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The world this morning: Britain at breakfast.time and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Weather: programme news
7.55 South-East News

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jack de Manio
Introduced By:
John Timpson

A selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days introduced by JOHN ELLISON Script by JEAN STROUD
Produced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Extended version: Sunday, 4.0)
12.55 Weather: programme news

Contributors

Introduced By:
John Ellison
Script By:
Jean Stroud
Produced By:
Phyllis Robinson

A comedy for radio by JILL HYEM
Simon is fond of Linda, but, after one disastrous marriage, he is determined not to get caught again. His friend Bill devises the tactics. The snag is that Linda is a tactician too!
Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS
A selection of the best 60-minute plays broadcast during the last decade. ' Cathedral Ten Minutes ' by Peter Preston

Contributors

Unknown:
Jill Hyem
Produced By:
Keith Williams
Unknown:
Peter Preston
Simon:
With Alec McCowen
Linda:
Carole Mowlam
Bill:
Robin Hunter
Simon:
Alec McCowen

A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions? from the North Oxfordshire Technical College and School of Art. Banbury
Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Produced bV MICHAEL ROWEN

Contributors

Introduced By:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Michael Rowen

A series of six programmes 4: A Princess Love
The story of Tsar Alexander II and Princess Catherine Written by RUTH JORDAN
Narrated by MICHAEL MCCLAIN
Other parts GODFREY KENTON and KERRY FRANCIS
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Unknown:
Tsar Alexander
Unknown:
Princess Catherine Written
Unknown:
Ruth Jordan
Unknown:
Michael McClain
Unknown:
Godfrey Kenton
Unknown:
Kerry Francis
Produced By:
Graham Gauld
Tsar Alexander II:
Jack May
Princess Catherine:
Jo Manning Wilson

The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening
Including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by William Hardcastle and Derek Cooper
5.50 Weather, programme news
5.55 South-East News

Contributors

Presented By:
William Hardcastle
Presented By:
Derek Cooper

A nation-wide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete for this title
Chairman FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Second Round: featuring each week three winners from the first round of the contest
1: London and Home Counties MRS olca EVANS, London
Richard RUSSELL-SMITH, London hostel warden
RICHARD GORDON , Hertfordshire Local Government officer
Including Beat (he Bruins 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:
Richard Gordon
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

by CHARLES DICKENS : adapted in 12 parts by GILES COOPER with 2: Oliver Runs Away
In which Oliver, now appren. ticed to the undertaker Sower-berry. forms an unfavourable Notion of his Master's Business.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Dickens
Unknown:
Giles Cooper
Fagin:
Peter Woodthorpe
Mr Bumble:
Felix Felton
Oliver:
And Stephen Bone

A spontaneous discussion by RT HON RICHARD MARSH , MP MARY GOLDRING
ELDON GRIFFITHS , MP BERNARD LEVIN
Chairman DAVID JACOBS
Produced by Michael BOWEN from Springfields, Spalding, Lincolnshire
Listeners' views for use in Any Answers? should be addressed to Any Answers?, BBC, Bristol, BS8 2LR.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Marsh
Unknown:
Mary Goldring
Unknown:
Eldon Griffiths
Unknown:
Bernard Levin
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

A radio-portrait bv FREDERICK BRADNUM
' The manner of my approaching death appalled and horrified me, but the actual vision of death left me unafraid ... I want no one to go into mourning ... It was left to me to make the most important decision of all '
Produced by TERENCE TILLER

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Bradnum
Produced By:
Terence Tiller
Narrator:
Frederick Bradnum
Richard Hillary:
Kerry Francis
Peter Pease:
Sean Barrett
and SEAN ARNOLD,:
John Gabriel

New Bearings in American Foreign Policy
The President of the United States recently presented a lengthy report to Congress on foreign policy for the 1970s.
Analysis explores the likely impact of the grandly styled Nixon Doctrine on a number of crucial areas of policy. Presented by IAN MCINTYRE
Produced by GEORGE FISCHER f

Contributors

Unknown:
Nixon Doctrine
Presented By:
Ian McIntyre
Produced By:
George Fischer

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