unknown:
Jane Fyffe
Leader:
Ian Tyre
Conductor:
Alun Francis
Producer:
Eddie Fraser

from the TV series based on the characters created by A. J. CRONIN
The Seniority Rule: written and adapted by HARRY GREEN
Broadcast by arrangement With GRAHAM STEWART
Produced bv PETER TITHERADGE (Repeated: Thursday, 7.0 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
A. J. Cronin
Adapted By:
Harry Green
Arrangement With:
Graham Stewart
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Janet:
Barbara Mullen
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Captain Craig:
Bryden Murdoch
Davie Todd:
John Graham
Sgt Gilbey:
Duncan McIntyre
Baillie Dunn:
John Rae
Alec Carnegie:
James Thomason
Elsie Carnegie:
Margaret Wolfit
Mrs Cook:
Margot Boyd
Mr Galbraith:
Bryden Murdoch
Professor Fawlev:
Duncan McIntyre
Tam Gilchrist:
Sean Arnold

A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
All Your Own Work: more entries from the literary competition ' Kes ': DAVID BRADLEY , a Barnsley schoolboy, talks to ROSEMARY HART about his film role as the knave who trains a kestrel Let's Hear It Again: PROFESSOR A. E. GIMSON introduces and reads versions of the Bible from before Chaucer to King James I. From office boy to buying for hiscountry (i): ALEX MCCONNELL Your letters

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Unknown:
David Bradley
Unknown:
Rosemary Hart
Introduces:
A. E. Gimson
Unknown:
King James I.
Unknown:
Alex McConnell

by LEO TOLSTOY
A dramatisation in 20 parts from the translation by LOUISE and AYLMER MAUBE
Edited by MICHAEL BAKEWLLL Executive producer RONALD MASON with David Buck , Martin Jarvis Felix Felton and Denys Hawthorne as Tolstoy
13: 25 August 1S12 - Borodino Cast in order of speaking
Directed by JOHN POWELL
(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Unknown:
Aylmer Maube
Edited By:
Michael Bakewlll
Producer:
Ronald Mason
Unknown:
David Buck
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Denys Hawthorne
Directed By:
John Powell
Tolstoy:
Denys Hawthorne
Pierre Bezukhov:
David Buck
Andrei Bolkonsky:
Martin Jarvis
Boris Drubetskoy:
John Rye
General Benmgsen:
John Bryning
Timokhin:
Geoffrey Collins
Napoleon:
Peter Pratt
Colonel Fabvier:
Malcolm Hayes
De Beausset:
Nigel Lambert
General Rapp:
Brian Haines
Volzogen:
Leonard Fenton
Adjutant:
Sean Barrett
General Kutuzov:
Fellx Felton

Kyrie Gloria Credo
Sanctus Agnus Dei
IRMGARD STADLER (soprano)
YVONNE MINTON (mezzo-soprano) WERNER HOLLWEG (tenor) DON GARRARD (bass) LSO CHORUS chorus-master ARTHUR OLDHAM LONDONSYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS conducted bv
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
From the Royal Festival Hall, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Sanctus Agnus Dei
Soprano:
Irmgard Stadler
Mezzo-Soprano:
Yvonne Minton
Bass:
Don Garrard
Chorus-Master:
Arthur Oldham
Leader:
John Georgiadis
Unknown:
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt

Last summer LAURENCE RAY and his wife spent their holiday tracking the course of Robert Louis Stevenson and the donkey Modestine through the Cevennes. They found many reminders of Travels uith a Donkey still in existence, and came to understand much better what Stevenson had undertaken, f

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Ray
Unknown:
Robert Louis Stevenson

The background to the news and people in the news, followed by Listening Post in which GILES PLAYFAIR introduces letters from today's postbag 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

Introduces:
Giles Playfair

BBC Chorus
Charles Spinks (organ) conducted by John Poole

Liszt Ave verum corpus; Domine salvum fac; Qui seminant in lacrimis
Berkeley Anthem: Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace
Liszt Ave maris stella; Ave Maria
Berkeley Anthem: Look up, sweet Babe (first broadcast performance)

Contributors

Conducted By:
John Poole

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